These guys are all right (and alright).
You won't lose your season(s)-long skills if you take it easier for a weekend.
You're also liable to learn a lot about your game, and how effective it can be. As the others said, remain emphatic with your mechanics and you'll earn (and get) the respect you deserve from the players and coaches (and for what it's worth, quite often the fans).
That's not to say overdo the emphasis when unnecessary. Use common sense. This isn't likely to be the highest skill levels of ball, and there will be other issues ("Can you double-tie your shoelace this time, honey, since it's the third time this quarter you've tried to tie it?") to deal with.
Above all, don't fall prey to the lackadaisical, non-hustle too many beer-money brethren lapse into. That's like blood in the water for the piranhas.
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