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Message: [QUOTE="cabbie191, post: 4497463, member: 417"] This past week I was visiting my daughter & family who live near Syracuse. (If they don’t move, my granddaughters will possibly go to Cicero-Noth Syracuse high where Breana Stewart attended. Their house is on the border between CNS and another high school but I don’t know where the line exactly sits.) My oldest granddaughter, age 8, played her first basketball game while I was there. She’s in a small league that’s sponsored by an area church. They have a nice gym with really high tech scoreboards. They play 6 6-minute periods and each player has colored wrist bands - you guard the player on the opposing team who wears the same color. I’m wondering what people think about how the players were introduced before the game. It was high fanfare - the players were introduced one at a time in a darkened gym to flashing lights with their names up on the board. It was a greater production than most college games I’ve gone to. My bias admittedly curmudgeonly - I thought it was over the top, especially for kids who are just starting to learn the basic rules and skills. (But it seems to me that they were going to make the effort to make this a special moment, the announcer should have invested some time in learning how to pronounce the kids names correctly. About half were badly mangled.). My bias is from someone who doesn’t think much about “graduation ceremonies” from pre-school, either. I actually don’t think it made much difference to the kids, and bottom line it was fun to see her on the court. For sure, the action gave the coaches a lot of teachable moments! [/QUOTE]

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