You know what? Loosing stinks, but in my book blowouts stink more! In our game vs the Oakland Vipers on day 30, the fans were treated to one hell of a game. Sure our team came up short by 4 points, but at least there was competition and the game was close...at least at half time. So what happened?
Quarter 1: My man Nestor is a beast, when he chooses to be. The guy took only one shot while dishing out 3 assists. He is such a scoring machine there is no way our team can get buy with him only taking 1 shot a quarter! In contrast, Caan loves to chuck up the rock and his game seems to sink or swim and tonight was not a great night for him shooting. Of course I think the end tally will show I stunk it up as well. In this first quarter I was 0/2 with a couple of made FT. I did have a steal and some assists, but it was too little. Martin was 2/3 which is very nice, but he was not able to add in much of the other stats that our team is used to him filling in for us. He did get a block which we love to see. Marty started out at C with a very respectable performance.
Quarter 2: OUR QUARTER!!!! Finally we get Nester shooting a bit and get Caan to slow down in shooting. Nester and I shot 80% putting in 10 and 8 points respectively while Martin was a perfect 2/2 (again with no other stats in a line that is usually his hallmark?) Martin, again chipped in what we have come to expect from him and Ghs came in to share the load. Ghs did not score, but did fill in a nice stat line for his playing time.
Quarter 3: Nestor checked out? Where did he go? The man only threw it up once in the 3rd? Of course we only got 12 shots in the 3rd and that is a HUGE problem! It is not even worth going player by player in this quarter as we really stunk it up and did not produce much of a defensive effort or an offensive presence.
Quarter 4: Nestor comes back, but Martin and I seem to go to WalMart to get a burger and fries or something. Martin had the excuse that he was not playing (not sure what was up there), but in my 12 min I did not take a single shot. Nestor took 6 and the new guy in Alex Kiu took 5 shots (making only 2 of them?) After those two .. well we really didn't get many opportunities. It is worth noting that Caan benefited from taking a break last quarter in shooting as he hit both his shots this quarter.
We really only won in the second quarter, but the team and the fans at least felt we were in the game . Even if we were to loose every game this season and the final score was within a couple of shots, I would be happy as the competition would be outstanding.
Good Job tonight Oakland and thank you for a great game!
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