Game #2 Result

You know when you watch a game on television and one team dominates and controls the tempo of the game but for what ever reason they only hold a small lead over their opponent? Yeah, well that would describe this game perfectly I think. The J.A. experiment seems to be over already after appearing in exactly 1 game for Clip Joint. It amazes me how unmotivated people can be or in this case unreliable and untrustworthy someone can be. Regardless, we were certainly more talented than they were from top to bottom yet we could not score enough points to maintain more than a slim margin throughout the game. We built the lead up to 7 but during the final several minutes it became a 1 possession ball game.

I think I had my blood pressure rise above and beyond what a normal human being should endure standing on the sidelines overseeing the action. For the second straight game D.H. was exhausted after limited action, at one point acting like Larry Legend and laying down near the bench on his stomach resting his back, or so he claimed. I just think he came into camp out of shape and overweight and that was causing him to struggle mightily on the court. I even got into it a bit with the referee's and scorekeeper at the same time.

Yeah I have a fiery side to me when "coaching", I use that term loosely in this case because as grown adults and being a part of the team Im not really coaching, more like managing the situations and minutes so that we work our rotation to benefit the team as much as possible. Needless to say I think I was unhappy with the way things were progressing so I took some of that out on the officiating.

The bottom line is there is no way we should have barely escaped the gym with a 1 point victory as we did against such an average team. We play them again later in the season so hopefully we show them we can destroy them when necessary. I look forward to the opportunity and I only can hope the rest of the team feels the same way. Right now I do not see a lot of passion or energy coming from the team and that needs to change if we are going to compete in this league. Sitting at 2-0 is nice especially after we struggled during the regular season last session but still we have a ton of room for improvement. Until next time...