An ugly win is still a win
Last night we played Berry College, an NAIA school from Rome, GA. I
have a great deal of respect for their coaching staff and their
players. They executed their Princeton style offense perfectly for a
majority of the game and they knocked down open shots.
The game started out like a nightmare. Aside from the 2 free throws
they gave us for dunking in warm-ups, the first half was unbelievable.
Two of their players were red hot and it seemed like their team missed
1 three pointer in the whole first half (they were actually 50%). One
time we had 4 guys under our basket the ball came off the rim awkwardly
and bounced right off of one of our guys laps into the hands of a Berry
player. It felt like if something could go wrong it did. We were down
by 9 at the half. To start the second half they went on another run and
went up by 15 at the 16 minute mark media time out. We finally started
playing with a sense of urgency as a unit and went on a 19-3 run. I
guess there are a number of ways you can look at the game in a negative
way, but at the end of the day, we won the game. It doesn't matter who
we were playing, we fought back from being down 15 and got the win.
After the game I overheard some of the most asinine comments I've
ever heard. Two people were talking and this is how the conversation
went:
- Person A: (Noting the Celtics t-shirt) So are you a Celtics fan?
- Person B: Yeah I'm a huge Kevin Garnett fan. I went to his
basketball camp in Greenville when I was a kid. I was the only person
at camp to ever score on him. I actually got recruited to play at
Costal Carolina before I messed up my back. - A: Oh wow. I was just wondering because I'm from Boston.
- B: Time out! You're from Boston? My best friend works at UCONN!!! I've been dying to go visit him up there.
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