Bree vs Liege
Saturday we played Liege, my former team. It’s so weird to play against your former team, I’ve never experienced that before. The fans were extremely nice to me, I took more pictures and signed more autographs than I do at my own home games. But a game is a game, and I know where my alliance lies. To stay in first place, we had to win this game. The game started off very physical with two very talented teams and we were going up against the league’s leading scorer, ex-Memphis Grizzly and ex-Texas Tech star, Andre Emmett. It was a rarety in European Basketball to see one guy take that many shots. To put it in perspective, Emmett took 37 shots (made 12) and we as a team took 47 total shots. I had 8 points, 1 rebound, 1 assist in only 15 minutes. It was a very physical game with almost three fights, 2 flagrant fouls and a lot of trash talking. Liege had a 1 point lead with 2.9 seconds and two free throw attempts. He made the first but missed the second (we don’t know if it was on purpose or not) and our 3-man (Brian Lynch) gets the rebound, passes it to our center (Odell Hodge), he takes one dribble, shoots a half-court shot of one foot and banks it in. Pure pandemonium. There was a massive pile of players chasing after Hodge in celebration. Our point guard jumped on the scores table as if he won the championship, complete chaos. Being the calm one on the team I go over to shake hands with the Liege players and coaches and they are completely stunned at what they just witnessed. But the story is not over yet, there is some debate and video evidence the shot MIGHT have been after the buzzer. Liege has protested the last shot to the league office. They will make a decision tonight on whether to disallow the basket, allow the basket or replay the entire game. But what a shot !