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
FUpaladinstyle said September 25, 2008