We had our second basketball game last night. It only went into one overtime and we came out on top by 1 point. The way we started the game I thought we were going to blow them out. Of course our shooting went cold, almost as cold as my cards have been in poker over the past 3 weeks. We were losing at the half and finally caught back up. The score went back and forth, but we couldn’t get a stop on defense at the right times to take a lead. The team we were playing was mostly older men, but could they ever shoot! It was lights out.

With about 15 seconds left in regulation and the score tied, one of our guys got a steal and took off down court for a wide open layup. He thought he heard a whistle and ended up missing the layup. Their team gets the rebound and calls a timeout with 11 seconds on the clock. It didn’t take them long to get it up court and drain a shot. We’re down by 2. Timeout! In the huddle we basically just said to get open.

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Had our first township basketball league game tonight. We lost in the third overtime to a 3 pointer at the buzzer. Our team had 6 guys and they had at least 10. Each of their players were younger than ours. We were down by 12 points at halftime. We should have never gotten back into the game. We will only get better as the season progresses and we get a few more of our players.

I shot two threes during the game and hit nothing but air on both of them. I can barely feel my legs, have a bruise on my knee, whacked my head on the floor, and nearly puked playing basketball for the first time in my life. I might just be a little out of shape. Bare with me…I like to complain when I’m hurting.

The good news is that when we have our full squad, it’s a much better team than we had last year.