Personal Narrative: My Interest In Basketball

“Come on guys,” I yelled. I heard the screech of the referee’s whistle. Rushing to the bench, I heard the referee call out “Timeout, Heat.” Everything was on the line and our team’s championship hopes, being foremost on our team’s minds, was all coach could scream about. “I’m not going to tell you how to play basketball,” he yelled out. “That’s your job. I’m just going to say that right now, to us, this is a championship game. If we win this, we move on to the championship. If not, at least let us fall valiantly.” That got the whole team riled up as we rushed back onto the court. The crowd, encouraging as always, yelled out their approval on the fact that we were giving it our all. With just sixteen seconds left in the game and our team down by four, something special had to happen or we were done for the season.

The book starts off with Coach Giminski shouting out “Layup Drill” louder than all the basketballs on the court pounding against the wall the floor, the backboard, and the net: everything! After the coaches attempt to get the “Wildcats”. The team of a bunch of 7th graders in the rising stars league to pause for instructions to preform some layup drills on the court. The coach paused for a moment and thought why not make this a little more fun for the team and said that there not going to do scrimmage today unless the score 20 in a row. After a bunch of failed attempts Brett Carter the star forward of the team and also best friend of the coaches son Will Giminski got the final 20 for the team. The coach seemed impressed so he thought his techniques were getting a little rusty and that he might need to step it up so in the scrimmage he decided that he doesn’t want make it easy for the team… He puts Brett Carter and Will Giminski as team captains

We can all agree that basketball is almost becoming popular around the world. So many people play this sport but do people know how basketball started and how it evolute throughout the years since basketball was borned? So like every other sports and creations, there has to be a inventor and in basketball there was a man by the name of Dr. James Naismith. “Created in 1891 in a Springfield, Massachusetts YMCA gymnasium has grown into a game played worldwide by more than 300 million people”(historybits.com). So this game has been out for a very long period of time with many changing of the rules in basketball throughout the history. When it was first played in the late 1800s, there were different rules and even different looking basketball. As for the rules, originally there would be 10 people on the court but it first started with 18 people on the court which after couple of years it changed to only 10 people. Substitution was also different and the rule for this was at first no one can enter until the next game. “The rule was changed in 1920 to allow a player to re-enter the game one time. In 1934, the rule was expanded to allow players to re-enter the game twice, and, in 1945 the rule was finally changed to permit players to return to the game an unlimited number of times”(hooptactics.com). The first basketball looked very alike a football but round. The backboards were made out of straight wood and the baskets were made out of peach baskets or square boxes. There was only

There are five players that will start out in the game which are called your starters. You always have five players in the game at all time. The are what are called fouls in basketball. Fouls can hurt you if you're down in the game with very few time left. Here are some examples of fouls, technical foul, personal foul, and a charging foul. Here are some other ruler that you can’t do that are not fouls, travel, double dribble, three second violation, and a five second violation. The object in basketball is to get as many points into the basketball hoop. You can get a three or a two pointer. There are many ruler and ways to teach the game of

Rules of the game of basketball. Basketball is a team sport. Two teams of five players each try to score by shooting a ball through a hoop elevated 10 feet above the ground. The game is played on a rectangular floor called the court, and there is a hoop at each end. The court is divided into two main sections by the mid-court line. If the offensive team puts the ball into play behind the mid-court line, it has ten seconds to get the ball over the mid-court line. If it doesn 't, then the defense gets the ball. Once the offensive team gets the ball over the mid-court line, it can no longer have possession of the ball in the area in back of the

We should be shooting from multiple different shots, at different distances and angles, alternating between them. Another example is when we are learning new plays. We will go over one play over and over again until we have it down, then we move on to the next one. If we just kept running through the all the plays, it would feel overwhelming at first, but would ultimately make us sharper. This book has made me think about multiple different aspects of my life, and how I could improve how I

The reason why you want to buy Center Field is because if you like baseball it says a lot about baseball. And it gives facts in their that I didn't even know about baseball. And also because it goes at a good pace, and none of the reading is boring. There's always something interesting. And it is just a really good book to read.

He mentioned about the tactic used in wars such as guerrilla tactics that can be apply as a basketball game strategy. But as a reader with a very few history knowledge, I do not really know how the guerrilla tactics works and how it can be applied in a basketball game. Next, the story become more difficult as the author keep on switching the story back and forth, from a basketball story to a war story about David and Goliath. This become more difficult because reader tend to lose the idea when the story changes. The reader will focus more on the next topic instead of the previous one. So when the old story starts again, the reader need to refresh back what he has read and connect the idea about the topic. For example, in this book, the author told us about a basketball game and then suddenly he changed his story to a war story between David and Goliath. After that, he changed again the story back to basketball games and the pattern keeps on repeating. In order to overcome all these problems in future, reader can follow these guide. Firstly, when reading something new such as the basketball game mentioned on the top, reader must fully focus and read

The first reason is that basketball can help you with awareness. Just by playing in a basketball game helps you with awareness because of all the things going on you have to be aware.So playing the game you learn awareness and this can help you succeed in everyday life. “Being conscious and aware in life sets the stage for achievement” (7 Life

James Naismith built the sport of basketball out of nothing. The sport basketball known to society today, isn't the same sport it was in 1891. Originally played with two peach baskets and a soccer ball, Naismith published

Basketball is a sport we love to play in the United States. The way you play is you have a Basketball and you ‘dribble’ it down the court and you throw it into a basket and score points. The way you dribble the ball is when you bounce the ball off the ground over and over with your hand. There is a National American League called the NBA it stands for the National Basketball Association. That is some tips and what basketball

the beginning is just the author introducing the characters abby felix jordan and other non main characters. she uses nice details that i do not see in other books. she also uses difrent fonts for things that

In the game of basketball there can be a variety of things to learn before you can actually get on the court and play. The basics are the first obvious things to know but, there are main factors of being outstanding and exceeding better than others. There are endless rationalities on basketball and the best qualities in a player. Regardless of how different the

It teaches the math lesson of ratios and proportions. The book is based on math facts.

Central Idea: The game of basketball has greatly changed since it was invented, but one thing remains constant: You need to know how to shoot a basketball.