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Great to finally hear from you. We thought you were like some sort of sweaty stinky autobot. While you have one of the worst names in all of BB (I think Loves to Spoog and The Bearded Clams come close) your team is no joke and I honestly say I hope we don't meet in the finals.

Ha! 17 and 0, I think you will be ok :)

Did you see the Marmots box score? 34 points! Man! If i was one of your fans, I would have you murdered. That would be cool if BB could have fans leaving in droves for such a blatant cash grab. I love it.

My local basketball team is called the Cleveland Steamers but that name was already registered on BB. Added sweat and have been making beautiful music ever since.

Dude. Leaving in droves? Three of my fans got to play for my team. No wonder they're still coming!

Plus, they have Sam Clune, the highest scoring player in Australia, and Barry O'Daire, up and coming Irish NT player :)

I do look forward to these playoffs, though, because there will be some great matches this season!

So, do all of you dudes ball in real life?

Any of you play 2K10 on ps3?

I did but I hurt my foot BADLY, nearly 6 months ago. I am in bad pain right now!. It really sucks. I have played basketball and sport for some fairly good teams such as Melbourne Tigers, Victoria and Australia.

Don't have a PS3 but I have played NBAlive about a million times!

My friends all play soccer, so I've always played that. I love playing ball, though, and would rather play that, but I don't have the time during the week to commit to training, so I can't play club. I'm a pass-first PG.

I do play 2K10 on PS3, although I haven't played for a while - i had a network problem and didn't try and fix it. i've mostly just played the career mode.

Rabid - what is your username? Mine is adonismuir. Add me and we will tee up a match. Yeh the network errors were fucking painful, but they have gotten better now.

Chelsea - are you freaking kidding me RE the teams you have played? Sarcasm doesnt travel well on forums. Whats your name if genuine?

I have no idea, it's been months since I've used any PS3 online things. I will have a look at let you know, though.

You can believe it or not, it is up to you. Actually once you get the details it is a lot less impressive than the headlines, this is usually the case in the real newspapers too.

Melbourne Tigers I played for only as a junior on the rep team. I guess the big up was it was Lindsay Gaze that recruited me, saw me playing for my school team (undefeated for 2 years) at Old Albert Park and got two of us to come to the Tigers. Andrew Gaze was playing at the same time and funny I can remember someone saying he wasn't that good, he was just the coach's son. Ha, maybe Australia's best ever. Once he stole my ball. I still want it back.

Victoria and Australia I did play for but not in Basketball, it was Handball a much lower level sport in Australia obviously, in fact I was one of only two "Aussies" on the team, almost everyone else was an ex-pro from Europe. But I did get to go to on two free international trips to try and qualify for the olympics. If we had made it I would still be calling myself an olympian! Ha! Still got my old Victoria and Australia tracksuits hanging up in the closet.

Sadly I have had the most stupid run of injuries ever, a bit like my BB team last season, I have had operations, hundreds of treatments but I am wrecked. I haven't played anything for 6 months, I am in pain all the time, and I get fatter and more unfit by the day, and even though my specialist is an expert who has worked for the AFL and Netball Australia they just can't fix me. Call me Gred Oden!

Long story. I'm not after any sympathy or anything, I am very happy with my sporting career, I would like to at least play some casual pickup ball some time in the future. Ever played at Venice Beach? (White Men Can't Jump.) I have thrown down a couple there!

With regard to sarcasm, I am sarcastic 90% of the time so sorry if it doesn't travel well with you, that is just the way I am.

Last edited by yodabig at 9/4/2010 8:09:18 PM

Damn, that's pretty cool. I'd have loved to have played representative sport, even for a lower-level sport. I play div 1 tennis, but that's about as good as it gets for me.

Also, as far as the sarcasm, I think what he meant was more that it's hard to tell when someone is being sarcastic on a forum, rather than him not liking it, so he wasn't sure if you were being genuine about the representative stuff.

Absolutely spot on Marmy RE the sarcasm - I just couldnt believe what I was reading!

I believe you Chelsea, I am well impressed. PS - if anyone was trying to impress me, they would mention three things. Basketball/Handball?White Men Cant Jump.

WMCJ is by FAR my fav all time film, my mates and I quote it on a daily basis. I rattled off Gloria's winning and losing globule speech to my boss today, she was not impressed.

On the basketball front, I had it in my head that you were a much younger baller. Man, the fact that you played under Lindsay Gaze is WELL impressive, dont sell yourself short. And handball? I freaking LOVE that game! Were you playing in 2000? I went and watched all the Aussie games, ha, we got belted but its such an amazing sport. I wish it would grow in australia, throwing and catching seems to be what we do best, and its such an amazing high paced sport. I am hell impressed. There is a small Perth league here (where I am) but it seems to be dominated by 1 group of mates who dont really have a lot of time for outsiders. I am thinking of playing again this summer, I love it.

Do you have any links for your handball ahievements? Like, if you were in the national squad there must be something out therE?

My story is just rep basketball all my life, then state league reserve. Never played in the state league, knees couldnt hack it. But love the game and play almost every day...

Marmy, you played against any big names in your tennis career?