Alex's Game Last Night

Excitement last night @ Alex's game.

The team we played had a 1-3 record, just like us. It was a battle of the basement teams.

Started out and neither team could make a layup or anything. It was scoreless for the first 4-5 minutes. Then it was 2-0 for what seemed like forever.

By 1/2 time, things were tolerable. They built a 4 pt lead but we came back and were down by 2 @ 1/2 time.

In the 2nd half, more back and forth. We missed easy shots but they missed them as well. Neither team could dominate. There were a lot of bad calls.

Finally, us behind 18-20, with 8 seconds left, my son went to the free throw line and tied it. You should have seen his face! Fist pump action!

Then we got the ball, got fouled and Alex K, our tallest kid went to the free throw line with :01 seconds, score 20-20. He lined up to shoot the free throw and all our kids were back across 1/2 court. As he was about to shoot, one of our players ran across 1/2 court to line up. They called a lane violation and waved off the MADE free throw ... we would have won if he wouldn't have ran across but he is new to the game. His teammates should have instructed him to not move.

So we went to OT. In OT, we were down right away 22-20, then made a couple of baskets to be 24-22. With :01 in OT, they threw up a shot and it went in. The ref said that he didn't get it off in time. I am glad there is no instant replay in our league b/c it was darn close!

We are now 2-3. We play a good team next week. Then on 12/2, play the team of kids a year younger than us. This is always a heated game but we respond well - I think we won last year. Then we have a final game. I predict we will play the team we played last night and I expect to win that game. We could end up 4-4, if the kids respond well. It will take a lot of hard work on their part.