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OK, so I play in this league at the salvation army (church). The league only consists of 4 teams including mine, and the competition is D3, D2, D1collegiate level. The bigs are these corn-fed white dudes that range anywhere from 6'6" to 6'9". I'm just painting a picture for youguys...
Anyway, yesterday I walk into the gym and I notice a guy who looks remotely familiar. I go up to him and ask if you went to UofM (fellow Wolverines standup!). He says yes, and I asked if he played with my boy Scottie (Dion Harris), hesays yea. So, I'm like aww s---, dude is like 5'11" extra cocky and ran backup to my boy Dion. I'm thinking to myself "this justisn't fair"
because we've been having trouble in thisleague from the start.
The game starts and the opposing team only has 4 players on the court, but that doesn't even matter because these guys are raining 3's. Fastforward: six seconds left in the first half down 3. we call a time out...I glance down at the other teams bench to see if they were able to get a 5th. I noticethis dude and I'm thinking in my head he looks EXTRA familiar, like maybe I hooped with him before or something along those lines. Then I'm like F***!That looks like Ira Newble and a few seconds later a teammate of mine comes through and says, "Thisn****s went out and got a NBA player!" IT WAS IRA NEWBLE at a SALVATION ARMY BASKETBALL LEAGUE!
Following the timeout I hit a 3 to tie the game up at the half 40 to 40
Fast forward: We ended up only scoring about 18 points the second half and losing by damn near 30pts. This dude (Ira) was getting and 1 after and1...hitting contested turnaround fadeaway jumpers, and dunking on ppl plus the foul
...it was sad! To avoid further embarrassment I pulled myself out of the game 4 mins into the second half and never returned.
Do you guys have any stories of playing against NBA caliber players in a "Joe Smoe" type league?
Oh, and I think we'll more than likely end up winless in this league. We're currently 0-3
Anyway, yesterday I walk into the gym and I notice a guy who looks remotely familiar. I go up to him and ask if you went to UofM (fellow Wolverines standup!). He says yes, and I asked if he played with my boy Scottie (Dion Harris), hesays yea. So, I'm like aww s---, dude is like 5'11" extra cocky and ran backup to my boy Dion. I'm thinking to myself "this justisn't fair"
The game starts and the opposing team only has 4 players on the court, but that doesn't even matter because these guys are raining 3's. Fastforward: six seconds left in the first half down 3. we call a time out...I glance down at the other teams bench to see if they were able to get a 5th. I noticethis dude and I'm thinking in my head he looks EXTRA familiar, like maybe I hooped with him before or something along those lines. Then I'm like F***!That looks like Ira Newble and a few seconds later a teammate of mine comes through and says, "Thisn****s went out and got a NBA player!" IT WAS IRA NEWBLE at a SALVATION ARMY BASKETBALL LEAGUE!
Fast forward: We ended up only scoring about 18 points the second half and losing by damn near 30pts. This dude (Ira) was getting and 1 after and1...hitting contested turnaround fadeaway jumpers, and dunking on ppl plus the foul
Do you guys have any stories of playing against NBA caliber players in a "Joe Smoe" type league?
Oh, and I think we'll more than likely end up winless in this league. We're currently 0-3