Basketball update week 5

The excitement level for today's games was certainly down a notch from last week's. Rachel had two referees for her game, and they called most of the violations, which meant there were a lot of turnovers. Rachel set a new career high. We played hard and didn't really have much of a challenge, winning 31-20. Rachel was 0 for 2 from the field, and that's generously calling them shot attempts. She tossed the ball in the general vicinity of the basket, but failed to hit anything. She plays with a high level of enthusiasm, but not a very high level of attention. While she is frantically running around the court attempting to "get open", she forgets to pay attention to the ball. When she does get her hands on the ball, panic overtakes her and she heaves the ball in what she hopes is the direction of her teammates or the basket. In the second half, she had a chance at an easy basket but got flustered and threw the ball away. She was slow getting back on defense and her teammate stole the ball and threw it ahead to Rachel. She was alone on the offensive end of the court with plenty of time to shoot, but she hurried and ended up chucking the ball directly into the basket stanchion, out of bounds. After the game she was awarded the long overdue award of "best defense". She was upset with her performance, but we know she tries very hard, and we're glad she can have fun playing.
Drew's game only had one official today, but he was a good one, so the game was pretty clean. The trouble was that we discovered that we're better at rugby than we are at basketball. Our most reliable shooter, Luke, was off his game today. It seemed that every shot was a wild one. In the 5th and 6th periods we had our biggest lineup on the floor, trying to make up some ground but we couldn't climb all the way back. We cut the lead to 6 points in the last period, but then the other team turned it on and put us away. The final was 31-43, but not really that close. Drew missed his only attempt from the floor. It was a pretty uneventful game. Drew's biggest worry is that his team has lost every game wearing yellow and won every game wearing purple, and next week they are yellow again.