Playoff Playing time I would like some opinions

I love this response!

"Unappreciated" Thanks!!! and I'm sure there is someone out there that did appreciate the lessons you taught.

I'm going to generalize and by doing so not everyone person may fit the profile I'm going to expand on but....

I find that most coaches who have been athletes themselves... understand the work ethic, understand you don't quit when adversity hits you across the face... (In order to make it you have to persevere...)

I'm going to share a story I read once and made a copy of... It was written by Bob Green of the Chicago Tribune ... I hope he doesn't mind My presenting it here!!!

The Day Michael Jordan Cried
By Bob Green - Chicago Tribune

"I went to my room and I closed the door and cried," Michael Jordan said. "For a while I couldn't stop. Even though
there was no one else home at the time, I kept the door shut. It was important to me that no one else hear me or see me."

In a sense, Jordan owns the world. To me, though, perhaps the most remarkable part of the Jordan story is the fact that,
as a sophomore in high school, he was cut from his school's basketball team. I kept wondering about how it affected him
at the time it happened. He wanted to play with the others, and was told that he wasn't good enough.

One evening, as we sat and talked before a Bulls game, he spoke about it. I wasn't surprised that Jordan remembered
every detail.

"For about two weeks, every boy who had tried out for the basketball team knew what day the cut list was going to go
up," Jordan said. "We knew that it was going to be posted in the gym in the morning. "So that morning we all went in
there and the list was up. I had a friend, and we went in to look at the list together. We stood there and looked for our
names. If your name was on the list, you were still on the team. If your name wasn't on the list, you were cut. His name
was on the list. He made it. Mine wasn't on the list."

"I looked and looked for my name," he said. "It was almost as if I thought that if I didn't stop looking, it would be
there." Jordan, as if envisioning the list anew, said: "It's alphabetical. I looked at the H's and the I's and the K's, and I
wasn't there, and I went back up and started over again. But I wasn't there."

"I went through the day numb. I sat through my classes. I had to wait until after school to go home. That's when I
hurried to my house and I closed the door of my room and I cried so hard. It was all I wanted -- to play on that team."
"My mother was at work, so I waited until she got home, and then I told her. She knew before I said anything that
something was wrong, and I told her I had been cut from the team. When you tell your mom something like that the tears
start again, and the two of you have an after-cry together."

At the end of that basketball season, Jordan said, he asked the coach if he could right the bus with the team to the
district tournament. Just to watch the other boys play. "The coach told me no." Jordan said. "But I asked again, and he
said I could come. But when we got to the gym, he said he didn't know if I could go in. He told me that the only way I
could go in was to carry the players' uniforms. So that's what I did. I waked into the building carrying the uniforms for the
players who had made the team. What made me feel the worst about that was that my parents had come to watch the
tournament, and when they saw me walking in carrying the uniforms, they thought I was being given the chance to play.

"That's what hurt me. They thought I was being given a chance."

Michael Jordan is very likely the best basketball player who ever lived. If you ever wondered why he continues to work
so hard, the answer may lie in this story. It must be so rare for a professional athlete to have once been cut from a high
school team. The men who make it to the pros have always been the best on every playground, the best in every class,
the best in every school.

"It's OK, though," Jordan said. "It's probably good that it happened."

Good?

"I think so," he said. "It was good because it made me know what disappointment felt like," he said. "And I knew that I
didn't want to have that feeling ever again."