Talent
530 -- Gorham, ME -- Hill Gym -- 500 folks -- watching DIII guys and ladies play a doubleheader
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930 -- on TV, the Bigtime in Columbus -- Jared and Austin -- a dozen large, unemployed black dudes with too much time and money (for now) -- choke! -- you think that was tough? try walking up a fuckin' mountain with 80 pounds on your back day after day after day for years
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Effort, heart, hustle, listen to coach..., play to win, play with pride, wear the uni proudly, help a teammate up, catch and shoots missed, close games, EFFORT, HEART, TEAMMATES, 2,000 miles from home, too short by five inches but playin' anyway up here in the cold, open jumpers: net, pick and rolls not executed or seen, no dunks, threes (ugh), the ladies shower, leave their hair messy, and watch the guys play (Bowdoin men showed up behind the girl's bench to watch the first half, USM dudes were studying in the library), Bowdoin: kids who grew up with money but still wanna play the game, seeing plays (or not) but two steps slow to execute properly, a seven footer from L-S with an IQ, I'd guess of 300...thousand who the coach left out there too long in the first half: lesson: get in the gym and lift, eat, shoot, play, etc: no one gets in shape playing in a game, they get in shape in the offseason and in the morning, man, that was some kind of damn fun
Blowout, face painted fans who leave when the Bucks are ahead or behind too much, slap happy kids who think they won something, 2nd round draft picks w/out guaranteed money (learn Spanish, guys), 20,000 "friends", hip pointer?: I know what that feels like: welcome to old age, kid, 3/4/5, school is fun, the sweetness of a banged in j, then another, then another and another: that's fun (I hear), do you assholes know what you have?
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930 -- on TV, the Bigtime in Columbus -- Jared and Austin -- a dozen large, unemployed black dudes with too much time and money (for now) -- choke! -- you think that was tough? try walking up a fuckin' mountain with 80 pounds on your back day after day after day for years
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Effort, heart, hustle, listen to coach..., play to win, play with pride, wear the uni proudly, help a teammate up, catch and shoots missed, close games, EFFORT, HEART, TEAMMATES, 2,000 miles from home, too short by five inches but playin' anyway up here in the cold, open jumpers: net, pick and rolls not executed or seen, no dunks, threes (ugh), the ladies shower, leave their hair messy, and watch the guys play (Bowdoin men showed up behind the girl's bench to watch the first half, USM dudes were studying in the library), Bowdoin: kids who grew up with money but still wanna play the game, seeing plays (or not) but two steps slow to execute properly, a seven footer from L-S with an IQ, I'd guess of 300...thousand who the coach left out there too long in the first half: lesson: get in the gym and lift, eat, shoot, play, etc: no one gets in shape playing in a game, they get in shape in the offseason and in the morning, man, that was some kind of damn fun
Blowout, face painted fans who leave when the Bucks are ahead or behind too much, slap happy kids who think they won something, 2nd round draft picks w/out guaranteed money (learn Spanish, guys), 20,000 "friends", hip pointer?: I know what that feels like: welcome to old age, kid, 3/4/5, school is fun, the sweetness of a banged in j, then another, then another and another: that's fun (I hear), do you assholes know what you have?
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