Sunday, January 18, 2009

Bulldog beatdown

Well i am all of a sudden in the mood to blog again...ive taken about half a month off and i finally realized that i have enough to say so here we go. Basketball is still in full swing and my team is actually playing good. we pulled off a major upset the other night against our cross town rival dalton and we are now 3-0 in games that are decided by 1 point. and we have won two 1 point game in the span of a week. tuesday we beat out heritage christian by one as well. now this dalton win was sweet in so many ways. not only do i just not like the entire dalton community but especially their sporting community. we came in probably close to 20 point underdogs and i garentee the 7 guys that play on my varsity were some of the few that actually believed we had a chance. Before the game our coaches asked us how we wanted to be remembered as a team and as an individual player and how we wanted to be percieved by the fans. Words like "consistent" "always works hard" "all out all the time" "leader" "never flustered" "plays with heart" were plastered all over the board. so our coaches come walking in and the first thing that they do is erase every thing on there. the said those were just words and that the meant nothing. we had to go out and prove it. i took this as a challenge and im sure the rest of the guys did to. so with the biggest crowd i have ever played in front of and our student section out-shouting theirs (which is really really rare) we came out and played the best game we have to this point this year. they were stronger then us, quicker, and frankly just flat out more athletic then us but it didnt matter. we wanted it more then them and we got it because we never got flustered and we played as a team. there is no star player on our team we have only had one person score over 20 points twice this year. if you guard one of us the other 4 will kill you. so in the first ever regular season meeting between central and dalton....Central 1 dalton ZERO...so take that bulldogs...you have nothing on us.

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