Personal Narrative Essay On Basketball

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Adriana was not excited for this basketball game, the only thing she was excited for was going to McDonalds afterward. She wasn’t excited because they had just gotten back from the weekend and they had had volleyball and basketball practice on Sunday so Adriana and her team were pretty tired. It was Monday December 4th. Adriana said “ who has games on a monday” The 8th grade girls South Tama basketball team was going to one of their away games. They knew it was going to be a hard team but they were ready to win after so many losses and go to McDonalds and celebrate their win, especially the A team. They kind of knew Williamsburg's plays so they thought they could win.
When they got to the school the gym in Williamsburg was really warm. The team changed into their jerseys and basketball shoes. Then they got on the court and did their team stretching. They were stretching very lazily and non-professionally. They were basically stretching because they had to and just going through the motions of stretching. Then after doing shots and layups they got ready to play. Adriana is post so she was in the middle circle on the court and she was doing jump ball with the girl she had to guard afterwards. The other girl got the tip. …show more content…

Williamsburg got a couple points in. South Tama started losing energy and getting messy with the ball. They didn’t care anymore and none of the shots would go in. The team was struggling on defense because Williamsburg was so hard to guard. South Tama was losing by quite a bit at this point. “The other team has great defenders,” Adriana whispered. Adriana was yelling, “Ball, ball, ball!” when the girl she was defending was taking the ball out. Adriana’s team started getting lots of turnovers and losing the ball a lot. And the opponents made almost every single shot they toke. It was very

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