What does feeling rain on your skin have to do with anything? A lyric.....a powerful lyric that is part of a theme song for the 2008 raging clues. As a team the Clues began several games by chanting these lyrics. Watch this video and really listen to the words, not with your ears, but with your ear drums, and hearts. You will then know why:
The '08 Midvale Jr. Jazz season can be summarized in one word: Unwritten....if unwritten means dribbling off your foot twice a possesion, opposing coaches going Bobby Knight on their less skilled players, teenage refs calling charging because the signal is fun to do, me asking opposing coaches to not have their 6'4" fifteen year old with a beard, full court press our 5' 0'' point guard who just learned how to dribble with one hand a week ago, and 10 kids all learning within a period of 8 weeks that failure is ok.
The Raging Clues finished the season just like my brother Mark predicted, with one win. The win came right after 5 losses. If I was any sort of a basketball coach, we could have finished 3-5. But instead we are the 2007 Miami Dolphins.
However, we do have one edge on the Dolphins. At seasons end I succesfully coached my team to the best sportsmanship award. I won't lie, it felt really good to earn that. It made me really proud of my team. Throughout the season we really only had one team rule: Don't do the Tim Duncan!!!!!!!!!!!
Of course everyone on the planet hates Tim Duncan, so most of you know what I am referring to as the "Tim Duncan". In case you don't here is how you do it.
1. Get a foul called on you.
2. Turn to look at the ref.
3. Put your hands about 6" from the side of your hips with your palms facing forward.
4. Have a look of pure surprise and innocence on your face.
5. Be a homo.
I feel like that one rule single handedly won us the sportsmanship award. No small feat considering there were 16 teams in the league. As a reward for our model citizenship we will get to go to Energy Solutions Arena as a team and have a party in our honor.
All in all it was a great experience. This was a fun team full of little bastards (litterally bastards, I think 2 of the kids actually had dads.) We laughed a lot and cried a lot, but mostly we felt the rain on our skin.
Congrats and thank you '08 Raging Clues.
3 comments:
Way to go man. Coincedence that it rained today after seasons end? I think not.
What an honor - sportsmanship will get them farther than baskets will anyway. A successful season in my eyes. Brian Robbins, will you coach again next year?
Bri - that is such a great story. You are the man for taking on the coaching job. I want to be on your team!
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