So, finally the year is almost over, but with that, so is this great basketball season. The finals are coming up this wednesday, the twenty eigth, and it has been a long season. We have gotten to the finals undefeated and we played many different teams. We played MBS, Lincoln, Blue Valley, AIS, Humboldt, Calasanz, and others I dont remember. Well, our score right now if i’m not mistaken is 7 or 8-0, and all the other teams have atleast two losses, against us, MBS, or Humboldt. Humboldt lost against us and MBS, and MBS against Humboldt and us. But since MBS beat Humboldt in the semi-finals we are going to play them. The first game we played against MBS the final score was 32-29, us, but I think this time we will beat them by more points, because we have gotten better during the season. One of the things that hinder us though, is that MBS and most other teams have practice EVERY SINGLE DAY OF THE WEEK, while we only have practice two days a week, which I find really unfair. Nonetheless, I expect it to be a great game so come out and cheer for the Middle School team! It’ll be a great game, no doubt. Go Panthers! So comeout and give support, you wont be dissapointed by this great game.
This has been a long week, and I do not know what I can write about for this edublogs post, and another thing, our required posts have now been buffed up to three hundred words per entry a week, so I’m going to have a hard time getting to the requirement while saying something interesting. I think I don’t know what to write about because we haven’t been doing much in school lately, and I haven’t done anything interesting either, but, I have to write this three hundred word post so I might as well try to write three hundred words. I feel overwhelmed by the amount of homework we get in school so I can barely find any time to do anything that is personal stuff like the basketball team or chatting with my friends, going out, I haven’t gone to the movie theater in atleast three or four weeks which must be a record for me since I like to watch movies a lot. I think that this is the hardest post so far because since we are so far into the year and we have been using edublogs for quite a while now, people, or atleast me for that matter, have been running out of ideas on what to write about so after each post, everything keeps getting harder and harder, until you reach a point where you run out of ideas, or like what I did, I had to totally remake my blog which was about streetball into a blog about everything. Although I still think that edublogs was an interesting experience and a different one too because we hadn’t ever done something similar, and I have to say, I kind of like it, mostly reading other peoples blogs than writing my own though. Well that’s three hundred words, and my post of the week, so good luck people, have a nice day.
So, this week, after a couple minutes of thinking about it, I decided to change my blog. I still love basketball but I think that it is time to change it and let my blog evolve into a more complex blog, broader.So, I was listening to music on my Ipod one of these days and I think, hey I havn’t listened to this song in a while.The song was “Where is My Mind” by The Pixies. As I start listening to the song I remembered it was the theme song to the extraordinary classic Fight Club, 1999, starring Brad Pitt and Ed Norton. This movie is the best movie of all times, in the beginning of the movie, there is no clear conflict, but as the movie progresses, a mayor conflict is noticeable. I wont say it so I dont give it away, but this total twist to the movie is what makes it so great. The movie itself is a whole masterpiece, as every small little detail in the beginning of the movie start to make sense and start to web a whole new plot that you would not have realized existed without passing through this part of the movie. This little web is followed throughout the whole movie and not only that, all the things that happened made sense, but now, all of a sudden, it all changes. The things make sense, just differently. The whole hour that you have been watching is all being examined under a new light by your brain because you realize that now that you see what is really what, you start to think, hey that makes sense, no wonder that guy did that, no wonder he thought the way he did. Its a pretty crazy movie, and a great one too, I recommend everyone who wants to see one of the best movies ever made, watch this movie.
Finally, it begun. As of March 12th, 2008, Diego U. has officially entered the basketball season. I have high expectations for this season, I believe it will be the high-light of my year. After almost a year of rigorous training I feel ready. I want to make this season the best ever to win the championship undefeated. The line-up, can be either one or two in my opinion. Ian A. as PG, DJ B. as SG, Diego U.(ME =) ) as SF, Santiago M. as PF, and Nick C. as C, or Daniel A. as PG, DJ B. as SG, Me as PF, Ian A. as SG(3 Guard formation), and Santiago as C. Any of these formations will allow us to win. If we have over 10 games, I want to achieve over 100 points in total if I play every game, and atleast 10 assists. I think that 1 steal per game, and maybe 1 deny per game, or 1 game yes 1 game no. I wish with all my heart that we go undefeated and teach everyone that dedication pays. When the year started, I was nothing out of this world. But with DAYS of training(days as in i spent way more than 72 hours of training in total) and dedication, I became, in my perspective, the best player in MS overall. There are players that are better defence than me like Santiago, and maybe DJ is better offense, but defence and offense together I think im the best or maybe the second best. Well, I wish the season goes well, and to everyone, come watch our game on April 2nd, thats next week’s wednesday!
http://youtube.com/watch?v=XCkx7sjPsjM&feature=related Link to video because apparently freaking Edublogs is having problem with youtube videos like that saying that it has been deleted when it hasnt. Please take some time to go to the link if you cant see the video here, its worth it.
That is a video of the known Rafer Alston or Skip 2 My Lou. When I hear the words streetball or AND1, I think of Skip 2 My Lou, Hot Sauce, The Professor, but the one that takes my attention the most is Rafer Alston. He is one of the few that have gone from streetball, to the NBA. He, for me, is the most influential Streetball player there has been. He succeeded past streetball into the NBA where his career took him from the Milwaukee Bucks to the Miami Heat and then the Raptors, among others. His skill in streetball has never been challanged, he was, and still remains for me, one of the greatest players that have ever played this wonderful game of streetball. His skill surpassed the skills of any other player in the AND1 team and even of some NBA players. The challange for streetball players is that they play with totally different rules, but nonetheless, even though turbulent, his carrier in the NBA has been good, with a little bit of bumps, but it has been a great career so far. I think that Rafer still has a spot with the streetball giants and his name and nickname will be remembered for a long time.
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