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Originally posted by Malcolm Tucker
Mark
I hope you are pulling our legs
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Malcolm --
Mark is one of these types who really, truly doesn't do many things wrong. When he does, it's usually a doozy, but it doesn't happen very often at all. (and incidentally, he's great at apologizing, and never makes the same mistake twice.) Does that mean I'm saying he's perfect? Heavens, no. He has some very irritating qualities, just like everyone else I've ever met. But he is very disciplined and can carefully choose how he's going to approach something and then do that thing he's chosen. With Mark, what you see is what you get.
He does pull legs a lot, and he's a self-proclaimed SOB (that's a direct quote from him!), but he errs seldom.
The rest of us (with the possible exception of Jurassic) have to learn to get our heads back in the game after a nasty error.
Or in my case, get our heads back in camp after a nasty error. On this very subject, here's what happened to me this weekend: Camp this weekend, hs varsity 4A boys tournament. Lots of fouls, lots of rough. Our assignments were in half-games. My first was a second-half. Fairly rough,but under control in the first-half. We came on the floor and thought we were doing pretty well. Actually, we WERE doing pretty well.
It was a close game clear down to the end. Nine seconds left, black down by two, white gets the ball out of bounds, in the back court, at about the 28 foot hash mark, I'm trail. Everyone knows black is going to foul, right? White in-bounds the ball backward, and three black players descend on the white player. Black knows that white could simply hold the ball there, and they want to get the clock stopped.
Okay, now here's where I goofed. I saw the descent, and then saw the black player closest to me start hitting the ball-handler on the back with both hands. Called an intentional. Seemed easy to me. Until I looked up at the row of evaluators who all had a better angle than I did. If I had stepped backward with the ball by a few steps, I'd have seen the black player on the far side get a good clean hit on the wrist. The evals all had a great view of it.
Gotta make a phone call, finish the story in a minute....