First Exhibition Game

Well, today I had my first exhibition game about 2hrs north of Goettingen in a town called Braunschweig, but the trip was actually pretty short when you're going 130mph..lol. The team we played was Spot Up Media Baskets Braunschweig, very long name to say ... Crazy, I know! ... I played ok for the first half, but by the time the fourth quarter came around I was dead tired. I'm still trying to get into "game shape" and that has been hard for me because I have always been in shape when the seasons start. Oh well, it's a work in progress. My team lost 89-74 but we battled hard, I guess. We have a LONG way to go before we are even near ready to compete at a high level. I scored 15pts had 6ast to go along with 3rbs and a couple steals. Also I and had a couple dumb turnovers :(... Lucky it was only an exhibition and not a real game cause I would be a little more upset at myself and my team for the way we performed. As you can see from the picture the court "Sucked" it was a type of plastic that was really hard on my knees and body. The German game is a lot more physical and agressive but the players arnt as good as they are in the states. The team we played had only one American but he wasnt all that great. Speaking of not great, the refs were terrible. They would call travels that weren't travels, fouls that weren't fouls and not call fouls when someone got hammered...Also, there were numerous lane violations, 3sec and little ins and outs that they didnt call. I tried to talk to them a couple times and of course they dont speak english so they give me this dumb stare like I was retarted or something... All in all it was fun to finally get out there and show what I can do against some pretty good competition. We have a couple more exhibition games before our first game on September 26, so hopefully I will be in "game shape" and my knee has healed up a little more before then. Because right now my knee is only at about 60% , once I get that back to normal I'm going to start taking names...lol