In case you've missed reading new stuff, please understand that I'm heading in to my busy season. Job has lots of deadlines, I have a one hour online class that requires a lot more than one hour, my second job-advocating for teacher rights- has entered the meeting season, my basketball team is playing great ball lately, and it's tax season and I'm a procrastinator.
Add that incredibly annoying run-on sentence up and you get a neglected blog.
One day soon I need to tell you about the most ethical businessman I've ever met, Richard Barnes-owner of A-1 Carpet Cleaning.
VT destroyed Boston College on Wednesday night. I went to the game with my son who was on a weeknight pass from his corps. Tech plays Miami at home Saturday and then UVA next Wednesday. You may have seen the amazing Deron Washington dunk.
What you may not have seen unless you were at the game was an amazing play that happened right after another amazing play by Zabian Dowdell. Zabian had driven in to the lane as he often does. This time, however, he was caught in the air with no shot, so he tried to dump the ball low to Coleman Collins. Unfortunately, Coleman was covered and the ball was swatted away and onto a BC player. Zabian landed, dove for the ball, grabbed if from the BC player before falling to the ground dribbling the ball in Globetrotter fashion as he stepped through the BC player who had fallen to the floor(another amazing run-on sentence!). The referee, thinking the BC player had been hurt, stepped in and blew his whistle to protect the player.
That's the play the home viewers saw on TV. What you didn't see is what came next. While ESPN was replaying the hustle play by Dowdell, Zabian was busy readying himself for the inbounds play under his own basket. If you were to scout VT in such situations, you'd know that they like to run some interior screens and free up a player under the basket for an easy score. But BC obviously knew that tendency so they were guarding against that play. Realizing that they were not paying attention to him, Zabian fired the ball inbounds right in to the back of the BC defendser standing a few feet in front of him. The ball bounced off him and Zabian stepped in bounds, grabbed the ball, and laid it in. The TV announcers were busy yakking about the previous play and watching the replay, and they missed the whole play. In fact they never even knew what happened.
Oh well, I've already written more than I intended. Have a marvelous weekend.
Add that incredibly annoying run-on sentence up and you get a neglected blog.
One day soon I need to tell you about the most ethical businessman I've ever met, Richard Barnes-owner of A-1 Carpet Cleaning.
VT destroyed Boston College on Wednesday night. I went to the game with my son who was on a weeknight pass from his corps. Tech plays Miami at home Saturday and then UVA next Wednesday. You may have seen the amazing Deron Washington dunk.
What you may not have seen unless you were at the game was an amazing play that happened right after another amazing play by Zabian Dowdell. Zabian had driven in to the lane as he often does. This time, however, he was caught in the air with no shot, so he tried to dump the ball low to Coleman Collins. Unfortunately, Coleman was covered and the ball was swatted away and onto a BC player. Zabian landed, dove for the ball, grabbed if from the BC player before falling to the ground dribbling the ball in Globetrotter fashion as he stepped through the BC player who had fallen to the floor(another amazing run-on sentence!). The referee, thinking the BC player had been hurt, stepped in and blew his whistle to protect the player.
That's the play the home viewers saw on TV. What you didn't see is what came next. While ESPN was replaying the hustle play by Dowdell, Zabian was busy readying himself for the inbounds play under his own basket. If you were to scout VT in such situations, you'd know that they like to run some interior screens and free up a player under the basket for an easy score. But BC obviously knew that tendency so they were guarding against that play. Realizing that they were not paying attention to him, Zabian fired the ball inbounds right in to the back of the BC defendser standing a few feet in front of him. The ball bounced off him and Zabian stepped in bounds, grabbed the ball, and laid it in. The TV announcers were busy yakking about the previous play and watching the replay, and they missed the whole play. In fact they never even knew what happened.
Oh well, I've already written more than I intended. Have a marvelous weekend.
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