Basketball Essay

Introduction Dean Oliver’s book Basketball on Paper (2004) analyzes the skills and tactics that go into winning a basketball game. Oliver mentions four different stats that he believes are the driving factor to win a basketball game. In his book, Oliver gave each of those stats a weight, the weight was how important he thought that particular statistic was. Therefore, using this information to follow his footsteps with our own tweak on it, instead of using advanced stats we are using stats…

It’s extremely important to be able to make your free throw in the game of basketball. They are only worth one point as opposed to two points, but they are crucial in all aspects of the game. But in order to make your free throws, you have to be able to know how to shoot a free throw. It all starts by just going to a court and having a basketball. This could be anywhere, your high school, friends house, or a local recreation center. If you can’t find a court, you could just go in your own…

On the one hand, Switzerland has a very similar version of happiness has my basketball team at Foothill, uniformity, humbleness, and selflessness are all virtues that my team prides itself on. However, Qatar is quite the contrast to the fundamentals of my basketball team. In fact, monetary wealth, arrogance, and boasting are all forbidden on the court and locker room. The Declaration of Independence is the basis too many…

Imagine being in 6th grade, and having someone come to talk to your entire sixth grade student body about middle school sports. During a question and answer session I asked if it was possible to run cross country and play basketball, and in a loud voice that went across the gym, a kid said “Why ask you’re too fat to play sports” and the whole gym burst into laughter. This is how my introduction to middle school officially began. As one could imagine the pain and humiliation that went along…

As a College Student Athlete here at the University of Nebraska Omaha, I have many ambitions and goals that I would like to learn and succeed in. In order for you to learn more about myself, I will inform you on the reason I am taking this class, my career goals, my employment and favorite activities, and lastly, personally asses myself my strengths and weaknesses for my communication skills. I am currently taking this class to learn more about managerial communications. In greater detail, I…

father was always working so, AJ felt like he was living alone with his other friend. AJ thinks that living on his own will not be difficult at all if he does everything he did every day. Money was not an issue because AJ had a scholarship to UNO for basketball. Even though AJ went to a public high school, the college and high school class sizes are very different, but that did not stop AJ from his learning. The class size did not matter AJ as long as he was able to get things done. He thinks…

Michael Jordan is known to be the greatest basketball player of all time. In Jordan’’s early life he was very competitive and always wanted to win. He did everything he could to win, he would even get into his opponents heads. Jordan than got accepted by the University of North Carolina in 1981, he then became a key role in the college’s basketball team. The team won the NCAA Championship in 1982 with Michael scoring the gaming winning shot on…

stay active or to focus and to not get distracted by the bad things. One of these characteristics that made me who i am today is basketball. Basketball has been a great part of my life because when i play i just focus on that and not in the negative things that has happened in life. So basketball is a distraction in a good way because if im feeling down basketball distracts me and brings me back up because im doing something i really like. Something that motivated me to join the team was…

was murdered and every since then Aaron has been trying to make his mother and father proud. Now Aaron isn't a little boy anymore he’s a 6”6 basketball star that lives in Oakland, California. This kid was one of the best high school basketball players in the nation. He was so good he was being recognized around the country for his basketball talent. He was ranked #1 on the Espn 100. It was almost the end of his Senior…

In the conversation with his basketball coach he says, “I wanted to die right after the accident. I wanted it to be me that was dead instead of Rob,” (Page 24). Later in that section he also wished that he would’ve gotten a worse punishment so that he would’ve had to suffer. How did…