BIG JESS

BIG JESS

Anyone who knows me knows that I USED to play basketball back in high school which was, well, 5 years ago. Okay, since then I have played a couple of times, I think like 2 years ago I went to a scrimmage during X-mas where some of our old team got together and we scrimmaged the HS girls. Okay, so that being said.. A few weeks back I was chatting with some old friends whom happened to play ball with me and we were talking about how we think it would be awesome to scrimmage our HS girls this year so we can kick some HS BUTT!!!! HA HA HA right.. you got it... well this scrimmage was Sunday Dec. 31, and although we had some players there that we have never played with before, I think we that altogether we hung pretty well with the HS girls. We ran the ball well and we shot pretty decent!! I will give it to the HS girls this year though, they remind me a lot of the team Chatty had when I was a senior (well, this is them playing against a bunch of out-of-shape has beens too though)... from what I could see all of them can run the length of the floor and have speed (like the 2002 STATE SEMIFINALISTS TEAM) and they have about 3 to 4 good shooters and a few good ones that can shoot outside as well as play inside, so yea, i will give it to them that they seemed better against us then they do when they play other teams and maybe that is because, like said before , we are all out of shape... But if these girls play the way they did against us that day and run run run like that, they are likely to make it to the state tournament but they need to learn to use that speed like we did!!! Anyways, back to the story, so we play this scrimmage right.... four 15 minute quarters.. .the first 2 quarters we had 3 subs to use, but the last 2 we only had one.... WHEW were we all tired... I did not realize how out of shape I was until that scrimmage... and what is even more sad is that I really thought I would be able to handle it and make it up and down the floor like I used too... WRONG!!!!!!!!! so I go home and literally just fall on the couch and can't move because my strength is gone... I later gain this strength back; however, monday is the day of dread.... I could barely move any part of my body... I was hurting from the top of my head to the very tip of my toes... my back ached, my arms hurt, my shin muscles were killing me.... and it only got worse as the day progressed and Tuesday was worse than MONDAY... it was sooo bad on Tuesday that I had to wear jeans and tennis shoes to work because there was no way possible that I could carry myself around in high heels (plus I was still half sick, which also added to the pain)... anyways.. my word to the wise... YOUR NOT YOUNG ANYMORE... YOU ARE OUT OF SHAPE.... hehehehe.. anyways.. it was really fun and all but I do know that if I plan on doing that again next year that I will have to get myself into shape really fast!!!