BASKETBALL DIARIES V

Out of High School when I went to play division 1 basketball at quinnipiac university I just knew this would be one of the hardest things ever. Here I am 17 years old playing with some of the best players from california to new york. I just knew this shit would be so hard.
While I was there it was this kid Name Rob Monroe. Rob Money is 5'9 about 165. Lets just say I thought I was the best point guard ever whether what coach didn't agree or not. Rob basically showed me why he was one of the best point guards to play under 6 feet in the country. At quinnipiac my daily schedule:

6am-lifting weight

7am: practice

8am-class

9am-class

10am-class

12-class

2am-class

3pm-6pm- practice

6pm-film session

Everyday sometimes if we fucked up during the 3-6pm practice my coach would make us come back at midnight. This was probably the hardest physical year in my life. I complained so much outside of the basketball team but I stayed strong. One thing with Rob Monroe is I just never seen him complain, slip up or nothing. Not one day. I really didn't know how he did it. We didn't really talk but we would talk in group sessions of talking. He was a cool dude from DC. We eventually became roommates on the road at hotels during the season. This was when we became real cool. I got to see what he was like off court. I learned so much from him in one year he probably didn't even know. Its not that the shit wasn't hard or made him complain. Its just that he had a lot of heart and knew how to take responsibility for his own action on the court. I remember he use to hate d'ing me in practice in drills because I was so quick. But then I laughed because this is the dude I had to defend every day which I hated! Being on the road with him just put so much in perspective to me. He came off intimidating to half the team but I realized this dude was what I wanted to do in basketball. Here I am a 17 year old freshman thinking I was hot shit, until I realized what it took coming from a strong point guard like rob.
I left that year, but rob continued to do his thing. Later added me on facebook about a year ago. This is just my way of thanking him for showing me what a real college point guard was all about with going to school for 4 years graduating and still giving buckets!

"Most people can date it back to Rob Monroe, the trigger-happy 5-10 guard. Monroe, who occasionally went off for 40-spots his senior season, became one of the NCAA’s elite scorers (while also cracking the nation’s upper-echelon in the assists-per-game category) during his final season (‘04-05) with the Bobcats."-Slamonline.com

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