Basketball Friendly Game

Today, everything went so slow for me. I had double Biology period (which was totally boring!!) first thing in the morning and had to end the day with a math period. It doesn't sound interesting at all, does it?! *puke* Somehow, today felt like a week.. probably because I couldn't wait for the basketball friendly game after school. All I could think about was mainly that. So, finally, when the day has ended, I felt so happy and relieved, knowing that today is Friday! =)

During after school, I was really excited with the whole thing going on. But when the opponents came, they didn't seem as hard as the other schools that we've played against with before. Team B were playing for the first minutes, followed by team A that was playing for the next 20 minutes. Because the team and I knew that we can beat our opponents, we were slacking off. Since I personally thought that we're going to win the game, everybody took it very easy and the whole team played really bad. We didn't work as hard and put less effort to it, which made our game looks so messy and made most of our shots missed.

When we started winning, our coach told us to put less pressure to them by using less plays. Other than that, because we weren't taking it seriously, we had to play against them without dribbling the ball at all, just passing. It was a bit tricky because we were used to dribbling the ball, but then again, we learned more on passing and calling each others name when we needed help.

After 20 minutes, team B took a rest. Since team A is somehow better than team B (in my opinion only), our coach told them to only pass the ball for the whole 20 minutes and that those passes have to be 5 times before someone can shoot the ball. As I watched them play, honestly, I felt a bit jealous knowing that they have better chances in winning the game easier than us, and so on. But i didn't really think about that as much. What i was thinking about, (after team B has finished playing) was that somehow, we play better when playing against with a harder team. Maybe it's all because we felt more challenged, which made us definitely put more effort and be serious about it. Even though we might lose in playing a game against the harder teams, but we actually play better and that in a way, we improve; even just for a tiny bit.

The game has finally ended. We won! *yay* After playing the game, we had around 20 minutes before practice time ended. So, our coach decided to make us play against each other, team A vs team B. At first we were winning, but then obviously, the A team catch up. Even though we lost, we had fun (well, at least i did.) After 15 minutes of playing, our coach ended the practice by making us run a 'sweet sixteen'. Basically, we had to run 16 times, back and forth, from 1 side line to the other side line. I was tired, but overall it came out as an interesting practice. I wish that we had more, longer games, but i suppose that it would be impossible for that to happen. But, who knows... Right?!

-stePh