Pablo's Passion For Basketball

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It all started in Pablo’s mind. He witnessed the greatest basketball comeback in history. The Cleveland Cavaliers, led by all-star small forward LeBron James, came back from a 3-1 deficit in the NBA finals to beat the Golden State Warriors and claim the NBA championship.
This is when his passion for basketball sparked and grew like a wildfire.

The following basketball season, after improving his basketball skills during the summer, Pablo tried out for his high school basketball team and made it. After finding out that he made it, Pablo quickly called his parents to tell them the good news. At his first practice, the coach, Coach Damal, quickly noticed that Pablo was a new player and that he had not tried out in previous years. He also noticed …show more content…

Pablo had scored twelve points in the first quarter. All of his points came from three pointers. Pablo was surprised that his team had gotten off to a good start as Chino Hills had one of the best defenses in the country. The second quarter came along and Pablo did not get subbed into the game until there was only three minutes left in the quarter. He was given the nearly impossible task of guarding Lonzo Ball, one of the top three high school recruits for that year. While Lonzo was guarded by Pablo for the remainder of the quarter, he scored only five points and made only one three pointer. Lonzo, while guarded by Pablo, only shot 35% from the field, while shooting 47% from the field while guarded by someone else. The second quarter ended and the game was tied at halftime with a score of sixty to sixty. Lonzo Ball had fifteen points, six assists, and four rebounds. LiAngelo Ball had nine points, four assists, and eleven rebounds. LaMelo Ball had twenty points, ten assists, and two rebounds. The third quarter started and Chino Hills was outscored, twenty to twelve in the 3rd quarter, putting Pablo’s team on top, eighty to seventy-two going into the fourth quarter. Chino Hills went ahead by eight points with four minutes and thirty seconds left. Pablo gets subbed into the game with a minute and forty seconds left. Pablo’s coach called a timeout after Pablo’s

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