Monday, September 3, 2007

Freechoice 1

Dear Diary,
My coach is really starting to piss me off. We are entering a tournament in about a week and we're splitting our team up into two different teams. Yesterday he told us what teams we would probably be on. He told us that the teams are supposedly equal in basketball skill and talent, but obviously one team is better than the other and everyone knows it. This may sound weird, but I don’t like the team I'm on. I'm glad that my coach thinks I'm a good player, but I won't be so good once I play with this team. Even though everyone thinks it's the "good" team, it's not the good team from my perspective. Some of the people on it really annoy me and I don’t play well with them. I think some of them are ball hogs and some of them just suck. My friend and I were on the same team, but we wanted to play with one of our other friends that got put on the other team. After practice we asked him about it. He though about it for a while and let my friend move to the other team, but not me. So now I am stuck all by myself on a team mostly with people I can't even play well with.
Another thing that is getting to me is the fact that he moved a lot of people to positions they don't normally play. He moved one of our shooting guards to a point guard instead of just putting the only point guard we have on the good team. The point guard we have (who is my friend that got put on the second team) is really good, but for some reason our coach always puts her on the second team. He must have something against her, but if he wants to start winning he better start dealing with whatever his problem is. That other girl that was moved to point from wing can't dribble to save her life. Okay, well that's a little over exaggerated, but she's definitely not good enough at dribbling to be a point guard. Besides that, she doesn't even want to be a point guard. Then he moved another player from forward to guard. She hates being a guard, and her best move is a baseline move that she could only do if she was in the forward position.
I know I sound like a baby right now, but everything I said was true. I do play better with certain people, and some people on the team are ball hogs. I'll just have to get use to it though, because I know I won't get a choice. I'll just have to learn to play with people like that and I know I shouldn’t be complaining, but I just want to know why my coach does things that I never understand. Obviously these questions won't be answered since I've tried asking them before. I just need to get used to the fact that life isn't always fair… even though I wish it was.

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