Suckage.
I've forgotten what it feels like to win at volleyball. My team refuses to gel. Last season was pretty bad, and this one is shaping up to be worse. We have won one game. Not a match, a game. And to rub salt in the wound, I wasn't there that night.
I don't really mind losing that much, even almost all the time. I mind being crushed. Tonight's game was humiliating - the other team were crappy sports, so it felt even worse. (We did do much better in the third game, only down 8 points at the end.) And I mind feeling like I didn't play well, and like my team didn't play well. Tonight so many balls just dropped to the floor with no one even moving in their direction. I wanted to scream.
Last week was better, though we still lost all three games. I thought it was because I got people actually practicing properly before the game (we tend to just bump around in a circle, and when you do that you totally forfeit accuracy - the right way is to pair up so you're practicing hitting straight), but we did that again today.
Sigh. We lost all the time for years. Then we got better and I got used to winning. Then we moved up to a higher division and still did well... and then the last three seasons have been a disaster. I'm getting really discouraged. I desperately don't want to move back down to C league - I like testing my skills against better teams. I just want to feel I am doing well - and right now I really don't.
I don't really mind losing that much, even almost all the time. I mind being crushed. Tonight's game was humiliating - the other team were crappy sports, so it felt even worse. (We did do much better in the third game, only down 8 points at the end.) And I mind feeling like I didn't play well, and like my team didn't play well. Tonight so many balls just dropped to the floor with no one even moving in their direction. I wanted to scream.
Last week was better, though we still lost all three games. I thought it was because I got people actually practicing properly before the game (we tend to just bump around in a circle, and when you do that you totally forfeit accuracy - the right way is to pair up so you're practicing hitting straight), but we did that again today.
Sigh. We lost all the time for years. Then we got better and I got used to winning. Then we moved up to a higher division and still did well... and then the last three seasons have been a disaster. I'm getting really discouraged. I desperately don't want to move back down to C league - I like testing my skills against better teams. I just want to feel I am doing well - and right now I really don't.