Boys’ basketball: L.A. Dream Team wakes up
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Neither the L.A. Dream Team nor Long Beach-based Belmont Shore wanted to be on the loser’s bracket of the Reebok Create-N-Finish Cup, but Renardo Sidney’s Dream Team pulled out a seven-point victory this morning in Henderson.
Belmont Shore, coached by veteran Southland AAU figure Dinos Trigonis, jumped out to a three-point first-half lead that forced Dream Team Coach Renardo Sidney Sr. to jolt his team awake with a spirited timeout talk.
‘If you’d listen to me, we’d be up by 20 now,’ he scolded the squad. ‘You all think you’re a coach. There’s only one coach and that’s me!’
Dream Team rallied from a 12-9 deficit to lead 28-17 at the half, employing suffocating defense and fast-break speed. The comfortable margin moved Sidney Jr. to the bench late in the half, and he played only 5:44 of the game.
Not much for USC Coach Tim Floyd, and members of the Texas, Texas A&M and Virginia coaching staffs in attendance to assess if they came only to see the Fairfax High big man.
Antonio Biglow and Darell Espy had 11 points apiece for L.A. Dream Team. Thurman Woods of Dominguez scored six points and had 12 rebounds for Belmont Shore.
-- Lance Pugmire
