This Weeks Basketball Practice

So far this week our basketball practices were a little difficult. It was difficult because we had to practice without our coach. Our coach is off island because he is trying to get coaches from other schools to bring their teams hereto St.Paul Island Alaska. He is going to be off island until friday. So that means we are going to have to practice all week without his help.

On monday we started off our practice doing layups for warm ups. After we were done with that we started to jog. We jogged for about five minutes. After we were done jogging we did running exercise called four quarters. What we do during four quarters is that we will do two wind sprints, a set of lines, and two backward wind sprints as fast as we can with only twenty seconds for break between each run.

On tuesday we started off our practice doing layups again for a warm up. Then we jogged for five minutes again also. After that we ran full speed for about twenty minutes. After we were done with that we done another running activity called sweet sixteen. And what you do on sweet sixteen is that you have a partner and you have to run back and forth from one side of the court to the other. And you are also being time. Each time you reach a side of the court your partner will count it and once you reach sixteen you are done. We did this two times and the point of it is to beat your time every time you try.

And these couple of days we have been trying to run plays. But it has been difficult because our coach is the one who remembers the plays fully. We were trying to run the plays but the players were barely able to remember how the plays went. We had to draw out all of our plays yesterday. And this was able to help our captains remember most of the play we needed to learn.

Today we will probably do layups to help us warm up again. And will probably jog to finish up the warm up. Hopefully we will not run as much today as we have been for the past couple of days.But our coach is supposed to be on the phone with us during our practice today. This will help us a little bit to remember all of the plays we need to learn.