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.