Addam's season

Addam calls for the ball during a three-on-two drill.













Addam and Terry (in purple) discuss the finer points of basketball.




















Addam has a laugh as Thibaut (in yellow) walks by at the Metros













I've been thinking about this blog and, rather than let it die until next season, I have decided to make it a blog about my son Addam and how his basketball is going.
Sadly, it seems very unlikely that we will be playing with Sutherland next season.
Quite simply my new job has made it impossible to get to Sutherland for the Wednesday and Thursday games.
And if we can't play in club we can't very well represent the club.
Sutherland did give us a way around it, but in the second half of the season we may still be in exactly the same boat, and neither Michelle or myself want to force the club into making difficult decisions that might see Addam removed from the team or playing illegally.
That would be a lose/lose situation for everyone.
We have been left with two options, to play at Bankstown or North Sydney.
Bankstown is out of the question, primarily because of the sportsmanship aspect. We saw some things in our first rep season that we didn't like.
There's no need to go into the details.
The other option is North Sydney.
They have club games on Saturday, which we can make, and we quite like the way they trained their players.
But most of all the club seems exceptionally well organised.
North Sydney's trials begin this weekend and we will be there.
We went to the Metropolitan Development League last weekend, after we found out it was on through Addam's club coach at Norths, John.
If you are selected for one of the four teams in this league then you get to play before a Sydney Kings game twice.
Essentially these teams are made up of the best, by age, in Sydney.
This time around they had a low turnout and Addam was automatically selected.
Hey, it will be fun for him.
Having said that I believe Addam would have made it anyway.
It was great to see people from all the clubs where we have played. The guys from Sutherland, including Terry, Thibaut and Jack G were there, along with players from Bankstown (Hi Elly!) and nearly all of the Cool Cubs from Norths.
At the end of the day one of the people involved in trials at Norths came up and chatted to us. That was how we found out about this weekend.
They seem eager to have Addam trial, which we hope is a good sign.
Tonight we, the Aces - Addam's Bankstown club side - played against an On Fire team. We lost the game, but our tallest player and best rebounder (Elly again) went out in foul trouble early on. It was almost as if the referees had it in for her.
We were also down Addam's friend Chris, who is a fantasic defender, so we fell away towards the end. However, I do believe this team can beat them.
That said, Addam had a great game. He was rebounding, distributing really well and top-scored for the team with a combination of outside jumpshots, put backs and left and right-hand drives to the basket. It was really nice.
I've added some photos of Addam at the metro trials from last weekend.
In the meantime, I'll get back to making this a regular posting site on how he is going.
Cheers all
Alvin