03/06 - Ryboy's Friday Blog: Week 3

Friday 05th of September 2008

RYBOY’S FRIDAY BLOG

Updated Standings are as follows:
Here are the updated team records midseason:
Red 3- 0
Black 2- 1
Green 2 1
Blue 1- 2
Gray 1- 2
White 0- 3
As a coach, in a sweat, you start searching for signs in midseason: looking for players to improve, looking for teamwork to improve, and looking for players to find their comfort zone. It’s like looking for the rest stop coming back from vacation in which you just drank a gallon of milk. This week has been that kind of search for coaches. Who stepped up? Lets take a look…

Winner: Red 51 Gray 48
The undefeated red team, showed why they are the biggest bully on the block. They did their best impression of Deebo (Tommy Lister) in the movie Friday. Last week, I described Greg Wong as a crazed merciless beast, but the red team, as a whole, are all mini Deebos. Chris Huy, John Acosta, Greg Wong and Jeff Chan all work hard down low with full energy on the blocks getting rebounds and fighting for position down low.

Neil Wong, did damage down low, scoring with a variety of moves. Wong finished with a double-double (18 pts, 10 rbs). Matt Hedges helped out finishing with ten points. The game came down to the last few plays, but the red team kept the lead with Greg Wong’s timely offensive rebound after a missed free-throw. Next week, there are going to be bodies hitting the floor. There is a collision course next week, when the toughest rebounding teams (Red and Green) go at it next week. Bully ball at its best. Who will be left standing there without their lunch money? Notes: Coleman Chung (4 pts , 2/3) came back from an ankle injury suffered in the first game of the season…Gray Team went 0-7 downtown…Red team attempted 25 free throws…Next week, best 2 rebounding teams go head to head (green and red)…Tip off at 9:00 P.M. pst)

Winner :Green 48 Loser: Black 20
Basketball is a game of match ups. Can one person make the difference between winning and losing? Yes, think…Steve Nash for the Suns, Baron Davis for the Warriors, Stephan Urkel for Family Matters in that 3on3 tournament? What an episode…Larry Johnson what an actor. The green team came out guns blazing, without Erik Chan in the lineup. They were clicking on all cylinders and for the first time in CEBC friendship league history had every single person on their roster score. For the second week in a row, the “green curtain” blanketed the offense and held the opposing team to 6/34 shooting or 17.65 percent shooting from the field. This is the second week where the opposing team has been stifled by this defensive juggernaut and been held to 17 percent shooting from the field. The other team, the victim of an offensive Jugger“not”, (yes, had to fit that in there) was in dire need for any kind of offense. It became obvious that they needed a floor general, spot usually held by Erik Chan. The black team’s Al Harrington, Anthony Pineda, was tops in rebounding was held to 2/4 from the field and only 7 rebounds. The Green team out rebounded their opponents 42 to 23. Armondo Perez, a scoring leader, also had a sub par shooting night going 3/11 overall. The previously unbeaten black team, will have lick their wounds and come back next week to remain in the hunt for CEBC friendship league championship glory.

Winner: Blue 50 Loser: White 44
Oden/Durant sweepstakes?…this was the game that was for pure and utter friendship. The two winless teams competed for their first win of the season. Ironically, this game was the most exciting of the three. Alan Lin took the rebounding league midseason, and finished with 15 points and 20 rebounds. Fantasy owners were glad they drafted Alan Lin early. Darryl Greene, again, posted numbers that filled the stat sheet (10 pts, 11 reb, 5 ast, 3 stls). Both made their argument to be picked over Greg Wong as the number one overall CEBC friendship league fantasy basketball player for next season. Ex-teammates, Brian Chew and Jeff Hua guarded each other, in what was an epic battle between the gimpy and the aged. I thought the game was out of reach, until the white team made a huge push. Darryl, Adam, and Jeff Hua made consecutive shots down the stretch and capitalized on a Brian Chew turnover. In the end, the gray team held on to win due to Alan Lin suddenly becoming accurate from the charity stripe. (Notes: Most confusing quote/moment of the day: Coach of the gray team Brian Chew shouted out on defense, “I got tights.” His team, looked at each other confused, because and was not sure if he was referring to his own tights that he was donning or if he was going to guard Paolo Mendoza, who was also wearing tights. Collectively, Cornerstone team, had an improved shooting night going 10/33 (30.33 %) from the field. This pushes their totals to 27/99 overall or 27.27% shooting.)
Midseason questions bring midseason answers. I learned that there a lot of questions that remain... but learned that other sources parallel what the Gospels describe as a man named Jesus…learned that other sources corroborates events depicted in the Bible.