The pregame Sunday school chat and social media hype were wild this week.
It was a tough end to the in season games for the Rim Reapers. They have not had a practice place for weeks, and have not won a game since. But even with losing 3 games in a row, the points deficit was only 7, giving the reapers a great ranking for the playoff tournament. For the last in season game (loss number 4) they played the Long John Silvers Elite. A team made up by 3 former Steezy boys. These guys all play together at the stake center often, but after the building schedule speedbump, the LJSE team played alone, bc Corbin refuses to break the stake leadership rules and use the building without permission. They managed to get one practice in with Brody’s grandparents as team supervisors. I really wanted this game to end in a win to encourage the boys to stick with the rules.
Unfortunately, I think the opposite happened. We were tied at half, went back and forth as a 2-4 point game until the last 3 minutes. Neal fouled out. Landon, Rich, and Chase air balled 3 pointers. Hyrum and PTibby fouled which combined with Neal’s fouls meant we gave up 12 points to the free throw line. Aaron benched two boys for using language/racial slurs and they crashed out. We lost by 10, and they refused to rejoin the team unless Ammon fired Coach Aaron.
In pre season, The OG reapers shook hands with Aaron in a signing contract that included “full season immunity from being fired.” But the players with the ultimatum for coach Big A and Coach Little A were last minute adds to the team and didn’t agree with the contract.
So they’re carrying on as a team with a full roster but no coach Aaron. Corbin is pretty upset about it. This is his team. He announced he will happily say ✌🏻out to anyone who doesn’t want to stick to team rules. He was outvoted and is not the Captain any more.
Corbin only blames himself and is staying on board to see the season through and trying to talk some sense into his mutiny successors. “We win as a team we lose as a team. Our social media posts will be free of racial slurs and have clean song choices.
He’s getting voted off his island.
-his gane day dress up clothes for school are chefs kiss cute.
-he will still get to play, and drama aside that’s all he really wants anyway.
-I feel proud of him for taking a stand on moral issues. He said, “if we are going to pray as a team before games, we have to be better examples of Christians on the court.”
-He chose to stay out of and walked away from a fight between a guy on LJSE and a couple Reapers after seminary on Friday.
-I know Corbin is disappointed with the way this is all blowing over up, (because it’s literally the only thing they talk about) but I do think he is learning great lessons here. Like how important it is to him to do the right thing instead of the easy thing. That is more valuable to him than points or title, in my opinion.
I took a ginormous bag of snickers and a very important sign for this game 😂 this is the speech I give them before every game. They laughed and did not listen. I talked to them before an orchestra assessment the following day and they finally agreed they make the majority of their points from the paint. “But 3s are so much more fun to shoot! And they’re worth THREE points) Meg!”
Allll the fans popped out for this one. Some orchestra boys: Dan H, Brock H, ?, Will D, Kyle
Seminary teachers and Sunday school teachers. PTibby’s church youth cell group came and had posters. I didn’t count but there had to be at least 75 favs there for the Reapers.
Corbin played one of his best games ever. The other team had a center that was unstoppable. He had long brown hair and school friends nicknamed him Jesus (because only Jesus could overcome the rim reaper). It was a great game to watch, even with the loss. Even with two angry players wanting more time. Greg G, Sydney G, and Sawyer P got all the cheers and chants going.
My only response is that airballs are worth zero points.
I sure love these kids. Basketball is such a good outlet for Corbin. Aaron has had a lot of fun with our boys this season.
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