When I watch basketball on television‚ it is a common occurrence to have an announcer state that some player has the hot-hand. This raises the question: Are Bernoulli trials an adequate model for the outcomes of successive shots in basketball? This paper addresses this question in a controlled (practice) setting. A large simulation study examines the power of the tests that have appeared in the literature as well as tests motivated by the work of Larkey‚ Smith‚ and Kadane (LSK). Three test
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the past‚ two or three years something that I took great pleasure in working on‚ other than school‚ is basketball. This sport is very important to me because basketball is something that is overlooked but it requires a lot of discipline‚ which helps me to train myself to stay in shape and to create a better wellbeing of myself. I do not practice to prove myself to anyone‚ I just know basketball is a sport that has stuck with me for a long time‚ and it is a sport that I never want to give up on.
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Game Day Game Day had arrived for the two rival basketball teams; the Eagles and the Tigers. The loud and passionate fans had been waiting in line for hours out in the freezing cold weather. As the warm ups started the players were getting nervous. Both teams wanted the state championship very bad and they were just hours away from winning it. Months and months of strenuous conditioning and closely won ball games had all come down to this one game. The referee threw the perfectly round orange rubber
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College Essay Since I was 7 years old‚ basketball has played an integral part of my life. I have devoted countless hours to not just a sport‚ but a passion‚ an outlet; to the game that I love. When I arrived at Bow Middle School as a fifth grader‚ my classmates and I would always look up to the 7th and 8th grade middle school basketball teams. Every year during winter carnival‚ the boys and girls teams would play a game in front of the entire school. Playing in that game became a dream and a
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have two siblings named jaydon timmons and marandon timmons they are fourteen and seven years old. i am a basketball player here at brewton-parker college. this year i was ineligible due to my high school grades‚ but i am looking forward to making a major impact next season. basketball has always been my passion and i started playing ever since i could walk‚ my father wanted me to be a basketball player ever since i was born. so after learning the basics of the game‚ i became pretty good for my age
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People tend to show their lack of consideration for those who they don’t show much sympathy towards. This lack of consideration can encounter many problems between individuals. Many differences are conveyed in the book Basketball Diaries by Jim Carroll. Although both Scott Kalvert’s film and Jim Carroll’s novel portray Jim as a character who hides his true feelings from everyone in his life‚ their leads major barriers‚ Kalvert’s interpretation of the play while examining his own behaviour and change
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Bryce Evans Glen Starkey English 145 Section 28 November 4‚ 2012 Height Adjustments The high flying dunks‚ the ballooned final scores‚ the ankle-breaking crossovers: men’s basketball has it all‚ making it one of the most highly watched and most entertaining sports in the world. Women’s basketball on the other hand‚ is not quite as entertaining or highly watched. This is most likely due to the difference in athleticism and size between the two. The average man is slightly taller than five feet nine
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Basketball is probably my favorite sport to be in. This is not because of the actual game as much as being part of a team so close‚ we were almost like brothers. I had originally joined basketball in 6th grade to make friends and have fun. That is what it was like during that grade. When 7th grade rolled along‚ the 7th and 8th grade is one team and we would go to each other’s games‚ things started to get serious. We loved our coach‚ he pushed us hard to be good players but at the end of the day‚
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autumn forest. The further down the path‚ the darker the color‚ the heavier the tone‚ the smoother the texture. In the poem Old Men Playing Basketball‚ B. H. Fairchild suggests that there is an eventual downfall to all lives; they try to reclaim their competence but doing so only evokes the nostalgia for the lost youth. Through the scene of old men basketball‚ Fairchild captures the details of the old men’s unfitness and laments on the speed that life decays at and the inabilities that comes with
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Dad‚ I was wondering if you could get me a basketball hoop so I can play my favorite sport at home. Some of the reasons you should get me a basketball hoop is that I don’t like walking 5 blocks to go to the community basketball hoop‚ it can help me with exercising my body and doing a workout‚ and some of my friends can come over to my house to play on my very own basketball hoop. The reason that I don’t want to walk five blocks to the community basketball hoop is that sometimes there could be another
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