our pitiful Deacs

Saturday Patt and I went to see our beloved Deacons at the Joel.   Well that is not exactly correct as beloved is more accurate this year presented as belittled, much to my chagrin.  This condition has been developing all year and is is reaching a chronic and persistent condition.

The two girls in the seats to our left in front of us came with sketch pads and iPhones with games and paid zero attention to the activities of the game in front of them.  The seats in front of us were occupied by fans dressed as vacant seats — short vacant seats specifically for which I actually like as it is very easy to look over them that way.  The girls little brother and Dad were a couple of seats down from us on the left and had to go to concessions stands and the bathroom (or somewhere) a lot.

The action on the floor consisted often of us, the Deacons, retreating back on defense after a missed shot — we got two offensive rebounds — TWO — girls teams, bad girls teams get more than that.

The crowd was announced at 10,000 in a 14,000 seat arena.  Many obviously came dressed as vacant seats like the ones near Patt and me.

Among the highlights of the afternoon were the T-shirt toss - notice the white shirt falling in front of big guy in green whose name we can never remember who sits to our front right whose wife's name is Bonnie.  Note the strenuous kid action to catch the shirt- there were a fair number of little kids at the game as there were lots of tickets given away I think.

This is what the aisles looked like in the later stages of the games this year as the Deacon faithful began their traditional storm the court activity about which safety concerns have been raised.

 My last view of the game as we participated in court stemming activities too.  How we ever got to to within eight points of a team that previously had won only seven games and playing on our own court is an amazing statement.  Wait 'til next year.  We'll get 'em.  (perhaps)