Overcoming Obstacles In Basketball

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Describe an obstacle that you needed to overcome and how you did it: One of the only obstacles I feel like I have had is in basketball. Up until Junior year, I hardly ever shot the ball during the game. I was more focused passing to someone else to give them a wide open shot, without realizing that I was the one wide open. Almost all my coaches told me to shoot more but I almost always forgot to look for my chances to score, I wanted to get assists not baskets. Finally when I got to Junior year, Coach Sambrooks started to break down my shooting form to improve it. After he showed me how to execute my shot as close to perfect as possible, I worked and worked on it. I would come to practice early, stay late, just to get the muscle memory implanted

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