[UCCBball] Fwd: Basketball training starting Monday nights 730? Long email but please read! (fwd)

[tommo at ucc.asn.au]

Are people still going to this? Are we arriving right at the start?

Tom.

Quoting "Alwyn Lloyd" <zarquin at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au>:

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> From Lawrence.
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> have a good game! :)
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> From: Laurence Houghton <laurencehoughton at hotmail.com>
> Date: 2009/4/13
> Subject: Basketball training starting Monday nights 730? Long email
> but please read!
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> Hey captains,
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> Hope those who made it down Saturday enjoyed it, feel free to suggest
> improvements…
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> News is that we have a court booked Monday nights at challenge stadium
> from 745-945pm starting on 4th May. $66 for the 2 hours, so hopefully
> work out as $2 each.
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> I suggest the following court times for teams (could change each week
> to give different teams option of full court at end):
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> ½ court A
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> ½ court B
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> 745-825
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> A1/A2a
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> 825-905
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> A2b/C1
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> 905-945
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> C2a (D to mix with both sides)
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> C2b
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> In the meantime, for the next 3 weeks I suggest getting training
> started outside at Claremont at the same times 730-945pm on Monday
> nights (while the weather stays reliable!).
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> It would be good if you could consider incorporating a ‘team time’ at
> training. Perhaps using material such as ‘born to play’
> (http://www.christiansinsport.org.uk/downloads/files/Born_To_Play-English.pdf
> ) or stuff like I’ve attached to this email (will regularly forward to
> help keep you thinking!).
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> Please let me know your patter,
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> Go strong,
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> Laurence
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> Ps. Fixtures for the week at www.baptistbasketball.info
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> FAIR PLAY II
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> Two weeks ago I argued that even though professional fouls are rife in
> the world of sport, Jesus’ work in the heart and mind of the Christian
> player is to stop them being conformed to the world around them and
> instead to transform them to live in a way that is pleasing to him.
> Everyone else may be getting away with it when the referee’s back is
> turned, your coach may urge you to do it, but God wants you to ‘act
> justly’ so that others ‘see your good deeds and glorify God in the day
> of his visitation’.
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> Now I’m aware that many Christian players may disagree with this point
> of view – not least because I’ve battled with it myself over the
> years. There are many objections from, ‘it’s an accepted part of the
> game’ and ‘there’s a difference between the written rules and the
> refereed rules’ to ‘I won’t be such a good player if I didn’t do it’.
> However I think it helps to consider a little more closely the
> motivation that lies behind the professional foul to see how different
> the Christian approach is.
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> Vince Lombardi once said ‘winning isn’t everything, it’s the only
> thing!’ and this is the attitude that underpins professional fouls.
> One of the great insights that the Bible gives us into why we do wrong
> things is in the letter to the Colossians 3:5. When Paul is giving a
> list of wrong attitudes he mentions one word in the Greek that gets
> translated ‘evil desires’. The word actually means ‘over-desires’ or
> ‘excessive-desires’ and it’s the same word that is used in the last
> commandment ‘do not covet’. This helps us understand that we do wrong
> things not so much out of wrong desires but out of excessive desires.
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> Let me explain; wanting to win is a good thing (as I’ve argued
> before), it’s one of the appropriate rewards for playing in a game,
> but when winning is over-desired then it can cause you to cheat and
> even harm your opponent to get it; similarly desiring to play well for
> the reserves to break into the first team is fine – it’s part of the
> way that team sport works, but if getting into the first-team is your
> everything then you’ll do whatever you can to achieve it – whether
> it’s taking-out another player off the ball or taking drugs to enhance
> performance. We do wrong things not so much out of wrong desires but
> out of excessive desires.
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> This helps us understand why players commit professional fouls; they
> could play within the rules and accept the result, but winning’s so
> important to them that they’d rather break the rules and win.
> Similarly you can see why it’s a slippery slope from a professional
> foul to taking performance enhancing drugs. After all if winning’s so
> important then who’s to say what’s unjustified in attaining the gold
> medal?
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> Paul starts chapter three in Colossians by reminding Christians that
> ‘since you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things
> above’. He’s saying that the power to change and to be different in a
> culture of professional fouls comes from getting your perspective
> right. Fix your attention on Christ – remind yourself of the perfect
> life that he lived for you and of the remarkable death that he died
> for you. This means that you don’t have to win to be successful or
> highly regarded – because you’re already highly regarded by God
> because of Christ’s death and resurrection. And remember that all your
> wrong conduct on and off the pitch has been paid for and forgiven. So
> by his power within you ‘do not be conformed but be transformed’ and
> use all of the gifts he’s given to play at your best - only do so
> within the rules.
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