Craig Vineyard is a member of the Albuquerque Men's Basketball City League team 'Funky Boss' for the '07-08 season.
In the ABQ city league, games are full court for forty minutes played five on five at local community centers and middle school courts. League rules stricly prohibit dunking so unfortunately there will be no above the rim highlight reels from Vineyard.
Date: | Opponent: | Outcome: | Approx. Stats: | |
7 Nov 07 | Enterprise Ballerz | W | 12 Pts, 6 Rbds, 3 Asts | |
14 Nov 07 | Blue Ballerz | Forfeit | NA | |
29 Nov 07 | Sipi | L | 8 Pts, 5 Rbds, 3 Asts | |
04 Dec 07 | USA | L | 16 Pts, 5 Rbds, 3 Asts 0 Blks | |
11 Dec 07 | Gunz | Postponed | NA | |
20 Dec 07 | Gimesum | L | 20 Pts, 4 Rbds, 4 Asts, 0 Blks | |
08 Jan 08 | Drop a Duce | W | 14 Pts, 5 Rbds, 4 Asts, 1 Blk 1 Stl | |
15 Jan 08 | Brew Crew | W | 22 Pts, 4 Rbds, 4 Asts | |
22 Jan 08 | Wolfpack | L | 11 Pts, 5 Rbds, 3 Asts | |
29 Jan 08 | K O Cartel | Postponed | NA | |
05 Feb 08 | Goonies | W | 11 Pts, 7 Rbds, 2 Asts, 2 Blks | |
7 Feb 08 | Gunz Makeup Game | W | 8 Pts, 5 Rbds, 2 Asts, 2 Blks | |
12 Feb 08 | Enterprise Ballerz | L | 10 Pts, 5 Rbds, 2 Asts, 5 Blks | |
19 Feb 08 | K O Cartel Makup Game | TBD | -- Pts, -- Rbds, -- Asts, -- Blks |
Note: the following game summaries are probably both innacurate and highly
un-educational with no other purpose than to possibly build Vineyard's
ego.
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12 Feb 08:
In the debut game of the mighty 'Funky Boss', the newly formed team
cruised to a definitive opening victory to start the season.
Ouch, two of our players must have missed the chartered team flight,
and got lost on their way to the arena, and so because they were five
minutes late Funky Boss was forced to forfeit. In the ensuing exhibition,
the missing players showed up five minutes later, and Funky Boss got the
small consolation of winning the meaningless exhibition.
Hmm, I don't remember the specifics, but we lost another...ouch!
Playing short handed once again, Vineyard started at point guard and
played nearly the entire game. After a rough first half, Funky Boss
bounced back to make it a competive game in the second half, but came out
on the short end.
Not expecting a mighty Albuquerque snow storm of maybe half an inch,
the ill prepared community center the game was scheduled for was forced to
cancel the game due to a leaky roof.
In the final game before the 'No-Star' break, Funky Boss was
desperately looking for a win to end the loosing streak, but was beaten by
a better team.
Back on track! We got the desperately needed win bringing us back
closer to .500. Despite playing on a court at best described as 'crappy', Funky
Boss locked down on defense, and played well as a team offensively in the
second half to hold onto a two point victory. After the win, Vineyard was
heard saying amongst other things, "Tile floors hurt."
We doubled on win streak and inched closer to back to .500. Urged by
his teammates to score, Vineyard had yet another excellent scoring night
putting up a season high 22 points. However, he should be running sprints
until he learns to shoot free throws. If it weren't for shooting 40% from
the free throw line, Vineyard might have had 25 points.
The win streak is over. We just flat out played bad. Oh and starting
a game down 0 to 15 is NOT a good idea. Plus when the refs are so bad
they call a 3 second violation on a fast break and threaten to throw you
out after you call them sir, the odds of winning are not on your side.
Back on track. After a mystery no game last week we got another W. We
played well against and overmatched team.
In the makeup makeup (no thats not a typo even the first makeup
game got cancelled) we played a great game and got another solid win
putting us even on the season.
Playing what may only loosly be termed a basketball game the
nincompoops posing as refs decided the outcome of the game. Allegedly
Vineyard was only fouled twice by the other team, although they claimed he
himself had four fouls. The game was officiated as if the different ends
of the court were entirely different games with different rules.
Apparently it was unreasonable for Vineyard to assume that when shooting
if only one hand is grabbed or slapped that is not a foul because he has
two hands to shoot with, although on defense a mere finger on the other
team is a foul on him. In fact, one might assume that the refs thought
Vineyard was playing a football game because he was blatently tackled (on
tile) and then dived on...which resulted in a jump ball and no fould
despite the fact that there was so much contact Vineyard had to take
himself out of the game considering he could barely bend his knee. As a
result of more 'officiating' Vineyard was forced to return shortly when
one of his teammates was standing still, had a member of the other team
run into him resulting in his fifth and final foul. And finally to top it
off, with 10 seconds left and the ball, Funky Boss tried to inbound the
ball to Vineyard, however he was unable to catch the ball when he was
pushed in the back, allowing the other team to steal (in ever sense of
the word) the ball and the victory.