Forrester that lives in a building overlooking a basketball court that Jamal plays in. The two meet by chance on a dare but by the end of the movie unexpectedly formed a friendship that also help the both of them overcome there own insecurities about certain issues. They had to deal with there own problems with everyday life‚ and the issues they had with each other. But Despite ages and backgrounds a special bond is created. Jamal‚ an amazing basketball player‚ tries to keep his literary talents a
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High School. When he was there they had a student verses teacher basketball game‚ and he decided to sign up. He was really tall in junior high‚ and he figured out that during the game he could dunk. Turns out that he was a lot better at basketball than he thought he was. He attended St. Mary High School. He was on both the basketball and the football team‚ and he was very good at both. In both his football and basketball careers in high school he was always one of the best players. Everyone
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for just playing a season of basketball‚ football‚ baseball‚ and etc. While nurses‚ firefighters‚ police officers‚ and the military are risking their lives for complete strangers. Some people think that these athletes deserve more than they do right now. I personally think that they don’t deserve what they are getting. Look at it this way‚ people are actually risking their lives‚ fighting for our country‚ and trying to keep us safe. You’re trying to tell me that basketball‚ men running up and down the
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I enter the gym‚ the smells of stale sweat and cleaner mingle with my nose‚ creating flashbacks of prior experiences. I flash my ID card to the employee working at the front desk and continue on through until I reach my ultimate destination; the basketball court. When I enter the court the first thing I notice are the baskets. They stand over the court like sentinels; opposing each other on opposite sides like guards on the border of North and South Korea. The padding on the backboards‚ now a
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anxiety is the degree of physical activation perceived such as “butterflies in the stomach (Weinberg & Gould‚ 2011).” Anxiety happens to everyone‚ especially in pressure situations. Athletes are constantly in pressure situations. For example‚ a basketball player finds himself on the free throw line‚ down by one‚ with 1 second to go in the game. The player begins to look around at all the screaming fans and starts to breathe heavily‚ becoming tense‚ and sweating profusely. Time begins to pass‚ negative
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school as well as the principal of Richmond believe otherwise. To them basketball is the only thing that is important. While Coach Carter and Damien’s have the right knowledge most other people at Richmond have the wrong knowledge. The characters that had the wrong knowledge also had the wrong aims this is because the students at Richmond felt like they couldn’t do anything meaningful in their lives for the men on the basketball team‚ it didn’t matter where they were going or where they would end
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victimless crime. The team still wins the game‚ so the player or players involved in the point-shaving still celebrate a victory. The gamblers also get a win because they can bet more confidently on the other team to cover the point spread. College basketball is ripe for this coercion because all it takes is for the gamblers to get one or two players on the
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Jordans vs. Nikes Once Michael Jordan wore the famous Jordan shoes‚ every person who played basketball wanted them. There’s no competition when you compare Jordan shoes with others‚ not even Nike can compete against Jordan. Even though Nike throughout the Years has made some great quality shoes‚ shoe fanatics have wanted Jordan shoes more than ever since Michael Jordan flew from free-throw line with his own pair of Jordan retro 3’s. The different attributes that Nike and Jordan have are material
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“Slam Dunk & Hook” Basketball isn’t just a sport‚ it’s a lifestyle. It requires you to push yourself again and again and not give up until the final buzzer sounds. Basketball requires a lot of teamwork and that team is like your family. Working together like a family helps push every player to do their best and make each other proud. In the poem “Slam Dunk & Hook” the author Yusef Komunyakaa uses metaphors‚ allusions‚ and imagery to illustrate basketball which offers escape and triumph for
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girls the basic skills of basketball as well as adding drills that we learned at our high school basketball practices. Eleazar and I would make shooting drills‚ dribbling drills‚ and show them to play proper defence. The steps my partner and I would go through every monday and friday would be Layups. We would do layups for about 10 minutes at the beginning of every practice‚ then begin with our warm up drills which is running a couple laps and some drills with the basketball like going around cones
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