So the day after I arrived here the ice machine at our facility died. That's how our trainer, with his limited English, explained it to me at least. For the last two weeks I haven't been able to ice after practice, which sucks.
Today during practice the big guys were working on post moves while the guards got perimeter shots up. There was no defense, it was just some practice time on fundamentals. We start doing a spin move in the post, and I'm just sort of on auto-pilot during this drill. It's really monotonous. Anyway, I get the ball in the post and spin toward the hoop and run straight into a wing player running under the basket. I still have no idea where he was running. Anyway, I never saw him coming and those are always the worst hits. I was pretty lucky, just strained my neck a little. Anyway this isn't the point of the story.
The point of the story is that I was able to ice my neck after practice! I asked if I could have ice (more like said, "ice?") after practice and the trainer nodded and went over to a cooler. I walked next to him, excited that I would be able to finally ice. He opened the cooler, and what was inside?
SNOW.
Apparently he went outside during the practice and grabbed some fresh snow and put it in the cooler for us to ice with after practice. So yeah, I iced my neck with snow today. Obviously this idea was straight genius, but it took me by surprise when he opened the cooler. I actually burst out laughing, it was absurd.
Oh yeah, it's been snowing here. It is supposed to stop, which, thank god cause all I have are some nikes that are not handling the snow well at all. Apparently this is the coldest weather Istanbul has gotten in the past 50 years. Just my luck!
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