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Walkertown wolfpack logo8/21/2023 ![]() ![]() The Wolfpack came into the Lash/Chronicle Tournament as the No. “I just teach our guys to play as a team, to rebound as a team, and as a result we win as a team.” “We practice really hard and I teach our guys to do the small things that people don’t see in order to be successful,” Anderson said about his methods. Anderson says they just have to put more effort into things such as blocking out and rebounding as a team to make up for their lack of height. The Wolfpack coaching staff didn’t have to alter their game plan because of their lack of size. We have been able to pull out a lot of games just from us playing for each other and playing that brand of basketball.” I just know that’s the formula to win and we have had some success from that. “That identity was that we were going to be scrappy and to play as a team and to play for each other. “I’m pretty sure if you’ve seen us play, you’ll see that we don’t have a 6 ‘2” guy and so our expectations were when we pick this team, we had to have an identity. “Day one I was a little skeptical because we saw the pool of kids that came to tryout and me and the coaches recognized that we were going to be a smaller team,” said Anderson. He knew their calling card was going to be to play harder than their opponent. On the first day of tryouts, Anderson and his staff were shocked by the lack of size from the kids that came out. “I really never thought about having all the talent, I always thought about teaching those guys to play for each other and to play for a school and to play for their families,” he said. “My thought process was just teaching these boys about life through basketball and really I didn’t know what I was coming into, but I knew that once we taught them about life and we taught them about character, success would follow,” said Anderson about his thoughts on his team before the start of the season.īeing born and raised in Winston-Salem, Anderson knows that Walkertown does not have the basketball tradition like other schools around the county, but that did not matter to him, he says. Coming into the season, Anderson knew they could become a good team if they bought into the coaching from the staff. ![]() Led by second year head coach Kenny Anderson, the Wolfpack are a small but scrappy team that is not afraid to lace them up against anyone.Īs of the writing of this article, the Wolfpack are 8-1 on the year and their only loss was to Reagan during the Lash/Chronicle Tournament. The Walkertown junior varsity basketball team has been playing well this year. ![]()
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