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... Tryouts for basketball had yet to begin and already I was feeling like a nervous wreck. ... Don’t get me wrong: I loved the game of basketball, but I enjoyed watching rather than playing. I had foolishly allowed my cousin, who had played basketball throughout her youthful years, talk me into trying out for the Junior Varsity team. ... “Ring, Ring, Ring,” the bell rung and off to tryouts I went. ... Once we were finished with that, the coaches sat us down and informed us about the skills and drills that we were going to be performing throughout the whole week of tryouts. Once they were done lecturing, we started to work on the fundamentals of basketball: passing, dribbling, defense, and so on. ...
On the second, third and fourth days of tryouts, we basically reviewed what we had covered on the first and then more. ... We spent lots of time working on our defensive skills, because, as I learned at tryouts, defense is an important part of the game. ... Then, we each were given a basketball and were told to shoot a total of ten free throws.
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