The Tate Family: Will's First Basketball Game

Well it's official...we now have a child in organized sports!! :) William has started playing tiny tot basketball with one of the local YMCAs in town, and we keep getting phone calls from college recruiters HA HA! So maybe no phone calls yet, but our little man is now a Spur! WOO HOO! With our recent move from San Antonio we are now able to break out our awesome Spurs T-Shirts every Saturday for William's games.

He had a great first game despite some tears of frustration. William is a bit of a perfectionist and wants to play the game correctly and gets very frustrated when his skills don't match up to what he thinks he should be able to do. One thing we love is that during games the refs do try to make the kids follow the rules of the game. One of the most difficult rules for these little kiddos is dribbling. Watching the game is pretty funny because you just see them grab the ball and run, but the refs do try to get them to dribble the ball as the run from end to end, or at least one time before shooting! :)

William did great playing defense. We told him to put his hands up and then without direction he would jump up to try and catch the ball when someone took a shot. Once the other kids saw Will with his hands up on defense they would also do the same. At one point most of the kids would just hold on to the end of the net trying to "block" the shot by covering up the net. It was really funny! He also had a great rebound that he brought back and at least tried to take a shot. Poor kiddo was really trying to dribble and run, but the ball hit his foot and got away from him. We really think he will enjoy the games more as his skills improve. We couldn't be happier though. He really is doing a great job. Some of the pictures are pretty blurry so here are some of the good ones we were able to capture. Next time the pictures will be better! Thanks so much Pawpaw for coming to his game!