Exhibition Game #2

Today we had our second exhibition game against BiG Oettinger Rockets Gotha who is in our same league but a different division. This time the game was at home, which was nice to play in front of our HUGE home crowd of about 10 people, not including the ramdom people that accidentally walked into the gym thinking it was open to shoot around in. My team played this team before I arrived and they lost by 3pts, so I was excited to get the chance at a rematch and prove to them that we are the better team. The game took a very long time, approx 2.5 hours, which is long for a basketball game. The game started out fast but then moved into a more slowly paced game. I was 0-4 shooting in the first quarter and my coach, Hans Werner-Schmidt, got on me in front of the team and I became more focused. I scored 9pts in the second quarter on two 3's, a jumper and a FT. I missed 2 FT's for the game and I'm pretty pissed about that because I'm usually 90%. Tonight I was 4-6 from the FT line, which if my math is still up to par is about 67%, give or take a couple of percentage points. At halftime the score was 34-31, which is pretty low scoring for a couple pro teams. The second half started the same way the first did, fast but then slowed after a little while. Halfway through the third quarter this big russian guy, Virijevic or something like that, elbowed me above my eye splitting it wide open. I was pretty pissed cause blood was leaking out and I had to come out the game. After a while the bleeding had slowed to just a drip. I'm not sure if it will need stiches or not but who cares, chicks dig scars right!!!?(See Pic). My dad always told me to be tough so I'll probably just do it the "Rama Way" and super glue it closed...if I can find super glue. Anyways, back to the game. The refs again sucked more than a hoover vacuum. They called 6 techincal fouls and fouled out 3 of our players. I guess it was cool cause they sucked for both sides giving their team a couple T's and tons of fouls too. We ended up winning the game 75-64 I think. I finished with 17pts 4rbs 3 stls and 3TO to lead us. If you hadnt noticed i didn't put assists in there because I did not have any. Well according to the stats people I didn't. I think that may be a first in my career. Oh well, at least we won. We have our first real game against SSV Lokomotive Bernau on Saturday September 26. They are supposed to be pretty good cause they beat the team we lost to in my first exhibition game and they have a couple good American players. My knee is feeling a little better but it still hurts and swells after practices and games. It's still only about 70% but thats better than it was when I first got here. Anyways, until next game, keep reading.