Basketball coaches

He quoted in his biography “I’m accustomed to playing basketball really rough. When I came into the League, I was used to fighting on the court. That’s how I grew up playing basketball.” (Biography.com). Despite the legal issues he had growing up he still lead his high school team undefeated, and he was New York’s Co-Player of the year, and after his college career with…

Figueroa’s Framework and how it has affected my perceptions and participation towards Basketball “Everything that you achieve is the result of your personal effort and access to opportunities you have had.”(CAMBRIDGE, Step Forward, 2010). J Peter Figueroa is a Professor of Public Health and devised a tool to investigate the issues surrounding access, equity and equality in sport and physical activity. This tool is known as Figueroa’s Framework. Figueroa’s framework consists of five levels…

many kids and men all around the world that play basketball. But, in order to get that you have to want it more than the people next to you and around you. Basketball is played all around the world. It’s exciting, fun, and keeps people active. Many of people's goals have been achieved through the great sport of basketball. The culture of basketball has changed and grown ever since 1891. There is all sorts of things to basketball then just basketball. There’s always those players who are the…

everyone has been waiting for. The day when all of the blood, sweat, and tears finally pay off. Today is the basketball championship. All of the cheerleaders will arrive at school decked out in their Bremen blue attire. Bows in their hair, cheer bags on their shoulders, and spirit in their hearts. They are ready to cheer their team to a win. On the other end of the campus, the basketball players enter the locker room. Some exchange a few words of encouragement, but most have their game…

W. Benton, principal of Indianapolis Shortridge High School. L.D. Coffman, superintendent at Salem schools was elected treasurer. J.T. Giles, Principal at Marion High School, was secretary (“History of the IHSAA”) All leading to Indiana’s first basketball tournament. This tournament was held at Indiana University Assembly Hall on 1911. This assembly hall held up to 1,200 people. The tournament had a total of 15 high school teams from all over Indiana competing against each other. In the end five…

through it. A player having the right coach can make or break a player. A coach has to know whether a player learns best from being yelled at or just talked to. Once a coach figures that out it will get the most out a player leading to success. High basketball IQ requires technical skills, attention, game awareness, and experience. A player having good technical skills allows them to have more confidence, which overall allows them to focus on other parts of the game. With their attention on the…

older brother would be playing outside every day. He would be playing all the different sports like football, soccer, running, even basketball. He would be playing basketball the most also this is how my brother got me into playing the sport I love now. Around the age of six, my brother would always come up to me saying, “Arish let's go outside to play some basketball.” I would always say no because I wouldn’t like to do any outdoor activities. So I would stay inside just playing shooting games…

while playing a basketball game isn’t a real thing and only happens in that movie. There is no singing or dancing during lunch…

Playing Chester High school in the Suburban One playoffs at Chester isn’t ideal for any basketball player from Southeastern Pennsylvania; it was truly a blessing and an experience I will remember for the rest of my life. Chester is the hometown of a couple of NBA players such as Jameer Nelson and Rondae Hollis-Jefferson. Chester has also produced other 1,000 point scorers who have gone to lay professional basketball overseas. As the clock ticked down in my last career high school game I felt…

One of the most memorable things I have are my all red Derrick Rose Adidas basketball shoes. These shoes mean a lot, for they represent a whole season of basketball. A whole season of my last year playing aau basketball with girls I grew up with. The shoes remind me of all the games and practices that we had together. Every free throw, every jump shot, every layup, every three-pointer I ever took in my last season. All the memories I made with my team. Remembering all the crazy things we did at…