Have you done team sports _as a young adult_?

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It took me a few years to find out that an inning in baseball has both teams at bat. I thought that the coin toss gave one team five chances to the other's four. People do sillier things.
In high school, we had to warm up for PE by running 1/4 mile. I was always quite content with dead last.
It took me a few decades to find out that basketball is scored according to where the ball was thrown from.
I am a Canadian who has never watched a full period of hockey.
However, life would have gone easier if I'd learned how to be on a team. Nobody ever explained the basics, and they were not obvious to me.

Exactly!

Generally speaking, the ball goes in the goal at the other side of the playing surface. Do this as often as possible for the next hour.

Congrats, you're now ready to play soccer, basketball, hockey or lacrosse...
After we pick which one, acquire proper gear, familiarize ourselves with the rules and have a nap because I don't think I'll still be up for playing sports after all of that.

I was referring to the relationships between team members as being the thing I should have learned, not the rules of the games.

I'm only poking fun at how when people try to insist that something is simple, they're often oblivious to how it's not actually as simple as they currently think, they just already grasp it.