Everybody and their baby’s momma’s Uncle LeRoy piled into the historic Crispus Attucks Gymnasium on Saturday night to see the defendin’ Class 4A and Class 3A state champs go at it. The buzz around the city was NUTS before this joint tipped off. Duns wanted to see Mr. Fifty Inch Vertical, Jamal Harris (New Orleans), from Attucks and Mr. Do It All, Aaron Henry (Michigan State) on the same floor at the same time.
Well playas…by halftime the energy had run out of the gym like helium once a boy pops a balloon. Ben Davis had unleashed the secret weapon, Dawand Jones, that Attucks had absolutely no answer for and it was 37-19. It was never a contest with Ben Davis runnin’ the Class 3A state champs outta of their own place 62-43.
Let’s keep it real or all the way 100, whichever comes 1st! How many high school players have you run into that are 6’8″ 320 lbs that can get up and down the floor with hips that can change directions like a cheetah. Ole boy is not only a huge human being but he’s a straight up athlete. I love to see this kid play.
Attucks had no answer for him as he led Ben Davis with 22 points as they cruised to a 19 point road win. Aaron Henry dropped off 13 for good measure and Jalen Windham had 12.
Even though it turned into a sleeper Mr. Fifty Inch Vertical tried to baptize a boy but was called for the charge. It was NUTS how he attacked the basket and had it gone down it would have blown the roof off of the joint. However, the miss only fired the Giants up even more and Dawand put several monster dunks down afterwards.
Nonetheless, it was great to be in one of the most historic gyms in the state if not the country. Crispus Attucks High School was founded in 1927 for the purpose of educatin’ black students in Indianapolis. Other than Gary Roosevelt, my alma Mater, which was founded in 1921 they were the only two all black high schools in the state at the time. And boy did those two battle on the hoop court back in the day!
It was great to see the jersey of the Big O, Oscar Robertson, hangin’ in the buildin’. It was straight nostalgia to see the state championship banners from 1955, ’56 and ’59 when boyz wouldn’t even allow the Attucks teams to ride the fire trucks and have a victory parade downtown Indianapolis.
This is a REAL Hoosiers story right here. All you ever hear about is the Milan team, the small school that won the state title in 1954 that they made the movie Hoosiers about. Well, playas, this is a story that boyz need to know about too.
Duns need to know that an all-black team won the state title multiple times under the foolishness of racism in this state and they wouldn’t even allow them to celebrate it publicly. Tell that story!!
So even though I didn’t get to see the ball game I wanted to see. I still enjoyed myself because the folks over at Attucks were a straight up class act. The student section was great, the cheer squad was unbelievable and the fans reminded me of bein’ back at the Velt in The G! They loved their school. I saw all of the old timers with their Tiger gear and it was fantastic!!!
Don’t get it twisted, Attucks has a great team. They just had no answer for the defendin’ Class 4A state champs on Saturday night. They’ll be just fine come tournament time and you can stop me when I start lyin’!
Playas Thesaurus:
1) Dun: noun – the person in question, dude, guy, etc. It’s whoever I’m talkin’ about and its non-gender specific.
2) Ole boy: noun – the person that I’m currently talkin’ about.
The G is excluded from the endings of all words because the G is near and dear to my heart because I’m from “The G” which is Gary, Indiana. So I only use the G when I’m talkin’ about “The G!”
The caption under the photo is real talk today!