Thursday, March 29, 2007

ThE hEaT oF the GaMe...

Many kids here in the Philippines loves to play basketball. I myself love to play this sport. In fact, this is my favorite among all the sports. I do not know why love this game.
I began to appreciate the game when I was in high school. Every afternoon, we always race to the court after the bell rings. We had a “first come, first play” policy that time. I play very bad during those years. I do not even know how to dribble the ball and I always commit either a double dribble violation or a traveling violation. Early in the morning when we reach school, we always proceed to the court and play. Every lunch break we also play basketball without even thinking that we might have a big chance of having appendicitis.
Their right, “practice makes you perfect.” We always play basketball and practice so that we will develop our skills. Every intramurals, we play basketball. It is the most important event for our barkada. It is not only the price money or the trophy that we are after but most importantly, the PRIDE.
Though I cannot say that I am one of the best players in our group but I knew that time that I am improving each and every time that we play. In every game, I can see that I am improving although there are times that I do not have the luck and I shoot the ball poorly. I became a ball hog because I want to show them that I can do well, but I was wrong. Basketball is a team game after all and I have to trust and pass the ball to my team mates so that we will win. Among my friends, I was the on who easily get mad when I get elbowed, when we are about to lose or when I do not like the referee’s decision and I was the one who always elbow the opponents. In fact I was scolded by my PE teacher one time because I got wild when we lost in the semi final game of our 3-on-3 challenge.
When the last intramurals of our batch came, every one was really eager to win back our pride. We lost to the sophomores last year when we are still juniors that time, and this time we will make it sure that the juniors will not beat the extra hot seniors and we will bury them alive. In our first meeting, they buried as first in terms of the scores but the experience of the great players in our batch beat their plays. We knew that we will really win and we really made it. We really came out champions in the game and we have really won back our PRIDE. After all we have proved to them that they were just lucky last year that is why they have beaten us because our star player did not play. We have proved to our batch mates that basketball is really our game, but they are really good but not quite enough.

I will never ever forget that last intramurals basketball game because of all the games that I have played the last year, that was really the best.

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