Sign of the Twine: Cotton, Day 11

We’re officially into the dog days of Sumer. Time to fine tune and make the proper adjustments for a championship run. Game 1 saw the Funky Technicians take on Sky High and we’re already seeing playoff style heat. Sky High’s fast break is clicking early fuelded by swarming team defence and E-Smoove (13 points, 8 rebounds, 1 assist, 2 steals and 3 blocks) shooting 50% from the field and being aggressive at both ends. Runny Ray would not let that energy wane, contributing a solid double-double (11 points, 12 rebounds, 1 assist, 1 steal and 3 blocks).


But the Funky Technicians came to play, led by Bucktown’s (19 points, 10 rebounds, 2 assists, 2 steals and 3 blocks). However, an off day from Heart-N-Soul (12 points, 5 steals) and Tone Loc (4 points) not starting due to an aggravating thigh injury; and ineffective when he did play – The Funky T’s could not match Sky High’s intensity. Billy Ho ran the point (11 points, 7 rebounds, 4 assists, 3 steals) and the King Cobra brought it baseline to baseline with 7 points, a career high 22 Grown Man Boards, 2 steals and 1 block. Sky High…Sky Hihg, Final: 51-46.

Game 2 saw the first place Runnin Rebels go up against team Regulators. The Phenom coming off of a sub-par performance would not have any of it today, exploding out to an early 9-0 lead and scoring 16 points in the first 9 minutes on his way to (31 points, 16 rebounds, 5 assists, 3 steals) Scrappy stepped up, playing with assertiveness and a sense of urgency (14 points, 3 rebounds) and the Carpenter, he does what he do (12 points, 13 rebounds, 2 assists, 2 steals).

The Regulators held their own though. Silk Money is rounding into playoff form, and just in time, stuffing the stat-sheet (18 points, 9 rebounds, 1 assist, 6 steals). Geezy contributed (13 points, 3 rebounds, 2 assists, 3 steals). The Bigg Dogg and 4-0-9 combined for (19 points, 15 rebounds, 7 assists, 2 steals, 1 block), but it was all rebels with Big Hen “The Hammer” closing the show with two free throws, final: 67-56.

Happy birthday to the Phenom. According to the stat-sheet every day is his birthday and the assist of the day goes to Chino, holding the table down while the MannofStat had an eye exam. Now, that’s teamwork.

Mr. Blue
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