Basketball Season So Far

This year, my basketball season has been very interesting. We are currently 3-4 on the season and on a two game winning streak. Our new style is finally coming together and we are now playing as a team. But tomorrow we have a tournament that will show us how good we really are. We are hosting this event at our school and many good teams are attending. We play Concord the first round who knocked us out of our tourney last year. So the first game is going to be very difficult and intense. Our second game, win or loose will be a tougher challenge. We will be playing either Berkeley or McClymonds, two very good teams that will be tough to beat. Last season we got fifth place in our tournament so it won't be very difficult to do better. I don't expect this team to win this tournament because we will have to get past a lot of talented schools. We will probably get no lower than fifth place. I don't think we are ready for this tournament because we still have things to go over. This is probably going to be the toughest tourney I have ever played in my career. I'm a little nervous even though I am not going to play that much.

It is now two days after the start of this event and we have played two games so far. Our first game, against Concord, was a very exciting game. It was a defensive game that only went up to about forty points. We needed our revenge on them so we came out determined to end the game early. But Concord is a very talented team and stuck in it. The score was very close throughout the whole game. We never lost the lead until the final two minutes of the game which is very disappointing because we worked so hard to keep the lead and to have it taken away from you during the final minutes is devastating. But we got over it quick and came back to tie the score. It went into over time and we gave it our all. We took a early six point lead and never looked back. We won the game by four point and we moving on to play McClymonds.

McClymond and De La Salle are the two best basketball teams in California and they both are in our tournament. We had the opportunity to play McClymond for a chance at the championship game. We started off slow because we had to adjust to their extremely tall players. After a while we figured out how we needed to play against this team and rallied back down ten. We would get as close to one point away from leading but would loose our focus and let them extend their lead. It was like this until the last couple of minutes of the second quarter. They somehow started to pull away from us. It wasn't all our fault, most of the decisions the coach made were poor and hurt the team badly. Because of our coach we went from loosing by one point to trailing by fifteen. After this we were questioning our coach during the game and we just completely lost our focus. We lost and we got very mad at our coach and told the head coach of the varsity squad how we felt. I don't know what is going to happen tomorrow and who will coach us. All I know is that we are playing Skyline High for the third place prize and I get to play against one of my teammate on a other basketball organization. Despite all these distractions we will still play our hearts out like usual and try to come out of our own tournament with the third place trophy, which will be much better than our sixth place finish last season.

My Basketball Tournment

This week I had a basketball tournament at Central Valley High School. It starts on thursday and ends on friday and we stay their for two nights. I am doing my blog post from my host families house who are very nice. They are very kind and welcomed us in with open arms. At first, I was a little scared about living with strangers for two days but once I met them I knew it was going to be fun. Our first game went extremely well and we played great. We won that game by 10 points. After the game we went to our host families house and ate dinner, played video games, and had a good sleep. The next day was fun as well. There was an school assemble that was about all the basketball teams that participated in the tourny. It had a shooting contest, dunking contest and other fun activities that was a lot of fun to watch. After it was over, we had to get ready for our game. So we had a walk through session to help us understand what we needed to do more clearly. It help us a lot by letting us know what we need to do and get things straightened out. Then came our game, we started off slow and had to fight our way back it. We trailed Shasta High the whole game and lost by ten points. It was very disappointing and we know we should have won. The intensity, compassion, and determination was there but we came up short in the end. Now I am back at my host family,s house. Resting up for the game tomorrow and about to eat pizza for dinner then watch a movie. I can't wait for tomorrow because we will be playing for third place. It isn't first but at least we have chance to win a trophy and bring it back to Alameda. We will be playing the host school, Central Valley. They are not a very talented team and we should win easily.

My First Game

Today is my first basketball game of the season. I am very excited to see how good our team really is. We have high expectations this year because of how we preformed last season. But I'm not so sure we will come through with the wins. We have a new coach and I don't think that our team will execute well under his system. I still think we are a solid team but I don't believe that we are as good a team as last year. With many new players and a new coach it is hard to adjust to a new style after preforming our previous system so well. I don't understand why we are changing how we play because we won almost all our games last year. But its the coaches decision and we have to respect it.

It is now the next day and the game is over. We lost by four points. It was a well played game by both teams and was decided during the last minute. We had many mistakes as a team that we know we should have not made. I guess we were just a little rusty because we haven't played a game together since last year. But that not an excuse for loosing. We are too good of a team to let a team we know we are better than us win. Our team needs to get back on track and win. We won about twenty-four games last year and did not loose a game until the middle of the season. So for us to loose our first game, its disappointing and frustrating. Because of our success last year each player on this team gets extremely disappointed when we loose. This team never looses to teams we know that we can demolish. No one likes the feeling and no one wants to get to the point where we have that discomfort most of our games. I'm not going to make any excuses nor blame it on anyone because we know that we have to be pursue perfection every game. This year is going to be very long and hard but we have to come out on top of our league like we did last season. This may be my last season playing any sports so I have to try my best and give it my all. Leave it all out on the court. This season can be very enjoyable and fun but we have to do our best because we do not have the motivation and determination we had last season. No more excuse, no complaining, just execute our system and keep winning.