u/ImAJoofyGoober

I got a friend I know only through Pickleball but I’m really close with. Still great friends even with this story. But we are both like 4.5-5.0, and we often end up playing against eachother with random 4.0 partners since if we played together it would be too stacked. Well we were playing a game talking mess on the challenge court. Score is super close my team against his. All of us goofing off. I decide to nasty Nelson my friend (not full power, but fast enough to hit a high level player who is paying attention). And we won off it. And since it was challenge court they got off and I stayed on. And they had to start back over from court 3 and win back up to court 1. We’ll fast forward 40 min, and my friend is back with the same partner. We start playing but he looks annoyed. The game starts, and he normally hits it to me since we give eachother a good game. But this time he targeted my obviously weaker partner (who he also knows), waited for my partner to pop it up. Then smash it at my midsection. He did this and hit me about 6 of the 11 points. All while saying “come on!” Every time. I just laughed it off each time and talked mess at him saying “oh my god he’s so mad!” It a friend shit talking voice. At the end of the game when they won (off another pop up from my partner the he smashed into my thigh) he immediately put a smile on his face and said “now I feel better”. Saying that was for bagging him. I feel like doing that for 11 points was unwarranted. He says winning a game off a nasty Nelson is unwarranted. I could be in the wrong but I thought I was doing it to be funny. He very obviously did it out of frustration. We are cool and still playing. But like. Was his reaction really warranted?