Amazing...

This past game was the most exciting finish we have had all season -thanks to my teammate Melody. He provided us with a half court buzzer beater that gave us a win against the top team in the league. You can imagine the whole gym went wild. We were down the entire game from the opening tip off all the way till the last second of the game. Our fans were definitely the sixth man tonight as they were just awesome throughout the game. It was the loudest it had ever been all season and it helped at the end. The game was a very physical match as the officials decided to swallow their whistles for the night. We sure took advantage of it - playing hard nose defense and they did the same. The intense defense caused both teams to struggle from the field as the final score was 64-62. The fourth quarter is where all the action took place. We kept the game close - not allowing the lead to grow larger than 5. Every time we made a big basket they would respond back with a big basket of their own. Then finally the last two minutes of the game we were able to tie the score off a pair of free throws. The score would stay the same till the last 30 seconds of the game. They had the ball and ran a pick and roll - our defense broke down giving up an easy lay-up with 8 seconds left of the clock. We called a timeout and drew up a play for a game winning 3. Instead the play didn't go that way...the play broke down and our point guard was driving down the middle of the paint. I broke away from my defender and came in behind him where he handed the ball off to me and left me to go against two defenders at the basket. I was able to split between two defenders in the air and lay the ball against the glass and watched the ball roll around the rim and then fall through. The game was tied at 61 with 4 seconds left on the clock. They took a time-out to set up a play. We had a feeling there were going to run the same play they did earlier in the game to end the third quarter with a 3 point basket. They did but this time we were playing too tight on defense and the ref blew the whistle giving them 2 shots at the foul line with 3 seconds on the clock. Our crowd was as loud as it been all night and caused our opponent to go 1-2 from the line missing the first and making the second. Instantly we took the ball out of bounds and were able to get it into Melody's hand as he took three dribble up the right sideline with his defender all over him. Melody crossed the mid court line - somehow managing to create him some space by jumping and then tossed it up there. I stood there at the half court line watching him and saw the ball in the air just waiting to see what happened. The gym was all of a sudden quiet and before you knew it the ball bounced off the glass and rolled around the rim three times before falling through. The place just went crazy, and everyone just went into a frenzy. I just couldn't believe it, it was amazing. We couldn't have asked for a better ending. That was an unexpected win but a great win for us. In addition to the game the club was celebrating the 1969/70 team 40 year anniversary that won the Euro-Cup championship that year. There was a big celebration after the game for that group of guys to go along with our celebration.

With our win and an unexpected loss by Paris we are now 1 game behind with 2 games to play. We have the tiebreaker over Paris and they have a tougher schedule so stay tuned. It’s going to be a wild finish.

Well that's all I have for this weekend. Jen took some pics after the game so they are below. I hope everyone had a great weekend and you were able to enjoy some sun. Thanks for checking in and I will be updating soon. God Bless you all.