Hot Hand Shooting In Basketball

I walked into school to be greeted by a janitor vacuuming the floors. It was time to start thinking about the game and getting my focus level up. My pregame ritual wasn’t always the same beside for one thing, be the first to the locker room to have time to think to myself. Walking into the light blue and worn-down locker room it was almost like I could feel the emotion from all the players who had been there before myself. I was greeted by a wave of smell, the smell of victory, defeat, and pure hard work. It was quite musty but I was used to it and had grown accustomed to it. I sat myself down and began to think about how I would perform tonight and what I had to do in order to be victorious. I pictured myself going out onto the court and seeing all the fans packed into our old wooden bleachers. All I wanted to do was make them proud of the team they came to watch. I looked out the window to see the vehicles of my fellow teammates driving into our dirt parking lot. Soon, the locker room would no longer be quite and it would be filled with the shrieks, laughs, and giggles of my

As the clock ticks down, everybody starts to hang their heads. The score is now thirty to twenty-seven and we know we are about to lose. Although basketball has many lows, it is a part of who I am. Everybody has a hobby that they love that makes them feel like they can escape from reality and be free. For some people this might be a fun activity that they really love doing. This for me happens to be basketball and I have happened to fallen in love with this sport. Every Friday night as I lace my shoes up knowing I have forty-eight minutes to play with my best friends, my heart fills with never ending joy. This is the time that I hold a twenty-two ounce ball in my palms, and put all my worries and problems in the world away. This is the time

I am just playing basketball me against the world with no one distracting me. When I played basketball for my community college, I would have people screaming all at me as well as family screaming my name and distractions everywhere. I wouldn't let these distractions affect me and I would just play basketball as if it is just me playing basketball in my backyard all by myself. I would feel extremely focused on my task and just be in my zone not even hearing people scream or the music but just hear my id saying I can do it. No matter what the outcome of the game would be I always want to play because I don't care if I lose or not as long as I have fun. The more harder that I try the more fun I will have so it doesn't even effect me that I could cause my team to loose. The only thing I can say about failing, is that I am a failure if didn't give it my best effort. When Im playing basketball I get to a point were my self consciousness does disappear. I feel as if anything that is happening in the world from having school work to having an injury are all gone while I play basketball. An example is when I had sprained my ankle pretty bad and I wanted to play basketball still. When I started to play I got involved in a full game were I didn't feel any type pain in my body the whole time playing basketball. When I was done playing all the pain and real life problems came back but not until

Self-worth in sports is not based on winning. Success is not winning. These are two concepts I did not realize until recently. When I was a little younger than I am now, I put a tremendous amount of pressure on myself to win, and to win was my main goal. I never set realistic personal goals for advancing my own abilities. I based my own self-worth on whether I won a game or lost a game. I felt like a loss directly reflected on me. A loss meant I failed. This caused me to have high anxiety and depression when I did loose a game, and made me want to win that much more in the next game, but in a non-constructive way. It was like putting that much extra pressure oneself to play better and not make mistakes. I did not see it as an issue with effort, but as a failure in my ability. I never considered personal goals as anything other than trying to get a win. It is clear that winning is not in control of one person, especially in team sports.

Basketball is a favorite sport to many Americans. It is a sport that takes strength, determination, hand-eye coordination and many other challenging aspects. All of this skill is used to do one thing, put the ball in the hoop. The ball itself is surprisingly very complex and takes a while to be comfortable with it.

“I don’t know what is wrong with me” I told myself. I have always wanted to score a goal to give my team a point. I plan to just risk it all today and shoot. I was so nervous I turned red.

As a child, I was taught that with hard work and determination I could achieve anything. Unfortunately, this is a myth, and limitations are a part of being human. I was forced to accept this reality during my junior year of high school. Ever since I was a little girl, I looked forward to playing varsity basketball on the orange and black court at Dalton High School. Finally, during my third year of high school, I was given the chance to start as point guard on the girls’ varsity basketball team. Suddenly, my dream turned into a nightmare, and I was sitting on the bench watching other girls play the game I loved. Gretchen Wald, a teammate, was experiencing the same problem. Luckily, she remained by my side throughout the experience. Together,

Every athlete dies twice, once when his life fails, and once when he/she does. However, one leads to the end while the other starts a new beginning. Nobody in this world is perfect, including myself. I have learned this lesson numerous times, but never as much as when I humiliated myself realizing that you can never just jump into something and expect to master it in a day. But humility, realization, and training helped me fix my failure. I’ve always loved the sport of basketball and always dreamed of being an all-star in the NBA, just as millions of other kids do. Unfortunately, I never realized that stars need fuel in order to keep shining. Not until the day I decided to try out my skills on my high school basketball team.

There was five seconds on the clock, down by two points, all we had was time for one shot. My coached called a timeout, “We need get the ball to Emma and Emma wherever you are on the court, shoot it.” Wait, me shoot the last shot…why would coach want me to shoot the last shot, the win or lose shot? “All you guys need to do is believe,” my coach added, “Now get out there and prove to all the disbelievers that this team can win, team on three.”

Every player on my team was capable of playing great, but it didn’t always turn out that way. Our coach absolutely hated when we missed a layup so that is what we practiced to begin with. At first we missed a couple, but then we got in a groove and didn’t miss at all. It looked like we were going to have a good game, until I saw the other team. Every kid was tall, except for the point guard. Our team did not have much height, most of us were a little bit above five feet. As warm-ups came to an end, we took the floor. Coach put the five tallest kids out there (including me) in hope that we would stop some of their aggressive drives to the basket. We shook hands, and the game started, there were twenty minute halves for the game. In the middle of the first half, we were down big time 21-6. We needed to get something going, so my coach yelled, “TIME-OUT,” and the referee granted him with a time-out. “That is pathetic,” he exclaimed. “You guys need to get something going right now, or else it could be too late, to come

Evidence presented throughout the last forty years has suggested that the Hot Hand theory in basketball is a “fallacy.” Evidence suggested that there is no scientific reasoning for being able to improve one’s odds of making a jump shot, if the previous three shots were made. New evidence presented by, Andrew Bocskocsky, John Ezekowitz, and Carolyn Stein, suggested that there is a better chance of making a shot if the previous three shots have been made. The authors have used equations that take into account different aspects of the game, which could influence “hotness.” Previously, these variables have not been taken into account, which could have possibly skewed the data. The evidence in the peer-reviewed journal article, has taken into account all aspects of the game that could influence the probability that a shot will, or will not go in.

When I was younger, I wanted to be one of the most extraordinary basketball players in the world. An example of my ambitiousness was revealed one day when I was twelve years old. I was shooting hoops at my house one day and I was getting frustrated. My mother taught me three things to get over my frustration. She told me: don’t overdo things, the pros mess up too, and basketball isn’t the most important thing.

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Winning is every coach or player's main goal in any sport or in life. Although winning isn’t everything, it’s the only thing. Coaches spend countless hours preparing for a big game and this builds up the fear of a loss. No one wants to lose after you dedicate hours upon hours on the court and in the books scouting and preparing for a game. Therefore, winning becomes the only option for you and your team. Throughout this persuasive essay, dedication, toughness, and ** will explain why “winning isn’t everything, it’s the only thing.”

The main article that went into this research covered nearly multiple methods to figure out an answer, but came out with no conclusion. In the article, "Modeling And Forecasting The Outcomes Of NBA Basketball Games", they refer to numerous studies and statistic’s trying to find any strategies to predict the winner of an NBA game. From the beginning, they mention how that they couldn’t find any evidence to support that the Las Vegas markets could be beaten. They show lots of credibility by looking at past studies, as well as looking at the variables that can go into the equation. They mention the injuries, back to back, chemistry, in such. The biggest convince part that they do is looking at studies that based on different strategies. Analytical formulas cannot just count for the stuff that the numbers know about. They look at studies based on different approaches to make sure they don’t miss anything. They couldn’t have been perfect. however, and they say that in the study. They did mention some flaws they could of missed like “Furthermore, more detailed information concerning injuries or suspensions of key players can be incorporated into the models for forecasting purposes.” (Manner, Hans. P.16) They also mention the changing of the game. These teams play sports to win. There are different playing styles, and methods that go into winning the game. The study starts in 2004 and ends in 2014. If you watched two NBA games, one being in 2004, and the other being in 2014. It’s