Basketball game...... -

Well.....

To make this short, I had a basketball game yesterday (Sunday). And yes, it was the real stuff with an referee, a buzzer, and coaches on each team.

My team started off pretty bad. The first four minutes, we were down 4-0. But by halftime, we managed to limit them to 4 points total, getting the score to 22-8 by halftime. I had two layups (one fast break, one offensive rebound-based layup)

At second half, it was all crazy. We were on several scoring runs at different times, pulling away from the opposing team by 20, then 30 points. And I was making a lot of layups on fast breaks - some were pretty crazy, as on one of my fast breaks, I was defended by a guy that was a bit bigger than me - but managed to get a quick 2-foot layup from the side, completely catching him off guard. (mind you, he was right in front of me)

On my 7th layup/fast break run (made 5 layups in a row), I went for it - but missed (the audience calmed down, boo). But my amazing performance got the coach to promote me to point guard (woot!). So for the rest of the second half, I played point guard while my team basically finished the whole thing up.

Final score: 65-30. (win)

For myself: 10 points, a few assists, 1 foul, a few rebounds. 5/7 on layups, 0/2 on field goals, 0/1 on jumpers

Not bad for my first game since I started basketball 3 years ago.

. But the thing that made a difference is all the fast breaks Ive been perfecting the last 1-2 years is finally put to the test - and passed.