Well, Jamie had his first basketball game on Saturday. He went to a Y sports camp last summer and did some basketball, and we've played some dribbling around in the yard, but this was his first "organized" game of any sort. It was pretty chaotic and the rest of his team is pretty young, but Jamie actually did great and was one of the better players on the team. He almost had his first shot go in and made several good defensive plays including one where he knocked a pass away, then dove on the ground to get it and passed it to a teammate from the floor.
The problem was that we were playing against a team with Shaq and Kobe. Really, they were the Lakers and they had these two just absurdly good kids who were hitting pull-up jumpers off the dribble from 10 feet and everything else they tried too. Jamie was also hampered by two tendencies that we usually like a lot. One, from soccer he is a really good passer and almost always looks to pass to an open teammate. The problem here was that either his teammate could catch the ball or Shaq stepped in and took it away. He understands the traveling and double-dribble rules very well. These were not being enforced at all in the game, however. But Jamie, rules-follower that he is," sort of self-enforced them and this put him at a disadvantage. Still great start and he had a lot of fun. Pictures in uniform to follow.
Connor enjoyed the game by the way, he got snacks afterward.
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