Whew .. my head is swimming. Just yesterday I was playing and Lithuania and now tonight I find myself on a Polish Division 1 team. Of course this team looks like it may be advancing into the next league next year as long as it continues to advance. But anyway, how did I end up here?
My agent comes up to me this morning and asks me how I would like a raise. Hell ya I tell him how much. He tells me of a sweet deal bringin in 8k per game and tons of other insentives. My jaw hits the floor and it takes me some time to recover, but after hearing the particulars I am pumped. So he leaves to go seal the deal. I have been on the phone with my new coach and he and I are really grooving. He is offering me all sorts of things an alstar in his country could hope for. Of course, nothing perfect can ever truely exist and my agent calls me back in half hour and says, "Got some good news and bad news kid! Bad news is that the deal fell through. It seems that your current team lost it's owner, a ton of offers came in for you, then as we were closing this really sweet deal you got a new owner that said no to the deal. That left you with two choices. Stick around for 2 years on a very low salary for your skills and services, or jump to the best offer from those that were offered before your new owner took charge. I vote for plan B... you?" I had to take it. So I was off to Poland to play for the Warsaw Indians.
The Indians are currently in 3rd in their division and have some tallented players that could really help us improve. My problem is that as the new guy in I have to fight for my playing time. This last game I only got 12 min in and after playing the full 48 for most of the season .. this was a bummer. I can just hope that the coaches see my production in that time compaired to the competition and decide that I am enough to carry this team at the point. Here is a little comparison for my first day playing:
In one quarter I got 7pts on 3/4 shooting, 1/1 from FT, 2 STL, 1BLK, 3AST, 4 REB
My competition got 11pts on 3/14 shooting, 4/8 FT, 1STL, 0 BLK, 1 AST, 9 REB in 36 MIN!!!!
If the min and production were the same I would have scored 21pts, 6 stl, 3 blk, 9 ast and 12 reb in only 3 quarters of play. OOOO I can't wait to play a full game in this league and really show my game. It will come ... I have to give it time and get to know everyone. I already felt the chemistry cooking with our big boy at PF Riivo V?hk. I was able to dish the ball twice to him to set him up for some sweet action. Interesting that the play by play report has be with 4 asst and the game stats only report 3asst. I will have to write to league manager about that discrepency.
In the meantime I am hard at work trying to get my way into a full time starting position again. I hope the coaches can read this or at least look over the stat lines from the game to see that our first quarter with me in there we were the most dominate on offense and defence http://www.cyberdunk.com/team.php?m=match&id=218459&q=0&s=stats
When feeling a but stressed out I have to have some inspirational quotes and stuff to concentrate on. I find all that material at www.focusdep.com. See if you can be inspired by checking it out.
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