Full-contact basketball
The Wenatchee boys basketball team started its practice Thursday night with a drill invented by Brett McGinnis to maximize physicality. Not too complicated really.McGinnis throws the ball into the paint, where three Panther players go at it no-holds barred. First one to make a layup wins. No fouls, no traveling, no eye gouging or punches below the belt. You get the idea. It’s basketball UFC-style.”We did this every day my first two years here because we were so soft,” McGinnis said. “Anything I can do to get these guys playing more physical basketball, I will do.”The Panthers have a tough weekend ahead of them, with a game in a hostile road environment against a tough Richland team tomorrow, followed by a rematch with Pasco at home on Saturday.

