Hey, so I tried again and I realized I was falling into it because I didn't figure out that I could use right click and drag mouse to move only the camera (while not charging the ball). I kept dying because I was using left click & drag (for everything) instead of right click when I wanted to move only the camera, so it would sometimes shoot when I didn't want it to.
It's an error on my part for not understanding the controls, after learning about right click it seems a lot easier! (my bad xD)
I would suggest adding the controls in-game somewhere. Either before starting level or on screen during level.