A Light Dusting of Calm
A mere couple of hours after this, just down the road a bit, Kawhi's shot hit the rim... suddenly, with a lightening snap, everything went hush... bounced up and hit the rim again... and by hush I mean, 20,917 folk crammed into the Scotiabank Arena, every drenched soul watching on the big screens in Jurassic Park, multitudes and multitudes and more multitudes glued to their tv screens, computer screens... bounced up and hit the rim once again... by now, four years have passed, not a single soul has dared breath, utter anything, shift slightly in their posture, facial expression or emitted aura, held agog and hearing the whooshing silence of eighteen seasons of regret go scurrying on by, motioning with a muted gesture that it was time to just venture on to the lav for a pee... and for a fourth time, incredibly, the ball bounces up one more time and then...
I was in my son Joe's apartment, a city block away from the location of this photo, watching with he and my other son Caelan (who in turn was texting with my third son up in Collingwood, Nicholas, when...
...the ball falls into the net with no time left on the clock.
...all hell broke loose! Jumping, flying around, yelling, screaming and simply going bananas! What an amazing ending to a game!
A Light Dusting of Calm
A mere couple of hours after this, just down the road a bit, Kawhi's shot hit the rim... suddenly, with a lightening snap, everything went hush... bounced up and hit the rim again... and by hush I mean, 20,917 folk crammed into the Scotiabank Arena, every drenched soul watching on the big screens in Jurassic Park, multitudes and multitudes and more multitudes glued to their tv screens, computer screens... bounced up and hit the rim once again... by now, four years have passed, not a single soul has dared breath, utter anything, shift slightly in their posture, facial expression or emitted aura, held agog and hearing the whooshing silence of eighteen seasons of regret go scurrying on by, motioning with a muted gesture that it was time to just venture on to the lav for a pee... and for a fourth time, incredibly, the ball bounces up one more time and then...
I was in my son Joe's apartment, a city block away from the location of this photo, watching with he and my other son Caelan (who in turn was texting with my third son up in Collingwood, Nicholas, when...
...the ball falls into the net with no time left on the clock.
...all hell broke loose! Jumping, flying around, yelling, screaming and simply going bananas! What an amazing ending to a game!