It's hard for me to take our team seriously when Coach Tony tells us our pre-game warmup playlist is Run This Town by Rihanna, All I do is Win by DJ Khaled and Touch the Sky by Kanye West. It's even harder for me to keep a straight face when Bring Em' Out by T.I. starts playing as we run out of the locker room. Consequentially, I looked like an idiot when we did our lap around the court and I was laughing my ass off. I know those are good pump up songs but it just feels like a little much for such a small school.
We won our game by only 20 points today, I don't remember the final score, but we won and that's what's important. I do, however, remember the douchey/funny ref. After yelling at me for heckling from the bench, he proceeded to yell at Zac, our freshman point guard, for going up for a layup after the whistle was blown and getting clotheslined by a player on North-Grand. It made me really appreciate the Payton student body when the entire crowd broke out into a chorus of "boos."
The best part was when I finally got into the game at the end of the 4th quarter and was waiting for the ref to give me the ball. I didn't understand his directions when he was telling me where to inbound the ball, so he said "Boy you tweaking. You better stop smoking that loud." Everyone in the crowd exploded. I was laughing for the last couple minutes of the game, which probably wasn't too pleasing to Coach Tony but what can I do in a situation like that?
I didn't really do in the game, but I didn't screw it up, and I think that's enough to impress Coach at this point in the season. It was fun playing in front of my friends and my girlfriend, though I'm sure they all think I'm a scrub. Not that that's something they didn't already think though.
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