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Basketball In Erin Has Come A Long Way...

Since The First 3-on-3 Tournament In 1995

by Patrick Suessmuth (Erin Advocate - May 17, 2000)

It was the best basketball ever played in Erin.

Basketball, you’ve come a long way...

The Sixth Annual 3-on-3 Tournament is history.  One word describes it…

Awesome!

What fun.

What joy.

What friendships.

What competition.

You could feel the competition in the air.  The air was electric.  The air was vibrant.

My memories of the first tournament compared to this sixth one are as night is to day, as black is to white.  Local basketball skills exhibited by kids, teens, women and men all have advanced so much that he best teams of yesteryears would be decimated if they tried to play any of the teams of today.

Our local growth has been immense…

And our future growth is assured as young kids are entering and learning basketball skills never before seen at their level.

The 3-on-3 Tournament helps this development.  Nothing we do in basketball compares competitively.  We grow as we compete.

Let me highlight this competitiveness for by something that happened in the Men’s Division in the Tournament.

Each team played every other team in its group, i.e., each team played three games to determine the initial standings of the teams for the Championship and Consolation Rounds.

In one of the groups the last game between the four teams was being played.

Black was playing Blue.

The first team to score 15 points wins.

The score’s Black 14 – Blue 13.

Blue gets the ball.

A Blue player backs out to 26 feet away from the basket.

All day, no one has shot from this distance.  In 3-on-3 a shot from or beyond 19 feet 9 inches is worth two points.

The ball is passed to the “far out” player.

He shoots.  The ball hits the rim.  Bounces and goes through.

Blue wins the game.

Black goes from first place in the group of four if it had won to last place in the group…all on one shot.

Yes, the competition was that close in almost every part of the 2000 tourney.

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