Last night we played Berry College, an NAIA school from Rome, GA. I have a great deal of respect for their coaching staff and their players. They were great guys but most importantly they executed their Princeton style offense perfectly for a majority of the game and they knocked down open shots.

The game started out like a nightmare. Aside from the 2 free throws they gave us for dunking in warm-ups, the first half was unbelievable. Two of their players were red hot and it seemed like their team missed 1 three pointer in the whole first half (they were actually 50%). One time we had 4 guys under our basket the ball came off the rim awkwardly and bounced right off of one of our guys laps into the hands of a Berry player. It felt like if something could go wrong it did. We were down by 9 at the half. To start the second half they went on another run and went up by 15 at the 16 minute mark media time out. We finally started playing with a sense of urgency as a unit and went on a 19-3 run. I guess there are a number of ways you can look at the game in a negative way, but at the end of the day, we won the game. It doesn’t matter who we were playing, we fought back from being down 15 and got the win.

After the game I overheard some of the most asinine comments I’ve ever heard. Two people were talking and this is how the conversation went:

• Person A: (Noting the Celtics t-shirt) So are you a Celtics fan?
• Person B: Yeah I’m a huge Kevin Garnett fan.  I went to his basketball camp in Greenville when I was a kid. I was the only person at camp to ever score on him. I actually got recruited to play at Costal Carolina before I messed up my back.
• A: Oh wow. I was just wondering because I’m from Boston.
• B: Time out! You’re from Boston? My best friend works at UCONN!!! I’ve been dying to go visit him up there. (Keep in mind that UCONN is roughly 2-3 hours away from Boston)

Today we had a short practice that focused on shooting, weights, and films.  I have an eye appointment tomorrow morning before our 1:00 practice.  I’ll be back later on in the week, but until then, Mark Titus has inspired me to end all of my posts with youtube videos.

I present to you the worst basketball possession ever (from Basketbawful)

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