basketball

I love playing basketball, it's a great sport. One of the key aspects of the sport that impresses me, and in my opinion, makes basketball aloof to all other sports is that basketball requires the majority of skill over athleticism. If one looks at a sport such as football, it is easy to recognize that in being athletic you are more valuable of a player than by being very good at catching or throwing. Every team is looking for the fastest player, the one who can outrun the others. Football seeks out the strongest players, those who can bulldoze through twenty people without a scratch. However, if one can catch every single pass thrown to them no matter what, but are only average speed, they will never even make it to college ball. In fact, they probably wouldn't play a ton in highschool football. While i'm talking about quickness let me point out that track too, seeks the fastest, the one that can jump the very highest, things most people are genetically inclined towards. Now there are other sports such as tennis. Tennis requires a whole lot of skill. In fact tennis is almost entirely skill based. Practice makes perfect with tennis (although some are naturals). However tennis doesn't (for me) exhibit the athletic workout i need daily. Tennis is too nitpicky, always having to stay very calm, composed, and in control. That's why tennis simply isn't for me, I don't have calm or composure, I get way too frustrated, and tennis seems like such a lonely sport. Always playing for one's self rather than lots of teamworking with others. However, some tennis fanatics will then bring the "oh there's always doubles!" argument to the table. Well guess what, you try to pass the tennis ball to your teammate and it's point over. That being clarified, soccer is next on the agenda. Soccer is a great sport and i love it with all my heart. I wish i could play soccer and basketball at the same time. At oak hall though, Soccer is during the Winter. The freezing, cold, and rainy outdoors is where all of the soccer games take place. If the weather is a little bit choppy, say goodbye to even your close friends. It's always nice that your parents and stuff stay, but they're there because they feel like they have to be. Soccer is an exceptional sport, just like basketball, combining athleticism, skill, aggressiveness, and perseverance, while still requiring of the players to, at that right moment, collapse their frustration on a brief moment of zen, to take that important shot. In soccer, a good shot does not come by easy. However, basketball and soccer share that same aspect, where time slows down right before that game changing shot. You can feel your heart pumping, you're muscles tense, yet your mind calm at the same time, for if you don't keep calm inside, that shot is done, and you'll have missed the opportunity. One must keep that zen state along with the aggressiveness and drive only for a brief moment, and then it is released. That has to be my favorite part of basketball and soccer.

Currently Our JV basketball team is doing very well. Robert, Apurv, Me, Dean, and Jared start (in the respective 1-5) positions. We haven't lost a game yet, and Jared even does pretty well down in post. We have a ton of home games left, including one December 8th (tuesday night) at 7, hope you all will be there. We had a couple of close calls, the last two games, where both teams had a pretty feisty little point guard. We handled them though, and always manage to send the other team home weary, and sad, even though they should've known that we are the better team, and they were going to lose to us anyways. Personally I haven't been playing so well on the team, but other people have been doing great; including all the other starters, Alex, Manny, Chase, Chad, and Richie (who even bailed us out of a loss this one game, after hitting 4 three point shots in a row).