The Freshmen Influx

A new wave of freshmen infiltrate the UT campus every week for their mandatory orientation. Because of this, the basketball courts have been a little more crowded than normal. The other day I was shooting around when a freshman who was still wearing his name tag came up to me and challenged me to a game of one on one.

This was after he played in a full court game that was taking place on the court adjacent to mine. I watched that game for a bit while I was taking a rest and noticed this guy was constantly posting up and demanding the ball from the point guard who was clearly better than him. The freshman was noticeably angry that the point guard was not passing him the ball (which might have been due to his very poor positioning in the post, but that is a whole another story).

A friend (or girlfriend) of his was with him when he challenged me. I saw this as a perfect opportunity to strip him of his dignity in front of his girl because he seemed like a person who would get frustrated very easily.

He told me to shoot for the ball. I did and made the shot. So we started to play and I constantly kept juking him one after the other without actually shooting the ball after faking him. He was a couple inches taller than me and about 25-30 pounds heavier than me, so he wasn't exactly the fastest person on the planet. I was eventually up 5-0 in the first game. He scored a couple baskets later on, but I still beat him handily 11-4.

There were about 10 minutes left before closing, so we started playing another game. I was winning by a larger margin this time, 8-2, and he started making a comeback. The score was now 8-6. I made a two pointer to make it 10-6. The gym worker came up to me and took the ball from me saying that it was time to go.

The guy came up to me and said "good game" without looking at me and didn't even bother to shake my hand. I winked at his female friend and calmly left the gym knowing I had completely deflated the ego of some random freshman. What a feeling...