The Value Of The Basketball Team

One of the greatest lessons I have learned as a high school athlete has been how to overcome adversity and to be resilient after failure. As with any sport, particularly basketball, many valuable character traits and qualities are obtained such as: an incredible work ethic, a competitive nature, and the ability to be an effective leader. If I had not been a basketball player, I would be lacking some of the important characteristics that make me a well rounded and whole person.

There’s a saying that everyone’s said at least once in their lifetime, I’m sure. It’s so cliché, but now I know that there is so much truth behind it. “Believe in yourself.” Rather than giving up on yourself, use your failures to make you better. Learn how to bounce back from adversity and learn from those experiences. This is called using your growth mindset. According to Carol Dweck, research psychologist, in her book Mindset, “In a growth mindset, people believe that their most basic abilities can be developed through dedication and hard work—brains and talent are just the starting point. This view creates a love of learning and a resilience that is essential for great accomplishment.” It wasn’t until the summer between my junior and senior year of high school that I learned this and of course I learned it the hard way. I had played club basketball for four summers in a row with the Longmont Rush basketball club. I loved the game of basketball and I had spent countless hours working on my skills on the court. I even wanted to play in college. I already had schools scouting me. Unfortunately, in my final season, just before my senior year, my biggest fear came true.

In life, you encounter many situations and people that aid in molding you into the person you are meant to be. When these instances in time occur, we may not realize it, but looking back they made a huge impact on our lives. For the past four years, I have been a member of the Navarro Runnin’ Lady Panthers Basketball Team, and while the sport itself taught me many lessons and skills I can use to be successful, there was one coach that managed to do the same.

No one is successful in life without opportunity and hard work: ““Practice isn't the thing you do once you're good. It's the thing you do that makes you good” (Gladwell 42). The two coincide and are the keys to triumph. Even if a child is blessed to have a father who plays basketball professionally, the child will never succeed without hours of practice. It is those who seize opportunities that

Everyone has to experience adversity one time or another during their life, but it is how you respond to the adversity who makes you who you are. Two prime examples of people who overcame adversity is Victor Cruz and Iliana Roman. In Bill Pennington’s essay, “Defying the Odds: Victor Cruz” and Iliana Roman”s essay, “First Job” they tell us about the different adversities that they endured during their life and how it shaped into the person that they are today. Although Pennington and Roman’s essay are about the lives of two different people they convey a similar message of overcoming adversity through experience, pathos, and connotative diction.

Although I wasn’t the best on the team, whatever I put my mind to I was able to accomplish. On the day of the last game of the winter season, I made a bet with my dad that if I would score eight points in the game then I could get a puppy. My dad agreed without hesitation because I have never gotten close to scoring eight points. I was someone who would score once, maybe twice a game, but I still made it a goal for myself to score four times which seemed nearly impossible. She won’t win, my dad thought. It’s impossible, he thought. I believed in myself when no one else did. As the game started I knew what was on the line and I would do anything to be able to accomplish my goal. I knew that my strength was free throws, so getting fouled four times would grant me the eight chances I would need to score eight points. I followed through and got fouled exactly four times and made all eight of the free throws. I won the bet. I knew I was not the best player and I knew that it was going to be a challenge to get to where I wanted to be, but I did not let those factors become an obstacle that would prevent me from reaching my goal. I used my strength of free-throw shooting to get my puppy. After the game I was congratulated by everyone who knew about the bet. This included my teammates, my brothers, my mom, and my dad. My dad walked out of that gym with a new perspective of his daughter: someone who can

Whether it is a good or bad way to achieve excellence, everyone still holds some sort of determination. Whether you are at the top of your game and you are the best at what you do, or you are at the bottom and at the worst, deep inside everyone

“Challenges are what makes life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” Some people have to overcome challenges to have a meaning in life and not just give up. This is exemplified in, “The Contender,” by Derek Burnett, “Life in the Red,” by Benedict Carey, and “ Paralympic Star makes history on NBA stage,” by E Lancaster. After reading and annotating the articles about a determined Kyle Maynard, motivational Blake Leeper, and a resourceful Lakeisha Tuggle one could make the choice be successful in life and give up. But to do these things, you have to have a good attitude and “cut out” things that aren't a necessity.

During Joseph Campbell’s, “The Hero With A Thousand Faces”, he explains a process. This process is the psychological journey that each and every one of us, can go through. It opens doors to new opportunities and advancements. There are many trials, and conflicts the hero must face. The journey ahead sometimes gets easier, but also difficult. I will be explaining how Joseph Campbell illustrates the argument that his story makes a compelling argument when it comes to stating a person goes through trials, and a life changing experience.

1. When Norman first arrived at the school, he didn't get a warm reception. When he asked where Cletus office was, the lady started to investigate and made rude comments. She was expecting a younger coach for the team. Cletus took Norman to show him around the school; when Norman was introduced to Jimmy. Jimmy didn't even bother to say "hi" to him.

According to Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN, the Boston Celtics have signed German forward Daniel Theis to a two-year deal. In addition, the Boston Celtics requested waivers on center Tyler Zeller, whose $8 million contract would have become guaranteed on Sunday.

The National Basketball Association (NBA) is an ever-changing league, and teams change their style of play and strategy to win games frequently. Furthermore, the introduction of the three-point field goal after the NBA and ABA merger started a revolution in basketball strategy. A trend began where teams began to attempt more threes every year. However, most NBA team’s styles to win games did not center on shooting three pointers. During the 1980s and 1990s, team strategy revolved around centers (a position in basketball that is usually the tallest man on the team) and isolation play, and this style of play peaked by the mid 2000s. The pace of play became very slow and the game was inefficient. Over the last ten years, more teams began

In the movie coach carter in the yearin 1999, “Coach Ken Carter returns to his old high school in Richmond, California, to get the basketball team into shape. With tough rules and academic discipline, he succeeds in setting the players on a winning streak. But when their grades start to suffer, Carter locks them out of the gym and shuts down their championship season. When he is criticized by the players and their parents, he sticks to his guns, determined that they excel in class as well as on the court.” At the end of the season, the coach says “l came to coach basketball players, and you became students. L came to teach boys, and you became men.” This team restored the meaning in the term ‘student-athlete’. So you’ve kicked a ball into a net, or hit a ball several hundred yards with a piece of wood, or threw a ball in a hoop…that isn’t that important if you aren’t the best type of person off the court. The biggest problem, in sports in geral, is that there is too much focus at score on the end of the game, and forgetting the importance of the effort used to score every single point on that board. There is great value in sacrificing yourself for something bigger than yourself, and unfortunately, sports have drifted from this meaning. A teams success is determined by the score at the

Trying matters; but, when it comes down to it, the point of playing sports or participating in competitive events is to win. So why settle? Understanding the difference between winning and losing is a critical life lesson. It teaches children how to deal with and triumph over adversity, especially those children do not always get what they want. It also teaches them how to bounce back and recover from loss, while also providing the drive and purpose to be better. Few lessons are more important than that ("Performance And Protection Spotlights").

The cause of the dispute stem from many reasons but here is the top three starting with; 1) the salary cap which is the limit NBA teams can spend on salaries 2) is salary cap exceptions meaning allowing teams to exceed the salary cap if a player meets certain criteria and 3) basketball related income which is extra income for the players by being involve with other agreements such as broadcast rights, sponsorships, gate receipts, merchandise sales etc. The players earned 57 percent but the owners are demanding that the number come down.