Hello everybody! It is a wonderful Sunday afternoon in France! I hope all is with everyone. I am laying in the bed at 1:00 pm trying to relax after a week that was full of ups and downs! Fortunately for me, it ended on an UP!! Last week we had a by-week (meaning no games), but that also meant a lot of practice, a lot of running, and a lot of extra work for me! This is a good thing but just tough when you are going through it. Anyway, the week went by fast and we were back in the regular swing of things before I knew it. Since I was already in a good flow, I decided to keep up the same type of work so that I could be at a top level come game time! Everything was going according to plan when the unthinkable happenned. At thursday night's practice during the last drill of practice I tried to drive baseline and one of my teammates accidently hit me in the thigh with his knee!! The pain was excruciating! I was immediately scheduled for a scan with the doctor on Friday morning and I recieved bad news. It seems that the pain I was feeling was consistent with the doctor's prognosis. I had a deep thigh contusion in which blood had accumalated on the muscle. The doctor's verdict was that I needed to rest right away. No basketball for a minimum of 5 days. The problem here was that we had a big game the next day! If you have been following my blog, you know that every game is a big game for us if we want to make the playoffs! As you can imagine the news had me deflated and frustrated after putting in so much work during the previous 2 weeks. I left the doctor's office and went straight to treatment. I literally spent all day getting electric stimulation therapy, massages, ice, heat, and pool work. The rehab was working but just not in the time frame that we needed it to! I knew that there was only one way that I could get past this injury in the next 24 hours...PRAYER!
So that is what I did. I prayed as sincerely as possible, and I decided to let God do the rest. The next morning (game day) I woke up very sore and went straight to the doctor for a follow up scan. The scan showed that the blood had began to lessen but not enough for the doctor to give me the straight forward green light to play. We had morning shoot around in less than an hour. The Doc told me that he would leave the decision up to me and to see how it felt at shoot around. Well, if you know me.... you know that it was going to take chains and handcuffs to keep me off that court, lol!! At practice I tried to run and cut but it was still very painful. I spoke to coach and he told me that the team could really use me if only for half the game! I told him that if I could move enough to get up and down the floor that he could count me in. I continued treatment for the rest of the day, and by game time, the muscle was warm enough to give it a go. I got the start and although I was not my normal self the defense of the other team had to pay attention to me. We went on to get the win ( a much needed win) and we moved up the rankings and are now only 2 games out of the playoffs. We still get to go head up with the teams that are in front of us for the playoffs. If we win, we are in and they are out. This game; This win put us in that position. I feel good about my decision to play! A lot of guys would not have played because of their numbers, but I put my team ahead of that type of stuff! That's what makes me the player that I am! Yes I only played 20 minutes... and Yes I only had 5 points... but we won, my teammates played good, and I was there for them!
Now I am out for a couple of days but should be back to 100% for the next game! It's going to be a tough match on the road! Make sure you tune in for next week's blog to see how it turned out! Hope you guys enjoyed this week's post! Have a great week and as always remember to EXCEED EXPECTATIONS!!
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