There are so many different techniques and sciences when it comes to sports. A pro golfer's hips shoot through inhumanly fast (Shakira tells us our hips don't lie, or maybe hers don't and everyone else's tell the truth...who knows).
A baseball swing looks so effortless there's no way it would make a sphere of rawhide fly 400 feet (hold the steroids jokes...OK maybe you're right).
With heartfelt respect to those and other sports, nothing quite satisfies me like a good jump-shot--the lost art, as they say.
If that's the case, the renaissance of the jump-shot, the DaVinci and Michelangelo of the "J" if you will, were on display the past few years, dawning tan and cardinal.
Ross Banaszak and Adam Wells concluded their Cardinal careers against Capital (how's that for alliteration?) last Saturday at the Rike Center.
Michelangelo and DaVinci left as two of the greatest jump-shooters Otterbein has ever seen.
Needing 36 points to reach the 1,000-point mark for his career, Wells set a career-high with--you guessed it--36 points thanks to a perfect 10-10 from the free-toss line.
Not only did he land smack on 1,000, Wells hit a three with 59 seconds remaining in the game, giving him his 200th career three-point field goal.
Wells scored 600 of his 1,000 career points from 19 feet, 9 inches away. The guy can shoot a little bit.
Chipping in 18, Banaszak ended his incredible career with 1,368 points, 13th on the all-time Otterbein scoring list.
The point-man added one more Otterbein record to his resume, finishing with a career mark of 90 percent at the free-throw line. This smashed Kevin Shay's old all-time mark of 82 percent. Oh yeah, he also dropped 359 dimes in 102 career games.
Let me go ahead and give you your work-out for the day while I've got your attention. Ross Banaszak played 2,422 of a possible 2,455 minutes the past two seasons.
Yeah, he missed a grand total of 33 minutes the last 51 games of his career! Don't worry about hopping on that treadmill now--Ross just did the work for you.
Otterbein played 77 basketball games this year and last year, and Banaszak was in the starting five for 76 of them.
The one he missed was because of a death in the family...go ahead and lie down for a minute Ross, it's OK now. By the way, of the more than 100 games that I saw Ross Banaszak play, I kid you not, I didn't see him sweat once. I think he has X-ray vision too, by the way.
What a great career, guys. I didn't do a darn thing, but I had a lot of fun covering these two. I sure am going to miss Otterbein basketball. t&c;
