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24
Sep
41 POINTS, second most scoring in Norway history by Norwegians

The first game of the season finally appeard. I was kind of nervous, but ready. I started the morning with my pregame ritual, listen to the right music and all that stuff. Packed my bag, my lunch and planeticket. Got picked up outside my house and we drove to the airport. Arrived in the city we were going to play in, I was wery quiet that day. Composed and ready. I wanted to be 100 % ready so I tried to be focused as much as I can, just relaxing before the game. After eating lunch, we got to the arena. I felt that I was anxious to play, and got to the warmups. My shot felt really good, made allmost everything, and I felt good.. 1 half: The opposing team (3B), started off with a little lead. My team was finding it hard to get the rythm at first, but I had luckly found it. Made first a pull up jumper, then a left hand drive, then a three pointer. Fallowed by another one. And I was rolling. We had a team penalty, so the other team got a lot of freetrows and they kept themself in the game, even got a late quarter lead with ten points. I made two more three's and the game got closer. 2 half: My team and I got our heads together and started to get ourself a lead. We have never beat this team before, so this was a great feeling. I felt the focus, got a lot of freetrows and made 77% of them + 75 % on the midrange game. I scored almost every possesion and got a dish to my fellow team mate that hammered it down with force. I ended up with the most scoring for a norwegian player in the highest leauge here ever. I had 42 points( the record is 42) , 6 rebounds, 3 assist, 2 turnovers and 0 steals. This is just my sophmore season and I am the youngest player to ever score even close to that. 18 years old and happy as a kid;) So the news were calling all day long, ended up in three newspapers and one radio program, so it has been a great weekend. I want to beat the record now,because I love what happend when I did it, when all the media came, and how my family and team got happy. I am glad I took this summer off to train:) best wishes Niko #10
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16
Aug
summer workout recaps

summers over, and here is the results.. I have gained many inches in my jump, got a lot quicker and my strength has developed great. The shot has got higher percentage and the moves has got a lot more fluid. I can say with great joy, that the effort you put in, will pay of eventually. So now its just up to each one of us to make this new season the greatest we have ever had. I can write you more updates, if you want to know what happens more often. best wishes Niko
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05
Jun
Back to work

So, a season is totally ended for me and now starts the preparing for next year. I found out that maby I can't play the top leauge here next, they say that if you play on a team were players is paid you may not play college ball. And I really want to play college ball so I'm not totally sure what I should do, if anybody that cares to read my blogs, what do you think I should do? or do you know how the rules is? well, either way I really want to take my game to the next level this year, so I have started the summer work out all ready. I lift weights, runs, do jumping, agility , ballhandling and shooting. So I try to seriously be so much better this year. I started on monday and I was so exhausted! I just had to take a icebath to cool my body down for the other day. The days goes fast this time a year, so I will only take one week off this summer. I just have to take breaks when I feel my body is to tired, but if it aint, I will keep going, keep working, keep pushing all day. I am fortune to have a girlfriend that supports me a 100% and belive in me, and that makes the work easier. She know I have to spend a lot of hours on basketball and things, so I am going to live with her this summer, so coming home to her after these workouts is good. She makes me stronger and motivates me so I can't stop talk about how greatfull I am for having her. So now I will, do some bounding and jumping before I hit the gym. Love to everybody that supports me - I wont let you down, I'm coming, just give me some time:) niko
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08
May
First time in history, Norway the Nordic champs

Hi again, this has been one crazy week. Me and the U18 national team had a cup against Iceland, Denmark, Sweden and Finland. And every year Norway have lost by 20-40 points against Sweden or Finland. But this time we felt pretty good after beating the elders.. So it started by meeting Sweden, and we had a great start with many players starting off hot and we won with 20 points! After that it all went smooth, or team was on a roll and we won everygame by 10 or more.. we had one close game against finland when they was down by 14 when it was 3 minutes left and they went crazy, hitting 4 threes and we won with only two or something.. they were the team we won against in the Final game also! it is hard to explain what we have done, cause it has never happened before! So many people talk about how great it was but I can't really feel how important for or country this was. So now we are getting ready for the European Championship. Personally I did not play my type of game, I had to play another role were I was coming in beeing agressive in defense and forcing the other team to turnovers. I scored offcourse, but not as much as I could if that was my role. So I guess I did a ok job but I feel I have to put in some extra work this summer.. Hope this was interesting for someone, but this was really great for or country, so I hope we just getting greater in the future from now on.
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22
Apr
The National Team

This weekend I got together with my national team. We had two practices a day and both were around two hours. My team is U18.(18 and under) and we practiced with U20. One of my friends that plays on the U20 he was lucky and got to play for Nike Hoop Summit some weeks ago in Portland, he did alright with 8 points in 12 minutes:) His name is Torgrim Sommerfeld also from Norway. So I am really happy for him that he got the chance to show the world his skills. The first days I did allright, but I am a little bit streaky sometimes, so sometimes I was hot and sometimes I was not as good as normal. So the national Team trainer said that I have to start on the bench every game so I can se what happens on the floor some minutes before I go out and do my thing.. It was a nice weekend and last day our U18 team had a little game against the U20 team. We actually won with 22 points! Their were pissed, cause we are the younger national team, so their trainer said they was not focused so he wanted a short match that lasted in 15 minutes. Even funnier, we won that by 7 points.. I had about 6-9 shooting, so I did ok that game, but most important, we won. So next weekend we are going to play a Nordic national team cup, agains Sweden, Finland, Denmark and Iceland. So this is a cup that will make us ready for the European championship cup this summer. After we won against U20 we are confident that we can have som upsets and suprise some teams in the closest future.
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