by Oskar on Tue Feb 10, 2009 4:48 am
Good news,
I'm going to Finland (Eastern Tournament) with my team in the beginning of April, it costs just 105€, plus cash that I'll use for food and all. I really think we have a chance of actually competing, despite not being really a team, just a group of players working out, a lot, calling themselves a 'team'. That doesn't matter, as long as - last week, we played in Hiiumaa's (the island I live on, quite small, but that doesn't matter) championships, 6.-7. graders, we played against two teams, we won the first one 64-6 and the second one 69-11. I played 36 minutes over two games, finished with 21 points and 19 assists, to go with around 5 boards and 5 steals. No challenge, no challenge at all ! Few weeks before that, we played in the 8. - 9. graders championships. We played 3 teams and finished 3rd, despite the fact 3/4 of our team were 7. graders, one was even fifth grader. You know, one team was full of quite pro's, we lost like 70-28 to them, but y'know, they were like dunking the shit out of us, they actually have a real team and all, so there's a small chance we could've won them .. no chance at all, tbh. The only team we won at that competition, well, they sucked bad, but we're still fairly good, I mean, 7th graders competing against 9th graders and we played quite good, the winners (the pro's I mention above), they underrated us quite much, we even led them 3-0 in the beginning, 5-2, as well. It all started, as I knocked down a triple from NBA range, which changed their mind a bit, so they started to play the D a bit, too. I ended up with 6 points against them, both three pointers (I was 2-2 from downtown).
Enough of this EGO stuff, I'm happy we can (probably) go to Finland for three days to the Eastern Tournament and I hope I'll get a chance of even making myself a little name, somehow. I know one little tournament ain't enough, but who knows - maybe I'll have an even better night than the last time with 20-20, maybe I'll be on fire and finish with something like this again, because I'll play a lot less minutes there.
Good luck to me !
