CONDITIONS
60+ degrees and moist….typical winter in SoCarl (no quite as cool sounding as “SoCal”, but maybe it will stick…we’ll see)
WARM UP
Most of the PAX did the #DepotDoubleDown and ran for varying distances of 3-8 miles, including m’boy Lap Dog (who skipped out on the hoops). M’boy Buddy Love, who recently got rid of his gas guzzling climate changing Prius in favor of a truck that could be named “get the hell out of my way” (Dodge), skipped the warm up run to keep his legs fresh for the later hoops. That would turn out to be the difference maker in the game. #foreshadowing (not to be confused with #eyeshadowing, which will come at tonight’s Christmas party).
THE THANG
It’s Saturday at Depot and that means one thing….sandbags…er wait, hoops, well at least for the last month or so since we’ve kicked this thing up.
After some tense deliberation reminiscent of a group of 10 year old boys trying to decide the rules to a backyard game of freeze tag, the teams were randomly assigned and we got down to a best of 5 series of games of 5 on 5. First to 11 wins (must win by two, opposite of “make it take it”).
It stacked up like this (with their NBA likenesses):
92′ Dream Team (you remember the one with Jordan, Magic, and Bird, beat teams by 50 pts on the way to the gold)
- Red Tape (Ewing)
- Soccer Mom (Mullin)
- Buddy Love (Drexler)
- Flash Dance (Stockton)
- Moose (Barkley and Jordan’s baby)
04′ Dream Team (5-3, with losses to basketball powerhouses Lithuania, Argentina, and Puerto Rico; who the hell was on this team anyway????)
- Lunch Lady (Lebron)
- Pol Worker (Mello)
- Box Wine (Duncan)
- Neck Brace (Iverson)
- FG (whichever Kardashian Lamar Odom married)
We’ll save the gory details and skip to the highlights I can remember, but the finale was much like you’d expect if these two teams played each other, 92′ went 3-0 vs 04′.
Some moments of note:
- Moose getting “lucky” on a nothing but net three and then another down about a minute later #ChurchLeague
- Red Tape’s play in the post, probably had 10 of the 33 points by his team and about 400 rebounds
- Neck Brace’s reverse no look layup (and in particular the lack of doubt he had following that it was going in)
- Box Wine’s play in the post, probably with 400+ rebounds (we shot a helluva lot of times to score those points.
- Soccer Mom’s MMA elbows during a Bill Laimbeer impression
- Lunch Lady’s drive’s and frequent illegal use of the left hand to score baskets
- Flash Dance torching FG on the opening play for a layup
- Buddy Love’s jumpers and frequent references to be the East north central Ohio Valley champion of something……chess maybe??
- Pol Worker’s cuts, picks, and presence under the rim that kept the games from getting away from us
- FG’s drives that helped Moose lead all in blocks for the day
Basketball is fun, especially when not taken to seriously. Come on out an play with us sometime. Next Saturday is your chance.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Lake Murray Christmas party, tonight at 6 PM, Bird Strike’s place.
PRAYER REQUESTS
Victims of the midwest tornadoes last night.
Those F3 Lake Murray runners that are taking on Kiawah this morning. I know of Stagecoach, Laettner, and R2D2 for sure, but perhaps others.
TL:DR
SYITG