Final 4

After a long and tough season so far..  we have made it to the Final 4!  A very big deal in Israel.  We had our first round series against Bnei Hasharon.  This is a team that had given us trouble all year.  In fact, they had beaten us 3 straight times before we got our first win against them.  We started off the series 0-1 and it was not looking good for us.  The team's moral was down and it seemed like our season was going to be over.  However, our team stuck together and played well to win the next 3 games straight to take the series.  The first win was tough and it came down the the last seconds.  We had the ball with 12 seconds and a tie ball game.  They fouled us intentionally to send us to the line (this is not a coaching theory I believe in) so they could have the last shot.  I believe a team should trust their defense and play for overtime in that situation.  However, they ended up handing us the game.  We made both free throws.  When they got the ball back we fouled one of their bad free throw shooters instead of letting them shoot (again I don't really agree with this because we could have been handing the game back to them) ..  they missed both. We got the rebound.. they fouled again and we made both the make it a 4 point game and seal it.  The next 2 games were easier for us.  Both of them double digit wins.  Now we're off to the Final 4 to play Jerusalem.  

Off the court a few of the guys from the team and myself were on a TV show in Israel.  The station is the Israeli equivalent of ESPN.  They featured a player (Malik Dixon) to cook a meal and have some teammates over.  They brought the food and showed him how to prepare it but made it look like Malik was doing all the work.  It was fun because we did some funny acting for the program.  On a side note... Im super excited about coming home around next weekend!!