9/20/19
happy birthday adrian. thank you for finding me. i always believed you were coming.
9/20-21/19
played in our showcase. this was an important one. jason told me. so i’ve been training hard but it’s been a struggle to know if i’m overtraining or if i can maintain this. just scared for my body. day 1 we had two games. i came off the bench. my goal was to play hard defense and work my ass off. i don’t want coach to see me tired or lagging. ready or not here we go.
i didn’t take any shots the first game. but i hustled on defense, set screens made good passes, got an assist on a sick cut by aj. i want to run a pick and roll with tashia, maryam and aj. i feel if we catch the slip, it’s like surfing. they will ride that wave and dunk that bitch.
(oh today i got a warning. apparently in college you under no circumstances can cuss. i made a risky pass but luckily my teammate dug it out. the ref came up to me shortly after and said, be careful of profanity. you get a 1 game suspension for that. i asked him what i said, but he just repeated the thing about the suspension and i had no idea. after the game i asked him and he said i said shit. i laughed and told him i’m going to get my doctor to write me a note saying i have tourette’s just in case. i’m not getting my ass suspended because i had no idea i cussed.
yesterday i was coming off the bench and that’s okay. iguodala comes off the bench and he’s the veteran, playmaker and crucial architect of wins.
this was my mentality:
and then today, in our first game against the hardest competitor, i got to start. i knew it was for my defense yesterday. and i locked that shit down. i remember this one guard on a breakaway layup, and i thought, i’m gonna catch her. i literally felt my stride get longer and i chased her down, stopping her from going to the basket. i missed my first 4 shots, but then hit a 3 that went in clean. what bothered me was that they all felt good and just don’t know why they didn’t go in but sometimes that happens. but my defense was nuts today.
i gave everything today. my body is wrecked. i’m going to spend tomorrow recovering, then hopefully wake up to a four pack on monday. that would be so great.
good night.