Choosing a junior high basketball team can be very easy. All you have to do is follow a couple guidelines. Pick who you know and not those who show they can play. Now if you do decide to pick somebody you don't know, be sure to limit your choice for two people. Here, I'm proving a point. Junior high basketball teams are picked based on "popularity" among coaches, and not necessarily, all the time, based on talent. This is how the basketball team at my junior high school is being selected.
Two days ago I went to basketball tryouts and after I finished playing a 5-minute game I signed a sheet. This sheet seemed to be the "to be considered" list, since everybody knew who the "automatically on the team players" were. Those players signed another paper. When everybody was finished singing the papers, each group sat on a different side of the bleachers in the gym. I sat on the left, where the "to be considered" group sat. The other group, "the automatic players", sat on the right side.
From that point, the coach allowed people from the "to be considered" group to play against the best of the best on "the automatic players" side. When I played I only got the ball twice, once off of a rebound. But when I went up to score, I was immediately hacked and pushed down to the floor while I was shooting. It basically continued like that for all other players, "the automatic players" were playing extra hard. In other words they were playing wild and kept fouling.However, no fouls were called and seemed as if it was encouraged.
I left practice with some pretty sore legs. But I had the feeling like I still could make the team. Then I realized, I don't care if I make the team or not. I just went because I thought it was flag football that day. Instead, it was basketball tryouts. Next time I go for tryouts I'll have three things in my mind: 1) I'm not suppose to be picked, 2) I don't have a need to be picked, and 3) Like always, I'll still go out there and do my best.
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