Am I Right or Wrong?
Me and some of my "friends" (I use the term loosely) started a Recreational basketball team about a year ago, we've been playing for 3 seasons now. Only 3 of us have some decent basketball experience behind us (myself included) and there is no coaching figure.
I've recentley come under fire from my team mates for being "too negative", and they want to kick me off the team. Every game we go out on the court, we run stupid plays, play weak/no defense, silly turnovers and moronic shot attempts, so I'm the only one who cares enough to speak up about it, and they all turn on me.
Last Sunday one of our players turned up with the wrong shorts on, which is a violation of the uniform policy, and is a 5 point deduction from our score, so naturally I was pissed off before the game had even begun (considering if we had of won the game by 4 points, we would end up losing since this guy was too incompetent to bring the right shorts which he had a week to prepare for), so I was fired up from the get go. The first quater was ok, we were pretty close at the end of the first, but after that it all went to ****. So at half time I spoke up:
"C'mon guys, we've beaten this team by almost 20 points before, we can ALL play much better than this, we were just doing so down at the park before the game against better opposition than this! We always say 'ok lets do this and that' then agree to it, but we never go out and actually do it!", they started barking back at me as if I was attacking them all, and we eventually went on to lose the game.
So fast forward to today, I get a phone call from one of my team mates saying that everyone thinks I'm too negative, and that one of the other guys is bringing in some new guys to the team (in other words to replace me). I dont really even care that much that they dont want me on the team so much as the fact he had the nerve to tell me I dont play with any effort! (We played 14 games, I fouled out of 6 of them, with close calls in 3 others, and I'm the only one who ever stays back on Defense and hustles for rebounds) Thats what pisses me off most.
Anyway, I want your opinions, does that sound like being "too negative" to you? Are my team mates just weak minded pussies who cant bare to hear the truth? Or am I just a negative jerk?