Basketball Essay

Do you think the Duke Center basketball courts should be renovated, or have it stay like a landfill? Yes, we should fix it up because it would look nice, and a lot of people would use it. The courts would be awesome to have because kids could play multiple sports on it, improve Otto-Eldred basketball skills, and the community would come together. A basketball court would improve people's health because they would be active. The basketball courts in Duke Center should be renovated for good purposes

NBA basketball is has gotten more and more strict since the game itself started. Nowadays if you go up for a layup and get pushed a little, you either fall or flop and it's called a foul. If you argue with a player or a ref you get a technical foul called on you. The refs break up all the fights now, if you start getting in each others face the fight will get broken up and you will get punished. Back in 70’s, 80’s, 90’s, and early 2000’s players could settle their beef with each other on the court

Gents Basketball Season Ends with 88-85 Loss to Texas Lutheran in SCAC Quarters GEORGETOWN, Texas – The Gents visit to the 2017 Southern Collegiate Conference Men’s Basketball Tournament came to a close Friday night, February 24, as Centenary (12-14) was knocked out of the Tournament for the third year in a row by Texas Lutheran (17-9) in an 88-85 loss in the SCAC Quarterfinals. Despite a back-and-forth game with eight ties, Centenary trailed 84-78 with 31 seconds left. Senior James Sapp made a layup

As I gazed at the neon illuminating from the scoreboard, I felt mentally drained, overworked by the effort poured into this game. With every step I took towards the dented, bench the gymnasium only shrunk in size, making me feel restricted and even more short of breath. I felt out place, as if I was lost in my own backyard. The smell of popcorn from the stands diminished, the shrill from the sneakers gliding on the polished hardwood weakened and the tension from the crowd grew with time dwindling

Basketball Basketball is a very intense, popular, and physical sport. Not only that, basketball requires a lot of endurance and heart to perform. The game of basketball is played in an indoor gym with wood floors cleanly polished to ensure grip and a low friction level for the individuals. The court, where the game takes place, is 94 feet long and 50 feet wide with metal spherical rims 12 feet about both ends of the court. The court is split down the middle with a line, called

I attended the wheel-chair basketball presentation with the majority of the class on November 2nd. During the presentation, we first listened to a few members of the campus wheel-chair basketball team, as well as the coach, tell their stories of why they were in a wheel chair and how they found wheel chair basketball. Then they explained to us how the game is played and some of the rules and regulations as well as how it differs from regular basketball. Then, we finally got to jump in and play!

The Scot's energy improved too late as the Dons celebrated their win after the last whistle. Carlmont Girls varsity volleyball fell to the Aragon Dons as a result of the many mistakes the Scots made throughout the four sets on Sept. 23, 2016. Aragon Coach Kelsey Stiles said, "We stayed together as a team even though we were missing our starting outside and our middle got a concussion during warm-ups. I think the girls made great adjustments and battled the entire time." Carlmont had a slow start

It was the night we played volleyball against Wheaton for playoffs. The first two games we crumbled, but the third game we found our fire. It was caught up in our heads that on paper Wheaton was supposed to win and move on in playoffs. But now after the third game it gave us a motivation and made us play even harder to win. Then came the fourth game, but it almost felt like Wheaton threw water in on fire. They got a huge run on us and I could see the faces on my teammates showed that they were ready

When I walked into the gym, everyone was engaged in playing basketball. It was very crowded. Although the majority of the participants were engaged in playing basketball, few of them were sitting on the bench in the corner. Coach Secrett and Coach Jose were also present at the GYM. Later on, the program, Director Detra joined as well. She was interacting with all the participants. The staff named Shawn came around and asked all the participants who were sitting in the corner to join the group

I had a very significant basketball game I played in a couple months ago. If we would have lost we would have been out of the play offs. The team we were playing against were good, it was a very competitive game. Our team was scoring and then their team was scoring, Then was starting to get physical. I was playing good but in the fourth quarter they started to double team me. When I started throwing turnovers my teammates started to get frustrated with me. These were passes i usually can make in