Ethan Boatman #2

Basketball, it is a sport I enjoy very much. Basically my whole summer has been involved around basketball. I played on an aau team and we honestly did not lose very much. We were pretty good. We won first in every tournament except for a few and we placed second in those. With being pretty good comes being in the gym a lot. I have worked out almost every day this summer just for my self and basketball purposes. Yeah u could be naturally talented at the sport but if you do not put in the work then you will not be as good as what you could be. My chances at making the NBA are a 0. I mean I can not jump out of the gym and can not shoot lights out and all of that. So my chances to going there are not gonna happen unless I hit a huge growth spurt and get over 7 foot tall or something crazy happens. My chances at making it to a big college like Duke or somewhere Division One are not very likely. But I am decently tall for a small school like ours and I could be pretty good for our school so why not give it your all. With my aau team we did not just get good over night. We practiced and practiced and practiced and we were in the gym all the time doing individual drills and doing drills together as a team. We would not have won very many games if we were not in the gym a lot of the time and did not want it that bad. As coach Hall always says, “You gotta want to be in here” and that is very true. We won quite a few games this summer in our team camps with Riverside and I think we could actually be halfway decent this year. We could have been alright last year we just did not want it and did not care. So hopefully this year we change and we actually go out there with some heart and impress a lot of people.