Where to put the Cheese

This afternoon, I sent Nabil an email with a few predictions on the High School basketball game I had to photograph. The regular season tipped off tonight with a match up between the last two state runner-ups. Ellender lost in Overtime of the state champ game two seasons ago. And H.L. Bourgeois became the Cinderella team and lost in the finals last season.

I told Nabil that HL would shoot 37 three-pointers. And Ellender would dunk twice.

I got much more than that.

I'm not quite sure how many Three pointers HL shot, but I'm guessing it's more than you'd ever imagine a high school team would shoot. And what's amazing is that they make most of them. Here's the HL guard pulling up for a quick jumper... from at least 25 feet out. There was plenty of time on the clock. I guess he figured he was open so why not shoot the J. He made it. If I were a coach, this would drive me crazy... but he scored 42 of their 85 points so what can you say?


And there were a few dunks... I'm pretty sure this is the same kid from my earlier post. I would have given almost anything to be able to do this in High School.


But I got a lot more than a asked for tonight. I haven't kept track, but it seems every basketball game I cover, I see something I've never seen before. It might be someone famous, it might be an amazing play, it might be a crazy fan... there always seems to be something that catches me off guard.

And tonight... four Technical fouls in one quarter. Two by one coach. Meaning he was tossed from the game. I've never seen a coach tossed from a high school game before. He didn't do anything outrageous, he just said something to the Ref that the Ref didn't like... twice. The other two fouls were from a player saying something to a ref, and another player hanging on the rim a little to long.


So he sat out int he hallway for the rest of the game.


And of course, it was a physical game. And that makes for fun photos.



So Nabil... there you go. Two dunks, a bunch of threes and four technical fouls. I think that means you have to come down here and watch some games for yourself. HL serves up an amazing batch of nachos. They put the cheese in the little spot for cheese AND on the chips. For only two bucks!

And now for something completely different...

I also shot a charity golf tournament this afternoon. Pretty boring for the most part. I got better photos of the setting sun and gnats than I did of any golf action. Yea, that's a crap load of little bugs flying around.