Game one in the books.

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We’ve been practicing for 5 weeks.

We’ve skipped 2 of those weeks though.

Little league basketball is in full swing and we had our first game Saturday morning. I’m officially 1 and 0 as a coach.

This is my first year, coaching my son. I just got my team randomly assigned. I didn’t know the kids on it. My son doesn’t know any of the kids and most of the other kids don’t know any other kids. Most of the dads have their teams already picked out. I thought we would be in big trouble, but we pulled our first win out in Saturday.

I spend almost all practice working on rebounding. Kids in the 4th grade in rec leagues are horrible and shooting. So if the kids learn to rebound we get 2-3x more shots than the other team. Then it’s just math.

My strategy worked for week one. So tonight for practice I’m going to work on the same thing. Work on this till we lose.

getting a bunch of 4th graders to listen is a challenge.

Anyone else coaching youth sports right now?

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Please tell me you are going to work on fundamental skills with the kids. They don't teach that at all anymore. All the kids do now is run the court and chuck three pointers. It's ridiculous! I've talked about it ad nauseum in my bozz.sports blogs about my nieces and nephews games. Good Luck!

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first rule of my team is not 3 pointers unless it’s a buzzer shot. lol.

One kid tried and I sat him.

We do work on fundaments the main one being rebounds ha

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Very nice! I appreciate that a lot. It's crazy how few kids follow their shots these days. The parents probably don't appreciate it though. All of their kids are the next Curry! :)

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I think I got the kids who parents are not crazy. They don’t think their kid is going to the NBA. All seemed happy about the rule.

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That's great! You are very lucky. Teach them well and they just might surprise some of their parents!

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Let's hope so. !PIZZA !BBH

I always played the number five position. So I'm not super used to coaching the rest of the court. But we're gonna have a fun time trying.

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I played basketball briefly in middle school and that is it. My wife was pretty good in high school, so I learn a lot from her and from watching. She would make a great coach I think, but she has zero desire.

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Rebounding is a valuable part of the game. Shooting will catch up with time. Glad to hear the strategy did so well in game one. Soon you'll be teaching the full court press!

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If it works, it's not stupid
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If it's not broke, don't fix it

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