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Deecee pretty well covered the table communication/meeting.
Here's what I do for meetings:
Captain's meeting: Personally I keep it short because a) they're not paying attention anyway and b) they want to get back to warm-ups.
Get the captains at the 13:00 mark.
Shake hands, introduce yourselves. "Ok, captains, (you'll hear/you're heard it) it all year: big thing for us is sportsmanship. You're the captains for a reason, you know who the troublemakers on your teams are, right? If you can help us out with them so we don't have to, everyone will be happier. Any questions? Ok, good luck"
Coaches meeting: Again, I keep it short, for the same reasons I keep the captain's meeting short. This takes place immediately after the captains meeting.
Shake hands, introduce yourselves. "(You'll hear/You're heard it) it all year: big thing for us is sportsmanship. If you can keep things calmed down before we have to, everyone will be happier. Make sure to get our attention for timeouts, and let us know right away if you want a 30, otherwise we're assuming a full timeout. First horn ends the timeout, second horn we want to be ready to put the ball in play. If there's any questions during the game, we'll be happy to answer as soon as we get a chance, but we're not going to stop the game for it. Any questions now? Ok, please double-check the scorebook and make sure everything's right, and good luck tonight"
If all goes well, meetings are done by the 11:00 mark, so coaches still have time to get the scorebook corrected if necessary.
Congrats on the first varsity assignment... remember the three rules:
1) slow down
2) call the obvious
3) DFIU
Oh, and one more thing... if the score is close (within 10 points in the last few minutes)... at some point during a timeout, get over to the table, double-check that the home book, the visiting book, and the scoreboard all agree on score and foul totals.
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