I was wondering if I was gullible or naive or just too trustworthy in this situation. So to give context, its just the 4 of us playing basketball (classic 2v2) and one person stepped out to attend to something. Its also transfer decisions and we recent played on thursday and i told them i'd update them about my results, and my results came out friday so I told them about my acceptances and what not , they all congratulated me and we got back to playing.
But this time it was a different game (because one person stepped out) called "Shooter" and the other two guys moved quickly to play the game but I told them I didn't fully understand it. And its basically a free-for-all Bball game but one of the other guys called for me to screen, and i just did it. And the other guy (imma call him Mike) said "why did you do that?" "you're a grown man getting bossed around by another man" (im 19 btw and they're all 24-25 postgrad). I unknowingly gave the other guy a free point and I still didn't understand the game. And it was the condescending tone that he gave me that prompted me to just double team him (Mike) even though i didn't know that wasn't allowed either. So i kinda did him wrong twice??
And then Mike just said "you got into ___ university, he's not your boss, you're your own man." I kinda felt called out and he's usually not like this and he's way nicer. But i'd understand his feeling of being upset abt me nonetheless.
I responded by saying that "no one explained the rules and I got taken advantage of, what was I supposed to do?" In a more cordial manner I guess
And I guess we left it at that. But I just wanted to know if I was being stupid here or something.
Sorry for this word salad but I just wanted to get this out of my chest. I guess ever since I was younger (even now) I've always struggled to find friends and I found this group that I could play ball with all the time but is there something for me to take away from this?