Descriptive Essay About Basketball Game

“Mom I played terrible and we lost! How am I supposed to be happy?!” I snapped.

“ We have to win this I want to make coach proud after all the hard work

The head coach of the Keystone West said, " Today we will go 3-0 because I know that we work harder than everyone her."

“If we are shooting the ball well, we can beat anybody. The playoffs are fun and the kids are excited.”

I looked at the time and it was 11:30 am, time for me to start heading to the stadium. The game was

Everybody was cheering and clapping loudly for each player that was being called. The Blue Jays were batting first, so that meant Jose Bautista could bat during that inning since he was second in the lineup. I watched him walk out onto the on-deck circle and my face lit up! I was so excited and I couldn’t stop watching him! Even though I missed him run by after waiting forever, I still was so excited to see him for the first time in person. I felt as if nothing else could ruin my

I walked to it, and all the sudden I was in a white jersey, and it read elite. The arena was wooden floor, and many many fans were filling the seats. I was wondering still where I was. I seen many of the NBA superstars like Stephen Curry, Russell Westbrook, and Lebron James on the sideline seats. My name was finally called over from somewhere. It was the bench with all other white jerseys in a huddle. I ran over to the huddle, and seen many of the NBA rookies like D 'angelo Russell, Karl Anthony Towns, and Jahlil Okafor. I gathered in the huddle, and our coach was speaking about our game plan. I was so confused on where I was still. Until D 'angelo Russell announced, “welcome to my career!” My eyes opened so wide with a surprised face. The scoreboard went off which told us the game was about to begin.

In my four years of playing hockey for Bishop Dwenger we had never lost as many games as last year. Being a junior came with responsibilities; I was an upperclassman and I had to prove that I could turn all of my hard work into a successful season for my team. After losing so many games, I began to feel like a failure to my team. Not only this, but I was also the captain. This meant that I had even more responsibilities.

I remember walking off the bus as we all went into the hotel and coach heaps assigning us all our rooms. As my group of teammates got into our room we kind of just stood there; I think that we all realized

I thought we were playing a good game. But Bartlett was catching us on the scoreboard. So we all played even harder. In the third quarter ‘I missed two layups and then got fouled and got two free throws.’I missed the first

As coach listened he was also preparing of the biggest speech of the season. He said “We as coaches can only do so much as it is to teaching you guys what to do, you have to do the rest on the field. You have to try harder than you have ever tried before, you have to dig deep and show them what you got, now let’s go do this. TEAM on three, one-two-three.”

CE: Well coach, you had your bye week last week. Did you use that as an opportunity to relax or did you use it to push the kids harder, knowing they wouldn't have to compete for a while?

the inbounds pass and was off. He gave a little hesitation letting him get past a couple of defenders. I was all by my lonesome in the middle of the lane and he was rushing vigorously towards me. As he got close he leaped towards the basket with the ball in his left hand. I leaped up after him to try to block it. As I felt the ball graze my finger, it came out from his open hand. He grabbed it quickly but not before the clock hit zero. The crowd jumped out of the stands waving their hands around with huge beaming smiles. Me and my teammates rushed towards our bench and leaped into our teammates.

"We wanted some confidence and momentum going into this tough West Coast trip and we got it. We wanted these three games and we got them."

As the referee blew the whistle, it was game time! My teammate were on her tip toes already in motion to jump, she jumped and smacked the ball before the other opponent could even get a chance to jump! The ball came my way and I dribbled the ball three times, crossed doubled between my legs two times, I lingered up, did the Lebron James basketball shake before I took my shot and put up