Confirmed huge underdog against Monte in 1 on 1 ball.
Speaking of basketball, write up time!
I got there a little early and there was a guy that I kinda know from playing hanging out. We shot around doing some shooting drills for a while and I asked him about different stuff, both on O and D. He's pretty knowledgeable so it was a good tutorial. Neither of us are great shooters and the shooting drills were kinda meh.
After that I said we should take turns trying to score on each other because still no one had showed up yet. It was pretty good practice for both of us, both on D and O. I was probably going only about 80% on D, not gonna foul or anything, just make it harder to score. We took turns trying out different post moves, cross over stuff, turn around jumpers, fade aways, etc. Really good stuff, I could do that stuff for ever, and it's a pretty good workout.
Finally people showed up, like 10 people all at once ready to go. Me and dude sat out the first game and watched as 3 more showed up and we formed a team of 5 to take on the winner.
Game 1: Victory 11-10 I opted to take the big, strong, slow black dude and did a pretty good job of using my speed to create stuff on offense and strength on D to not let him get easy buckets. He was about my height +70 pounds or so. I had 3 points in this game, one was a 2 pointer and one as a rebound and put back. I had some turn overs but not enough to cost us the game.
Game 1 Highlight for me: We pretty much trailed while keeping it kinda close. We managed to tie it once they got to 10. As they were bringing the ball up the court I read a pass really well and jumped high enough and out stretched my arm far enough to tip it into the back court. My teammate read what I was doing and was there to get it and make the winning bucket. BALLIN
Game 2: Victory 11-9 Tough game for us, they had 3 dudes all bigger than me. Thankfully they weren't awesome at post stuff because they could have owned us pretty bad. I was able to play really energetic D and create enough contested shots to keep us in the game, tho once again we were trailing the whole way. My worst moment came when the score was 6-8 them. I made a pass inbounds and it got immediately stolen for an easy bucket putting it 6-9 them.
so we were able to rally and get stops and tied the game at 9-9 when my best play came:
Game 2 highlight for me: I cut to the arc, my teammate found me open. I was on balance, felt good so I took the shot and drained it, GAME WINNER. Booyah.
Game 3: Lost 11-8 They were small but young, athletic, and really good shooters that ran hot during the second half of the game so we lost, oh well.
Life is good, WIM