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    Well there was a time throughout the school the school year it was rough.Like it was during basketball season and it was rough.Well like a week before basketball try outs I got in a fight.People kepy telling me i couldnt try out because of the fight so i didnt try out for JV.Then a couple days later i had went to coach patterson and he said it was ok for me to try out but.JV try outs was already over so i had tryed out for freshmen and i had made the team or whatever.So everything was going good…

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    decided to write my essay on was my basketball coach my senior year, Brian McIntosh. He only coached at my high school for one year, and prior to that he was an assistant coach at Emporia State University. Taking his expertise and leadership skills McIntosh helped take my team who had struggled the previous season and give them a last and successful season. He changed the atmosphere of the program and that year held the best record my school’s girl basketball team had seen in a long time. When I…

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    State Warriors orchestrate their playmaking ability to create an open shot. However, the basketball world wasn’t alike back in their heydays acquiring a meager amount of deals in order to televise their games. In addition, having only 17 teams during the birth of the NBA. But, due to the NBA’s progress from 1949 till today, it has demonstrated immense promises which significantly changed the game of basketball from different aspects towards the college players, major league, and internationally.…

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    Basketball is one of the hardest sports to learn, because it takes so many skill assets to master also basketball has changed my life in a major way to help me become a better man. As you may not no I’m a junior transfer from Baltimore Maryland that has traveled here to become a basketball player here at Loras College. Growing up where I’m from you have a few options as a kid either go to school, play sports, or hustle me I took the wrong path but was quickly humbled when I lost my older brother…

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    many elements that I have learned through the Harlingen High School basketball program, which may be transferred to any situation in life, as the basketball program has allowed me to determine the type of person I am. This was due to the fact that I was placed in many challenging situations, which fatigued me both mentally and physically, to a point which I chose how willing I was to overcome those obstacles. Organized basketball has been a part of my life beginning at age six, and has not left…

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    not play basketball because the Americans would not let them do a lot of stuff so the African Americans tried a lot to do the stuff they wanted. Dr. James Naismith invented basketball at the International YMCA Training School in Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1891. The game was first played with peach baskets and a soccer ball and was invented to provide indoor exercise for football players. In 1892 Students and Workers at the School Christian Workers play the first public game of basketball.…

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    school basketball career I was a nobody that no one knew, but the following year I was able to make the varsity team. This was because I showed up everyday willing to work and get better. Every suicide and scrimmage was just a test to see how hard I could push myself and how I could improve. From this I have learned that the only way you can get what you want is if you go and work for it. The best feeling is finally achieving something after working hard for countless hours. Basketball has…

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    I couldn’t wait for the season to start. I was so excited to play basketball that I told my best friend who was on the girls’ basketball team. Since I was going to play Unified basketball, I needed to practice. My best friend gave a basketball to me for my birthday so I could practice for the season. Since it was so cold out, I had to practice in my garage. Once it got warmer out, I went to one of my friends house to shoot on their hoop. At the time, I didn’t have my own hoop to shoot on. At…

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    was able to build a greater sense of trust within the team because no one would be afraid to speak their mind. Summitt used a delicate form of tough love to mold her players into what she envisioned them to be (Summit, Sum It Up, 273). UCLA Men’s Basketball Coach from 1948 to 1975, John Wooden, broke countless records and was also beloved by his players. Wooden had many beliefs that he held true to throughout his entire career and life, but by far his most important belief was the maintaining of…

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    the court. There undefended streak is over. The team named me as the player of the game. I had 23 points, five assist and 10 rebounds. The best game I ever had it was also a rival games to so the stands where full of people cheering on my schools basketball team. After the game coach named me player of the game I was so proud of myself all I could do was smile.I knew that the weeks of practice was going to pay off one day and it did. My friends and family was proud of me and how I played .I was…

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