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How To Write A Descriptive Writing About Basketball

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I woke up on a sunny cold Saturday morning,my throat hurt and my stomach ached and I was still tired so my eyes were half opened.I went out of my bedroom and went through the hallway and sat on the couch in the living room.I looked at the time it was seven o’clock and knew why I was up that early it was because I had a basketball game at 8 o’clock.The team was called the Seminoles some people barely knew anyone on my team only I knew one person and her name was Mackenzie.I was very nervous and I wasn't even at the basketball court yet but I shone no facial expression.My mom asked me in an awake and ready voice “what do you want for breakfast?”I answered her back trying to talk but I was yawning “cereal”.She went into …show more content…

Then I put on my basketball socks and shoes on and quickly ran down the basement stairs and found the fridge in the dark opened it and grabbed my favorite flavor of Gatorade, ran up the basement stairs and out the breezeway door and into my mom's silver painted car that was very dirty on the inside though it wasn't like that on the outside .We drove down Urban a very bumpy road that turns off into my road that I live on.Six minutes later we arrived at Marine City High school,I jumped out of the car and ran to the white rusty doors I saw my team and my coach standing with my team by the door .It wasn't time for us to play but our team was not the greatest team in the winter team.We were waiting for the other team to clear out the court.I was shaking with fear that I was going to mess up and lose the whole game for my team and not know the plays and who I’m …show more content…

We all went out into the court, we matched up with the other players and got into our positions.Someone tipped the ball over to our side and dribbled to the basket and scored and they got three points because it was from the three point line.we ran back to our side to block them from scoring but we didn't really need to because they didn't make the basket but I knew that we had to because we didn't want one of their players to get the ball and

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