Hole hammers home havoc with tomahawk dunk
Despite the aerial antics of Beers enigma and karaoke guru Sideshow, the former World B grade champions were unable to overcome the Pocket Rockets in a free-flowing contest at Carina on Tuesday night.
The Beers may have been on the wrong end of the 44-32 scoreline but there was no doubting who owned the highlight reel - Sideshow.
Early in the second half, “The Hole” - as he is known to his dozens of fans - produced a performance that would have made “The Admiral” David Robinson proud.
The lanky no.5 soared above the lime green opposition and almost brought the stadium crumbling down around its foundations with a thunderous dunk that brought the capacity crowd to its feet.
Like an eagle spreading its wings to fly, Sideshow took to the air with grace and skill and seemed to float on air before jamming the Molten size 7 in the face of a hapless Rocket.
When the slime green machine returned fire the next trip down the court, the Hole was at it again, pinning an ambitious shot to the glass.
As future generations of hoopsters ply their trade at Carina on court 4 they will ask why the Molten logo is impressed backwards on the glass backboard. The answer is simple…the hole.
Apart from those 30 seconds of play there wasn’t much else to write home about for the Beers who trailed 15-3 after 10 minutes and never recovered.
Herman was denied a dunk in the dying seconds when Smokey hogged the ball and shot a three but all the talk post-match was about Sideshow.
The Hole said he was delighted to get a dunk and show Beers management what he was capable of after having some run-ins with club officials over the years
“I’m delighted to get a dunk and show Beers management what I was capable of after having some run-ins with club officials over the years,’‘ Hole said.
“I was magnificent out there and I expect to wake up tomorrow morning with sore shoulders after carrying those useless punks all night.”
“Don’t get me wrong, I’m a team player but the rest of those spastics should just clear out and give the ball to me because I’m the only one who knows what he’s doing.”
The Beers have the bye next week and will finish another rollercoaster Carina campaign against the Misfits on September 5.
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Comment by Plow on 23 August 2006:
It’s gotta be the shoes. Air Holes…
Comment by Sidehole on 25 August 2006:
Great work Smokey and Plow.
I thought I would give you all an insight into the what it is like to dunk a basketball. My first dunk in a game was Ct 1 at Carina. That one was good, and the reason i know it was good was that one of the guys on the team was raving about it at his step-dad’s wake.
The second real attempt at a dunk came against, i think it was the women’s brisbane side. I stuck up a stinker of a jumper, it hit the front of the rim and came straight back to me. A lane wider than the SE Freeway opened up and i took it to the hole for a patented tomahawk. Unfortunately that dunk attempt hit the front of the rim too, and I definitely remember laughter coming from all around the court.
From that moment on dunking and women both terrified me.
The next dunk came during a GBL final when Townsville coach Trevor Gleeson was coaching Uni. Everybody i knew showed up to cheer me from the stands, and when i got put on for junk time and got the ball in the open court on the break, there was only one thing to do - throw down the softest girliest dunk i possibly could. Once again i recall laughter, especially from the coach.
From that moment on Trevor Gleeson and crowds both terrified me.
So the dunking shoes were hung up due to a combination of pathetic physical strength and general patheticness.
Tuesday’s dunk may have been the result of a number of unique factors in Tuesday (1) I wasn’t wearing my mouthguard (2) one of my socks became double ended when i put it on, thus becoming a stocking (3) i cant remember (3). I think it will be the start of something beautiful
The Hole