The regional tournament is over. We lost our 2nd game in overtime 13-10 and our 3rd game 30-4. My 9 players are now down to 8. One of my attitude problems will be removed from the team today. In last night's game she was talking away after I asked for silence to go over the first quarter strategy with the starting 5. She has had a few warnings about this. I sent her to the bench. As the game began I asked her if she wanted to play. No response. I told her to let me know when she decided she wanted to play. Nothing the entire game. I checked with her twice more. Her teammates were begging her to play. We had 2 players foul out. One player got sent off bleeding, and it took us awhile to stop the bleeding and bandage the scrape. Everyone was playing their socks off. The team we were playing were good and we held them to 13-4 in the first half. They had destroyed the team that beat us 9-5 on Tuesday by a score of 60-0 on Wednesday.
Lots of good news along with the rather disappointing attitude of one of the players. The other attitude problem has come around and is willing to play anywhere I put her. A bit of irony popped up as now that the #1 attitude problem is gone, I need the former attitude problem to play guard like she originally wanted to. The player who has never seen a game of basketball and says she doesn't like sport got fired up in yesterday's game and was a motivated force to be reckoned with.
On the weird side two minutes before the game was to begin I had one player complaining to me that another player wouldn't put her hair in a ponytail like supposedly everyone in the team had agreed to do.
Although we lost all our games we have still qualified for the national tournament. Our first game is next Thursday. The telenovela I've been watching on tv is ending, but the real life drama of middle school baskeball is evolving around me.
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