Basketball Shooting Research Paper

Decent Essays
There once was a guy that always got bullied, because he was bad at all sports. One day I got a idea to go play some basketball with my brother. I started walking to my brothers room to go tell him to go outside.

"Triston do you want to go shoot some hoops?" I asked him

"Sure." Said Triston

We walked outside with are flat basket ball hoping that it would work. Then we wouldn't have to go to the gas station to get it aired up again. I tried to bounce the ball to see if we needed to go to the gas station. Sure enough it bounced up and hit me right in the face. I ran inside of my house to get a ice pack when I tripped over a chair and hit my head again this time only it hurt more.

I was laying there with a big head ache. My mom ran in and grabbed a pillow to rest my head. She also grabbed a ice pack and a towel
…show more content…
Every time we play basket ball my brother always tries to make the basket with a trampoline. He is not that good at basketball ether. Out of one-hundred we would get one for shooting and making the hoop.

My brother and I like to play this game. You jump on are little trampoline and try to make a hoop. This game is really hard because in order to make the hoop you have to be good. This game is hard but it is fun trying to make the hoop and then missing it.

My brother went first, he jumped on the trampoline and then tried to make it, he missed though. Next it was my turn, I jumped and jumped to see how I wanted to go, the. I just went and barely missed it. I couldn't believe that I almost made the basket.
I tired for my last time and I was hoping to God that I could make this very last shoot. I griped the ball in my hand looking down at it constitrating. When I ran and bounced on the trampoline I felt like I was flying. I was three feet close to the basket ball rim that I thought I could dunk it. My hands touched the rim of the basket ball hoop and the ball went

Related Documents

  • Improved Essays

    The Trampoline It was September 2005, I just woke up and we just got a new trampoline. I was so excited to go play on it, but I had school for just about two days until the weekend. Once the weekend came we all played on the trampoline, and when I say all I mean my brother and six to seven other friends. A few weeks after we bought it one of my friends little brother wanted to play on the trampoline, so I said sure go ahead.…

    • 720 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    When the ball roll I wasted no time at all to kick it and when it flew high in the shy and it never ever seen a better day. Then I started to run and…

    • 355 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    How to do a 3 point shot One thing that I would really like to improve in is my 3 point shot in basketball. Playing sports seems like something easy to do but it takes practice and knowledge to learn how to execute the the techniques the right way. Basketball is just as much mental as it is physical. In my opinion you need to know the game and its rules to make a really great player.…

    • 439 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Have you ever made a half court shot? One day on a sad crummy morning in libertyville I had a soccer game. it was very early in the morning but i was ready to play some soccer! It was the last game of the indoor season for soccer.…

    • 564 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    B Ball Research Paper

    • 472 Words
    • 2 Pages

    The game of ball is known as an enjoyment past time for any individual youthful or old. B-ball is an extraordinary method for practice and an awesome approach to mess around with companions and potentially make some new ones. I want to watch and play the diversion, b-ball is an extremely engaging game and can be played by anybody. B-ball has many negative and positive things about it in light of my sentiment. B-ball is known as a decent side interest in many individuals' eyes yet can likewise be viewed as an energy for some others.…

    • 472 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    I started running as my player hit the box, I took off my cheats hit the ground they slammed pulling up the rubber beads as I ran. I set up against the player coming down I put my pole in front of me and poke the opposing player. It was a warm cool summer day with a nice windy breeze, I was in maryland for a lacrosse tournament. I was playing for my travel team Koopers and were playing against one of our rivales Crabs lacrosse we were both one of the best teams in maryland and top 10 in the world.…

    • 601 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    My first step being back, I quickly realized the ball was much closer than I thought. However, it was still out of reach. The only chance I had was to dive, and so I did. Without any emotion I extended my arm out while diving low to the ground. I hit the ground, not knowing if I had caught the ball or not.…

    • 539 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    I'm not a coward nor a scaredy cat that fears. I just had a feeling that something would happen, just not to me at baseball practice for some reason. My gut usually told me the truth. So I had a really strong feeling about something would happen.…

    • 678 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Kaleena Siers Ms. DiSalle ELA7 asfkgsubc I was in my dad’s white pickup truck slowly making my way to gymnastics practice. All I had been thinking about was trying my roundoff back handspring since I woke up. I had just stopped doing physical therapy for my achilles and was really worried about trying my new flip. I kept thinking in my head how things could go drastically wrong.…

    • 468 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Discuss a leadership experience you have had in any area of your life: school, work, athletics, family, church, community, etc. How and why did you become a leader in this area? How did this experience influence your goals? I was playing soccer with my friends in my neighborhood just a normal day everything looked as usual. But while I was playing soccer I was hearing a noise, not knowing if I am the only one who is hearing I felt deluded for a moment and stopped playing soccer and headed to the direction where the noise was coming from.…

    • 683 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    David Wright once said, “ I take positives out of negatives all the time.” In baseball, I do that all the time. Everyone has those games where they have things to work on. I had a baseball game where I over slid second base and with my cleats as big as his leg, I slid into Billy. Right after I slid into his legs, Billy dropped down and started crying.…

    • 477 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The game had started and I was running towards the goal with the ball at my feet. Take a shot I repeated to myself, score a goal. “Shoot!” I lifted my foot hitting the ball into the air spinning to the goal. It was saturday morning and the sun was shining bright.…

    • 430 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Basketball Vs. Baseball

    • 378 Words
    • 2 Pages

    How many times have you ever been hit in the head with a bat? On July 23, 2013 a nice and gorgeous day outside me, my brother, and his friends were all playing Basketball outside in front of my house. I decided to play Baseball because I was just getting bored of playing the same thing every time his friends came over, but that was a mistake. I learned my lesson not to play Baseball instead of Basketball. I was a little boy at the age of 9…

    • 378 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    I looked up at the scoreboard and could not believe what I saw; I had scored the most points. I felt the ref grab my arm and raise it to indicate that I was the winner. I had just won my first…

    • 1484 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Have you ever wondered how people get through a basketball game? As the encyclopedia says, “ Basketball, game played between two teams of five players each on a rectangular court, usually indoors. Each team tries to score by tossing the ball through the opponent’s goal, an elevated horizontal hoop and net called a basket.” (Donald) To survive a basketball game you need to do things before, during, and after a game. First, before the game.…

    • 466 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays