Thursday, August 6, 2009

Hey everyone,

Well, the season drew to a rather unceremonious end last week with back to back wins over the Bundaberg Bulls. It was good to go out on a winning note, but the fact that it was over one of the last place teams detracted from the celebrations somewhat. So too did the fact that we missed the playoffs by one game after dropping a match to the only team worse than Bundy. But all in all it was a good season, we finished .500 at 9 wins and 9 losses, a significant improvement on where the team has finished in the past. I've also made some pretty good friends over the last few months, along with some connections that will hopefully allow me to continue 'living the dream'. This season I averaged 18.5 ppg, 9.1 rbg, and led the league in blocks, so that should be enough to get me on with a team somewhere in the world.
The highlight of the season, however, would have to be playing basketball against a real life Wookie. One of the Centre's in the league, a Swed by the name of Michael Kingma, played a Wookie in Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith. He wasn't wearing the actual suit during the game, but he was still unmistakably wookie-ish.
With basketball now on the backburner for a bit, I'm hoping to do some more travelling. Right now I'm in Canberra hanging out with ex-gryphon and Franks regular Joel Richardson. Should be a cracker of a weekend. Updates to come.

Duncan