Historical!

Ok, well, all is NOT going well, we played horribly but still won at home Sunday for our Italian league game, and I'm having knee problems, but any bad stuff that we've encountered thus far this season, has almost completely been erased from the experience we've just been through last night. It's so difficult to capture the moments we had in our last game against a top four Euroleague team (which basically means a top four team in the world...). We led the entire game and had enough of a cushion in the end to withhold their last run and still win by 9 points. Our coach said it was a David vs. Goliath kind of match, but I like to think we were much closer in matchups than those two even though they were taller than us at every single position...

Now, we are NOT better than the Spanish team we just beat. They have two WNBA All-Stars on their team to go along with 2 or 3 other Euroleague All-Stars, and their Spanish players are BIG and well-rounded players. If we had to play them 10 times they might win 8 or 9, but luckily, with our crowd, we got'em last night! :)

Our team played "out of our minds" well (myself included--3 for 3 from 3). We just had no fear going into this game that most teams have when they face these guys. If I'm proudest of anything it's of that lack of fear and how much heart we put in to playing for a complete 40 minutes. If we had let up for a minute or two, they probably win the game. The crowd, which can turn on you at any second I've heard, treated us like rockstars, which was awesome. We still sign loads of autographs and take several pictures with people after the games, and they tell you how fantastic you are. I hope all of our heads don't explode with ego because we have a really tough Italian league game Sunday which is the only other Italian team also playing in the Euroleague. It will be a great chance for us to put some space between us and other teams. My knee is still bothering me, so please say some prayers!