The Only Loss For The Season…
Posted by schoolspirit on 10 June, 2008
‘In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time.’ - Anthony J. D’Angelo
This evening was the final regular basketball game for the Under 14 season. Okay, this week is the final regular game for all of the other junior age groups and divisions too, but I’ve only been following the Under 14s Division Two team this season on Tuesday nights… the Friday night matches with the teams I used to follow are now too awkward to get to before heading home. But… like that delightful old lady you meet on the bus with the great big book filled with photos of her grandchildren and her pet chihuahua, I’m rambling.
They’ve gone through the entire season undefeated, with one minor scare when they remembered how to play in the final five minutes of one match to scraped away with a draw they should never have pinched. The semi final is next week, a game they were always going to feature in, but tonight… I actually felt they were going to lose it.
Mind you, they worked their hearts out trying to prove me wrong!
But by full time the score read 31-34, with a final goal with under a minute to go pretty much sealing their fate and delivering their first loss of the season in the final match. Which I’m quite pleased with, to be honest.
Better to lose this week than next week and maybe lose the chance to play off in the Grand Final. As they say, it’s probably the loss they had to have.
Get their backs up… put a bit of steel back into them… remind them to be hungry.
After all, the game that gets you into the Grand Final is the most important match of the season, eh? At least then you KNOW you’re gonna get a trophy or reward!
So, while it was a little disappointing watching the kids have a loss, I reckon it might just have won them the Premiership this season.
We’ll have to wait and see though, eh?
