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

[Alwyn Lloyd]

Just sent Lawrence a text and got a reply saying that it is on, 7:30 
start..

I can't make it atm as i have rehersal..   Hopefully in a few weeks i will 
be able to come along though..

Alwyn


> Are people still going to this? Are we arriving right at the start?
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> Tom.
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> 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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>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> 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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>> WD
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>> A1/A2a
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>> 825-905
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>> WA
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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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>> Pete
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