Countdown!!!

We can see the finish line!!! Well, you know, to Christmas time and a big fat 10 day break anyways! We are feeling the fatigue a little much lately, and a LONG trip to the middle of no where in Russia (Ekaterinburg) which is 4 time zones over, getting our behinds kicked by 30 and then traveling back to play a few days later did not help... We began that next game horribly and were losing by 20 on the road to the second place team in our Italian League. I didn't know it at the time, but they only had one loss going into the game, so it was more important than I thought.

Our team battled back despite an unruly fan coming and literally banging on the glass right behind our bench. I suppose he thought he was motivating us, but it was very disturbing and thankfully security led him away (someone from our team said that the person isn't allowed in our gym anymore, and I hope that's true). Our fans already don't get along with their fans at all, with fighting in their background, so it wasn't even like they just wanted us to win. I got the feeling from that crazy guy that he was pulling for us so that he could be talking the "smack" and he could be the one to rub it in at the end of the day. Anyways, back to the game. Our team battled back and were close enough with a few minutes left to give ourselves a chance. I, personally, didn't have a great game unfortunately, but I was in for the last few minutes of regulation and all 5 minutes of overtime that we forced mostly for my defense than anything I was doing on offense. Once again, our team just found a way to win. I love the way we finish games. I hated the way we started, but I'm still proud of our effort in the end.

We now have one Euroleague game to play tomorrow and one more Italian league game Sunday to try and finish off the first half of the season undefeated. And Morgan will be here for both!!! We had a very difficult time due to weather traveling back yesterday, but he's here and happy (and for the first time with his baggage!) so we will have a good time in Taranto before we make the journey home next Monday.