On the 17/Sep/11 there was a tournament at Rosslyn. It was our first tournament of the year and last year we lost really early in the day after our third game, and this year we wanted to go all the way to the finals. Our first game was against Rosslyn and we beat them and from our first game onwards we kept winning until we reached the semi-finals where we re-played Rosslyn to get into the finals. Before the semi-finals we had a break and I felt that because of the break it affected us and when we went to play Rosslyn again we were doing terribly!! First of all I think we felt as if this game would be an easy win because we already beat them but as soon as the game started we had to grind it out and by the first 10 minutes the score was only 2-2, and we were playing really badly. And for some reason I couldn’t score ANY of my layups they just kept missing! I was soo frustrated, and we all started to become frantic when we realized we were struggling to score so we started turning the ball over and messing up a lot! But during one of the time outs Mr. Quinet convinced us to calm down and slow it down and just execute the plays without rushing it and we did. In the end the score was 10-8 and we only won by two points. That game was really nerve racking and straight after that intense game we had to play RVA ‘a’ team!
We were all so tired and nervous because the previous years they were one of our greatest competitors. As soon as the game started they went out in full speed and ran us over, and for some reason we just froze up and kept turning the ball over and they kept getting steals and running right past us. At one point in the game when we got the rebound and we were going to score I was running towards the basket and somehow my leg got tangled with one of the RVA players and I feel on my ankle and I think I sprained it so I had to go out. It really hurt and I’ve never been really injured in basketball before, usually I would get a scab or a stubbed finger but never an injury where my ankle gets swollen, so I had to sit out and get it tapped. I felt so bad leaving the game but I had to and at this point we were losing by a lot and I felt so defeated and deflated, but after I walked on my ankle a bit more I insisted that I should play , so I got back in the game.
A few minutes later the whistle blew and we lost by a lot. From the start RVA seemed to want to win more then we did they were mentally prepared whilst we were nervous from the beginning which caused us to play really badly. It was a very disappointing game but we learned that we needed to work on so much more before we played RVA again and as I said earlier we could only get better and somehow we had to find a way to relax when we played against RVA instead of becoming frantic and unorganized. During this game I realized how much more we needed to work to be able to look and feel calm and composed so that we could show our full potential in a game.
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