{"id":146897,"date":"2023-11-24T11:34:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-24T16:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/rwddev\/?p=146897"},"modified":"2023-11-25T00:35:04","modified_gmt":"2023-11-25T05:35:04","slug":"705-spruce-league-oct-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/705-spruce-league-oct-8\/","title":{"rendered":"705 Spruce Basketball League action"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: left; margin-right: 14px;\"><strong><broadstreet-zone zone-id=\"45658\" keywords=\"\" soft-keywords=\"true\" zone-alias=\"\"><\/broadstreet-zone><\/strong><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><em>By Mike Ainger<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the early morning hours of October 8, 2009, a long-standing pillar of the Huntsville community was reduced to ash, after being enveloped in flames that reached up through the night sky.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nearly a quarter century later, a stalwart of the Huntsville sports landscape met a similar demise.&nbsp; Just as the Empire Hotel crumbled in the 2009 inferno, Team Black\u2019s legacy of dominance in the 705 Spruce fell to a similar fate. On a different trajectory, Team Red rose like a phoenix from the cellar of the league, drawing easy parallels to JT\u2019s Tavern &#8211; a persistent smell of stale alcohol mixed with bad decisions that somehow yield positive results.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While the site of the Empire and JT\u2019s is now a scraggly vacant lot that bookends the downtown core, the future of Team Black appears just as rocky.&nbsp; Team Red, however, adhering to the words of Rocky, demonstrated that \u201cevery champion was once a contender who refused to give up.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Regarding actual play, referees seemed content to put their whistles away early letting the players determine the outcomes of games for the evening.&nbsp; Attention to physical conditioning continued to produce tangible and observable benefits, with all starting players remaining active throughout the evening.&nbsp; Shooting accuracy proves to be an Achilles heel for many players, with mid and long-range percentages dropping to all-season lows.&nbsp; On the positive side, with so many missed shots, rebounds per player rose to an all-time high.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Games for the evening were representative of very evenly matched teams.&nbsp; Team Red were the winners of three games, Team Black was victorious in two, with Team Mismatch winning one and coming up a mere basket short of a second.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There were no reportable injuries for the evening.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Play in the 705 is scheduled to resume next Wednesday, as the first half of the regular season draws ever closer to its conclusion.&nbsp; While there is still much basketball left to be played, the playoff picture and front runners for the revered Emu-Cup is beginning to come into focus.<\/p>\n\n\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\">Don\u2019t miss out on Doppler!<\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Sign up <a href=\"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/dont-miss-out-on-doppler\/\"><u>here<\/u><\/a> to receive our email digest with links to our most recent stories.<br \/>\nLocal news in your inbox so you don&#8217;t miss anything!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a style=\"background: #5cb85c url('https:\/\/d1iczxrky3cnb2.cloudfront.net\/red_logo.png') no-repeat 37px; color: #fff; text-decoration: none; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; display: inline-block; font-size: 16px; padding: 15px 38px; padding-left: 75px; -webkit-border-radius: 2px; -moz-border-radius: 2px; border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0 1px 0 0 #1f5a89; text-shadow: 0 1px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3);\" href=\"https:\/\/donorbox.org\/support-huntsville-doppler\">Click here to support local news<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><broadstreet-zone zone-id=\"45657\" keywords=\"\" soft-keywords=\"true\" zone-alias=\"\"><\/broadstreet-zone>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Mike Ainger In the early morning hours of October 8, 2009, a long-standing pillar of the Huntsville community was reduced to ash, after being enveloped in flames that reached [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1904,"featured_media":146936,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.8 - 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