The family spent Labor Day weekend in HOT Pasadena for a basketball tournament. Normally, I don't go to any tournament unless we have at least 7 boys playing but I made an exception when I found out the only boys that wanted to play were the 6 best players on the team. I was curious to see how we would do so we entered the tournament.
Sadly, we entered late and we didn't get in but then a week before the tournament a team dropped out and we took their spot. In the future, I need to ask the following 2 questions:
1. Are we playing in a big gym, because sharing a gym playing on 2 short courts is TERRIBLE; and
2. What division are we in?
Once we accepted we found out the team we replaced as in the upper division!! So now, we have 3 games in 2 days, with 2 games back-to-back and only 6 boys.
In the first game, the Pirates played great against the host team Pasadena. The game was back and forth. Normally we either win big or lose big...nothing in between. This game was back and forth all game.
We had a one point lead with 2 minutes left and the other teams best player hit a 3 to go up by 2. We rallied back and won 28 to 27.
In the second game, we played a very good Gardena team. We played pretty hard...we even had the lead early in the game and other team just made us pay for every turnover. They ended up running us out the gym and we lost 26-14.
We bounced back in the 3rd place game and showed a lot of heart by beating Evergreen 25-14.
I was pretty proud of the boys for playing hard and short handed in the tournament. We definitely can compete with any team!!
