What's up babe? I've just came back from court. The good news is - overall, everything went just fine. Lol. Actually I got nothing to say, but just feel like blogging.
Remember the final match? Indeed, I have bought a pair of handbags to tie on legs just before that day. Yeah, one day is not enough to help. Yet it spoilt my performances after that.
I cannot forget how I miss all the easy baskets during those matches. I've been trusted, but I made everyone disappointed. The effects haven't end though. After that day, as long as I was in court, I've poor shooting. Just miss and miss and miss. Even when I was just in front of the basket, my field goals made won't more than 60%. That's terrible.
Perhaps this is because of the sandbags. I've tied them on my legs for few days (including days after the matches). I couldn't explain what are the causes, but I feel a bit imbalance while playing, especially when landing on ground from a jump. Is this the cause of my poor shooting after that? Well, I don't know. But this may be one of the factors.
Today is just different. I came back to the court in this morning. I started to control the ball, with some moves. Surprisingly, everything went smooth. I tried to made shots, and it was better than I expected. Yeah, the curse has finally broken.
Coincidently, a coach and some trainees were there too. They've been there for practicing. Therefore I've the chance to learn from them. Haha. At the same time, I, at the other side of the court was playing as usual. I took roles like what I used to be. However, the players there are just plain players, so I could do things slowly and carefully, as a long warm-up after the depression period.
In conclusion (writing essay?), I am back. Yeah. Maybe I still need some time to get back to normal. But I am satisfied enough. Because I still severely suck yesterday, compared to today's performance. Again, sorry for my poor English. Cheers.
The Answer
First of all, I am not talking about Allen Iverson, haha.
As mentioned in the previous post, the match held. And the answer? I lost 2 games. Yeah, it's strange to say that after losing a game, I was still able to go to the final.
Before the match, I felt sick for 2 days, more or less. It wasn't a sick, but kind of. Sometime I was fine, but most of the time not. However, when I was in game, I din't feel sick. Haiz, too bad that I couldn't put all the blame into the sickness, haha. Perhaps the only effect is feeling a little bit tired in the game.
Ok, it is time to stop crapping. Starting from the first match, my shooting was terrible. If not mistaken, I made the first basket in the first match, and after that I don't think I made any basket. That's not enough, I missed too many easy baskets. My team almost lose the first game because of that, with the gap of only 1 point. Yeah, my team won in that game, but I lost though.
Surprisingly we went to the final. The opposing team was too strong for us, though we still stood a chance to win, if I played well. Their defence wasn't that official --- with a lot of illegal body contacts. What I can say is I contributed a lot in defence, but on the offensive side, I did nothing to help, other than a missed shot.
I got skills, but couldn't exert. When defenders defended me in a distance, I don't dare to shoot. When defenders came near to me, I didn't have the speed to cut through them. (wonder why?) There were some times that I crossed to the basket, but then I missed the baskets. Maybe because of this, one of my teamate decided to control the ball, instead of letting me to be the controler. He should take rebounds and receive the passes from me. But the positions changed, all was playing outside and there was no rebounder.
In the last minute, I was holding the ball, and decided to believe myself. I knew there's no much time left, what I could do was score as fast as I could. Before the opposing players reached their positions, I penetrated to the basket while crossing 2 players. Yeah, I was fast enough to do that. Then, I faked a shot to let another defender to jump over me.
That was the chance to score. To prevent 3 seconds violation and to avoid defence from another 2 players on my left, I took an instant shot. You know, it was right in front of the basket, but I still missed it. Damn. What the damn. I got everything right but missed the shot. Somemore it was a critical shot. I destroyed the last chance for my team to continue the game.
Just after that, one of the opposing players on my left got the rebound. Then passed. Then passed to another player. Then finally reached to a player in front of our basket to make an easy lay up. The ball went in.
Gone. Everything was gone. And it's caused by me. I cannot forgive myself. Really. The games were over but I cannot stop myself to say sorry. My teamates won 1 lost 1. I lost both. Please blame me. Thanks. Otherwise I won't feel comfortable.
As mentioned in the previous post, the match held. And the answer? I lost 2 games. Yeah, it's strange to say that after losing a game, I was still able to go to the final.
Before the match, I felt sick for 2 days, more or less. It wasn't a sick, but kind of. Sometime I was fine, but most of the time not. However, when I was in game, I din't feel sick. Haiz, too bad that I couldn't put all the blame into the sickness, haha. Perhaps the only effect is feeling a little bit tired in the game.
Ok, it is time to stop crapping. Starting from the first match, my shooting was terrible. If not mistaken, I made the first basket in the first match, and after that I don't think I made any basket. That's not enough, I missed too many easy baskets. My team almost lose the first game because of that, with the gap of only 1 point. Yeah, my team won in that game, but I lost though.
Surprisingly we went to the final. The opposing team was too strong for us, though we still stood a chance to win, if I played well. Their defence wasn't that official --- with a lot of illegal body contacts. What I can say is I contributed a lot in defence, but on the offensive side, I did nothing to help, other than a missed shot.
I got skills, but couldn't exert. When defenders defended me in a distance, I don't dare to shoot. When defenders came near to me, I didn't have the speed to cut through them. (wonder why?) There were some times that I crossed to the basket, but then I missed the baskets. Maybe because of this, one of my teamate decided to control the ball, instead of letting me to be the controler. He should take rebounds and receive the passes from me. But the positions changed, all was playing outside and there was no rebounder.
In the last minute, I was holding the ball, and decided to believe myself. I knew there's no much time left, what I could do was score as fast as I could. Before the opposing players reached their positions, I penetrated to the basket while crossing 2 players. Yeah, I was fast enough to do that. Then, I faked a shot to let another defender to jump over me.
That was the chance to score. To prevent 3 seconds violation and to avoid defence from another 2 players on my left, I took an instant shot. You know, it was right in front of the basket, but I still missed it. Damn. What the damn. I got everything right but missed the shot. Somemore it was a critical shot. I destroyed the last chance for my team to continue the game.
Just after that, one of the opposing players on my left got the rebound. Then passed. Then passed to another player. Then finally reached to a player in front of our basket to make an easy lay up. The ball went in.
Gone. Everything was gone. And it's caused by me. I cannot forgive myself. Really. The games were over but I cannot stop myself to say sorry. My teamates won 1 lost 1. I lost both. Please blame me. Thanks. Otherwise I won't feel comfortable.
Under Pressure
Tell you all something. I am feeling very worry about next Monday match. It is a small basketball contest organized by our school students.
Yeah, I know, you may think that I am kinda foolish. Sincerely and honestly, I never ever scare losing. It is just a battle, there will be winners and losers. Though I don't want to lose.
I told this to my friend, their responds are likely negative --- You are not fighting for your state, but in school only, that means winning or losing doesn't mean anything. Yeah, I admit that I took it quite serious. I don't expect to get the prizes or whatever rewards, all I want is just to win, I WANT TO WIN.
At first, I was quite confident facing the next team. I was confident on my offensive skills and my ability to stop some opponents from getting easy baskets. But a fact has been forsaken --- in our team there're only me and another guy can do things at safe level. While the opponent team included 3 players who can score and defend. I was planning to minimize my misses to leave them apart because our defence is too poor.
Yet, later I discovered that scoring is not that easy, although opponent players couldn't really stop me single-handedly. As I tried to play with people who don't know about basketball, I found that their defence is still suffocating. Without proper rules, they could do anything to stop you. While at the same time, you cannot do things that against the rules.
A simple reason, because they don't know how to play, so the referee won't call them for foul easily. So they are franchise players. Now the case is I have to face franchise players, but not rookies.
OK, stop discussing about this. Let's say if we won them, then we would go to the final. On the same day, we will be fighting for the second time, with a real team. The real team means every player inside knows about basketball. It is too difficult for us. They could do defence, we cannot. Everyone of them can score, whereas only 2 of us can score.
You know, defence is the major part of games. Without defence, it is going to be tough --- tougher than we imagined. The only thing to cure is getting a rebounder, that's all I need for now, I don't expect more. If this happened, that means the game became fairer. One of the reason is our team doesn't have a rebounder, and another reason for it is the opponent team also doesn't have a rebounder.
I don't mind if we have to make much more efforts in the fight, but what I hope is fighting with a chance to win. Even myself also couldn't explain why I want to win so much. It is not about rewards or reputation or anything, but when I am in game, I am responsible for it --- for the win. The competition is organized for competition, whereby we could enjoy and experience it.
Therefore, there's no point to devote everything into a sure-lose game. No point to let opponents absolutely own us. No point.
Hopefully everything will just be fine. We will get a suitable player for rebounding. The following games won't cost our energy that much. Well, it is just a dream, lol. Cheers.
Yeah, I know, you may think that I am kinda foolish. Sincerely and honestly, I never ever scare losing. It is just a battle, there will be winners and losers. Though I don't want to lose.
I told this to my friend, their responds are likely negative --- You are not fighting for your state, but in school only, that means winning or losing doesn't mean anything. Yeah, I admit that I took it quite serious. I don't expect to get the prizes or whatever rewards, all I want is just to win, I WANT TO WIN.
At first, I was quite confident facing the next team. I was confident on my offensive skills and my ability to stop some opponents from getting easy baskets. But a fact has been forsaken --- in our team there're only me and another guy can do things at safe level. While the opponent team included 3 players who can score and defend. I was planning to minimize my misses to leave them apart because our defence is too poor.
Yet, later I discovered that scoring is not that easy, although opponent players couldn't really stop me single-handedly. As I tried to play with people who don't know about basketball, I found that their defence is still suffocating. Without proper rules, they could do anything to stop you. While at the same time, you cannot do things that against the rules.
A simple reason, because they don't know how to play, so the referee won't call them for foul easily. So they are franchise players. Now the case is I have to face franchise players, but not rookies.
OK, stop discussing about this. Let's say if we won them, then we would go to the final. On the same day, we will be fighting for the second time, with a real team. The real team means every player inside knows about basketball. It is too difficult for us. They could do defence, we cannot. Everyone of them can score, whereas only 2 of us can score.
You know, defence is the major part of games. Without defence, it is going to be tough --- tougher than we imagined. The only thing to cure is getting a rebounder, that's all I need for now, I don't expect more. If this happened, that means the game became fairer. One of the reason is our team doesn't have a rebounder, and another reason for it is the opponent team also doesn't have a rebounder.
I don't mind if we have to make much more efforts in the fight, but what I hope is fighting with a chance to win. Even myself also couldn't explain why I want to win so much. It is not about rewards or reputation or anything, but when I am in game, I am responsible for it --- for the win. The competition is organized for competition, whereby we could enjoy and experience it.
Therefore, there's no point to devote everything into a sure-lose game. No point to let opponents absolutely own us. No point.
Hopefully everything will just be fine. We will get a suitable player for rebounding. The following games won't cost our energy that much. Well, it is just a dream, lol. Cheers.
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