Practice again.

Yet another frustrating practice. We just can't seem to get anything going, and it doesn't help that I've been exhuasted all week. Today we started with hands/no hands, a marking drill that I usually enjoy, and I just couldn't react quickly enough to feel effective. I was slow on the mark, and my legs felt like jelly while I was trying to pivot. Weak sauce. But I do have a full weekend to rest, so hopefully I'll feel better on Tuesday.

There were a couple times when we managed to get some good disc movement, and though I was fairly inneffective cutting on offense and covering defense I don't think I made too many terrible mistakes. I didn't get scored on more than a couple times, and generally held the force. There were a few times when I thought that a cutter was doing one thing and threw the disc only to find him running in the wrong direction, but I don't think I was usually to blame for that mistake. If I throw it to the right place and the cutter runs somewhere stupid, I can't take all of the blame. I also threw it deep several times without noticing a man poaching off for the defense, which is stupid. I think a lot of these mistakes come from me being frustrated with our stagnant offense and trying to make a big play. Which is not a good excuse; but I don't think I'll make most of those mistakes in a real game.

At one point I ran down on the pull to play defense against the force-side dump. I jumped into the land when I saw Brent lining up to throw it and could have taken a D, but I saw Robin and Mitch sprinting in and decided to stay out of their way. I think Brent must have seen me, because he threw it low, causing Mitch to slide down and Robin to trip over him. Robin seemed rather hurt, as he has been playing with a small fracture in his shin, but Mitch looked much worse. I think Robin stepped on his ankle as they tangled together, and Mitch said that his ankle popped. It grew swollen and looked pretty bad for a while, but he was able to walk around gingerly by the end of practice and he looked alright at dinner.

Right now I'm just glad to have a little time off. I'm feeling very tired, and I hope that next week treats me much better than this week did. Now I just have to bang out a bunch of homework and it's onto the weekend.