Highlight Video

Okay ya'll. It's the moment of truth. I decided to be a little bit narcissist by putting together a few clips of me playing for your enjoyment. Have a look. I am also taking a Poll so if you can please vote if you like the video or not that would be great.

~coolbrz84

P.S. - My apologies that there is no music. I put some on but due to copyright laws it had to be taken off. You can still enjoy the footage though.

MTV Cribs

Tash and I decided to have a little bit of fun and created this video. Some of you may have seen it aleady, while others might not have. For those of you who haven't, Enjoy!

Week 8

Week 8's opponent comes from the town of Tübingen. They were a group of young developing players, so you can imagine they have lots of energy. To their credit they started the game out full of energy and intensity, but from the opening tip-off it wasn't looking too good for Tübingen. After ten minutes of play they managed to score 6 points to our 29 points. Seeing that I have been playing this game for a while, I could see the fear and disappointment in their eyes. To our credit we didn't allow pity to ease its way into our veins and kept the pressure up. We eventually ended up winning the game by 44 points. The final score was 92-48.

Personally, I felt like this was great team performance as just about everyone played and we seem to have found that key ingredient that we were lacking from before, FUN. There were lots of smiles on the Holiday Check Baskets faces as we marched our way to a deciding victory.

I was very pleased with my performance as I was seem to have found that balance of setting my teammates up, which is a strength of my game that is often undervalued or overlooked because I can score the ball. I finished the game with 23 points, 10 assist, and 6 steals. I feel so good inside when I have lots of assist as I like to think of myself as a generous person and in basketball that statistic is a reflection of that. The highlight of my night was when one of the "KONSTANZ KRAZIES" came up to me and told me in German, "Sie sind wie eine Katze schnell." That means, "you are fast as a cat." That's not the exact wording but its close enough. Now that I know a little bit of Germany, I take a liking in trying to speak and write it.

bis später
See you later

Samson

In the bible is a story about a man with long hair. His name is Samson. His long hair symbolized his strength. That story inspired me a few weeks ago because I was in a dark place. I needed change and I needed something to symbolize my committment to this change. I made a pat with myself to not cut my hair until we lose another game. I was debating between not showering but remember that I'm married. :) It's been four weeks now and if you see me right now you can see 4 weeks of hair on top of my head. I now have a mini-afro with little baby curls. If Holiday Check Baskets keeps this pace then who knows how big it will get come end of the season.

Week 7

Seven weeks into the season and we are 5-2 and are in a four way tie for 3rd place. This past weekend we successfully defeated Ober-Ramstadt by 22 points. Going into the 4th quarter we were up by 35 points.

As a team we seem to be finding a rhythm as we are improving. Coach Wash still has his criticism but what coach wouldn't. It's important for us to stay level headed. We can't fly too high with confidence and we can't fly too low with confidence. Coming into the season I think we mentally were writing teams off and underestimating our opponents, thus the 2 defeats we suffered. They served good purpose though because we learned not to taken anything for granted.

I think we still are a long way from playing the typed of basketball we are capable but we are honestly taking it one step at a time. KAIZEN is a Japanese word that means constant daily improvement. I want to take that up as our season motto.

Auf Gates Konstanz

kaizen

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Hoop Update

It's game day. The time is 7:55am in Germany and I had a good night of sleep. Today's opponent hasn't won a game yet this season. Holiday Check Baskets are not trying to let them win either. Having said that we are by no means looking to underestimate our competition. We will just go out and play hard.

So far this season we are 4-2 and sit in 3rd place. We are tied with about 4 other teams for that spot, but in time that will change. Statistically, I'm doing alright. I'm scoring 23.5 points per game (ranked 4th), shooting 55.7% from the field (ranked 53rd), shooting an abysmal 28.7% from 3-point (ranked 83), shooting 72.9% from the free-throw line (ranked 45th), turning the ball over 4.2 times per game (ranked 5th), getting 5.7 assist per game (ranked 1st), stealing the ball 2.8 times per game (ranked 3rd), and have an efficiency of 20.3 (ranked 4th).

As you can see there are signs of improvement that can be made. I just do whatever I can to put us in the best position to win. I'm a competitor and I always want to win.

We are on a 3 game win streak and are trying to make it 4 wins in a row tonight at 5:30pm.

MTV Cribs

Thought that I would share with you all The Lay version of MTV Cribs. It's our first home together and I'm very proud of it. Enjoy!



~coolbrz84