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Basketball Nightmare
May 29th, 2008 by hammond
On this past Wednesday, we had our finals in basketball. We were the only team who was undefeated in the league and were going to play the second best team (which we had beaten already and have been our rivalry for a couple of years). I can still remember that day at school. I was so nervous that I couldn’t ready in class and didn’t know what was going to happened next. When the bell rang, my feet started trembling like if there were an earthquake that was about to destroy us. Finally, we got dressed up for the game, and I could see the big crowd waiting for us at the stands. Usually, we run some lay-up drills which I could barely make because of how nervous I was. When the game began, I could feel the drops of sweat blobbing down my chin and drooping on the floor. The roar of the crowd was so loud I thought that I was at an amusement park next to a rollercoaster. I wasn’t on the starting line, but I got put in a couple of minutes after the game started. I was trying my hardest: setting screens, playing defense, and giving it my best running up and down the court. After I was in for a while, I sweating like if I had just gotten out of a pool and my nervousness began to go away. But, the only problem was that we were down by more than 12 points! We ran a full court press with all we could and had a huge come-back which caused us to lead by about 7 points! The team was really excited so we started doing dumb mistakes just like the other team, but we lost the ball way to many times leaving the other team very easy points. We were down by one and I was on the bench with a lot of other friends. All I could do was scream like a little boy who just fell off of a swing. The mighty roar of the crowd was getting louder every second. There was 4 seconds left and the ball went out and we only had 1 second let on the clock (but the other team was throwing the ball in). Our teammate DJ intercepted the ball and shot from almost half-court a split-second before we could hear the buzzer. Everyone looked at the ball in amusement. The ball hit the backboard, then hit the rim, but then fell out. We lost by one point and this was a major defeat. But, we still had a better season than them. We had 9 wins and 1 loss, they had 8 wins and 2 losses.
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