THE FINALS :GAME ONE
Last night started the highly anticipated final between us and charleroi. Game one like all game ones was a feeling-out process to get the nerves and the over-excitement out of your body and more importantly gauge how the referees are calling the game. So you can understand the low scoring for this game : it was 31-30 at halftime for charleroi. It was a very tough defensive game as everyone has expected considering that we finished the regular season as the best teams in Belgium in all defensive categories. It was a back and forth game all night we eventually took the game over in the forth quarter. With 3:14 left in the game we were up 62-53 with control of the game. We didn’t make the plays down the stretch and we gave away the lead and it was tied 66-66 at the end of regulation. In overtime were more bad plays by us on the offensive and defensive end. We lost the game 75-71 giving away our home court advantage but we for sure will not play this bad for the rest of the series. How bad did we play? This is how bad: we were 26-68 from the floor 38% and 7-25 from 3 28% and 12-21 from the free throw line 57% so as you can see we didn’t shoot it well and still had a chance to win it. Game two is Thursday night in charleroi and being down 0-1 in a best of 5 series is NOTHING. Remember the 2001 nba finals between the sixers and the lakers? here is a recap of that final lakers best record in the league (just like us) and lost game at home (just like us) and the lakers won 4 games straight to become champions (just like us?).