A Funfull Basket Ball Match

Pretty Saturday afternoon, temperature raised till 64'F & our Basket Ball Final match was due @Hillcrest community Park. Two enthusiastic team with handful of audience and few lovely kids, all gathered for fun full game. We were expecting 3 teams but we could form only 2 (without any referee). Both the teams were formed on the fly and match begins:  

Below is the initial team structure: 
        Pavan Korrapa, Karthik, Tanu, Harish & Subhendu  - Defenders 
        Suresh, Piyush, Krishna, Pavan Kumar & Srikanth  - Warriors
       -->   Anil, Dheeraj, Vrishesh joined later as backups. 

my opinion, team can do better in RUGBY than Basketball (wanna know, keep reading). 

First Match: 
Game Theme "Defenders banging the Basket and Warriors kept hitting the VICTIM." 

Who's victim?..... aaaah don't ask me "Suresh started another counter for number of times he was hurt... " 

First Hit - oh sorry.. Second Hit - Heck man, Third one.. Poor guy... 

But then suddenly game stops; one Warrior down, Piyush got twisted ankle and had to leave the game (thanks a lot to spot doctor who took care of him, but still he couldn't continue the game & had to go back home). 

Fourth hit on face, Fifth then Sixth.. Hufffffff & score reads Defenders 5 vs Warriors 2 

Another warrior hugged the ground; but Srikanth is still on the court. 

Angry man Pavan Kumar busted again this time; Tanu had to deal with it. 

Score reaches 7, hey I'm not talking about the number of basket but the number of hit to the victim :)  

Defenders won the first match. 

Second Match: 
Warriors & Defenders both running restlessly to bang the basket, armed with the shooters like Harish, Pavan Korrapati, Karthik V & Tanu Defenders kept banging the Basket and score reads Defenders 6 vs Warriors 3. Even after getting many definite shoots all the War strategy of Warriors seemed to be cursed because of the lack of shooters; some of the very obvious shots were also missed. 

Even though we didn't have any appointed referee for this match both the teams had 3 referee each side and they kept arguing on each others decision. 

ok let's play some serious game now, NO MORE RULES, NO MORE CALLING; play whatever way you wanna play. 

Yo Hoooooo score reads Defenders 7 vs Warriors 3 

now it's time for Warriors, "do or die" one more crash, what's the score, victim was hurt 8th time man. 

Warriors showed some unexpected game strategy and started chasing the big number, one after the other; at one point of time score reached Defenders 9 vs Warriors 9.  

One more to go guys; yea and people didn't disappoint, not only one but two more hits to victim.. he just survived ankle twist and eyeglass breakage. 

Defenders & Warriors were struggling for lucky point and Finally Warriors got it. 

Warriors won the Second match. 

so it was a 1-1 TIE between Warriors & Defenders. 

 Despite victim had enough of his share we do appreciate his patience & strength. 

 Good sportsman spirit guys, Special thanks to our audiences; we hope they had real fun watching this game. 

Note: 
* Team name was not decided initially based on the performance, team name was given to make this commentary meaningful. 
* Wanna know Victim: Harish :) 
* Thanks Anil for the suggestion of first-aid kit; it was the need for the game. 

Basket Ball match organized by FnM team

18th Oct 2008

By,

Krish