We won our first game back from the break without one of our starting guards, on the road, against the number 6 team in our league by 15 points. Not bad. It set a club record for consecutive victories at 12 to send us on the road to play against one of the top 4 teams in all of Euroleague. We upset them when they came here, but they were still supposed to blow us out by 30 points. And what did they do??? They blew us out by about 30 points. It may have been 28 because we had a lay-up at the buzzer. We tied it up at 31-31 late in the first half, but we never had control of the game. As a team, we were upset directly after the game obviously because that's just plain embarrassing with the "junior high" performance we put out there (in fact, at dinner when the hotel restaurant served some of our team and staff wine, we had to ask each other, "should 8th graders really be drinking wine???"). Our team is very competitive, but I am glad that we don't take things too seriously. We are able to laugh at ourselves for dumb things that happened in the game, and we do our best to fix them for next time. Playing with people like that just help the overall morale, and keeps people from getting "burned out" too quickly.
If games like these keep us grounded for our Italian league games, then some positive can come from the blow-out. Getting spanked by the Russian champs several weeks ago and now the Spanish league champs definitely keeps us from getting the big head! On another note, my uncle Tommy arrives Saturday to catch 3 straight home games and to visit Italy for the first time, so we are excited about that!
oooo, I woul have had a hard time keeping my cool with ath waiter!! oh, man, it would have been ugly! Well, it is just like you to see the positive in everything, but that's why you are awesome! I'm so happy to hear about your Uncle, hope he has a great time!
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