ITALIAN LEAGUE CHAMPS!!!!!

We won!!!!! We finally played like the champions we've been all season long. We crushed them in the first half and were leading by 16 points. It was one of the best halves of team basketball that we've played this year. Our offense was great, but our defense was smothering! Their best player made the huge mistake of guaranteeing a victory on our floor. Very dumb... She finished the night with 3 points and 4 fouls :)

I had one of my best shooting nights in a long time, and one of my best defensive performances as well. Our goal was to just leave all that we had out on the court, and we did that amongst foul trouble for both teams. I'm just really proud of us. And the crowd was amazing! The rowdiest 3000 people I've ever seen. You've never heard a crowd cheer louder for a free throw in the first quarter than they did! You can imagine the eruption after one of my three three-pointers. (What an amazing feeling...) With the help of legalized artificial noise-makers (mostly in the form of blow horns) we couldn't hear almost anything during the game. My ears were ringing when we went in for half-time. I translate for our team before the game and during half-time and I felt like I was shouting the english version of coach's speech. It was probably OK because everyone else was most likely in the same position.

The following celebration was WILD! So many people stormed the court to jump around and sing and hug us that we couldn't hardly move around to find each other. We got treated like rock stars. People just wanting to touch our hands or jerseys. I couldn't hardly smile anymore after all the pictures I took. People were about lined up and were grabbing me and turning me around for a good 10-15 minutes. And about half of those people asked me for my jersey, my headband, my shorts, a shoelace, a ponytail holder, anything! It was nuts. Can't believe we almost missed out on an experience like that. Absolutely priceless.