Hour 29 2:00 – 3:00 PM Luke’s game

Luke is yawning during the pregame warm up.  Coach has them shuffling left and right with their arms out practicing their defensive techniques.  Luke is standing there with his arms resting on his head doing his trunk rotations.  This should be fun.

Meanwhile, Jake is practicing his layup spasms on another court

First Quarter:
Luke was the only one on his team wide open on an in-bound play so they threw it to him. He reacted by letting it bounce off his foot to another guy.  Good play Luke

Next play on defense he spun out of the way like a matador to let the other player step by him for a layup...we'll have to look out for the bull fighting league sign-ups for him in the summer.

They sometimes let Luke dribble the ball up to half court and then pass it before he crosses the line.  The other team isn't allowed to guard anybody in the back court.  So that's cool

Second Quarter:
 Luke is playing Defense on number 4.  Luke doesn't even look for the ball, he just makes an angry face, gets up in #4's grill, and tries to air-hug him .  But then on offensive side he does the same thing.  Fortunately the point guard saw it and dribbled behind Luke for a shot.  Nice clear-out pick Luke!
Next play the other team scores and Luke grabs the ball and immediately started dribbling up the court.  Luke doesn’t require inbounding.

3rd Quarter:
The scoreboard broke mid way through the 3rd quarter just as Luke was subbing in.  They told the players to take a knee while they set up a new one.  Luke squatted down with his back to the crowd.   Yes, he had pantry pants.  Thanks for the show, son!

They just put Luke against #5.  That’s the kid from the other team that dribbled the length of the court in the wrong direction.  Good move coach

Luke got a pass and the coaches yelled for him to shoot! Luke proceeded to set himself up with about five shuffle steps.  The ref unapologetically whistled him for traveling.  Luke shot anyway and overshot the rim missing everything.  Then he looked around trying to figure out what all the whistle noise was for and why everyone was running to the other side of the court.  The coach came over shuffled him back to play defense and then had a quick word with the ref and they both shrugged their shoulders.  I couldn't hear what they said because I was too busy chanting AIR-BALL!!! AIR-BALL!!!

4th Quarter
Luke’s team is in a nailbiter in the 4th 24-22 and Luke is out at the drinking fountain – he doesn’t play very often in the 4th quarter and he is cool with that.  I think he runs faster back to the bench than he does on the court.

Their team wins 31-23.  Luke is pumped - I do love that kid.
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