This weekend was a good step forward for the Lake Stars. Besides coming out with two wins to make their record 50%, they played as a team, and played hard.
Ray played two of the best games I've seen him play. His stats are good, but don't do justice to great defensive play, blocks, assists and team play. He had 16 points and 13 rebounds on Saturday (with 3 HUGE dunks to boot!), and 18 points with 10 rebounds on Sunday (adding another couple dunks!). The crowd loved it, and he humbly accepted a great response from the packed home arena.
This sign says "Ray" in kanji, which is the latter part of the Japanese world "quirei", or "beautiful". Isn't the kanji writing incredible?
Ray won MVP of the game on Sunday. He was awarded an iphone from the president of the phone company here in Japan. Quite a cool honor!
Also, the Lakes sent another American home this week, teammate Bobby Nash, who Ray played with last year. They are replacing him with a great player from Texas Tech, who will fill the needed role of a scoring guard. It's always tough to watch a player being sent home, but I guess that's the name of the game here. I am excited to know that the new player, Mikie, is a family man with two kids and a wife. Although his wife and kids will not be joining him for the remaining two months, it is reassuring that he's a good man. Those are hard to come by in this field, and I'm grateful...
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Please post more videos of Bobby Nash. Hahaha just kidding! My favorite video was the first one, with the one dribble and spin baseline. Nice move!
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