Ohgie Mcgee wonders about playing time

I'm no coach and I don't think anyone would confuse me for one out on the court, but it seems to me that you try to get you good players working well together and you also try to bring up your bench so you have depth. I can understand playing the bench in scrap time and since all of our games this year have been blowouts, well it should come as no surprise to me that I am not playing very much. Let's take a look at our last game:

We were playing New Delhi Millionaires and the final score was 151 - 23 ... we won.

Only one player played the entire game and that was our center. He was named man of the match and if you look at his final stat line, he did bring a triple double. Of course many others on the team could have done so as well if they had played the entire game. He shot 12/17 which is respectable, chipped in 10 asst, and 12 rebounds. He had a great game.

In contrast, I only played 29:49 and shot 12/13, 5asst, and 3 rebounds. I did not even play half the time this guy did and I scored within 2 points.

It can be frustrating watching others drink in the limelight and get all the stats when you know you could do so as well if you were given a full opportunity. I still question why any team has more than 6 players in this league (well maybe 7 if you're really concerned about fouls). There are no injuries, any well developed character has stamina all game, and people do not fouls out very often if they train right. So I sit on the bench and watch at least half of a pro vs high school game every night. I am just worried about keeping my motivation up. Maybe if I headed over to http:www.talkdep.com I could message my coach and talk to him about how I feel. I doubt it will make much difference though. Of course I could again post how much I disagree with any team caring more than 7 players to see what kinds of conversations that brings up : )

As long as we are not playing against teams in at our talent level, I will not be playing much I guess.

PG

all

27

9 /9

3 /4

0 /0

1

0

5

1

2

0

29:49

29

10 /14

2 /3

3 /4

1

6

10

2

10

1

48:00

Ohgie McGee trying to fit in in India

Well my first game was great, but the last two games have been .. well not so hot. My shooting is still decent but I am only getting a few shots. I wonder if the coach might think I was a passing PG even though all the workouts with him comments were made about how good a shooter I was. Maybe this is an attempt to help me grown in my game.

We have been blowing out competition easy enough so maybe I am being kept as a "secrete weapon". I am also getting only 3 quarters of play. Strangely, playing 3 quarters a game is more stressful and tiring for me. I wonder if I just get in a groove by the 4th. The kid they have coming in for me really has not done a whole lot with the time he has been given. Maybe I will get longer play time as the coach sees the production difference.

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Ohgie McGee trying to fit in in India

Well my first game was great, but the last two games have been .. well not so hot. My shooting is still decent but I am only getting a few shots. I wonder if the coach might think I was a passing PG even though all the workouts with him comments were made about how good a shooter I was. Maybe this is an attempt to help me grown in my game.

We have been blowing out competition easy enough so maybe I am being kept as a "secrete weapon". I am also getting only 3 quarters of play. Strangely, playing 3 quarters a game is more stressful and tiring for me. I wonder if I just get in a groove by the 4th. The kid they have coming in for me really has not done a whole lot with the time he has been given. Maybe I will get longer play time as the coach sees the production difference.

It is hard to stay motivated when things are not going as you expect. If your looking to find some motivating statements from famous people, check out http://www.focusdep.com

Ohgie Mcgee is on the move again. This time it is to India

My team down under started to break up so I had to jump ship like all of the other players on that sinking team. Every year when my contract comes up, it is so hard to decide where to go and who to play for. This year was no different. I had two very good offers and both teams seemed to have exactly what I wanted. One of the teams was still in Australia with my old team. That would have been fun to join because I would have beat up the old team pretty bad : ) Instead I decided to travel a bit more and join the India league.

Wow, quite the different country for sure. I have some cultural adjustments to make to fit in here, but the people seem very friendly and so far my new teammates have been ok. The don't seem to talk much. I am not sure if it is because they don't have much to say or if they are concentrating on something all the time. I don't really feel like I fit in yet but that will come with time and education.

In my first game playing in India for the Yankees Jr. team, I fouled out. I guess I was just over excited and wanted to really put on an aggressive performance. I did manage to stay on the floor for 3 quarters and I was productive during that time. I was not the only one that fouled out. Our SG fouled out as well. I think he and I were on the same page as we were both pushing very hard in that game. The game was a blow out (we won), so both of us may have just started loosing focus and playing too relaxed as the game continued on. That will definitely not help us in close games against good opponents for sure.

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