Layup

You kids may be wondering why I called our family number one. Well there is a couple reasons why I think we are the best. The first reason why I think we are the best is because of what kind of parents I grew up with. For instance, when I was a baby, I used to get sick a lot that I sometimes would turn into a different color. So, my parents, which are your grandparents, were right by my side throughout the whole experience and never left my side. I was a baby at the time, so I didn’t know…

Ten seconds left in the championship game, Hannahville inbounds the ball, and I steal it. Three, two, one, I have a wide open layup, and I choke. Preparing for the championship game was a struggle, physically and mentally. We all put in hard work, and were determined to win. Our basketball team hadn’t won a championship game since 1992. It was my senior year and my last shot at redemption against the defending champs. The whole season we only lost one game, we were projected to lose, and we…

Since I was half paying attention to my brother’s dramatic retelling of the game, I only caught a few words which included: layup, breaking ankles, and scored. I vigorously nodded my head and absentmindedly responded, “Hmm” in order to further move along the conversation. Despite my lack of interest in my brother’s mumblings, I was soon brought out of my spaced out mentality…

player and as he tries to drive toward the basket to score he gets foul. My heart drops and I thought it was over. But as he goes to the free throw line he misses both free throws and gives us a chance to get down and score. We end up scoring a quick layup which now we our down by one with ten seconds left in the game. As Cleveland heights try to pass in the ball dive in front of the ball and tip it to my teammate. We didn’t have any more time outs so my coach told me to take the last shot. With…

A Middle School Tragedy Middle school was supposed to be a time to learn new things, meet new people, and prepare the young students for High School. Mostly, a great time for teenagers to find themselves. Well, not at the Middle School I attended. I attended my seventh and eighth grade years at Athens Middle School. Before actually attending the Middle School, there were always horror stories going around about how terrible it was. The teachers were supposed to be the devil and the eighth…

Introduction For this assignment, I have selected the skill of a basketball lay-up. I perform an task analysis of the skill along with highlight key topics such as motivation, practice format, and identifying errors. To successfully perform a lay-up, one must build up force by using their arms, hips, knees, ankles and applying the appropriate amount of that force in the direction of the hoop at the correct angle resulting in the ball going through the basket. The learner for this skill will be…

My day started waking up extraordinarily early in a splendid five star hotel from an extremely comfortable and pulpy bed complimented with heavenly pillows. This joyful day fills my body with excitement and replays in my mind as if it had happened for the first time. This wasn’t your average birthday present, no not some gift card to GameStop, not some pair of Stephen Curry’s, not even the next Call Of Duty game. The exact moment these words accessed my ears I almost passed out my parents had…

The news has spread like wildfire. Kevin Durant is now a member of the Golden State Warriors. Twitter exploded like the Fourth of July on Monday, which just so happened to be THE Fourth of July, and people and NBA players alike lost their minds. Several opinions have been thrown around these past couple days; Durant is a ring chaser, Durant is a traitor, and the list goes on and on. Not every opinion was bad though. A lot of the positive feedback came from Warriors fans — duh — and analysts…

All my life I have been very athletic and sports and other physical activities have always come so easily to me. I was a track star in middle school. After going into high school I tried football because all my friends were going to join. So I tried out I made the team but I got a concussion before our first game and after returning from my concussion I would get another one the very next day. So I ended up quitting football and tried out for track. I loved it at first but I was taking medicine…

In three months, we will receive our eighteen installment of NBA video game series, NBA 2k17. A lot of expectation is riding on the game since its previous installments critical acclaimed well in the recent years and NBA Live is not releasing until 2017. As there some reviews from IGN, GameInformer and Gamespot that praised the game as the "sports video game of the year", there are some reviewers (including gamers) that criticized the game for broken to the point that last year's edition looks…