Since the last time we played them, Coach Eric's team has improved quite a bit. Their best player, Nathan, has really stepped into the leadership role on that team and it's made a huge difference in the quality of their play as a team. But in the meantime the Sharks have gotten better too. With the way they've been playing lately I thought it best yesterday to work with Coach Eric to mix things up a bit so that all the players would get as much as possible out of the game So, after letting the Sharks play as a unit for the first quarter we mixed the two teams together in an effort to have a more balanced competition and that was good for both teams. With our players having to face each other in some situations they get a better test of their skills. For Coach Eric's players it meant that whichever side they ended up on they would feel they were in the game. That's really important as we often see players who are actually making great progress in practice sort of check-out of games where the competition is much stronger. We've even seen that with the Sharks on occasion. So with yesterday's set-up we were able to put all the kids in a situation where they would play hard the whole game. I know that for some of the Sharks it was a little confusing and maybe even a little disappointing (they like winning) but overall it was a good game.
It was nice having time prior to the game for a little practice and I was really pleased to see so many of the Sharks put the new move we worked on into use right away. We'll keep working on those skills as much as we can.
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