Josh is playing basketball. He came home from school one day with two basketball league flyers asking me to sign him up. He hasn't played with a league since he was 5 and at that age it wasn't competitive basketball, like no stealing and no score-keeping.
The spring season started back in early April. Josh really has had basketball experience only from playing at school during recess. He has improved tremendously over the past two months.
The league he's playing with is newly expanded to our area so there are only four boys teams for Josh's age group.
They've played each team twice. And then had one playoff game. Next week is the championship (and consolation) game.
Josh's team is ranked #2 of four. The team they play for the championship is undefeated.
These videos, taken on my phone, are of the last minute of the playoff game last week. They're playing a team that had only won one game but Josh's team trailed the whole game, until the fifth period. (They play 5 - 8 minute periods per game.)
Josh's team went into the 5th period trailing 8 to 15. They worked hard to bring it back. I started the video just after his team scored taking the lead by 1 point, 16 to 15.
Josh steals the pass right at the beginning of the video. His teammate didn't make the shot and the other team got the ball down the court. Timeout was called by the other team.
This is just after timeout when the other team inbounded the ball. They made the shot bringing the score to 16 to 17 with the opponents up by 1 point and only about 9 seconds left on the clock. Josh's teammate brought the ball down the court, threw up a 3-point shot and MADE IT! His team won the game 19-17. It was an amazing finish.
Next week is the championship game! Against the undefeated team. It should be a great game.
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