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

Mon May 4 12:32:30 AWST 2009

I will be there. I spoke to Lawrence on Saturday and he said everyone who
rocks up will be starting at 7:30.

Chris

On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 11:53 AM, Alwyn Lloyd <zarquin at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au>wrote:

>
>
> 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?
>>
>> Tom.
>>
>> Quoting "Alwyn Lloyd" <zarquin at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au>:
>>
>>
>>> From Lawrence.
>>>
>>> have a good game! :)
>>>
>>> ---------- 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!
>>>
>>>
>>> Hey captains,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Hope those who made it down Saturday enjoyed it, feel free to suggest
>>> improvements…
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I suggest the following court times for teams (could change each week
>>> to give different teams option of full court at end):
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ½ court A
>>>
>>> ½ court B
>>>
>>> 745-825
>>>
>>> WD
>>>
>>> A1/A2a
>>>
>>> 825-905
>>>
>>> WA
>>>
>>> A2b/C1
>>>
>>> 905-945
>>>
>>> C2a (D to mix with both sides)
>>>
>>> C2b
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 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!).
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 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!).
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Please let me know your patter,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Go strong,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Laurence
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Ps. Fixtures for the week at www.baptistbasketball.info
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>>> FAIR PLAY II
>>>
>>> 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’.
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> 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?
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> Pete
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