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BasketBall Update

Tarandon — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:34:11 +0000

We only have three games left before the end of the term and we have yet to win a game. We played fairly well last night however, and we only lost by eleven points. This was our smallest margin, as well as our highest scoring game. I almost fouled out in the first half and had to play point defense for the rest of the game because we only had six chaps make it out. Furthermore the decision for play next term will need to be made fairly shortly, and I’m on the fence. I would have expected greater progress at this point but our team just can’t seem to pull it together. Many of our players show up sporatically and we never get a chance to practice.

We’ll see how the game goes next week. If we can win a couple of our last games, I might sign up again for next term.

Cheers,

Tarandon

MurderBall

Tarandon — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 18:21:14 +0000

So we got murdered at basketball Thursday night. 46-15 was the final tally. We brought 6 guys to the game, and the other team brought 11. They showed dominance from the start and my legs just weren’t working. By the half we were down 22-5 so the second half was by far the better of the two. We switched to a zone defense to save our energy and just ran like feinds on the other end of the court. We got destroyed on offensive rebounds and just gave up trying so we could focus on defense.

The referee’s started handicapping the game near the end which just lead to really rough play which doesn’t help anyone.

Next week it looks like a couple co-workers might join us, one of which is six foot six so we should fair a bit better. I just hope we can pull up our ranking a bit over the next 10 weeks.

Cheers,

Tarandon

Tuesday Practice

Tarandon — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 22:16:08 +0000

So last night we played some pick up ball at the JCC on the SW corner of Spadina and Bloor. We had a good time and played better I think than we did last Thursday. In the last 5 minutes however, I managed to sprain my thumb. Currently its about six shades of blue circling the base of the thumb. My movement seems to be increasing however, so hopefully I’ll be able to play in tomorrow nights game.

I’m going to research thumb taping tonight in case there’s some tricks I can use to increase the stability of my joint in preparation for the game tomorrow night.

Wish me luck!

Tarandon.

The Chuckers’ First Game

Tarandon — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 00:27:37 +0000

We played our first game last Thursday and we were pretty good. We were leading for the first 3/4 but we ended up losing by about 7 points or so. Despite the loss It looks like we did fairly well considering we’d never played together, and the plays we were given failed miserably against their 2-1-2 zone (which they were relentless with). Regardless I had a lot of fun, despite the excruciating leg pain and dehydration, and I’m really looking forward to next Thursday. We’re going to play some pick up ball on Tuesday night just to get some extra conditioning.

Current record for The Chuckers: 0-1-0

Cheers,