Basketball is like life; it forces us to learn to win with humility and to lose graciously. Preparation offers us a better chance to win, but no guarantee.
In the North Andover tournament today, the girls won the morning game handily, but lost an afternoon game by a single point in the last minute. The palpable disappoint must be digested uncomfortably, with lessons absorbed.
The difference between winning and losing can be razor thin. Although casual fans often focus on a play in the last moments of a game, we can win or lose via a series of opportunities, passes gone astray or other turnovers, rebounds not obtained, a missed layup or a free throw rimming out.
When we have done all we can to prepare and to play winning basketball or not, we can only go back to the drawing board, designing ways to prepare and to execute and to coach better so that perhaps we can change the outcome the next day. Basketball is like life...with work, relationships, and suffering.
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