Initially, it was the best news I had received in years. My owner and coach pulled me aside after I had helped my 2nd division team win its 5th straight game. They told me that I was being called up to the first division. I could not believe my good fortune. I had been waiting for this day since the second I landed in Israel last year, and I really did not think it would come until next season. But, a confluence of circumstances allowed my chance to come early. Haifa suffered some guard injuries and were playing terribly, and I was playing my best basketball since like 2007.The stuff I went through in Tivon has been well catalogued, but let me just briefly go over some of the highlights (lowlights?): Continue reading “Bitter Thoughts”
Category: General Griping
Trip to the North
It is well-known that outside of basketball I live an extremely lazy life out here. To accomodate this life I went through great pains to black out my room by thumbtacking clothes over the window. With the complete blackness and the use of earplugs (so as to not hear the moaning, dying cats or the buzzing fridge) I can, and do, sleep uninterrupted for 10-12 hours a night. It’s pretty awesome. Except when you almost sleep through a pre-season game. That’s when the plan backfires. Continue reading “Trip to the North”
Game/My Apartment
I have had a resurgence the past month and actually resemble a real basketball player at this point. I have averaged 16 and 4 the past 3 games and we picked up 2 crucial wins. The most recent game was especially fun because the crowd was really into it. It was tight pretty much the whole way and featured a few memorable moments. The first came in the 3rd quarter after we had finally built up a little momentum and seized a 2 point lead. Then they came down and our big guy got called for a foul. This guy is pretty much the Rasheed Wallace of the league. He definitely has accumulated enough techs and pissed off enough refs to become a target for their calls. As I have noted before the refs here are remarkably awful, but the disrespect our big man shows is still over the top. Continue reading “Game/My Apartment”
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