Saturday, March 03, 2007


Today, at 9:30 am, I woke up and took a shower. After few minutes past 10, i went down to play basketball with Kurt, the American friend and Felix, from Catholic Junior College. We had a full court match today.....5 against 5....Our 5 are Kurt(nickname Steve Nash/Jason Kidd), Felix(nickname Point Center), Ernest(AJC nickname LeBron James), an Anderson JC boy which i forgot his name and me(Zack). Our opponents today are really bad compared to us which is because they are not basketballer(they hardly or almost never practised)...and all of them younger than us...they are secondary school boys. We trashed them with scores like 50-20......Just because our opponents are much weaker, everyone of us had good statistics...all of us scored, passed, assisted, dribbled, rebounded and stole their ball.....Kurt is just like what he is....giving assists....and chances to us to perform and always the best actually. Felix is interested in becoming center but his size is making him a guard instead....but he is good in the paint...making many "hooks"..that is his special move...to score, he is an all-time serious player which started playing basketball late too. Ernest has shot the 3s...and went into the paint but actually Kurt and Felix are the only ones capable in scoring in the paint....but Ernest is alright with his lay ups which start scoring from the very begining. AJC player is another serious player which kept dribbling and defended the opponent once he stepped into our half court. He made shots and lay ups too....but his inside scoring and lay ups are still in need of improvement. About me, i scored nothing at the start, i start to score only in the middle. I did not defend at all because i know today's opponent is a total crap....why?.....because alot of times....only 1 opponent dribbled the ball to us......while the rest of his 4 teamates were standing still in the other half of the court. I made about 5 shots out of 8 or 9. I missed the first 2 three pointers and scored 1 three point finally after some time for me to warm up. The 3 point, the only 3 point today is very funny. The funny part was when i got back to the ground after i jumped and gave that shot, everyone including me staring at that ball flying in the air...all this happened in less than half a second...and i said out loud" MISS".....but the ball flew into the hoop at the second....soft and nice....and Kurt started laughing while telling me.....like "EH......zaCK!..HAHA".....Then i scored a couple of 2 pointers......then....the lay up which i did not expect to score....I am the player that just started to learn lay ups actually....and i lay up in the face of that opponent after making an adjustment to avoid his defence...and i ran back happily to my half court. The last one was nicely done, perhaps the best, my finest moment. I got a steal...a hard one...both the person got stolen and i were like slipping down.....but i got the ball after a few moves....and drives to their baseline quick, made a break at the baseline because a guy was defending....turn to my left....where the direction of the hoop is, one quick step back and gave a jump shot....and scored!.....from the baseline...and again i ran back to my half court ...where my 4 other players were......standing there.....from far, i saw Kurt, Ernest and Felix i think.....raising their arms high with the first finger pointing towards my direction....and i did the same.......When i returned, Kurt was telling me that the moves i did just now were NBA style..." Steals the ball, drives in and a jump shot" said Kurt. I felt great although I dragged myself for the rest of the practices in the half court because of fatigue. After practice.....Felix and I went to MacDonald's for lunch....and had some talks......then went to the basketball court to shoot around for a while. I went to his home and watched NBA replay together(Miami Heat.vs.Dallas Mavericks). I gone home later.....doing my same old thing again...Today looks more lively.......i am looking forward for next's weekend's practice. YeaH. That is my philosophy

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