Basketball court

As the basketball season was coming to an end, our finally game was coming up. With the lead of a 14-5 we were on the edge of making it into the off season. The team Liberty, which was 16-3 was our opponent. We have played them before and came back with an lost, but this time will be a whole new story. Walking onto the court at each of the games raised my confidence more and more letting me know that I can defeat the other team with the help of my teammates. The drive to the final game was…

Transforming Leadership on the Court The movie “Coach Carter” is based on the real-life story of Ken Carter who returns to his former high school to bring back the basketball team. This school was in an African American community, where graduating only occurred about half of the time. The school allowed the players to walk around like they were above the law and saw basketball as the best times of the lives of many of the players- not the potential of them to be successful in school, let alone…

I appreciate this fascinating poem because Edward Hirsch describes a simple fast break in basketball as a slow, yet complex action performed by players. He writes as if everything is occurring in slow motion due to the the use of descriptive words evoking the five senses. Using imagery through his work, I get the feeling of tension and accomplishment through these stanzas. Playing basketball before, I have definitely experienced what he described in real life. There are many aspects to this…

What It Takes to Work Hard Work is means something different for everyone. How is it possible to work hard if we do not even know what work is? To me, work means an action you do to better yourself or an object. There has to be a motive behind the world to be granted the reward in the end which is success. Anybody that is motivated wants or needs to be successful within their lifetime. Maria Bartiromo, a well known American television journalist and magazine columnist, had once said, "I think…

17th, 1963, in Brooklyn, New York, is considered one of the best basketball players of all time. Jordan’s love for basketball developed in North Carolina. Ironically, Michael kicked off the Laney High team because the coach thought he was too small. Jordan attended the University of North Carolina as a freshman, and was the young layer to watch. Jordan’s college coach, Dean Smith, was known as a teaching coach who stressed basketball fundamentals and a team concept that encouraged each player to…

altered and with the evolution of technology the sports we’ve recognised in the past are quite different to how we find we recognise them now. Evidence from over the last 50 years has shown that basketball players have dramatically increased their skills with new styles being an addition to the way basketball is played, for example dunking, lay ups, and other new dribbling techniques. Long ago in the 2000s they didn’t have the advanced frequently used technology that we now use today in…

When basketball first started, the use of peach baskets would cause a stoppage of the game every time someone scored because the ball would be stuck in the basket (Kloppenburg, et al. 2013). This slowed down the pace of the game. At first, someone with a ladder had to fetch the ball from the basket until eventually the bottoms were removed from the baskets. In 1893, after several attempts to alter or replace the basket, cast iron rims replaced these baskets (Kloppenburg, et al. 2013). This was a…

Millions of players watch basketball and tend to try and jump right into all the moves these NBA allstars do, yet it doesn’t work like that they all started with these simple issue and took the positive concepts from it and became the player they are. Key points will be discussed on how to fix and form an average player into an elite ball handler just like all the NBA players you watch on tv year-round. Ball handling skills are very important to the game of basketball, there are some critical…

Descriptive Essay On February 10, 2017 Senior High School hosted a pink out basketball game. As I have mentioned before my mom was diagnosed with cancer in the middle of November. She had to go to the hospital a lot so our family was struggling financially. For a couple months people all around Dubuque were raising money for the pink out game. The money that was raised would go to my mom. My mom and I had no clue that they were raising money and when we found out we both started crying. We both…

When I tried out for the basketball team during the winter of my freshman year, I hadn't even considered the possibility of not making the team. Before that year, I had played on travel and middle school teams. I knew that I wasn't the best player on the court, but I scored a few points a game, and I played decent defence. For the duration of the tryout practices, I thought that I was doing well, but apparently the coach did not consider me a good fit for the team. After a meeting with the…