Bashketball

I'm crossing my fingers that Ateneo will win today's crucial game against La Salle. The past two games that I have watched Ateneo play, they lost. I watched them lose their last game to FEU last Saturday at Araneta. As a result, Ateneo has to play a deciding match with La Salle. I'm thinking maybe I shouldn't watch the game today. Then maybe we'll win. That's some wishful thinking. There probably isn't even any connection with my watching the games to them losing. I'm actually just consoling myself because Ma didn't allow me to cut work. My sisters will be watching the game today with Lower Box tickets! Of all the days where we could have gotten good goooood tickets, (I don't think I could overempasize more.) God have chosen it to be today...a Tuesday....when I have work. But it's okay I know I'm going to be rewarded for being good...for not skipping work. Hehe Although if I had it my way, I would have definitely gone to Araneta. If I had it my way, I would have made Ateneo number one in the rankings so that there wouldn't be a deciding match to begin with. Too bad, things don't want to work out the way I want it to be. The circumstances seem to not want to cooperate with me... for now anyway. I guess I would have to content myself getting live updates from the UAAP website while stuck at work.

My friend told me just now, Ateneo is trailing by 7 points...25-32. I just hope it wouldn't balloon into a big lead. And I also hope Cardona will not be at his best today. I hope his teardrop shots woudn't sink in today. I hope Yeo and Tang will make a lot of boo-boos today. I hope Franz Pumaren gets thrown out of the game. Hehe That's what you call bash-ketball. Friendly bash-ketballing. Though I don't think the DLSU team is capable of messing up their game anyway. No team in their right mind would throw away a crucial game such as this one. I must also admit the DLSU players got a bit of an advantage. Though for just a weeny tiny bit only. The DLSU team plays more solidly and more consistently than the Ateneo players. That's why Ateneo really has to win big today because I think DLSU could definitely manage to win two times. They have better chances of forcing a second and a third game on their opponent. As for the Ateneo team, we really really have to win in order to secure the second spot. We'll be damned if we don't. It's going to be harder to get back the momentum and win those two games. But then if Ateneo loses today and slips to third place, I'm still confident we'll be able to get into the championship round, that is if everything goes well according to Sandy Arespacochaga's plan.