Lance Lopez new La Conner boys' basketball coach

Strategic planning and chaos aren't mutually exclusive.

That is the approach taken this coming high school basketball season by new La Conner Braves hoops coach Lance Lopez.

Lopez, who has served on coaching staffs in various sports at Mount Vernon, Sedro-Woolley and his alma mater Burlington-Edison – larger schools – will employ "borderline chaos" to control tempo and take advantage of a versatile, athletic boys' roster this winter.

"I'm very familiar with the group we have here," Lopez told the Weekly News. "They are highly athletic and our goal is to use that athleticism to our advantage."...