I've just begun coaching a basketball team comprised of kindergartners and 1st graders, and none of them has ever played basketball before. Everything is new. Where to stand, how to dribble, the concepts of offense and defense; it's all new. A major challenge is trying to explain what, to me, are long-ago learned concepts without using language the players on the team don't understand. Man-to-man defense, the lane, and posting up are phrases that might as well be spoken in a foreign language.
But then I remember that many of these children can't even read yet.
It's going to be a learning experience for both them and me.
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