3-0 Start

Last night we had our first home game of the regular season against the defending champions of the league, Hapoel Holon.  I was pretty excited because everyone had been building up how wild it got at our home games, and they had compared it to college games back in the states.  That made expectations pretty damn high for me because it got crackin' at SMC's McKeon Pavilion.  Just like big games in college, the crowd had already started to arrive, and a buzz was going through the gym an hour before game time.  What's crazy is they let you bring in all types of artificial noisemakers into the game like air horns, drums, and those old school megaphone type things (I don't even know what they are called).  As for the game, we played real well in the first half, and took a 12 point lead into half-time.  It was looking good in terms of 2nd half playing time for me, until we had a real slow start at the beginning of the second half, even giving up the lead for a little bit after they started the half on a 13-0 run.  It went back and forth for a little bit, but once again we pulled away late in the fourth quarter, and ended up winning pretty big.  Right now we are sittin' pretty nicely at 3-0, and we are atop the standings.  The only other undefeated team are the Yankees of Israel, Maccabi Tel Aviv.  We can't look ahead though, because we got a tough game next week on the road, and we gotta try to keep this train rollin'.