Well, thanksgiving was comming up and everyone was gonna go home...but me. I was stuck here...but things turned out not too bad. It was great for the break. I needed a break. I was falling apart. And things where only going to get worse afterwards. I have 2 solid weeks of hell and then I get to go back home the 14th for the first time since August. It is code named the Fortnight of Hell. So anyways...
I was loaded with basketball. Had a bunch Weds. Thursday we had practice int he morning. Then we got off the after that. I went to the Seromics for thanksgiving and it was a bunch of fun. I had a good time with the pies and stuff. Also, the little boy Juan Pablo is awesome. Me and paulina and Natalia went to go see Walle at night and then snuck in to see the last 30 minutes of The Dark KNight. Awesomeness. I cant wait till it gets out in BlueRay. Haha. I was so glad. I spent the night there, got up early friday, and then go to practice...again.
We had practice and walkthrough friday nigth. And it was fun. I am so tired right now, I dont remember what happened, it was too long ago and I am tired, hahaha. But afterwards we had to go to the office to get this newsletter for coach Beilein done. Apparently the manager who was suppose to get it done didnt come the last 2 weeks so it was not done. SO I took the burden and got to work and got a few to help me out and it was good stuff. I also got these sweet posters up for our game goals and stuff. Dang, I am leading the way in the second wave of managers. Its kinda cool.
Then Saterday we had our game against Savannah St. This game was crazy. For one, we hardly had any managers at all because of thanksgiving break, so I had to go up and film. But the game itself...oh what the drama! We had terrible practices leading up to the game, so I anticipated us stinking, but I had no idea this bad! You wouldnt have htought we had beated #4 UCLA the week before! We came out terrible and them awesome. We were missing everything and they were making everything the whole first half. They were making ugly buzzer beating shots. Everything. In fact they only missed 6 shots the first half, going 71.6% from the floor and 100% from 3s (6-6). So we went into the locker room quite...down by 20...yes, down by 20 to a terrible terrible team.
We came back in the second half and had a 15-0 run. The rest of the game we were trying to inch up on that 5 extra points. Finally in the last minute we were able to make it. Then, before you knew it we were tied with 30 seconds left in the game and they had the ball. Yeah, it couldnt get any more intense...but wait, it did. We fouled them 3 times in a row so that they kept having to take it out of bounds (cause we were not in the penalty). The last throw in there was 3.5 seconds. Well, as they pass it, our freshman Zach Novak (remember this dides name... this 2-star is gonna help our team a lot, just wait) lunged and tipped the ball out in front of him...only to grab it himself and run down the court at full blast next to Manny Harris to finish the game with an emphatic two handed dunk at the buzzer!...only for the ball to bounce out of the rim after time had expired! Yes, that is right, we could have won the game at the buzzer with a game ending dunk and ...it went out...so then we go to overtime. It gets better...
Overtime, we are doing pretty good but they are staying with us. Freethrows were huge for us this game. There we roll. We are winning by 2 points. A few seconds on the clock. They have the ball. As the clock rolls down and they are using up the clock, one of their players takes a ballsy contested shot at the short corner over our players to sink nothing but net with 5 seconds left to tie the game. I was for sure thinking we were going to have to suffer more...but, well...just listen.
(Zack Novak`s tip for the steal with 3.5 seconds left)
We pass the ball in, notice, with 5 seconds left, to Manny Fresh...he dribles once, tosses the ball half way through the court to DeShawn Sims at the women´s 3point line and shoots immediately with 0.8 seconds over one guy...and...and...nothing but net at the buzzer! The players jumped all over him and we finished a scare to a terrible team. Yes, we were down by 20 to Savannah St. But you know what? We know now that we can come back from a 20 point deficit and still win in 20 minutes. So over all good. Next...Duke, thats right, Duke Rematch 12/6. You be ready and square...
(DeShawn Sim`s shot with 0.8 seconds for the win)
(Our team extatic after the win)
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