That happened to me my junior year of high school. Except he would randomly play me throughout the game for like one minute. I'd go in, hit a three or make a couple defensive stops and score, then would get brought right back out. The only reason it pissed me off is because I worked harder than every single player on the team + had more basketball IQ than everyone on the team including my coach. Coach would make a call while I was sitting on the bench and I would whisper to the guy next to me exactly what was gonna go wrong and it would happen. I went in and did all the dirty work. I would set better screens and have more rebounds in that quarter than our 6' 7" and 6' 6" big men as I was a 6 foot 150 pound guard. Literally everyone at school would say to me, "Why tf doesn't he play you?" The next year I started tho until he benched me after one bad game (against a team that won the whole state tournament) about 10 games into the season. I just got fed up when he would ask me to go in when we were down by 40 with a minute left. I was like no. Why would I go in and be disrespected? I literally had a game where I started and kept us in the game then he benched me for the rest of the first half only to be down by 20 for the start of the second. He started me the second half and I scored 16 straight points to bring us within 5 only to be benched again to lose by 30...

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