I used to be a basketball player.....

I am returning to the hardwood floor after about a year of not playing the game which I devoted so much of my earlier years towards. I suffered a fairly severe bone bruise around this time last year in my right foot that forced me to stop playing and I never got back for some reason.... mostly laziness I suppose. But now I am going to be playing on an adult team again, hopefully on a team where I can be a true role player 3rd option type. My whole basketball career(save high school for obvious "Hallman" reasons) I have been the 1st or 2nd option on almost every team I have played on, with mixed results. I am sure that sounds like I am good, or was good, and I was for a time. I used to be a Lamar Odom "do everything type" kind of guy and for my size I was fairly quick and good with the ball similar to LO so anyone that knows basketball knows that kind of game is more suited for a 3rd option role similar to how LO is playing with the Lakers now and last season. Me and Odom have one thing in common, we are good at a lot of different things but not great at any of them. I am a good rebounder, good scorer, good passer, ok ball handler, ok defender, ok outside shooter, but I have never really been great at any of them. I guess that is why Lamar has always been one of my favorite players if not my favorite.

So all this about my personal basketball skills is basically me being excited about playing again, and looking forward to having that role of being the guy who does a little bit of everything to help the team win while the better players are doing most of the scoring and playmaking. It is going to take a few months of pretty hard training to get back into playing shape, I am starting today at 5:00 hitting the weights and running. Long distance running starts on Monday along with actual basketball training, practicing and playing pick up games during the week.

I am also looking forward to getting back into shape for my general health. I have recently gone straight edge and that was a big step for me, so I figured its time to finish it off by eating healthy and using sports as a way to live healthy in general.