The basketball team is looking pretty good. We have another game Thursday, and I think we’ll be able to put up a competitive effort. I’ve noticed that the guys, despite our loss, have a newfound confidence in their coach: they seem to be buying into the things that I’ve been trying to teach them. Maybe it was only losing by 9 to a team that killed them last year (and we could have won, had a few shots dropped and calls gone our way), or maybe it was my intoxicating power of persuasion finally taking over, but, either way, I think they’ve begun to listen…