Basketball Update

Well sports fans, I know most of you are real disappointed that ESPN is paying so much attention to the SuperBowl that they haven’t reported the Upper Palatinate (Oberphalz) Senior Men’s Basketball league.  So I’ll play the slightly biased sports reporter and give you the latest, this afternoon Sulzbach-Rosenberg smashed Schwandorf 60:53.  Thankfully, it wasn’t as close as the end score shows; they hit three desperation 3-pointers in the last minute to pull as close as they did.   We played better than normal with good passing and a solid defense forcing a lot of turnovers (I was happy with three steals).  Schwandorf, with eleven (younger) players, waited far too late to rotate their guys and try running the seven of us into the ground while pushing a full court press.  As it was, they fouled out three for their efforts and the men from Sulzbach were all about spent at the buzzer (me included).   
The rest of the story is our semi-official senior’s league is once again not turning out as we’d hoped.  The idea is a more relaxed schedule, no need for neutral refs, beers on the court afterwards … or slightly more emphasis on fun over hard competition.  Just as last year, five clubs signed on and again all but two of us have failed to get enough guys together to get schedule games.  We lost our first game to Weiden but they soon thereafter dropped from the league.   So instead of 20 or 30 games in a season in the competitive normal leagues, we may only see 3 this year.  Schwandorf will try for revenge on our home court on the 27 March … be there!