The End of the Basketball Season
It’s been a while since I’ve blogged about basketball. We won the last game of the season (57-19), though it was our only win of the season. Still, it was the best way we could have won the season.
I found myself very proud to watch my team playing so well by the end of the season. I could see their growth as basketball players and as a team.
Some goals for next year:
- I will try harder to create a sense of team identity / spirit next year. This year I focused on persistence, but I think next year I’ll go for a sense of creating memories by creating good plays. Maybe “What will you remember by the end of this season?” will be my sales pitch.
- I really want to focus on basic skills at the start of the next season.
- I need to learn more about the dynamics of the game before I’ll improve as a coach.
- I also need to learn the more minute rules.
Some reflections:
- Grade 7 & 8s are very different than grade 9s.
- I had so much support from my P/E staff as well as my student manager.
- There’s a great deal of good that comes from competition, but I have also seen sport drive people to act rather horribly.
- I am very a competitive player but when it comes to coaching, I think it’s more important to produce sportsmanship than victory.
It was good to coach, but it will also be good to have that time back for preparation and marking.
