Some people are just jerks and it sounds like this guy was one. Let it go and be the better man for it. That said don't let being the better man dissuade you from taking the ball hard at him and playing some hard D in his face. I've found that I need a little bit of anger to perform at my best. Not so much that I'm so mad I can't focus but enough to give me a bit of an edge and something like that would just motivate me to play harder.
What do you think would have happened if you had given the hard foul, as you intended? Let your mind play with that a while. Everyone has their own path. Let the paths diverge. Don't force the cross. Years ago, (I'm old) I used to play in the park a lot. I was a Pistons fan, and loved hard defense. We would often play against .... Laker fan. Laker fan would go ballistic if you played any defense. They expected free reign and favorable treatment. The world owed them a favor. I hated Laker fan, and probably still have some residual ...dislike. Now, I can understand the Laker fan path probably serves him on some level. But anyway... One day this guy comes to the park and jumps into my friend and I balling. He wants to play. He wants to bring his friends in, they're coming soon. He has a Laker cap. Eh...whatever. His friends show and they are sort of frat boy obnoxious. Yeah, whatever, they're fat. So we start playing. I bump him pretty hard on d as he's trying to bring the ball up, and paw at the ball. I rattle him. He goes nuttjob. He gets a squeaky high pitched voice. OH! THATS HOW YOU PLAY. DETROIT PISONS. OH I GET IT. OH...NO FOULS THEN! So this goober starts throwing elbows and travelling and flailing like a little b****. Yeah, good one. His "friends" look at him like some Girl. What is the matter with you? It was hard to finish the game to whatever number, because he really stopped being human. Don't be that guy.
lol, Thanks for the reply bigtexxx. But in the D&D threads I don't think I've ever been angry at a person. So there hasn't been any outbust at all from me there. I am passionate about some things, but anger is the wrong word. As for this, it was more than just the incident, it was his display of poor sportsmanship. You may not be able to understand those that dislike poor sportsmanship, but everyone is different.
reading the first couple of paragraphs, i thought this was gonna be about how upset you were with your teammates not showing b/c of the lakers game and how to deal with it. it had me going, "uh oh, this is about me." i skipped one of our bball games last year with cluthfans' team b/c of the astros playoff games. i had tickets so i wasn't going to miss it. i figured a couple of my teammates were pissed, and i duly apologize.
Did you let them know ahead of time that you wouldn't be there? If someone had tickets to a Laker's game and let us know ahead of time, it wouldn't be so bad. I know that some of the folks who missed on Sunday, had said something before, and one guy got kicked out of the house by his gf. So I'm not even so upset with him. It was just the no-call/no-shows that really let us down. We still should have had 5 guys out there. I am upset and disappointed with my teammates. We told them after last weeks game that it wasn't cool to miss your game because you are watching another team on television. We explained that we had to start last week 4 against 5 until the other guys showed up. Then they missed again. As far as I am concerned they are now off the team. But like I said, that isn't something I can control so I just worried about my own potential lack of sportsmanship.
yes, i did. and i understood why they were upset. we paid to play and having to forfeit games b/c players wanted to go somewhere else is not cool. my only justification for it is that is was the NLCS. i was going to the actual game, not just watching on tv. whether they felt it was legit or not, i don't know (hell, you could ask them yourself on here ).
yeah, just gotta let him know you don't appreciate poor sportsmanship, and you hafta know how to let people know things. Some people don't respond to words. And like drummer said, fouling hard enough to make him know he was stupid...but not flagrant, and maybe even a quick "my bad" or whatever afterwards.
