Hoops Report - Muy Mal

The SacTownGuy played like he was a member of the Washington General's last night... missing shots, throwing the ball out of bounds, turning the ball over and, all the while, playing my usual spotty defense. My poor play, coupled with my teams mediocre play, made the other team look like the Globetrooters! All in all it was my worst game as an adult... maybe my worst game ever!? Well, not as bad as that one three-on-three tourney I played in with BIG Drew and Reverened Ivan back about 10th grade. I still feel bad for all the bad shots I took that day! I could give you a laundry list of excuses for last night but I won't do that... ok, I will:

- Not enough sleep this week;
- Hot out so feeling drained;
- Hadn't played in 3 weeks;
- Lots of stress at work;

Well, you get the point. The bottom line though is the SacTownGuy no juega basketbol muy bueno las noches. Oh ya, I also do not speak very good Spanish but that should have said that the SacTownGuy did not play good basketball last night.

The team we played were a bunch of scrubs. They sucked ass! They had one or two guys who were good but were clearly football players. They had one guy who was about 85 years old who pulled up for 3's at the top of the key on the dead run. They had a couple of skinny kids, about the same age as the Chinese gymnastics team, who had the ugliest shots I have ever seen in my life. They were a bad looking team. Oh ya, we lost by about 20 so not sure what that says for the Dream Team!?

Lucky for me I brought an extra player with me who played real well. Caddilac Carson is more of a runner than a hoopster but he is young and is good shape. Lucky we had him or we would have lost by 30! Caddilac had about 10 points, a few steals, a couple of assists and only a couple of turnovers. All in all I have to say that Caddilac was our player of the game as the other 5 didn't play their best. McAlan would have gotten player of the game honors as we was having his usual solid game... until he got kicked out of the game.

McAlan's play, which caused him to get the boot, was not that extreme but the refs were calling it tight. For example, at the end of the first half I got a technical for counting down the seconds like a student section does at a college basketball game. That is, with about 10 seconds left the other team was racing down floor to score so I started yelling "5, 4, 3..." becuase who knows maybe it would throw off the kid with the ball. Intead I got a tech called against me which gave the other team 2 points. Oh ya, the refs also started the game by saying no swearing was allowed and later gave McAlan a warning for swearing while sitting on the bench after he had been kicked out; what were they going to do, kick him out again!? What is this a U-6 game in Provo? This is a men's, ADULT, league in Cali. We pay $475 for the privilge of playing and we are not allowed to drop an occasional F bomb? I have seriously never heard of such a rule. Not a big deal for me as I try not to swear but WHAT THE F... I should say, "oh my heck that's a crazy rule."

The good news is that I think I got the demons out of my system before my next big game on Saturday. I should be ready to go!

peace out.