Memphis welcomed me back on January 11th with this beautiful view.
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Basketball Season
College basketball has been outstanding lately, at least the games I have seen. I attended Memphis v Houston a couple weekends ago. Houston had a player that earlier that week stepped on some guys face, intentionally. Every time he was shooting free throws by our band, the kids would take off their shoes, place them by their face and scream. It was hilarious. Houston's jersey tops were bigger than their shorts and Memphis', being the hood team that they are, shorts look more like man-pri's than shorts. Kept me laughing the whole game.
Memphis played Gonzaga last Saturday. This game had a lot of hype because Memphis and Gonzaga were similar in rankings, and matched up pretty well on the floor. I was nervous because we have been throwing the ball away on stupid turnovers lately. The usual scenario played out. Memphis runs the crap out of the other team and they are just standing there spinning in circles wondering which goal is theirs. We killed them. Coach Cal says the boys are starting to come together and play like they know what they're doing. I would have to agree. Couldn't be at a better time either, its getting closer to March.
Last night Duke played UNC. The first 30 minutes of this basketball game was probably the best 30 minutes I've ever seen. Scoring a combined 50+ in the first 10 minutes left me speechless. Every possession was a field goal and the pace was very quick. It's always impressive when a college team gets to 100 especially in this rivalry so needless to say when UNC scored 101, at Cameron Indoor Arena (Duke's home), I was very impressed. That is not easy to do!
This year's NCAA tournament will be a good one I suspect with all of the upsets already and the teams inching closer to the top 10, like Memphis. March can't get here fast enough.
**Here is Memphis' intro video for this year. It's a little blurry but a fan recorded it. This is an awesome way to get the fans hyped up. Just imagine standing in a pitch black bball arena and this bad a video comes on the screen.
Memphis played Gonzaga last Saturday. This game had a lot of hype because Memphis and Gonzaga were similar in rankings, and matched up pretty well on the floor. I was nervous because we have been throwing the ball away on stupid turnovers lately. The usual scenario played out. Memphis runs the crap out of the other team and they are just standing there spinning in circles wondering which goal is theirs. We killed them. Coach Cal says the boys are starting to come together and play like they know what they're doing. I would have to agree. Couldn't be at a better time either, its getting closer to March.
Last night Duke played UNC. The first 30 minutes of this basketball game was probably the best 30 minutes I've ever seen. Scoring a combined 50+ in the first 10 minutes left me speechless. Every possession was a field goal and the pace was very quick. It's always impressive when a college team gets to 100 especially in this rivalry so needless to say when UNC scored 101, at Cameron Indoor Arena (Duke's home), I was very impressed. That is not easy to do!
This year's NCAA tournament will be a good one I suspect with all of the upsets already and the teams inching closer to the top 10, like Memphis. March can't get here fast enough.
**Here is Memphis' intro video for this year. It's a little blurry but a fan recorded it. This is an awesome way to get the fans hyped up. Just imagine standing in a pitch black bball arena and this bad a video comes on the screen.
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