Basketball

disclaimer:: Read this as if you are the mother of Warrior and not the wives, daughters or mothers of bald men or #10. Hey, I just rhymed!

I went and watched Warrior and Mr. Incredible play basketball. Warrior was invited last year to play on the men's church basketball team. He was the only youth invited and he was 15. Our ward has a large participation that they have 3 teams. I believe their team has only lost once or twice! I love watching them play.

Warrior is pretty large in stature and very strong. I wish I had my video camera with me, I laughed so hard I was crying. Let's just say that their are 2 men waking up very very sore today and will probably be sore for the rest of the weekend.

- Warrior is driving the ball to the hoop. #10, must be sizing up the size and intimidation factor, decides he is going to go for it and try to draw an offensive charge. Warrior stays focus on the hoop, (not to mention he has played for 2 years on the varsity football team, against boys, twice this guys size!) There is no intimidation. (sadly, this guy does not know this) BOOM! Warrior drives right into him, makes the basket and #10, moved. He hit the ground so hard it rocked his world. OUCH! I know that hurt. It also hurt that Warrior goes to line for a free throw.

#10, decides that he must not have posted up well enough. He must be thinking (or not thinking) I know I can get this guy. KABOOM! they hit again, like a train wreck! Warrior looks down and walks away. Have I not taught my son good sportmanship? Help the man up! Oh if you could have seen it. This dude hit so hard he slid, a couple of feet. Dang, he drew another foul! Warrior back to the line. 2 hard hits to the floor and he has had enough. He retreats to playing less aggressively and just good defense.

Out comes, a man who is bald and stands about 5ft 5 and weighs around 160lbs. He has to be about 48 or 50. He is very active in the stake and knows Warrior well. Warrior is 6ft and 230lbs.(solid muscle) He decides he will cover Warrior, WHAT? (he may have over estimated his abilities) Not but 3 seconds into the quarter, Warrior has the ball down low. He is making his way for an inside shot. Short man decides to apply pressure. He sticks very close to him, giving good D. A man from Spencer's team decides to run a pick for him. Right up next to short man, he holds his ground. Warrior has his back to the hoop and the play his team mate has just made for him. He decides to turn and drive the ball hard to the hoop, Bald man and Warrior are both oblivious that someone has set a screen or pick. Warrior turns to make the shot and BOOM! The 2 of them are stopped dead in their tracks. The only 2 standing are Warrior and his team mate. Where did the bald man go? bald man dizzily falls straight to the ground. He was sandwhich packed between 2 big boys. That couldn't have been nice. Warrior is given the penalty. Did he help bald man up? NO! what?? He walks away again. Bald man is clearly shaken and his teammates come to help him up.

Our team was up by a comfortable lead and then we got into a tight game situation during the last half. We scored than they answered, we hit a 3 than they hit a 3. It was an intense good hard playing for the last half of the game for both teams. Warrior has been coughing the entire game and sat out. We are down by 7. Out comes Warrior. Everyone seemed to have managed to stay on their feet prior to that. I see Warrior has the ball. I see someone pulls down the rebound and throws the ball quickly to Warrior. Warrior dribbles the ball to the half court line. I see a the other team begin to close in on him. I see Spencer's calves and the bottom of his sneakers making their way to the hoop. STOP TIME! what do I see? How can this be? He isn't even looking at the guy? I see someone's thin legs rolling and flopping 3 times, like a tumbleweed and hearing the sound of elbows and bones rolling across the gym floor. Who can it be? BALD MAN!! I had to turn away! I couldn't help but instantaneously break out into a huge belly roar laughter. The team members on the side their expressions were that of stifled laughter and concern, "oh are you alright?" Again, Warrior did not help anyone up.

At the end of the game, I said thanks for the great abdominal work out! I hadn't laughed so hard in a week! I asked him, "Why he didn't help pick them up". He said with #10. He just wanted to walk away like it wasn't his fault. He wasn't sure. He didn't want the penalty. With the bald man, he said he didn't even know what happened with the sandwhich and when he went rolling like a tumbleweed. He said, he must have hit or tripped on my foot and went rolling. In this game, if there was someone on the ground. You could bet Spencer was near by. We won.

#10 came up to Spencer after the game and congratulated them. He said he was sorry the game ended. He was looking forward to taking some more charges. LOL, Bald man is a nice guy. But, he kept his distance.