basketball, week 2

The second week of basketball has come and gone.  We had a win and a loss this time around.

Cale's team again played the 8am game.  When I got there, early in the 2nd quarter, the score was 2-1 in favor of Cale's team.  Guess what?  The score remained 2-1 until halfway through the 3rd quarter when someone on the other team got a free throw.  2-2.  I had some fears that this game was going to go into over time, but no worries, a little dude on Cale's team went on a scoring run and helped lift the final score to 10-2.  Cale played some awesome defense, held onto that ball after rebounding it, got punched in the back once and ran into by another player, hard.  Who knew 2nd grade ball could be so rough.  This weekend is a double header that starts at, you guessed it, 8am.

I got to see Marcus play last week, too.  I didn't realize how rough it would be for Kella not to be able to go over and be held by Andy or how much Liam probably needed to take a nap about the time the game started.  We all survived, and eventually, Kella stopped crying.  The team Marcus played had a lot more 5th graders on it, again.  That year can make a big difference in size and skill.  Marcus's team got out-shot and could not defend against the fast break.  I think Andy plans to fix that in practice this week, as well as tweak the rotation of players out on the court at the same time.  Poor boys.  They need a win.  They were looking a little discouraged after that game which they ended up losing 43-23.  I will say, they hung in there for most of the first half.  It was that fast break pass to a guy under the basket for the easy lay-up that they were not prepared for.  Hopefully, a win is in their future.

Ewan has one more week of K-1 camp.  He really likes it and will shoot baskets with the bigger boys in the morning before the bus picks them up.