Tulsa Shock

Author's Note: Today you are going to be reading a creative piece. I decided to write this because I was inspired by her talent with a basketball. Make sure to pay attention to how they work to get better.

Congratulations Mackenzie Schill, you have just have been accepted to the WNBA, read a sheet of paper from the Tulsa Shock. When she opened this letter she was so happy that she fainted, in other words gravity pulled her down to the ground. When Mackenzie came to, she knew that she was going to really have to work her butt of to play.

It was her first day playing with Tulsa Shock. She felt like she had to use a lot of speed in order to keep up with the other players. They did a lot of drills involving momentum, after a while of those drills they got into shooting. A lot of taller stronger people aren’t as good at shooting as guards, you could tell because the taller people had to force the ball to get the ball to the hoop. Now Mackenzie is a guard so shooting was one of her specialties.

After they worked on their shooting skills, they helped the centers work on their moves. They had little girls guard the big girls so that if they had a mismatch they would have the advantage. The posts also practiced going up against girls that were the same size as each other, so that they could improve their moves and be able to beat anyone under the hoop.

For the next part of the girls practice they worked on acceleration. They had to learn how to speed up and beat their defender down the court. They practiced this by doing suicides. Suicides are sprints running from the baseline to the free-throw line back to the baseline to the half-court line back to the baseline then down to the opposite free-throw line back to the baseline, then to the other baseline and back. This helped with acceleration because you have to work on stopping and then starting up and regaining your speed.

Since the girls were already working so hard, their coach decided to make them push them a little bit harder. The team was pretty fast with their feet, but their coach wanted to make them even better. She wanted to make them do defensive slides, which are where you slide from one lane line to the other and you go for as long as your coach tells you to. It kills your legs, after you do them for about a minute, your legs start burning. I can relate, since I have had to do them a lot in my career.

The coach finally decided to lighten up on the girls since they were working really hard. Their coach wanted them to do free-throws while their legs were tired, so it would prepare them for tough games. After shooting about 20 free-throws each practice was over. Mackenzie knew that she was going to have to work her butt off for the rest of the season, seeing as this was her first practice. She knew that it would get harder as the season went on.