For the three of you out there who may have been wondering, we didn't win our basketball final last night. Didn't even come close, I think we went down by about 19. The key causes of this, in no particular order, were:
a) Most of us really aren't that tall. I guess Ash is about 6 foot 2, and he's easily our tallest player. The other team had three guys his size or bigger.
b) We're pretty good at shooting the ball from three point range, and that's about it. I think in the first half we scored 20 points, and 12 of those were from threes.
c) The other team was ridiculously on fire - they normally struggle to score 35-40 points against us, last night they had 56. The worst part was they used to have a few guys who were a bit shaky out there - now these guys still look like they can't play but they were hitting almost every shot they took. So when the guys they have who are actually skilled players scored, it was just a nice bonus for them.
Of course, this being social basketball, the new season starts at 8.40pm next Thursday night, so there's not exactly a lot of time for reflection. I'm hopeful we can pick things up a bit last year - whether it's the rest of the league getting better, or us starting to slide, the last two seasons haven't been real great.
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