8th Game: vs Blue Devils

7th September 2006

This team were in 4th place on the ladder, and are a group of young guys with one player who is taller than Simbo. This meant that there was more competition for the rebounds.

For this game Tim was unable to play due to a leaders meeting or something. Dave returned after his injury, which meant that we had six players with Harbs, James, Devo, Simbo, and myself.

We actually started this game pretty well as we took a lead early on, but once the devils got themselves together they pulled away from us on the score board. The first half Dave (“they call me Bruce”) made two shots just outside the key, Harbs got the drive to the hoop, Simbo got a shot from a bit outside the key, Devo made his first points with a jump shot about half way out to the 3 point line and James continued his scoring feet with a 3ptrs and two 2ptrs. We had 5 team fouls in the first half and were behind 17 to 35 on the board. Simbo says it takes him 25 minutes to warm up in a game, which means that he should run to the stadium before each game, although that would probably take an hour or more.

The second half Harbs made scored 4 points and had a couple of free throw attempts, Simbo score 4 points once he was more committed to the game and scored after cutting in from the top and receiving the pass, and pushing the shot in. James made 5 points including one free throw, and Dave made another 2 points.
Our defence in the second half was a little bit better as we prevented them from scoring 60+ points. The final score was 32 to 57.

The next game is at 9:20pm on Thursday the 14th.