Well if you happen to have had home teachers last month you may have heard the title of this entry. I must say we had a shinning example of this in the last two days. Friday Linc had a JV game and his coach didn't start him (He usually starts JV) and played him like he was a scrub sub. Which is to say very little and pulled him out at the first sign of a mistake and they lost (may or may not be a correlation there). Also when I went to the varsity game which Linc usually sits in on (and I do mean sits) I find him on the bleachers with the other two juniors that usually sit varsity but seldom play. I find out that the three of them have been "punished" for not showing "leadership". Don't worry about understanding because they them selves don't understand. Needless to say Wife and I are mad and frustrated and Linc is baffled. I personally think that his JV coach expected him to be 6'8" and a dunking machine by now and since nature hasn't come through he is looking to younger (yes 17 is old now) players to work with and has given up on Linc.
Well today is a different story all together. In his JV game he scored 12 points and held their big guy to I think 2. Along with making a general nuisance of himself to the other team. Since I think this was his best game to date I was curious to see if they "sat" him for varsity. Well they did, as well as the other two "non-leaders" as well as the other junior and a big Sophomore. Well the game was a blow-out so in the final three minutes the head coach put in all the "sitters". The other team was still playing their best players (the ones that hadn't fouled out) and the five "sitters" played them just as hard as the rest of the team. So like the title says, "hang on a little longer".
I don't think Linc played any differently in the games except in the Saturday games he may not have cared as much about what the JV coach though of him and just played the best he could like he always does and had more fun.
Holl is on the way back from a speech/debate meet in Kasper and should be here about 1:00 am which is why this entry has the date and time on it. I am staying up to go get her when she calls. Oh, the blessing/curse of wireless communication.
5 comments:
I'm glad Linc is having fun. Some coaches are strange that way. Adam's last baseball coach put him in as catcher without so much as a instruction on how to do it. I've done the waiting up for the phone call thing. Logs usually home by 11:30 though.
I can understand your frustration. We had a similar incident with Jason when he was in Jr. High, not with basketball, but in a Spelling Bee. It's a long story so I won't explain it except to say that I wonder sometimes why we have Leaders/Coaches who make stupid decisions. These leaders/coaches need to be demoted and let someone else do the job who understands human relations. It's now wonder the educational system is falling apart.
I happen to like my cell phone I don't know what I would do without it.
Good for Linc! Coaches are hard to figure out, but on the other hand they're hard to please and often profane!
I think coaches are insane. Sure basketball etc. are fun, but they are not a necessity. The reason I do not like to play sports is because I am not all that good at it, therefore
I did not get chosen to participate. If I could just play "for fun" I might have been willing to play and find out that I even liked to play them. I only learned how to totally hate palying any kind of sports.
Congratulations to Linc and Holl for trying their best in their separate competitions! Having fun in the process of trying to win, is very important. I'm rooting for them from Dixie, while sitting in the warm sunshine! I can't get my password to work, so that's why I am Anonymous!
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