Little Miss had her first basketball practice last night. We are a bit behind the other teams. For starters most of these girls have never played basketball before….I wonder if a couple ever touched a basketball before. So they had a coach and then the coach found out most of the team was beginners and he/she quit. So then they didn’t have a coach. The very nice lady over the community league stuff bribed/threatened her 20-year-old son and his 22-year-old friend into working with the girls until she could find a coach and the 1st practice was scheduled. The other teams have had a couple of practices already and they all played before, so we are behind.
I don’t know about the boys, but I think the girls have picked their coaches. And the funniest thing about it is…..The Boy was bored and rode with us to the practice and I do believe he has somehow ended up an asst. coach! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!! He played basketball with one of them and baseball with the other so he has known them forever. Of course I remember them as tiny boys and now they are all grown up.
As I said most of the team has never played before and it really shows. We actually have a girl who is only in the 3rd grade and she is probably the best kid on the team. She has been playing since kindergarten and this year there wasn’t enough girls in her age group and for some reason they wouldn’t let her play with the boys this year and moved her up instead.
A few of the girls are pretty good. Some not so good. Little Miss has a lot of practicing to do. She has not only never played, she has never really had an interest in basketball, she rarely touches a ball at home. Yeah, it could be an entertaining season or a very long season.
As I watched the girls “play” last night, I remembered The Boy’s first years of sports. I remembered all of his teammates. We have lost one of them, others have moved on to college, while some are still around from time to time. I remember T-Ball! I loved T-Ball. For those of you who have had kids play T-Ball you know what I am talking about. For those of you who have little ones, sign them up. It is a great game!
T-Ball is the year where they learn everything, including which way to run. It is HI LARRY US!!!! Of course you expect that of 4 and 5 year olds. It is probably my favorite year of any of the sports The Boy played. That was the year that at his first up to bat at a real game he hit a GRAND SLAM!!!!! It would be waaaay more impressive if I didn’t have to tell you that he got it because the other team threw the ball away over and over and over again.
I expect this year of basketball to be pretty much the same way. Only with this team starting out with only 9 girls, 3 of which I think have played before, playing against other 9 and 10-year-old girls who have played before, it could just be a very long season.
The practice was fairly entertaining. These young men didn’t have a clue. None of them knew how to start. None of them wanted to fuss at or scare the girls. They didn’t remember how to “teach” the basics. And most of them need to learn the basics. You know, how you can’t just carry the ball down the court, you can’t dribble with both hands, how to get the height and angle right to get the ball to the net. (Note I did not say in the net.) But when they finally decided that they were going to have to teach them something, all of them step up to the plate and did their best. They showed them a few things, they started learning names and they found out that they are not in as good of shape as they thought they were. HAHAHAHAHA!!!! All of those boys were sweating and panting. heh!
I hear tell that the first game is in 3 weeks, those boys have their work cut out for them. Next practice is at 8am Saturday morning……yeah, even the boys groaned about that one. I think they will do fine, I think the girls will have fun….Hey they accomplished something last night……..Their colors are Hot Pink and Black. Couch B says he will just wear a black shirt, the girls said he can put Coach in Pink on the back. Coach J…..said it wouldn’t be the first time he has wore pink……. We are a bit worried about him. heh! And The Boy…… well The Boy says they have enough coaches, he sure isn’t going to be there at 8am on a Saturday…… I think he will show up. Until next time………….
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