Boys basketball: Tigers prepare for opener

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Shane Wyandt didn’t need any scores kept to find out quite a bit about his Farmington team during a pair of scrimmages over the weekend.

The Tigers hosted Spring Lake Park and Belle Plaine Friday night at Tiger Gym, and then traveled to Hill-Murray Saturday where they took on White Bear Lake, Trinity and Woodbury on Saturday.

The busy slate allowed all 18 members of the JV and varsity squads to get court time in the team’s final dress rehearsals before tomorrow night’s opener vs. Rochester John Marshall at Tiger Gym.

“It was good to see everyone play and we were able to try a lot of our different offensive and defensive calls. It gave us a pretty good idea of what we need to focus on in this first real week of practice,” Wyandt said. “We will need to get very prepared for what should be a very good John Marshall team.”

The Tigers found most of their success in the scrimmages against Trinity and Belle Plaine. A few more weaknesses were exposed against White Bear Lake and Spring Lake Park.

“Our top 10 played very competitively, but we did see some things we need to work on against better competition,” Wyandt said.

The best competition the Tigers faced all weekend was Woodbury, which Wyandt called a “top-10 type team” heading into the season.

“We had trouble against Woodbury,” he said. “We were able to score a little against them, but turnovers and poor defense killed us. We were working on some zone on them as they are extremely tough to defend man to man and we were obviously not ready.”

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