"WE TALKIN' ABOUT PRACTICE...."

Today at practice we walked into the gym and got ready and started to stretch, only to realize that 5 people were there, plus 1 setter from the younger team they brought up to have two setters; so total of 6 people. YEAH 6 people...WHAT are we supposed to do to get better with 6 people? Of those 6, 4 of us aren't the ones that need the practice (and could actually use some rest, because of injuries), and 2 of them don't really come off the bench....just saying, why did we even have practice? Well we weren't the only ones upset about it, Maria (our italian roommate) went OFF on our coach, I didn't know talking back to elders, and coaches was ok...but she WENT OFF. Not sure exactly what she was saying, but I understood some of it, and from what I got, she basically was saying, this is not ok that people aren't showing up to practice, and we need them to be here because they need to get better and blah blah. And our coach definitely wasn't happy about it either but he sat there making excuses for them, saying oh well her back is hurt, this girl doesn't play, she has a conflict, she will be late...I'm just thinking SO, a team is a team, this girl could be playing if she practiced more often, we need everyone to run a successful practice...

After a loss, you would think that the practices would be geared toward working on the little things we need to do to get better, and really focusing on those things to make sure it doesn't hurt us in the future, yeah I thought that too. Well tonight we spent about an hour passing with a partner (this would be ok if the coach was correcting things fundamentally with people, but that wasn't happening). Then we spent some time doing individual serve receive, this we really need (well TEAM serve receive, not individual) but at least it was better then not doing it at all. It was a typical practice, with only 5 people, and nothing specific was worked on, so all I can do is hope everyone was trying to get better at practice like I was, and just hope they perform in the game. We only have 13 games left, so something better happen quickly.....


Italian word/phrase of the day: mi annoio "I am bored"