LJ's First Basketball Season- The Undefeated Thunder!

We stuck with Coach Ben and most of the great kids from LJ and Evan's flag football team for LJ's first season of basketball. We played through the YMCA... LJ was on the 6U team Thunder, and Barrett was the assistant coach!! I was so proud of both LJ and Barrett!! It was awesome to watch this amazing team and amazing coaches! All players were in their first season of basketball- but you would never have guessed that from how well they played!!
(We actually had some teams angry that we would beat them so badly. We didn't know our team would be this good... We will try to find a better solution for this next season!)

LJ was number 3... here are some action shots! 


I was always working hard to keep these two busy enough and entertained enough to get to watch the games! Not always easy!!

 And Missy always helped! 









Game 2: Very special fans were able to join... Queenie and Grandad!!! Thanks for making the drive!! 


Barrett was in charge many games because Ben traveled a lot- I was so proud of him!! He was a wonderful coach! 



We have played with these guys all year now, and so the younger siblings have become pretty good friends too!!  Evan and DJ! 
 

LAST game!!!  
Love this team and so proud of everyone!

Proud siblings (and always happy they got the snacks brought for the team!)!! 


Here is a video of many moments from the season. My favorite video of LJ - when I actually had my phone out when he scored- is first on the video (although it wasn't the first game!). Coaches (Barret) had LJ focused on getting rebounds (important for a tall kid). LJ improved on this a lot and did a very good job!  The video ends with Coach Bibi's final words to the team! Several shots of my amazing husband coaching away too!! 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQjG-i-BIwU

And after the season was over, we had a team celebration party at Gattiland! We sure will miss our Saturday morning fun!! 

LJ and his two favorite coaches!! 
 

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