Help Lydon to play on the world stage!

We had a tournament at Trusts Stadium last weekend. It was a good chance to have our first hit-up with the team going to Manila -1. One of our players Patrice was out due to injury so we had a New York team sub Red play with us.

This was our first time playing together except John and I. We easily won all of our pool games to qualify for the semi finals later that afternoon.

3x3 is very quick paced and although there is only 10 minutes it is VERY tiring.

Red had to leave just before the semi finals leaving us with 3 for the 2 finals games.

We ended up winning the semi finals by around 5 points and then had to play the finals against one of our friends' teams (who had good players also).

The game went down to the very wire with the lead being held by both teams during the game.

In the end it was a 2 pointer by Ben from the other team sealing the victory 21-19.

Our first tournament being a loss. We did learn a lot about each other, and we gelled really well. It was great to see that after every single game, win or loss we came in a huddle and talked about what we did, how we can improve etc.

I think with that attitude we will improve very quickly and we will be in a good position mentally for the World Tour.

I personally felt I played well. I didn't shoot very many 3 pointers but I had A LOT of inside points using my strength and size to bully people. My weakest point was definitely my fitness - in the finals I was having a heart attack pretty much. It didn't help that we only had 4 minutes rest between finals.

I will endeavour to raise my fitness levels by 200% by the next tournament in July.