Layup

with the pale sweaty faces stared at me. We had the ball with 20 seconds left. The ball came into the palm of my hand then suddenly the ball is loose. The opponent had taken it. The tall point guard took it and scored. With ten seconds, we missed a layup. We lost the basketball game, and now we are out of the tournament. I had one job, and it was to secure the ball for a full 20 seconds, but I failed. After finding my car, I was ashamed of myself. That night, repeating the scenes of the game,…

LeBron James is the greatest basketball player of the 21st century. Since high school, he has been deemed “The Chosen One” and has met that expectation and more. As an ambassador for the National Basketball Association he has represented the game with dignity and respect. His selfless attitude on the court has led him to be one of the most successful athletes of his generation. His athleticism, leadership ability, and on-court efficiency are the reasons why he is the greatest to play the game of…

Ever since Blakey Hooper was a young girl, she was known for her work ethic and abilities on the basketball court. School came naturally to her – she never had a hard time understanding the curriculum even when it was hard to understand for most kids her age. If you were to walk by the beach courts on any given night, you would find the girl with carmel colored skin, curly brown hair that resembled a lion's mane and vibrant green eyes that were as green as perfectly watered grass in the summer…

achieve this you may then extend your shot to where you so choose. Depending on whether or not you are a guard or post player may help you decide where most of your shots will be taken from. Guards vary from three-point shots, to mid-range, and even layups. Post players tend to stay close to the basket and perhaps midrange as well. Post players also must be knowledgeable about footwork. It is a posts job on the floor to get points by the basket. Footwork helps get the opponent fooled for just…

1. You need good form to shoot. Your form is the base of being a good shooter. If you have bad form your shot can go to the left or right and you won't be able to fix it. To have good form you need to make sure you make an L with your arm, with the ball on your fingertips, with a small window in between the ball and your hand. You need to keep your elbow close to your body not sticking out or the ball will go all wonky. Make sure your feet are facing where the ball needs to go…

It’s the fourth quarter of the conference finals the score is 46 to 46 I'm dribbling down the court as fast as I can as the time winds down . At 2.5 seconds I shoot from way downtown for the three pointer to win the game splash goes the net and it’s all over we won the conference finals against The Woodchucks the final score was 49 to 46. And now we're going to the championship in for the first time in nearly 2 years. Now we have to train really hard to win the championship. “The team we’ll be…

I was in seventh grade, the first year of middle school and it was my first basketball game. When I woke up I already was so pumped to play. When my mom woke me up I felt like nobody can stop me from playing this game and that meant that we were going to dominate this game. I also felt that nobody was going to ruin my day that day because I was going to play a basketball game today. When I went to school I had athletics for first period and it was a lot more fun than the other days because we…

when something unexpected, bad or good, will happen and impact your life forever. The day started just like every day has for the past month. We started practicing basketball early that morning, with the same routine as always: stretching, running, layups, and splitting up into two teams and playing against each other. Our coach, Coach Joey, was hollering at us as usual to “hustle” or “fight for the ball”. Everyone was giving it their all during practice. We finally got our first water break,…

all the way through the game until 2 minutes were left on the clock. I was in playing the wing and one of my teammates had just fouled out of the game so one of my other teammates came in. We were down by 3 with 11 seconds left when I drove in for a layup, but when I went up I was shoved and when I came down I landed right on my head. I laid there while play continued but I wasn’t moving that much, after they noticed me just lying there my dad ran out on the court and so did one of the parents…

Following six consecutive road games, the Pirates returned home to wrap up non-league play with match ups against Douglas and Siuslaw. On Friday the 16th the boys took on the Douglas Trojans in a tough battle behind a rowdy home crowd. Despite holding a four point lead heading into half, the Pirates ultimately fell with a 52-47 loss. A defensively sluggish third quarter doomed the boys as the Trojans took a five point advantage that they maintained for the rest of the game. Crucial turnovers…