Ladies and gentlemen,Last night was the final hurrah for the long, bitter cold, yet slightly refreshing Winter Season of Sofa King Awesome. Your favorite amateur mediocre basketball team took on the team Trade Supply(6-5), a group of blue collared wood sanders who have their own show on HGTV called Sandy Bottoms. These callused hand construction workers had a quick start to the game, hitting their shots from the outside and going on an 8 – 0 run to start the game, but enough was enough, and Sofa King Awesome finally started to add a little rain of their own. Our defense started to pressure their fat fingered guards into turnovers. Mad Max Linsky was like the four armed Indian diety Ganesh (minus the giant elephant head), as he blocked, stopped, and stole multiple passes from getting by him. With our defense pressuring the ball, we started to run the floor more and really take advantage that their 6th man stepped in poo outdoors and was not allowed to put his stinky feet onto the court until it was completely wiped off. On offense, Divino “Big Hair or go Home” Paran, dominated with big drives to the hole, and sinking about 90% of his free throws at the line. By half time we had a nice lead 20 – 12.
The second half wasn’t so pretty as each team went scoreless for what seemed like the 1st ten minutes of the half. With time winding down fast, as most late night games do since the refs want to get home, the sophisticated game that we usually play turned into a sloppy, free for all, hack fest, with elbows, turned ankles, and flagrant fouls. Lets face it, that’s the way we usually play minus the flagrant fouls. But the refs weren’t calling any fouls on either side, so Ray “Bam Bam” Ko decided to test the limits with a WWE inspired back elbow which made the refs finally blow there whistle. Trade Supply inched within 5 points, but aggressive team play by all Sofa Kings stopped their momentum and forced them to foul to stop the clock only to put Mr. Consistent Divino Paran on the line again to seal the deal.
Highlights
- Big Don Stud Janocha fighting threw 3 defenders for a big rebound and put back.
- Nice non verbal communication between Soy Capitan, who sent a bullet pass to Mr. Inspiration Russ Ringelstein, who stepped behind his defender
for an easy lay in.
- The Ref explaining to Ray that he would of taken him outside if Ray had intentionally fouled him as hard as he did our opponents
- A Nice feed from Maxie to Dom “the Other” Paran under the hoop, only to get jammed up underneath the rim and pass to himself.
- Max, Divino, and Russ getting slapped around, poked in the eyes, and kicked in the shins yet no foul was called.
Final Score Good guys 34 – Bad Guys 28.
Winter Season Recap:
After a gruesome 1 – 6 start, we ended up finishing out the season with a 5 game winning streak and ended up as we usually do at 6–6 (.500). Actually since we played an extra game this season that didn’t officially count on the books, “unofficially” that makes us 7-6 which finally allows us to have an unofficial winning season. Congratulations guys…unofficially of course.
A Sofa King Awesome Thanks to:
- Ryan, Jake and Julia our biggest and only fans under the age of 12 (and our only fans to boot) who come out to every one of our games, warm up with us, keep score occasionally, and cheer us on in hopes of getting nachos and beer after each game.
- To Coach Russ Ringelstein for always verbally inspiring us like Bobby Knight, but out of love, doesn’t beat us like Bobby Knight.
- To all our subs who helped us fill in the empty man holes when we were short on guys. That just sounds dirty.
- Eddie The Philanthropist for his generous donation to the team, his one game played, and for posting this on the blog.
Spring Season begins the week of April 12th – So keep tuned for the next round robin and Sofa Kings Awesome Quest for Glory or to At Least Reach the Playoffs! Whichever comes first.
Keep Shooting
- Soy Capitan
