Ohgie Mcgee living with the holidays down under

My trainers keep pushing me to bring up a few deficiencies I have. At times I wish they would get off my back! I know they get paid to make me better and that the hoops they are having me jump through will eventually help me somehow, but at some point in all of this training...well I feel I may be loosing some of my edge.

Recently, the trainers have been pushing speed drills on me. Not only are these exhausting drills, it is almost impossible to see any slight improvements. It has to be working, because I have had some fans come up lately and ask me why I seem to be moving so much quicker on the court. Again, I know it will help in the long run, but I don't like it much lately.

It is the holiday season even here down under, but all my family is back in the states. I had thought that I might be able to make some close friends, but I really have not yet. Maybe my usually happy, outgoing mood has been much more subdued lately and that is pushing people around me away? That is probably part of it. Another part of it may be that I don't spend as much time checking out the local culture. It seems I am so beat after practice, games, training that I just sit in front of the tube and veg. Back in the states the days are shorter this time of year, but here in Austrialia they are having their summer. To celebrate the holidays now is like .. well ... celebrating the 4th of July in January. It seems almost fake like the little tree I have put up.

Well, our team keeps winning and at least my focus on games has not wavered much. I have not been happy with some of my recent games, but the coach just sent us all a memo for the holidays thanking us for making him look good, so I guess my game is not slipping as much as I thought it might. We have a week before we get a day off, I am looking forward to that day off almost like kids look forward to the weeks off they get back home.

At any rate, I hope all who read this have a happy holiday season!

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Ohgie Mcgee introduces a team mate

I have to introduce you to the most productive player in Austrialia Division 3. His name is Pistachio Arilla and he leads the league in many different categories. In the record books he is listed as playing SG, but anyone that has seen his play state that his play can be found at every position but C. He can score from anywhere on the court, he is blazing fast, and boy does he like to shoot! His confidence in shooting is remarkable in that he can throw up 3 bricks and then hit 5 shots in a row. It is almost like he has no consciousness.
It may sound like he is a ball hog, but he leads the team in Assists as well! It helps that we have many talented players on our team so anyone he passes off to has a great chance to score. Funny how that works. If you pass to good players it seems like your assists go up. What a concept.
Finally, Pistachio has had games in which he has dominated on the boards. If the SG on the other team takes many shots, Pistachio shows tremendous ability in boxing out to get rebounds, even after trying for a blocked shot! If his guy is not shooting, well you can not only guarantee that his guy is not getting the rebound, but often he is able to box out someone else or sneak in to steal a rebound from some very shocked players.
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Ohgie Mcgee reports from down under

I knew that coming into the division 3 in Austrialia was going to be quite the easy stint and so far it has proven to be so. We just played the 5th place division one team and only lost by 30+ points so that is not too shabby at all for a division 3 team.

I did notice something different with my player me this game. I saw that my fatigue was dropping before this game. At first I thought about dropping my intesity abit, but after looking at the fact that we were playing such a good teem I kept my intensity high. Instead I changed my play style from my normal offensive self to more of a special team player. I did take a few less shots, but everything else seemed to be the same relatively. I did have 7 asst and some rebounds but those numbers were right around normal. Maybe the assits might have been 1 or 2 above my average for this year, but that seems to be it. I did notice that I got both of teir PG to foul out, which gets me thinking that maybe we might have done better if I stuck with my normally agressive offensive style. Meanwhile my fatigue shot right back and I felt great this morning getting up.

Today we will continue to crank through division 3. It is nice to win, but without a challenge every day ... well it is just a battle of stats really. I will have to highlight one of our players next time I log an entry here. He is awesome!

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and check out who I may be reporting on later on. Hint: he dominates the division 3 world in Austrialia.