The CBC basketball tournament was this past weekend.  It was great to be able to play basketball again, to play INDOOR basketball.  It’s so different indoors than outdoors and I think it’s hard for people who don’t play to understand why.  While I am thankful I was able to even get on a team to play, I’ll admit I was a little apprehensive about playing with this team.

I had never played with these people before and I didn’t even know many of them.  We were made up of such a wide variety of ages and skill, I was a bit nervous about the whole thing.  And I ended up being the captain of the team, which was not something I had planned on doing or had a strong desire to do.

I don’t like being captain because it’s a bit stressful.  There are often conflicting interests in ways to manage the team.  Also, since I haven’t really played with these people before, I didn’t know how they would handle someone telling them when to sub or what to do.  As a captain, I always feel that each person should get their playing time.  I always want to make it as fair as possible.  This is difficult to do when you also want to win.  I’m not going say its not about winning, because in the end, the goal is to try to win.

The first half of the tournament was fun.  We won all 3 of the round robin games!  It was great.  I think everyone was happy about the amount of time they played, at least for the most part.  Then we got into playoffs and everything just went up a notch.  I was trying to keep our subbing pattern going but the game got intense.  We were losing and we wanted our best players on the court.  We had the best players on the court for the most part but then I felt really bad for the others, especially since they were “kids” on the bench.  So I called for subs.  One kid barely got to play and I felt really bad.  This is the biggest struggle and I hate dealing with it because it’s so incredibly stressful.  I’m sure that kid is upset about not getting to play very much, but what could I do?  Sigh.

Regardless, I still had a good time playing indoor basketball and winning a few games which I did not do last year.  I guess we’ll wait until next year.