I have been talking about b'ball on and off during the life of this blog, but not really offering any details. So here's a new start to inform my loyal readers in line with the new SIBL league that started last week. Our team from Season II 2005 lost a few players, but we have recruited well and have obtained a bunch of monsters from the Shanghai community (measuring 2x6'3", 2X 6'4" and 1X 6'6"). Now instead of being guard-heavy, we're now forward and center stacked. This showed up as being a problem last week where we played our first game where it was quite scrappy, and primarily our lack of organization and our poor perimeter game was the cause of our down-fall. Plans have been hatched, and this won't be a problem for the rest of the season.

Our team falls into the category if 'only if we could train more' type of team. If anything we've been underperforming; not playing to our strengths nor really gelling as a team. A lot of this is due to how busy our team mates are off the court, essentially everyone of us either runs their own business, manages a group, or has super-full lifestyles. I know that I haven't really even felt comfortable on the court for a such a long time as I hadn't really played ball for almost 9 years. This feeling is starting to wane though. All I need now is a touch more fitness and some of the ball in hand. I'm feeling good about this season.

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