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Today was the third match and there was saying that we might have a chance on this one. Today I before I moved out, I made even took my favorite and most comfortable white shorts and my nice LONG AND1 sock.
The time was closing in and during the warm up, one of the guys was totally not following the warm-up. He just took the ball, lay up and shoot, thus messing up the whole sequence. That made me very frustrated. I slowed down the pace, explained to them the sequence again and he just didn't want to follow.
I probably should have brought the frustration into the starting game. They were playing 3-2 and they were weak down low. I passed the ball low and I kept getting turnovers from my players. It was then I decided to drive in on my own. This led to a few forced shots and thus turning the ball over more! It was then the gap grew to 10 and I told myself if this gap got any bigger, we wouldn't make it further. The gap grew bigger with the number of turnovers on ourside. So did my frustration. I sat down near the half court line when my teammate gave another foul basket to the opponent. I was hoping they give me a technical or what. My team knew I HAD GIVEN UP ON THEM.
It was then my center, (who was only 175) came over to me and pat on my back, "You cannot give up now, you are the game player". I manged to calmly sink a trey,still I couldn't take the blow of the gap bridging bigger and bigger, I got substituted out and sat down for two quarters only to come out on the last one.
I went scoreless on the last quarter and we went down by probably 30 points again. Talk about good leadership. A team captain can give up on the team, but not a team leader. Thus, that makes the only a team captain.