[A Pennsylvania Coach]

Thanks for all the insight and encouragement. About to leave for a tripleheader (boys freshman, 8th grade, then HSJV) so I've got a good chance to move on.

As for moving them to their benches, yep, should've done it. They generally did it but for some reason the one kid, maybe the instigator of the whole thing (the one who got shoved) was down at the other end.

As for the FTs, advice I got later from my mentor was that I should've checked with the scorer. That one hit me with a "duh!" At the time it just didn't occur to me.

It just felt like one big backslide to the days where I'd make a mistake and know it, then think about that mistake long enough to make another one. And so on. I thought I was beyond that!

Next Friday I'm back in that same gym for JV boys again, against another good opponent. Should be interesting!