OcR McDohl
07-04-2008, 03:29 AM
www.hoopfest.org
So we put together a decent team. Our big guy, Quentin, our small guy who can shoot, Justin, me, who actually learned how to shoot from the outside after 30 years, and Scott, my best friend who can't shoot but for some reason always is the best guy on the court.
So anyway, a good team all in all, especially if I can hit from the outside since Justin loses his nerve come game time.
Game 1- We win 12-9. Yes its first to 20 but we usually play good enough defense that we make it a low scoring game. All in all a horrible game by us though. sloppy. and Scott injures his hip pretty badly. We find out its a Hip Flexor. NOT good.
Game 2- We lose 20-6. Seriously, worse loss ever. There is alot of excuses to be had though. Scott cannot move laterally cause of his hip. He has to come out alot. I hit a two to start the game but after that? Justin goes 0 fer 7 from 3 point land, and there all open shoots, plus his man eats him alive. Lets not mention the fact that these guys we were playing? They like to plow through screens, grab you as you try to cut and shove you out of the way to make lay-ins. It was not even basketball. it was not fun.
For the first time ever after i lose at hoopfest I walked away with a smile. I played good. Scott played good despite his injury. No biggie. Its double elimination so we got more games coming up.
Oh, guess what. Justin heads out. he goes home and quits the team. hes the team captain!!! lol. so we pick up a guy named Todd, hes 35 and he does not play basketball very often.
Game 3- We win 15-13. the other team jumped out to a 7-1 lead and it was looking nasty. Scott cant switch on the screens or jump or move, but hes a soldier and stays in the game. Thanks to a couple lucky three pointers I hit and some great defense we pull it out in Overtime. In all honesty this may be the best game we ever played together.
Sunday morning, game 4. Scott is on crutches. and Done. we have to pick up Quentins buddy Spenser as our fourth, hes out of shape and cant play basketball worth a crap right now. we amazingly win. No overtime this time, just a good solid game.
Game 5. Quentin and I are done. we are so exhausted. its been 97 degrees on blacktop in the sun all weekend and we are done. we lost 12-6 to a team Ive played before with scott and beat them pretty easily. I am shooting flat footed and quentin cant even make a freethrow.
Anyways. think of this more as a blog. I know what I did last weekend isnt of great interest, but Im bored and i wanted to talk about it. I had a great tournament. I never was an outside shooter before this year so its exciting. its cool to bring the team back from that far down by hitting twos. Never been in the hero position before so that was pretty damn cool. usually I take a break from basketball and do other things cause hoopfest takes so much out of you. but I went and played the next day.....guess what happened? i strained something in my lower back going up for a layup. lmao. walked around like an old man crying for two days. today i finally feel better.
what can i say? im 30 years old. i should be golfing.
So we put together a decent team. Our big guy, Quentin, our small guy who can shoot, Justin, me, who actually learned how to shoot from the outside after 30 years, and Scott, my best friend who can't shoot but for some reason always is the best guy on the court.
So anyway, a good team all in all, especially if I can hit from the outside since Justin loses his nerve come game time.
Game 1- We win 12-9. Yes its first to 20 but we usually play good enough defense that we make it a low scoring game. All in all a horrible game by us though. sloppy. and Scott injures his hip pretty badly. We find out its a Hip Flexor. NOT good.
Game 2- We lose 20-6. Seriously, worse loss ever. There is alot of excuses to be had though. Scott cannot move laterally cause of his hip. He has to come out alot. I hit a two to start the game but after that? Justin goes 0 fer 7 from 3 point land, and there all open shoots, plus his man eats him alive. Lets not mention the fact that these guys we were playing? They like to plow through screens, grab you as you try to cut and shove you out of the way to make lay-ins. It was not even basketball. it was not fun.
For the first time ever after i lose at hoopfest I walked away with a smile. I played good. Scott played good despite his injury. No biggie. Its double elimination so we got more games coming up.
Oh, guess what. Justin heads out. he goes home and quits the team. hes the team captain!!! lol. so we pick up a guy named Todd, hes 35 and he does not play basketball very often.
Game 3- We win 15-13. the other team jumped out to a 7-1 lead and it was looking nasty. Scott cant switch on the screens or jump or move, but hes a soldier and stays in the game. Thanks to a couple lucky three pointers I hit and some great defense we pull it out in Overtime. In all honesty this may be the best game we ever played together.
Sunday morning, game 4. Scott is on crutches. and Done. we have to pick up Quentins buddy Spenser as our fourth, hes out of shape and cant play basketball worth a crap right now. we amazingly win. No overtime this time, just a good solid game.
Game 5. Quentin and I are done. we are so exhausted. its been 97 degrees on blacktop in the sun all weekend and we are done. we lost 12-6 to a team Ive played before with scott and beat them pretty easily. I am shooting flat footed and quentin cant even make a freethrow.
Anyways. think of this more as a blog. I know what I did last weekend isnt of great interest, but Im bored and i wanted to talk about it. I had a great tournament. I never was an outside shooter before this year so its exciting. its cool to bring the team back from that far down by hitting twos. Never been in the hero position before so that was pretty damn cool. usually I take a break from basketball and do other things cause hoopfest takes so much out of you. but I went and played the next day.....guess what happened? i strained something in my lower back going up for a layup. lmao. walked around like an old man crying for two days. today i finally feel better.
what can i say? im 30 years old. i should be golfing.