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Basketball Game Analysis

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In the upcoming summer of Junior year, I experienced a valuable lesson about life that occurred in a Basketball game. To begin with, the Independence Basketball team had offseason training for the whole summer. During that summer, my teammates and i worked extremely hard to become an unstoppable Junior Varsity team. As the team trained, we were entered to play at Arizona Christian University for almost the whole summer. In short, we have never played at ACU before and were excited to play. As we played teams at ACU, the Independence Jv only lost 2 games in total and entered the ACU tournament. In the tournament, we were playing in the Semifinals against Moon Valley. I remember that day, as a team, we all motivated each other and were focused to …show more content…

Nevertheless, team Power was a club Basketball team and they were fresh before the Championship game. Furthermore, Independence did not have an hour rest nor was the game rescheduled for a different time. Likewise, our team of six players rested for about 15 minutes max before tip-off. Equally important, one of our players experienced an injury against Moon Valley and adversity was staring right at us. Team Power was the only team that beat independence by 30 points;they were on fire that day. In my Life, i faced adversity every single day and i was used to the challenge; however, i could not speak for my teammates. Overall, team power had an advantage with more players,fresh bodies, and a great amount of team chemistry. Eventually, nothing mattered once the referee threw the ball in the air because, this game was all about heart at this point. As the game went on, it was a very close game that only had single digit leads. Finally, as the 4th quarter came along, the game was tied and we were all tired expect for team power (with about 12 players). In conclusion, team Power won by two points and i truly hated that team. I was very upset and i will always remember their faces as they celebrated and took photos in front of

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