Basket ball tournament.

Ok here at last is the tournament post.

So it all started sunday of last week (not yesterday last sunday). I was my dad's wing-man as we dropped my mom and sister off at our usual church and went to a different one where my dad was preaching. When we went back at noon to pick up my mom I talked to the guy that organises the basketball get togathers on sunday night and found out that wiithout consulting with me he had singed me up to play in a tournament later that week (thursday to be exact). So there I was, I'm the kind of guy who hates telling people no and that's probably what got me into the situations in the first part. I love playing basket ball for fun, I don't like the play it as a sport. I just like to get togather with "da hood" and play. So now I was singed up for a tournament in wich the church was trying to find players to go up against a profesional American team that will be touring the island next month. I pitydafool of a fish that thinks that they stand a chance against a professional American basketball team.

Any way I try to get out of it for a good reason, the tournament is on the only day that we can really get out as a family and do somthing because it's a holiday. But when I try to explay thhat to him he says that I have to make a "sacrifice". Well this is what really ticks me off: I have to make a sacrifice for the team and him when he never makes a sacrifice for either the team or me when basketball is concerned, if pplaying gets in the way of his plans he dosnt channge them.

So I'm stuck with playing now. I go and I do play....... full court. See we practice on a home made half court, playing full court is twice as hard and long. Also, the hoops we practice on are not reglementrary hight, so we are officially screwed in two of thhe most imortant areas. But we surpassed all expectations with our playing, all my expectations anyway. But we still lost all three games we played. And I kid you not there there was some screwey reffing and scoring going on! I witnessed it but the team against who we were playing had bigger mouths than we did and swayed the reffery to their side. See this is what I hate with Christian sports teams here, Christian attitudes are completely abandoned on the field. Like even the guys that we are practicing with, like just playing 2 vs. 2 among our own team members, I've gotten yelled at for helping a team member I was playing agains get up and apologising for having knocked him over. I tell you I think I'm going to just quit, it's just getting really bad.

So in the end there were four matches to be played, I played in three of them. The first two we lost by one point and that was due to the screaming of the crowd against us wich swayed the reff to drop our scor in both games. The third match we lost by two because the reffs gave the other team foul shorts every time they missed a lay up shot even if we haden't fouled the player. I left after the thrid game, I was sick of these "Christian", unsporting, cheaters.

So that was the ordeal I went through last week, still makes my blood boil to think about it. >:[

The Fiish