Importance Of Basketball Essay

When I play sports I am never afraid to go after a loose ball I'm not afraid to go to the ground and put my body on the line. I always have the courage to go in after a fifty fifty balls i've gotten many bruises and even some injuries. My goal is always to get the ball because I know if I do it will impress my coaches and it will get my team fired up showing that I’m willing to risk my body for them and for the sake of the team. The sport I find this easiest to do in for me is basketball even if I'm playing on hard wood it doesn't scare me I’ve done this since I started the sport. Just last week on the eighth of January I did this and it helped my team in a big way. These games also came just two weeks after I had a shoulder injury from fighting …show more content…
Hyde was also not the best rebounding team so I was able to get many rebounds off of them this helped the team in a big way because we would gain extra possessions and we would get the ball back. I began to go harder in for rebounds even if the other team had the ball I would try to get myself wrapped in with the ball so that the other man would have to fight me for it. At one point I had grabbed a rebound a second after the other team and was trying to rip the ball from the man but he wouldn't let go. I eventually ended up being put onto the ground with the ball but never backed down off of my man. I held on to the ball until the very end, the refs we had would never call jump balls so my team had to call a timeout. After the timeout I had finally gained possession of the ball even after being on the ground. This play had gotten my defender so upset that he decided the best course of action for him was a begin to scream and yell at me then slap me square in the chest. The refs saw this foul and gave him a technical foul this got me team fired up because we made both of our free throws and had tied the game after this foul we never looked back and kept charging towards the