{"id":732,"date":"2016-11-07T12:19:38","date_gmt":"2016-11-07T18:19:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rctc.edu\/echo\/?p=732"},"modified":"2026-09-17T10:44:38","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T15:44:38","slug":"basketball-team-will-need-to-mature-quickly-coach-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/basketball-team-will-need-to-mature-quickly-coach-says\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Basketball team will need to mature quickly,’ coach says"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Zachary Deppa <\/b>
\nSports Editor<\/p>\n

\"RCTC

RCTC\u2019s Malik Jones grabs a rebound and gets a little tangled up with Termaine Daniels of Dakota County Technical College Wednesday night at the Regional Sport Center on the RCTC campus.<\/p><\/div>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

This year, the RCTC\u2019s men\u2019s basketball team started the season on Nov. 16 with a home game against Dakota County Technical College. Coach Brian LaPlante is enthusiastic about his team.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy goal is always to win the Southern Division and win the region tournament and advance to the national tournament,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The main difficulty LaPlante thinks he will be encountering is inexperience and youth of the team.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are very young and inexperienced and we will need to grow and mature quickly,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He knows his team can play well and the season will be full of great games.<\/p>\n

LaPlante\u2019s philosophy is to work harder than other teams, to teach his athletes to become great teammates, and be accountable for their actions. One of the ways he is going to achieve this is through his game plan. To help with the smaller size and youth of his team, LaPlante is planning on using the press to transition his players into a hardworking and an accountable team.<\/p>\n

The basketball team will have 17 players this year, with six sophomores and 11 freshmen. Gorg Alhag and Malik Jones are two great players to watch, as they will be key players in leading the team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Zachary Deppa Sports Editor \u00a0 This year, the RCTC\u2019s men\u2019s basketball team started the season on Nov. 16 with a home game against Dakota County Technical College. Coach Brian LaPlante is enthusiastic about his team. \u201cMy goal is always to win the Southern Division and win the region tournament and advance to the national […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}