Personal Narrative: The Gym Game

It was a cold winter night, with dirty brown snow covering parts of the St. Bernard parking lot. I was very nervous as I entered the gym because this was our first time as an A team being in the finals of a tournament. Plus we always got crushed by St. I’s, but this game we came up with a new strategy that would shut down their whole offence.
That night the only thing I was focused on was beating St. I’s, we played them in our first game of the season and they beat us by forty points. Our whole team knew it was unacceptable to lose by that much and we were tired of them getting the bragging rights. We acted like the warm ups was the real game, we had perfect form on our lay ups and made all of our shots. We were even making all of our free throws which was funny because we are absolute trash at shooting free throws, that right there showed everyone in the gym how badly we wanted to win this game.
Them the buzzer went
I’s ran down the court confused, they had never seen us play a three two befor. They did their normal pass and go play, but this time we picked the ball off almost every time driving it down the court and scoring. The way we were playing gave us huge confidence and a 20 point lead at halftime. The second half was by far the toughest half. Our opponents came out with fire in there eyes wanting to grasp the beautiful trophy at the end of the game, but we didn’t let that happen. St. I’s ended up hitting three pointers left and right. It almost seemed like they couldn't be stopped until our coach told us to go man to man defense. After that game saving decision they didn't make a single three that whole quarter and they trailed us by 6 points going into the final quarter. Now our team was anxious all we wanted was to win. We came out in the fourth quarter on top, settling for short jump shots instead of threes which we had a hard time making that game. Coach told us to calm down, we have this game in our hands, just try to take time off the