Saturday, January 7, 2012

Saturday Hoops

We started out the morning today with a Chargers basketball game.  Thankfully this game was at the reasonable time of 11 am, unlike Christian's indoor soccer game which was at 7 pm tonight.  Ugh.  Christian is usually ready to be asleep by 7:45 so tonight should be interesting.

The Chargers played a strong team today.  They lost soundly, but did a good job of sticking to their man.  Each player gets a colored arm band-then they match up with the player on the other team with the same color so that they know who the player is that they're supposed to guard.

The kindergarten girls had a game just prior to the boys, so naturally Christian had to chat with his friends.

Looking for his teammate as he gets ready to throw in the ball.
A bit of a skirmish, but Christian came out of it with the ball.
Another mad dash to get the basketball.  That's my boy floating in the air.
He tried hard to get it, but came up short.  At least the Chargers held on to the ball.
Some discussion with the ref.
We've had this ref for every game so far this season.  He's been really good about helping teach the kids as the game goes along.  Here, he stopped play after the above skirmish to help the boys understand that if they fall down, but have the ball, they still have to dribble it--they can't just stand up and pick the ball up and start running.  He even had the player with the ball practice a few times so that everyone could see this rule in action.
And away we go.



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