Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Pubbers fall to "Brazen" Competitors in heart breaker of a loss!!!


Crowd reacts to the "flubbed" play
 It kills me to be writing this!

After a gritty, valiant, and gut wrenching late 2nd half comeback, the Pubbers missed an opportunity to steal a win from the Brazen Fox last Thursday at the Eastview gym before a capacity crowd of 9 kids.

It may have been visions of sugar plums dancing in their heads, or perhaps the vision of Larry T in an elf outfit and a cast on his knee, but whatever it was that distracted the Pubbers they did not look like themselves right out of the gate for the third game in a row!

The addition of TOT to the floor was a big boost indeed, but the holes created by the numerous missing Pubbers were really the difference in this game.

Brazen's mountain of a center kept TOT and everyone else's hands full as we gave away not only several inches but double digit pounds at least in the paint.  Despite this disadvantage, the defense did a tremendous job containing that threat as best they could and keeping this game close!

After an ok first half, the Pubbers came out in the 2nd half and did the uncharacteristic and unspeakable  - Went "O-fer" the first 7 minutes of the half allowing the Foxes to extend a once surmountable half-time lead!!!!!

The Pubbers, warriors that they are, finally got into a bit of a groove and after they began pressing full court, found themselves in a battle for the win and three points away from tying it up with less than 10 seconds left on the clock.

A brilliant play was drawn up to free Bants for the sure TRES, but yours truly failed to implement and execute the pass and despite some questionable timekeeping/officiating on the final play, the Pubbers were handed their first (and LAST) loss of the 2010 -2011 season!!

That will not happen again!!!!

Sure, the officiating was sketchy especially with some bad block calls down the stretch that should have given us the ball back and the timekeeping was sketchy and unappealable - but those are mere excuses given that we did not play our game, failed to execute properly in key plays, missed some free throws down the stretch, and have not yet found our dominant groove that is sure to come!!

And when it comes it will be unstoppable!!

Stay tuned for the rematch of this one --- and the Quest still continues!!!

Happy New Year all!!!

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