Personal Narrative: My First Basketball Team
Although there are many things that I cannot do, I learned you always have to believe in yourself no matter what. I used to think that I couldn’t score over 22 points in a basketball game, but I soon learned otherwise. If you don’t give your all, you’ll never learn your true limits. On a beautiful warm fall day, my basketball team was looking forward to our game against KIrby later that evening. We were all excited to get to play our first basketball game of the season. I was already thinking of the role I would play in the game, which would be point guard. Point guards were almost never relied on to score. I was just expecting it to be like almost every game I had played in. It ended up being an extraordinary game for not just my team, but also I had the best game of my career. The crowd roared every time I received the ball. I sounded like tornado sirens through the whole building as the ball exited my hand for the shot. The announcers said they had never seen such a performance.
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Another buzzer sounded as it was the end of the first half.
The whole crowd was booming in excitement as the score was Jay’s and Trey's, my team, 32 to the other team’s measly 10. I had over half the points in the first half, as I finished with 18 points. As the beginning of the second half begun, all eyes were on me. Nothing else even tried to enter my mind as I was deeply focused. I entered the game as a shooting guard this time, so I could get more open shots. At the beginning of that half, I had kind of slowed down to just regular Kaden, just controlling the game with good passing and aggressiveness. It wasn’t until the buzzer sounded that I knew it was time to go back to dominance. The other team had caught fire and brought the game back to a two point game, 42 to
40. The fourth quarter was a totally different story for the other team, as we started playing defense and offence. I didn’t miss any shots in the fourth quarter as I had caught fire. There was no way that the other team could complete the comeback when our team is hitting on all cylinders like we were. It ended up being a thrashing as we won by 26 points. I had beaten the goal that I thought was impossible for me, as I ended up with 34 points. I couldn’t even believe that I had beaten “This impossible goal.” I have now learned that nothing is impossible if you believe in yourself and put out all you have. Eleanor Roosevelt said it best when she stated “You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”
Another buzzer sounded as it was the end of the first half.
The whole crowd was booming in excitement as the score was Jay’s and Trey's, my team, 32 to the other team’s measly 10. I had over half the points in the first half, as I finished with 18 points. As the beginning of the second half begun, all eyes were on me. Nothing else even tried to enter my mind as I was deeply focused. I entered the game as a shooting guard this time, so I could get more open shots. At the beginning of that half, I had kind of slowed down to just regular Kaden, just controlling the game with good passing and aggressiveness. It wasn’t until the buzzer sounded that I knew it was time to go back to dominance. The other team had caught fire and brought the game back to a two point game, 42 to
40. The fourth quarter was a totally different story for the other team, as we started playing defense and offence. I didn’t miss any shots in the fourth quarter as I had caught fire. There was no way that the other team could complete the comeback when our team is hitting on all cylinders like we were. It ended up being a thrashing as we won by 26 points. I had beaten the goal that I thought was impossible for me, as I ended up with 34 points. I couldn’t even believe that I had beaten “This impossible goal.” I have now learned that nothing is impossible if you believe in yourself and put out all you have. Eleanor Roosevelt said it best when she stated “You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”