One shining dream
Jul
2006
Alright, basketball withdrawal is painful, apparently. It’s now even invading my dreams.
The other night, amazing detail. I’m sitting courtside in Salem with Rick Seidel, broadcasting the national semifinals. Pretty good crowd on hand. NYU is playing UW-Platteville and Platteville has just taken a three to go up by two with seconds left. NYU pushes the ball up the floor and has it knocked out of bounds with 0.1 seconds left.
So NYU has to go for the tip-in. But their inbounds pass misses everyone and actually hits me in the face. Ouch.
Platteville needs to inbound the ball to advance to the finals. But they throw deep into their frontcourt to avoid the tip-in and they, too, miss everyone. So it’s still 0.1 seconds left, NYU inbounding underneath its own basket again with a chance to tip-in and tie, but Platteville deflects the inbounds pass and time expires.
And there’s still nearly four months to tipoff.
July 23rd, 2006 at 10:52 am
Astounding!
Pat is such a D3 fan that he dreams D3.
July 23rd, 2006 at 4:55 pm
Yeah, it was a little scary in that sense.
July 23rd, 2006 at 7:42 pm
On the other hand, Pat, were you [shudder!] a D1 fan running a D1 site, your “one shining dream” might well have been a nightmare ….
July 24th, 2006 at 10:04 am
A dream or an omen? I’m not taking any chances. I’ve just moved UW-Platteville and NYU up to the top four in my preseason predicitions. Just in case.
July 24th, 2006 at 11:42 am
That would probably beat even the NBA finals for actual length of time it takes to play the smallest amount of game time. Three full plays run on .1 seconds?
July 24th, 2006 at 12:19 pm
Tell me about it. But since nobody touches the ball on two consecutive inbounds plays, no time runs off.
August 1st, 2006 at 9:20 am
Pat is such a trooper. He gets hit in the face and continues to broadcast. What a fan. If I was hit in the face I would have woke up. Yet Pat continues with the dream until the very end. Good Job, Pat.
August 1st, 2006 at 6:18 pm
lol… oh come on, you guys have never had d3 dreams??? (looks around nervously like she couldn’t possibly be incriminidating herself)
August 1st, 2006 at 6:25 pm
incidentally…. if only a certain tipin two years ago went something a little more like this dream… (sniff)
August 14th, 2006 at 12:17 pm
Pat,
Any dreaming updates for us?
If you were telling us that you are dreaming about a Bard vs. Cal Tech Final, then I would be calling your wife to see about local mental health care facilities. This dream seems fairly harmless though.
C