Basketball: 04/18/11

Basketball! I played well in some very physical games. I have to push myself to not take any possessions off even though I bet my team wished that I did.

In between the game we lost I ran stairs and did burpees.

Basketball: 04/12/11

Three games of basketball. I ran my ass off. I figure cause I can't make a shot if I am not directly under the basket (95% true as in I am literally shooting 5% from outside the paint) I need to run my guy around people until I can get open within 5 feet of the basket. The dude who was guarding me told me to go run on a treadmill. Some skinny kid at like 5'11 got a rebound from me. I absolutely destroyed him on a pick the next time down the floor. A couple times when people are really moving and smaller than me and they don't see me set the screen I warn them and kind of try to catch them before I crush them. I didn't warn this guy. Definitely sour grapes on my part.

I had a lot of work to do so I got to the gym late and stuck to basketball. I haven't lifted for about 10 days, which is a bummer.

3/22/11: Gym

I should have learned my lesson from yesterday. I really wanted to do the crossfit games WOD that I had practiced the day before. I talked myself out of it so I could play basketball. I told myself that I could do it at the crossfit gym where it would be more official. We shall see if that actually works.

I did a lot of banging in these games. There was this one dude who thought he was Lebron. Bummer was that he actually pulled it off. He was probably 6'1 200 lbs. Either on a fast break or from the top of the key he would get a head of steam, protect the ball like a RB going through the line, plow through 4 guys and somehow lay it up. It was really frustrating, but he didn't play any defense so I actually got some offense going. After losing, hopping on the next team and losing again I went to run some stairs. At that point I was feeling shitty about my play and was gonna head down to the gym and lift it off, but a different game needed a 10th. It was school yard style picks and I got picked first. I did legitimately did the look around after he called my shirt color cause he had just seen me miss 2 or 3, 2 on 0 layups in the previous game. This isn't an exaggeration. A guy on the opposite team drove to the rim and missed and everyone thought he got fouled but he didnt call anything. While everyone is trying to figure out what happened me and a teammate take off. I get the ball under the rim and miss. He missed. I missed. I missed. I made it. Or something like that. Nobody bothered to try and play defense on us. It was funny more than humiliating. Really. It was.

We lost and I felt lousy for not playing well and for not lifting. I think playing basketball is good for cardio, but lifting one day and running another is definitely better than playing basketball one day. Whatever. Ill adjust.

Gym: 03/21/11

I played too much basketball. 3 games kills any chance I have of getting to the actual gym, but I was coming off a great week of basketball and I was itching to keep playing. I played ok and ran a lot. I'm not sure I took a shot that wasn't a put back. I did have 2 absolutely monster blocks. I mean like volleyball spikes. One was on game point. I usually get caught up in the moment and let out something gutteral that ends with my pretending like I was clearing my throat.

My dude scored the winning basket in game 3 at double game point. Terrible. Three games left me little time for lifting, but I banged out:

3o double unders
15 power snatches at 90 lbs
couple more double unders

This was one round (30/15) of the cross fit games workout. I'm not sure when I am actually going to bang it out, but I am hoping to break 4 rounds.

box squats:
5 @ 200
5 @ 222
5 @ 243
3 @ 263

I'm still out of sorts with where these numbers are relative to my PRs from years past.

step up jumps:
15

Just something single leg oriented to toss in before sprinting to the train.

basketball: 12/13/08

Dropped some knowledge on some people in the form of reckless drives, terrible perimeter jumpers and so so defense. I did feel decent running up and down the court and my hamstring sustained the 80% effort until 5th of 5 games. I missed my free throw to play in the 6th game and it was probably for the better.

I don't know what is in store this week. Celtics game Monday, work Tuesday through Thursday nights, work party on Friday night. Swamped.

Basketball: 03/08/08

Played about 5 games of basketball. I tried to run the court whenever possible and by the end of the 4th game I was about done. I was getting tossed around down low for the last two points, but rallied for the fifth game.

Basketball: 02/23/08

Took it to the courts on Saturday morning. I don't remember dribbling the ball off my foot or any other appendage, which is part of my checklist for success after a day of ball.