There was a light dusting of snow on the ground as I left for work early that morning. It was unusual for it to snow this early in November. My knee was stiff as hell when I rolled out of bed this morning so I should have known something was up.
Work drug by today. I had to catch up on paper work since I had been leaving early for the past couple of days to help Sam out. Thoughts of her and last night flashed fresh into my brain. That lethal little body wrapped around my cock had me flustered all day. I did what I could to take my mind off her and focus on my job. My next patient made that a whole lot easier. He could make the paint peel off the wall with is odor.
I rolled into the gym at 615 and watched the end of the JV game. They were getting blown out late in the third. Sam spotted me and made her way over to me.
"You want to come into the locker room with me for the pep talk?"
"I'm not a coach Sam, that's your thing."
"Be nice to have you add some pointers," she begged.
I relented and followed her back into the locker room.
She started talking, going over the game plan and what she expected from the girls. They took the floor shortly after and started warming up. Sam convinced me to take a seat on the bench with her and help out if I could.
They played good in the first half. They took good shots, blocked out and grabbed the missed shots. They missed quite a few free throws but still they were in the game. Only down by 3 going into the locker room.
Sam started talking and going over what they needed to do in the second half. She asked me if I had anything.
"You just need to keep crashing the boards and get the rebounds," I said. "Play hard and play for each other."
With that they left and got ready for the third quarter. It didn't start out so well. The other team went on a 10 zip run and quickly pushed the lead to 13.
"Take a timeout Sam and get them to settle down," I ordered.
She quickly called timeout and gathered the girls around.
Sam started quickly barking orders. Sometimes she got ahead of herself and went off track. Her dad was the basketball coach for both of us back in high school so she knew what she needed the girls to do but she didn't get it out in an orderly fashion.
"Sam, Sam," I said stopping her. "Girls, just slow the pace down. Set up your plays, run them and get good shots. You won't get this back all at once so don't try and run with them. It's clear they are going to out run you. Make two baskets for every one they make and it will slowly come back to even. Play this for the last two minutes of the game. If you get it to 4 points you are going to be fine."
They saw the light. Understood that it wasn't about roaring back and taking the lead in the next 3 minutes. They had the rest of the game to chip away at this.
"We can do this," Teagan cried.
"That's right, you girls can," I said.
They took the floor. They didn't get the two baskets for their every one but they chipped away at the lead. It was down to 7 by the end of the third.
The fourth started out slow. They started working the clock and pushing the ball into the post and working against Teagan. She couldn't stop the girl and the lead started growing again. It was back up to 12 before I told Sam to take another time out.
Teagan slumped into the chair and panted.
"Head up," I yelled. "Chin up and look like you're in this. Don't let them think they've beat you already."
"I'm getting killed out there," she whimpered.
"Rest her for a minute Sam and play zone," I said.
They took the floor and played a zone. They didn't have great shooters so it paid off to run the zone.
"Teagan listen," I said.
"Yeah," she smiled her pretty little smile.
"Don't let that girl get in front of you when you go back out there. Guard her just like this. Like I do against you sometimes in practice."
I pushed my fore arm into her tits and held my other in the air. "Deny her the ball and make someone else take a shot. You have to fight for the boards but I know you can do it. Play rough like we did yesterday in practice."
She smiled a big smile.
"No grabbing," I teased.
"They don't have anything to grab," she fired right back.
"That girl," I joked. "She might."
She laughed. The first time I had seen her laugh all night.
It was 7 points again when the starting five hit the floor again. Four and some change on the clock. Plenty of time to get this done.
"Switch them out of the zone and have the guards pressure the ball Sam," I ordered.
Teagan did a good job denying the ball. They had to find other ways to take shots and had a hard time making them. The game was very close at the end.
It was under a minute to go and they were down by three now. Teagan was denying the ball and they went away and put up and shot. She started fighting for the ball. Her and the girl she was guarding both grabbed it and fought for it. They wrestled themselves to the floor and it was a jump ball. The arrow was pointing our way. Teagan lay sprawled out on the floor and I found myself looking between her legs. Of course tonight she had on game shorts and tight under shorts so there was nothing to see but I was hopeful. She got up and was all smiles when she saw me looking.
"Focus," I yelled. "Run a post play, get the ball and score."
"You don't need a three right now," I yelled at Mandy. She nodded in understanding as she brought the ball up the floor.
They worked the ball around and got it into Teagan. She hadn't made a basket yet but had been fouled a few times. She was 4 of 6. She felt her defender back off so she squared up and took the short jumper and banked it off the glass.
"Pressure the guards," I yelled as Sam tried to get them to trap.
"Don't trap," I yelled. "Pressure the ball."
"What are you fucking crazy?" Sam hollered at me. "We need the ball."
"No Sam, not yet," I snapped back. "Keep the pressure on the ball and they can't dribble it around, they will get a five second call. They have to pass it. They're going to make a mistake."
They didn't make a mistake but they took a bad shot and missed everything. In the end it was what we needed.
"Take a time out," I called.
Sam called time out and the team huddled up.
"How many do we have left?" I asked the score official.
"Just a 20 second one left," she replied.
"Ok, you have one time out left and 12 on the clock," I started. "You're down by one so you can take any shot."
I grabbed the board from Sam and started drawing a play quickly. "Who wants to take the shot?"
"Me," Teagan piped in quickly.
I looked back at Sam. She had this 'see I told you she wants your cock' look on her face. "You're call there Mr. Basketball, I'm just the coach."
I brushed her off. I didn't want to fight with her here and now.
"Ok, here, double pick, swing and roll it to the hoop. Make the shot, you can do it. If it's not there Mandy will swing out and should be open. If it's not there we have one time out left. We will call it from the bench and draw up another play."
"They still have one left too," Sam added.
"Ok, good to know," I said.
"Set up like you're going to run play one. They are going to see what you girls are set up in. They may call time and they may not. If they don't call time, quickly get into this all run it. You got this."
They broke and set up. The other team let it go. The girls hustled into the drawn play and inbounded the ball. Teagan got caught up trying to shuffle through the double pick. She got out of it a little late but was still open. The ball got dropped into her as the defense figured it out and tried to stop it. She was fouled hard. I immediately left the bench and protested for a flagrant foul.
"That was an awful hard foul ref," I calmly said.
"It was but not hard enough to warrant the flagrant," he replied.
"Ok, ok," I said coming back to the bench. "Hey, time out."
He granted up the time out.
"Use your legs Teagan," I reminded her.
"Yes sir," she chirped.
"Listen, when she makes the first one, I want all the rest of you off the key and back to half court. There's five seconds left, if Teagan misses the second one I want all of you to be ready. They are going to push it up the floor and try to win the game. Be ready. At worse this games going to over time."
They lined up and Teagan did just like she was coached. Set, knees bent, smooth release. It clanked off the front of the rim but had just enough to roll in. Game tied at 53 each. The rest of her teammates vacated the key and went to half court.
It was just Teagan by herself with the other team looking on as she shot number two. It went right on in. They called time out.
"Don't foul," I reminded them.
Sam now got back into the mix. She barked orders to play tight and don't stop until the horn sounded.
"Don't foul," I said one last time.
They worked the ball in and made a looping run at it. The shot went up and bounced around as the horn sounded. It rolled off the rim and the game was over.
I ran and pick Sam up in a hug as I spun her around. She kissed me on the mouth and let it linger just a second too long before looking at me.
"Thank you, for everything. I needed this win."