It's been roughly a month since basketball season started and our team has improved greatly since day one. The team started off very rough, and disorganized during our scrimmages, our team had a lot of new faces this year and it was going to take time before we started playing smooth basketball. However, within the first week, we jumped right into learning new plays, and defenses, of which was very new to even some of us veterans to the team being so used to a sort of casual street basketball practices in the previous years. Our coaches told us to be like "sponges" and to absorb what they tell us, and I think we did just that. Two weeks later, we had our first unofficial game against the faculty where I would say we played quite well despite all the new basketball "knowledge" that we had to absorb within the previous week. As for my individual performance, I thought I had an "alright" game, I had some good looks and a couple of steals. However, I noticed that I had to work on my defensive awareness on the court because at times, I was lost when we quickly switched defensive strategies on the court.
The week after was followed by heavy conditioning, lots of wind sprints, air benches, and stations. Practice was more tiring, but I felt stronger and faster after each day. We almost won against a much older and bigger team, with the final score of 49-54. Our team in general played very well and I could clearly see us improving. However my individual performance in that game was quite poor. I felt like I was forcing my shots and wasn't as relaxed as I usually was. I felt really terrible after that game, and even the next few days, although I tried my best not to show in practice as I tried to look at my difficulty as a motivation to improve in the next game. Hopefully, I can perform better in the next game, and eventually deserve to be part of the starting line up again.
GOAL FOR THIS WEEK (in order of importance)
1) Defense, defense, defense!
2) Court awareness
3) Mid range jump shot
4) Drive and Dish
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