classical_hero
In whom I trust
Apologies for the long delay, but I will have write up done tomorrow. I hope you are patient enough with me.
Gangland Wars [Game Thread]
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Askthepizzaguy
Know the Dark Side
Get better soon, friend. That's most important. Your health and well-being are top priority.
dcmort93
The Stig
The Suspense is KILLING ME
bestrfcplayer
Steppin' up!
Same.
Askthepizzaguy
Know the Dark Side
Good, more pigs for the slaughter.
classical_hero
In whom I trust
The write up will happen after I have had tea. Sorry about the delay.
dcmort93
The Stig
THIS IS KILLING ME
classical_hero
In whom I trust
Link to video.
Welcome back to the James Goodall hour. Tonight we are going to be talking about Basketball. With the playoffs coming around again, it is going to be tough to watch without our New Townsville Wildcats not playing yet again. There is no worse team in the league besides a few teams, but we have been down here so long it is getting frustrating. So rather worry about our current woes, I though it would be better to remind people of the glory days. So in the studio we have two former greats of an era when we were a very good basketball team. First we have our 2 time MVP and 4 time Champion point guard DeMarcus Lewis and we have our finest ever player Dennis "Total D" Durrant. Good evening gentlemen.
DL:It is great to be on the show.
DD:It is great to be here.
JG: Yeah it was certainly great being courtside during the glory years.
DD: It was great to see you cheering us along every time when we played. Sometimes you did get a bit too passionate.
JG: I know, but it just showed how much I supported the team. Knowing I could not do anything on the court, due to me being very uncoordinated.
DL: Yeah it was great seeing you give trash to the other team, it almost meant we did not have to do any talking to them.
DD: It was great having you there yelling.
JG: I was just there to give you guys an extra hand. What is your favourite memory of playing.
DD: I would have to say playing at my home town All-star game where I became the slam dunk champion and help win the game for our conference. That is a once in a life time opportunity to play is celebrated game. There are also plenty of other moments like winning my first NBA title and winning Gold at the Olympics with the star studded team of the Dream Team. That team was so goo, that I was the 6th man on the squad, very rarely do I not start, but it was an honour just to be on the same team as those stars. I have an autographed ball from my time there and it has a place of honour in my home along with all my other titles that I have won through out my career. I certainly have been blessed to play for so long and have so many great team mates on the various team I have played with, right from high school, to playing for my country.
JD: You were born right here in New Townsville, so it must have been a great pleasure when you found out that they had the number one draft pick and you realised you were going to stay home.
DD: It was a great pleasure to know I was going to stay home and be around my friends and family. My mother has always been a rock in my life and she was the one who raised me up when my father went to prison. A terrible blow for any kid, and she did a marvellous to help me be a man and when I had the chance I was able to repay my mother for all the love she had given me when I was younger. When I got drafted, I was able to buy her a new house and get her out of the apartment that we grew up in and I can say that there were lots of tears of joy as she saw the present I got her. She would not stop kissing me, it was almost embarrassing, had anyone seen it, but I was just so happy to have been able to reward her for being the best mother ever. She kept us kids out trouble, when man of my friends joined gangs and many of them ended up in Prison, so she was a very strong woman for making sure i would not end up like my father.
JG:What happened to your father?
DD:He is still in prison serving a life sentence for murder. I have visited him a few times, but it is always hard to go there.
JG:How is your mother going?
DD:She is going great. I think she will soon be retiring from her work as a nurse, so she can spend more time with her grandchildren. She certain has been an angel for many people who have been in trouble. She told me that she feels a bit guilty of retiring, since she just does not want to stop helping people. I just said to her that she had earned her break and she can relax for some time and reflect on what she has done, but knowing her, she will be helping people until the day she dies. She is just a generous person.
JG:So how was it like winning all those titles?
DD:It was great winning 6 titles. I won the MVP 7 times and only once did I not win the title when I won the MVP was against the Lakers. They were a classy team and it was on of the worst, but best moments in a playoff series. I was terrible because we lost Game seven of the Western Conference finals on the buzzer at home after Magic Johnson shot over me to score the winning basket. I could not do anything about the shot and it was devastating to lose that way, but it was one of the greatest series of all time, so I can be pleased to be part of such a legendary series. It was also a great learning tool to show us how to play basketball as a team, since they just never let us get away when other teams would get disheartened by what we were doing, but they always kept the course and they had big time players to back them up. You could say that the loss is what drove us to win 6 out of the next 8 titles, the two years e did not win, we had terrible luck with injuries putting key players down. I knew it was time to give it away when we drafted this kid from Kentucky, who was at the time a relatively obscure player, but he showed his class once he got under my wing. I knew it was the right time to pass the baton over to Lewis had a younger team.
JG:So DeMarcus, what was it like playing under Total D?
DL:It was great. Not much was expected of me when I first showed up, but he saw some potential in me and gave some god words of advice on the first day of training and he told me that I had great potential and that really gave me a lift, especially coming from my idol. I grew up just wanting to be like him, but I just did not grow tall enough.
DD:Well you had excellent awareness on the court, so I knew you were going to be a star.
JG:What was it like sitting on the sidelines after injuring your knee during training before the season started?
DL:It was awful. I thought I had lost my career before it had started, but with the medical team and coaches showing great faith in me to recover, I did my best to get fit for the next season and work on strategy. I knew I was not going to get too much game time in my first season, but this was frustrating.
JG:So on your second season you managed to work you way into the starting guard position, what was it like being the general on court.
DL:It was actually not that hard leading such a great group of guys, so when i eventually took over the role I was forging my role as a future leader of the team.
JG:What are you guys doing now?
DL:I am back home in Kentucky as the local college head coach, teaching the next generation of young men one the finer points of Basketball.
DD:I am doing very little, just a few charity things here and there, but soon I will be commentating on Wildcat basketball giving expert analysis for the people of the town.
JG:Thanks for coming in Gentlemen and we will be back tomorrow with another show.
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It is now day 13. It will end at 9pm GMT+8 13th.
vote: Sprig. Let's see if it works this time.
Askthepizzaguy
Know the Dark Side
Let's do it. I do think Sprig went inactive, so I am not sure he could have recruited more people since last we attempted this.
If he has done so, we still have more work to do, but we've got plenty of time to do it, it seems.
Vote: Sprig
If he has done so, we still have more work to do, but we've got plenty of time to do it, it seems.
Vote: Sprig
dcmort93
The Stig
Indeed, logic would seem to say that all of the Sharks are dead but Sprig
Vote Sprig
Vote Sprig
Zack
99% hot gas
Vote: Sprig
bestrfcplayer
Steppin' up!
meh. vote: sprig
didn't get here in time to start the bandwagon.....
didn't get here in time to start the bandwagon.....
Askthepizzaguy
Know the Dark Side
I will say this much, if Sprig does go down and he was the final shark, that will be somewhat anticlimactic. But classical never replaced him so it's possible this thing fails again.
Snerk
Smeghead
Okey dokey shmokey. Vote: Sprig
Askthepizzaguy
Know the Dark Side
How about that thing I suggested where, we can vote for someone, but also suggest who else we find guilty, so as not to waste the phase and have no discussion which then cannot be analyzed because it doesn't exist.
Anyone? Vigilance while you're ahead is how you win. Slacking off while you're ahead is how you lose a won game.
Anyone? Vigilance while you're ahead is how you win. Slacking off while you're ahead is how you lose a won game.
