And......Action

I recorded Elliott's basketball game last night and we watched it when we got home. His team is taking about half the game to get their confidence up and their shots down. They have a lot of good shooters on the team and generally take good shots, but they are not hitting them early in the games and they are disorganized on offense. Elliott did well defensively but went 0-3 from the field. Good shots though. So we analyzed the video and he was able to point out some things he could have done better. One thing he needs to work on is his physical game and aggressiveness. All of it will come with experience. He is the youngest player out there and starts every game. The other team tried to pull a fast one and keep their 'stars' in the whole game. There is a rule about the time every player can play - minimum and maximum. So the other team had these two kids in for a long time, and they were ahead by 14 at one point. Our coach saw what was up and pointed it out to the refs. The stars got benched the rest of the game and suddenly, with 30 seconds to go, we are only down by 3 points. But we had a couple of traveling calls and turned over the ball so we lost. It was exciting and goes by so much faster than, yawn, baseball... His next game isn't until January.

I have some Christmas shopping to do today after meeting Lucie for lunch. Which will consist of Ramen noodles and sandwiches in her office.