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Thanks!!! I'm gonma try!

Went and hooped for 4 hours today. Got in a rec league that starts tomorrow lol! I'll keep you guys updated on how it goes. Played against some local juco college players....killed it. Played a very complete game today. Shot was good, pullup and 3 ball. Was getting to the rim easy because the handle was on point and made good decisions at the rim in regards to score vs drop off dimes. Played pretty well on D too. Had two big helpside blocks and affected a few more. 

Finished off with 30 mins of dead leg dunks lol! Somwhow still hit a 360 so I decided to film on the phone but couldn't get it again. Got rim stuffed on a huge pump reverse (imo lol). I was getting it over the rim last week so I think my legs were just going.  :/ anyways I'll toss up the vids in a little.

Ohh. All at 178lbs BW too.

We won our first game. Blowout. Teams going to be strong this year,  good mix of players so we've got flexibility on offense and good size for rebounding. Guard play is good as well, even without me. So we should put up some good numbers. I ended with 12 points, 7 rebounds,  3 assists and a pretty emphatic block along with 2 very sick up and under reverse layups. In 16 minutes. Sat the entire second half because we were up 20. Got in a dunk off after the game with 2 other guys (6'4" lanky guy from my team and a 6'6" guy from another team) and got hyped up pretty good. Was flying! Between the crowd and them pushing me I was crushing stuff. Killed a windmill, had a huge reverse off glass and backironed a 2 handed 360 which surprised the hell out of me! Even tried catching an oop from the 3rd hash mark but the oop wasnt great and I back ironed it....left handed. Havent got up like that in maybe ever!!

Anyway thats my update. super stoked for next Mondays game! Gotta lay off the turkey Thursday tho!

Lulz I probably will....and the desserts

Won both!!!!! First game the other team was just out matched,  108-55 final score. Not a ton of highlights, our big had a nice dunk on a pick and roll situation, I put some kid on skates and into another zip code with a crossover on a iso (probably one of my better moments , I lost him so bad my brain got jumbled wondering where he went and I about missed the pass to a wide open backdoor lol) and one of our subs went OFF from 3, I counted 9 at one point. So good tune up for the second game

Second game we were supposed to lose...according to everyone but us. Our two bigs are 6'4 and ones good the other is ddecent. They had a 6'8" 250lb, 2 years removed from playing D1 ball in the SEC, guy and a bunch of shooters. Guess I got warmed up because I dropped 37 in 29 minutes. And had 16 rebounds,  a few steals and one block on the 6'8 guy where I smashed his layup off the glass from the weakside. Got our guys super pumped and put the crowd behind us squarely. Only downside was we lost our starting big when play got chippy, he got hit hard and looks to have re broke a bone in his hand. not good at all. Was pretty physical down the stretch but insanely fun because they started talking trash which just makes me zone in and go for the kill. Final was 88-81 and was the most fun ive had in a very long time on the court. Felt like a 'real' game,  chippy,  physical, trash talking and some damn good ball from both teams.

And thats my recap for tonight, legs were pretty dead after game #2 so only tried a few simple dunks, only had two shots at in game dunks, in rhe first game I went after a layup that I thought was coming out and it somehow bounced in (even my teammate thought he missed it lol) and in game two I blew by a guy and was going to attempt to dunk in the big guy, he was on the opposite block, not sure if he was gna go up but I had already decided to say f it and try lol but, I got grabbed from behind,  guy tried to take my arm off :/  oh well. Hopefully next game!

Im hoping for a gopro for Christmas lol! So if that happens yessir!!! If not I'll have to get one, I start a new job in a week and a half so I'll have some more money coming in. Still not comfortable making 'big' purchases since I left my ex, what with child support and court costs and everything unknown. :/ bah!

The rebounds shocked me, ive always been known as a scorer but I made a conscious effort to attack the glass since we were at a pretty big height disadvantage. All credit goes to my two bigs for putting a body on their big. It freed up a lot of jump balls off the misses for me, just had to out jump their guards

So before our last game a team mate asked me to pump up his ball and as I was doing so, I missed a crazy put back dunk off a free-throw miss. I was livid. And i imagine that's the kind of thing you get up to in games. Ive never felt so inspired/impressed at having (almost) witnessed something on teh court before. There is something special about dunking in a game. One day i'll experience it too!

Dunking in a game doesn't compare in any way with dunking in a dunk contest or whatever. No comparison. I would take a powerful in-game dunk over a dunk contest dunk any day because it's unplanned, you don't know it's going to happen, it's athletic and it's awe-inspiring.

Saw your dunk vids. Damn you get pretty high!

What are your current lifting and jumping stats? What were your all time bests?