Hey what's up everyone, Kyle Anderson signing in to share with everyone how my week went . Its feels like I haven't wrote to you in A while but believe it or not I only missed A week and I apologize for that. This week was great. Everyone will see why later on in the diary, so let me get started.
Last Monday I came home from Oakland, California where I went to play with the Paterson Rec. in The National Youth Games, without A championship, which was really upsetting. We lost to The Oakland Rebels who had 6'7 beast, Riccardo Gathers. I have been at camps and tourneys with him before, but he was playing with New Orleans, go figure? But that wasn't exactly the main event of my last two weeks. The main event was Las Vegas. That day (still Monday) the Playaz Basketball Club flew out to Las Vegas, Nevada for the Adidas 64 tournament. When we arrived it was super hot. 108 degrees to be exact. No team had A game that day so the 15u team and I walked on the strip until curfew all night and saw a lot of amazing things. We didn't stay out to late tho, we had A game at 1:00 pm the next day. We woke up early to practice for A few than headed over to our game against the Las Vegas Prospects.
The first game of the tourney was A blowout real quick. After was lunch, a quick dip in the pool, then the strip for the night. Same thing over again. Early wake up than game but no blowout. Definitely no blowout. We played A tough 43 Hoops team from Minnesota. They shot the ball well, drove and kicked, back screened, staggered screened, the whole thing. We lost that game but there's A morale to this story. The next game was A win against Iowa Attack-Red. That was my man Myles Davis' first game because he came out late, 35 points in his first appearance. Playoffs were up next and there was no more going out on the strip. Strictly business.
The first playoff game of Friday was against LA Rockfish from Cali. BLOWOUT, NO WORRIES! The second game of that Friday was against Kansas City Pump N Run. It was A tough game where a lot of us played well including Myles Davis, Myles Mack, Desmond Hubert and Jordan Allen. That was A big Win. We ate and got A good nights rest. We had big games in the AM. Next day we woke up for A 9 AM game against Indiana Elite, a tough game. It went down to the wire. And with 20 seconds left, Up 1 I had A chance to put it away I choked at the free throw line, missed two freebees. They went down drove to the basket and ............ missed the shot. I made up for my missed free throws by snatching the rebound and with 3 seconds left. I went to the free throw line again. This is where mental toughness kicks in. I made both free throws to put us up 3.They came down and missed A 3 and we won the game, Tough W. Next game was against M33M, A Canadian team. When the game started about 4 people were in the gym. At the end I'll say 100 were watching including Danny Manning from Kansas. That's when our team took over the game. That game was also A big win but we expected that one A win. Finally the Chip! What we came here for. What AAU is about Las Vegas Championship. Ohio Basketball Club (the number 1 team in the country) lost to the team that beat us in the pool play. 43 Hoops. We met 'em again and our team was ready. Now, realize Myles Davis wasn't at the game before we played this team. Chip game he was here! We jumped out on 'em 10-4 with 3 straight dunks to set it off. They took the lead once in the whole game and we had it under control. Next thing you know we were up 4 with 16 seconds left with Myles Mack icing the game. We won the Adidas Super 64 Tournament in Las Vegas. Something not a lot of people can do. Myles Mack got the MVP and we all played great.
Unfornately, that was our last game together becuase my dad won't be coaching us next year. After 3 long years we've been together and ' Like all good things they must come to an end. -Jay-z-. But we cherrished every moment and we ended it on A great note. Now the morale for both losing to the team in pool play and for missing the free throws is ' If at first you don't succede, Dust yourself off and try again ' . Now that was A long week and A great week and I just got off the plane and I'm going to sleep. Goodnite and Goodbye everyone!
Yung..K-A
