[JDHS boys basketball gets ready to hit the road]<\/ins><\/a><\/p>\nThe first tournament will give players someone to measure themselves against, Potter said.<\/p>\n
“Getting out to play somebody else will be good. We have no idea where we are until we play,” Potter said. “They’re excited to play someone else besides their teammates.”<\/p>\n
Returning juniors and seniors bring a lot of on-court experience to the team, Potter said.<\/p>\n
“They’ve played before,” Potter said. “They’ve all been playing basketball.”<\/p>\n
The team’s focusing on the foundationals at this stage of the season, Potter said; refinement will come with games.<\/p>\n
“We’re trying to make sure we defend. I think we’re going to be better offensively,” Potter said. “We’re going to keep improving in both areas.”<\/p>\n
Players are excited to compete in Kenai, which isn’t a regular stop on the circuit for JDHS, Potter said.<\/p>\n
“I think they’re excited to travel. I don’t know that some of them have ever been to Kenai before,” Potter said. “Kenai is not a place we regularly travel to.”<\/p>\n
Beyond that, the JDHS girls are scheduled to play in a tournament in Fairbanks in January.<\/p>\n
“That’s a pretty big trip for us. They regularly have a pretty darn good tournament,” Potter said. “We’re excited to get out there and play.”<\/p>\n
The girls team will also play in the Capital City Classic, which starts Dec. 27.<\/p>\n
• Contact reporter Michael S. Lockett at (757) 621-1197 or mlockett@juneauempire.com.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A junior- and senior-heavy roster make for a formidable team. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":79424,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":9,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[203,240],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-79423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-sports","tag-sportbasketball","tag-high-school-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79423"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=79423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}