Last night was my high school basketball coaching debut. April wanted me to point out that her and Reagan were the only white spectators in the gymnasium. Growing up in Arizona and Oregon, I used to think that would mean that you had a phenomenal team. Okay, enough about the diversity of my team and on to our game.... We lost 48-52. It was a great game up and down but my team just turned that ball over and missed too many wide open lay-ups. We played poorly and only lost by 4 so that is a good sign for things to come. My whole approach has been to emphasize the positive with them. They already know what they did wrong so I am approaching it with what they did well and am building our practices around improving in the areas that we did poorly in. With 2:30 left in the game we were down 10 points. I subbed in 5 guards and went to a full-court trap. We went on a 6-0 run but that is as close as we would get. I should have gone to it earlier, but you live and learn. It felt good to be coaching again. Although I must say my legs are a little sore from squatting down on the sideline to go with my pacing back and forth.
Hopefully the 0-1 start is a good sign. My senior year when I coached Caleb's sixth grade basketball team we won our first game and then never won again, hopefully this time it will be reversed.
Sounds like a pretty exciting game. I bet you loved every minute of it even though you would have preferred a different outcome. Go get them Eagles!!!
ReplyDeletei wish i could have seen you pacing back and forth. so "coach like" i bet its so much fun even though it can get intense and stressful at times.
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