Basketball has
been super fun lately. I started out having trouble making a left handed layup
but I have gotten a lot more consistent. We started out with the Turkey
tournament over thanksgiving break. I wasn’t there for the first game but
apparently we won by 9 against Villa Grove, a solid start. Two days later we
played a bad Decatur Christian. We were expected to destroy them but we ended
up going 0-5 down. After we woke up we started to come back and we beat them by
20 or so. This always sucks for me because I warm the benches for others and
only go in on games where we are up by a lot. Even though most games I sit out
the whole game, I really get a special type of thrill handing out water bottles
to the sweaty athletes who put their life on the line for their team. While the
game goes on, however, it’s fun because we start chants and talk crap about the
other team, yelling out funny remarks. We also have a freshman on the varsity
team who we designate to take stats, many times he is the butt of jokes and
some people, not naming any names, take it too far sometimes. But the bench is
a fun place to be, we always make jokes about how we might go in or it might be
our chance to make our impression on coach!
The
next couple games we lost to Clinton, a 3A school, 54-60, it was a good game
and we had a comeback going on, and later that day we beat Blue Ridge. That
concluded our tournament and we are now going into the regular season, 1-1,
with a loss to Arcola and a win against Villa Grove again. The Arcola loss was
bad and a game where we weren’t playing well at all, but I believe we bounced
back against Villa Grove. Speaking of Villa Grove, I scored my first basket
their!! I went in with 4 minutes to go and I made a layup but I think I made a good
cut to get into the position to shoot. I dedicate those two points towards the
bench squad for believing in me. Hopefully one day I can be like Paul and Noah
who brag about how many girls follow them on Instagram after every game. It’s
really just not fair because no one followed me after soccer games.
Although
it can be disheartening to not play at all some games, on away games
specifically, the bus rides back make it all worth. The upper classmen go to
the back of the bus, pull up a beat, and start rap battles, which if I may say
so myself, can get pretty heated sometimes. Yesterday, Tony was attempting to
rap and the bus driver interrupted and roasted the LIFE out of him. It was bad
and I don’t think Tony will have the courage to rap any time soon.
Hopefully
there will be many more highlights to the season and a regional plaque to
remember it all.