Basketball

Playing basketball is something I have loved doing since about the fifth grade, and since I got to school here, I have played a lot more basketball than I did in high school. I play every Friday at the Rec Center and every Monday at the Horace Mann gym. Both of those events are sponsored by the Navigators. I also am willing to play just about any other time, if someone will go with me. One thing though I hate, is the fact the players have no repercussions that stop them from fouling somebody. Because here, they are just pick up games so you just take it at the top of the key. In organized basketball you get a foul, and the other team gets to shoot free throws, and if you get five fouls you have to sit out the rest of the game. More than one time while playing here, I have took cheap shots in the back on fast breaks, that would warrant a technical foul or even an ejection from the game in organized sports. So I nearly get injured because someone doesn’t have the sportsmanship to play clean, because they know if they alter my shot enough I’ll miss and we have to take it from the top of the key. Which I think is quite ridiculous.