Basketball Game Analysis

While preparing for tryouts, I was expected to condition for two hours every day, playing and exercising vigorously. Once tryouts came along, I was in my best shape physically, but mentally, I still feared I wasn't good enough. Luckily, I was wrong to doubt myself because I made the team. All three teams spent hours practicing together, which made me nervous because most of the girls were more experienced. Even though I made more mistakes than the varsity players, they always encouraged me. Because of this, I became a better player and person. As the ancient Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu stated, “If you want to lead the people, you must learn how to follow them.” By allowing me to make mistakes without making me feel like a complete failure, the varsity players set a good example of leadership. Since they were understanding and did not assume an attitude of superiority, I was inspired to be humble and compassionate toward others. Honestly, I am glad I persevered through the tough times because it has taught me the necessary lessons to be a great role model. I hope I can motivate girls to not only play volleyball but to also express the importance of transferring the life lessons learned from the game to their everyday

At their finest, coaches perfect their player’s flaws to push them to their potential ability, improve their skills, and create determination within the team. They can expand the importance of such a sport to intensify motivation and the value of good sportsmanship for the sake of not only their reputation, but the outcome that comes from it. Coaches must not lag when it comes to hardships that comes about; they must stay connected. The closer the connection between a player and a coach the better they are moving forward and continuing on the love of the sport and job.

Getting cut from the soccer team was a wakeup call that taught me a hard lesson: Talent alone won’t guarantee success. The coaches didn’t pick me not because I failed to show my skill but because of my nonchalant attitude at tryouts. Instead of holding their critique personally, I took their comments as motivation to change my attitude. From that experience on, I learned that attitude play an important role in success.

I attended all training sessions and spent a great amount of time playing basketball since the thrill of winning games, of becoming better pushes me forward. I believed my efforts are worthy, since I had the advantage over other players in speed and keen awareness, and I trained harder than others every day. Basketball was the only thing on my mind. Then the time came to assemble the official school team to participate in formal basketball games. I thought for all my efforts

People accuse me of being competitive, as if this is bad quality. While it is true, in the generic sense of the word, but to me the only competition that matters is my own performance compared to my past performance while on the line with outstanding shooters. Competition energizes me to improve.

People say that I am great. They tell me I’m talented. They tell me I play well. They tell me that they wish they could play like I do. They admire my desire to succeed, my willingness to critique myself, the countless hours that I spend in a practice room each week.

Yet my apprehension prevailed as I continued to fear getting put in the game in case another player was injured. I was still afraid of making mistakes and getting blamed by screaming coaches and angry teammates. Sometimes these fears came true. During my sophomore season, my position led me to play in the varsity games on many occasions. On such occasions, I often made mistakes. Most of the time the mistakes were not significant; they rarely changed the outcome of a play. Yet I received a thorough verbal lashing at practice for the mistakes I had made. These occurrences only compounded my fears of playing. However, I did not always make mistakes. Sometimes I made great plays, for which I was congratulated. Now, as I dawn on my senior year of soccer, I feel like a changed person.

“I can accept failure, everyone fails at something.But I can’t accept not trying.” We all have failed many times, but were able to get up. We learned that struggles are part of life and that struggling helps you get better on what you are trying to achieve. Conflicts will drag you down, but when you reach the top you while never give up.

On Tuesday night, I sat down on the couch in my living room and watched an NBA basketball game on ESPN. My favorite team was facing up against the best team in their division, and I was anxious and curious to see who would win. After a devastating and gruesome four quarters, my team lost 77 to 111. To say the least, it was a very hard game to watch. The players on the Los Angeles Lakers couldn’t buy a shot even if they tried, while the players on the Golden State Warriors effortlessly made nearly every shot they attempted. I wasn’t surprised when the post game statistics revealed that the field goal percentage for my team was 37.3%, while the other team’s was 48.95%. On Wednesday morning, I researched the individual field goal makes and

All season long we were hoping for a team out east to emerge as a potential challenge to the Cleveland Cavaliers. While the east has gotten much more competitive than in years past, with parity throughout, as shown by two game sevens in the first round. The parity has been from seeds two through eight and Cleveland is still the class of the east.

It was the night we played volleyball against Wheaton for playoffs. The first two games we crumbled, but the third game we found our fire. It was caught up in our heads that on paper Wheaton was supposed to win and move on in playoffs. But now after the third game it gave us a motivation and made us play even harder to win.

People may say basketball is just a game, or just a sport, or just a hobby. Little do people know it is not only that, but it is also an extreme educational experience. Growing up I’ve played basketball almost all my life, I even went to my first game when I was six days old. Since I have been playing for as long as I remember I have gone through numerous experiences with the sport. Basketball has taught me how to be selfless, how to bypass trouble, and how to be a positive role model for kids looking up to me.

Golden State matched the start of the 1948-49 Washington Capitals,'93-94 Houston Rockets, and surpassed the 57’ & 58’ Boston Celtics for the start by a defending champion. The Warriors can break the record Tuesday night at home against the Los Angeles Lakers.

“Lets serve to Hannah so we can show coach she’s not good enough.” Each day I show up to practice expecting myself to prove this game is what I love, but purposely getting targeted is the worse feeling especially when it is done by your own teammates. The ones who are supposed to be close enough to be called family, the ones who are supposed to support you. There was a time where I always felt like I never fit in with anyone at school, and even to this day I struggle with one on one conversations with other people. Recently I have had a problem with how others see me. I always believed that if you treat others nicely they will treat you the same; however, things didn’t go as planned.

Sports can have many ups and downs. Some examples of the downs are injuries, poor performances, and rumors. But there is also the up side. Injuries are a disappointment to yourself. They can crush your heart, but with hard work there is a good side. The good side is when you get back to the level of competition and succeed at it. Doing this makes you feel good and lets yourself know your hard work paid off . Poor performances are disappointing to yourself, your coaches, and your teammates. They are disappointing to yourself if you wanna be successful and always work hard. To your coaches and teammates it is unfortunate because they are counting on you to do your part and do it well. The good side is when you work hard in practice to fix your mistakes and you go out and play a great game. Rumors are the last disappointment. They are discouraging because they crush your self confidence. Although if you ignore them and prove them wrong it is so satisfying. Sports can have may discouraging