{"id":2003,"date":"2010-02-24T06:09:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-24T06:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lbpost.com\/articles\/sports\/cif-girls-bball-playoff-preview-jordan-corona-santiago\/"},"modified":"2010-02-24T06:09:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-24T06:09:00","slug":"cif-girls-bball-playoff-preview-jordan-corona-santiago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/cif-girls-bball-playoff-preview-jordan-corona-santiago","title":{"rendered":"CIF Girls’ BBall Playoff Preview: Jordan @ Corona\/Santiago"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Tonight’s quarterfinal on the road against the no. 2 seeded Corona Santiago Sharks will be the first game of these playoffs that the Jordan Panthers are the underdog.  <\/span>It’s a heck of a way to start the uphill battle\u2014the Sharks are 27-2, a national top-twenty, and thought to be the only team in the CIF-SS bracket with much of a shot at knocking off Poly.  <\/span>Their two losses both came in the championship games of a tournament, and they haven\u2019t lost since December 9.<\/p>\n

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Their MO is the same as it was last year, when they gave Poly a decent run in the quarterfinals\u2014drive and kick, hit your threes.  <\/span>The personnel is much the same, too, as the Sharks are still led by the Lister twins, Jasmine and Cinnamon, who together average 30 points a game, and who combined have taken almost 300 three-pointers this year (the Sharks have shot over 500 of them as a team).  <\/span>Defensively for Jordan, it will come down to how well they can defend on the perimeter.  <\/span>The Panthers aren’t particularly strong inside, but they’re stronger than Santiago\u2014if they let this turn into a shooter’s duel, they could be out of it early.  <\/span>If they can force Jasmine Lister to put it on the ground, they’ll stand a much better chance.<\/o:p><\/p>\n

Either way, Jordan will need to do some scoring.  <\/span>Santiago averages 70 points a game this year, and when they get on a roll (easier to do at home) they can score with any team in the country.  <\/span>Physical defense should throw a wrench into the works\u2014and of course Jordan will have to have India Burke, Danesha Long, and Armani Wiley get hot on offense as well.<\/o:p><\/p>\n

If you want to make the trip out to Corona to support your local team, here’s one set of directions:<\/o:p><\/p>\n

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A quick scouting report of what lies in wait for the Panthers as they take to the road to face the Corona Santiago Sharks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":"","_":"","_author_alias":"","cap-aim":"","cap-description":"","cap-display_name":"","cap-first_name":"","cap-jabber":"","cap-last_name":"","cap-linked_account":"","cap-newspack_employer":"","cap-newspack_job_title":"","cap-newspack_phone_number":"","cap-newspack_role":"","cap-user_email":"","cap-user_login":"","cap-website":"","cap-yahooim":"","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_email_html":"","newspack_email_type":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_hide_page_title":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_show_share_buttons":"","newspack_sponsor_byline_prefix":"","newspack_sponsor_disclaimer_override":"","newspack_sponsor_flag_override":"","newspack_sponsor_only_direct":"","newspack_sponsor_url":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2003\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2003"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=2003"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}