Games #2 and 3 of NJB league

My team was going up against a high scoring team . The team is called Paolo Alto. The score a lot of three-pointers and get a lot of  shots inside the paint. The game was going to be held in a High School called Andrew Hill High School.

The game started of as the other team won the  the tip-off. They easily scored with their tough Center in the paint. As the first quarter continued, I started to score as well. I scored one layup on fast-break. That was when we started to cut the lead to 6 when they had the lead of 13.

As the second quarter began, we were still down by 6 until Paolo Alto started to knock down a lot of three-pointers. It still continued like that until the the second quarter finally ended and that was when half-time was about to begin.

As half time finally began, our coach went over the mistakes we were doing and told us the right things that we as a team had to do. When the third quarter began, our team started to make a lot of lay- ups which cut the lead to 6. But that didn’t bother the other other team, they were still making a lot of three pointers. As the third quarter ended we still kept their lead to 6.

Minutes passed by in the 4rth quarter and the lead was still 6. Then it came to the final 2 minutes. The coach made a play for me to score a three pointer to cut the lead to 3. I got the ball, shot the three pointer, but barely missed as the ball went in, and then came out. That was  our chance but I didn’t happen to make the shot. The game ended as we lost by 13 points.

End of Game 2

 

A week passed since my team lost against Paolo Alto. Now we were playing against a team that is far more better than Paolo Alto! The  game was  going to be held in the same place were the previous game was held.The tam name is the Sequoia Storms.

As our team entered the court, we saw players in the other team that were far more taller than us.

After practicing in the court, the game started. I was in the starting line-up. In the first quarter, we were losing like crazy. We were getting crushed by the other team’s centers.

Our team only scored when we were wide- open. But we couldn’t drive into the  lane that often. The second and third quarter passed and their lead was up to 16!

Now it was the time for the last quarter. We had to get their lead down to at least 4 in 8 minutes. We tried and tried to score by driving into the lane but the other team was defending too well. So the ended up as we lost by 25!

Our team won 1 game and experienced 2 disappointing losses. We hope to improve more throughout the whole season.

 

First Basketball Game – For NJB All-Net

Today was the first game for the NJB All-Net league. It was Evergreen (us) against Willow Glen. We won the tip-of and started out pretty well. We played good defense and made lots of lay-up shots. But the other team was doing well too. They scored also and played good defense. At the end of the first quarter, the game was in our hands. We were up by 6 points.

When the second quarter started, we were still doing pretty well on our defense, but the offense of Willow Glen rose up and up until we were only up by 2. But thanks to people in our team who made their shots, we slowly (once again) took the lead. It was until I got into the game for the second time. I couldn’t any shots into the basket, but I played my best defense. Once again, as the clock went to 00:00, we were up by 4.

This was the quarter were we had the most trouble, but came back. Willow Glen was down by 6. But then, they started to make lots and lots of jumpshots and soon, took the lead by 2. They kept the lead like that until the 3rd quarter ended.

Now came the last quarter, 2 minutes had passed and we got their lead back to 0. This was our chance to win the game, and we used that chance. Everyone took lay-up shots and thankfully, made all of their shots. Also, our lead went up to 3. With 51 seconds left and as we were leading by 3. The other team made two free throws and our lead was down to 0. But it wasn’t too late until we took our time and passed the ball to a wide open person under the basket who obviously, made the shot. Then it came down to 6 seconds,5,4,3, the other team took a three pointer and……… miss! The clock went down to zero and we won our first game of the NJB All-Net season.

 

“The Son of Neptune” – Summary Author- Rick Riordan

As most of you may know, the book, “The Son of Neptune” has released almost 2 months ago. It is book 2  from the series, “The Heroes of Olympus”. Instead of Jason, Piper, and Leo being the three main characters of the book, there are three new main characters that are also part of the Prophecy of seven demigods. Those three new characters are Percy ( son of Neptune), Hazel (daughter of Pluto), and Frank (son of Mars).

The story begins as Percy Jackson had just lost his memory because the Roman god Juno took away his memory forever. The only thing he could remember is Annabeth from his old demigod camp ( Camp Half Blood). Percy arrived at Roman camp called Camp Jupiter (Percy is mostly used to Greek) with two friends named Hazel and Frank. Also, the only thing different about Percy from other Roman campers is that Percy does not have a SPQR tattoo on his arm. The tattoo stands for Roman.

As the story goes on, Percy, Hazel, and Frank are given a quest were they have to free Thanatos (Pluto’s assistant who makes sure that no one escapes from the underworld) from a fierce giant who is a son of Gea ( mother earth) who wants to destroy all the Roman and Greek gods.

Franks life all depends on a stick. If the stick burns up, then Frank dies. As for Hazel, she’s supposed to be dead. Hazel was one of the people who escaped from the Underworld because Thanatos was trapped. But Hazel isn’t much of a bad person. She basically wants to live a better life than she lived in her last one.

“The Son of Neptune” is a very exciting and fun book created by Rick Riordan. Don’t forget, the third book, “The Mark of Athena” is coming out next fall.

 

Basketball Game- NJB

             Today, I had a basketball game. It was between the San Jose Naturals ( my team ), and the South Bay Warriors. It was an NJB game.

              The game started out with five of our players. Most of them were tall. As for the other team, they had even taller players , but they also had some medium-sized players. 

            When the referee threw the ball up in the air for the jump ball, our team got the tap, but the other team managed to get a hold of the ball. In the first few possessions, no one scored until the opposite scored an easy lay up on fast break. By the way, this wasn’t a league game, it was a game just for fun. Anyways, our team made a lot of efforts to make a basket in the hoop, but the other team was leading. (since this game was just for fun, the referee didn’t really keep the scores of the game. But if you were looking at the game, you could probably tell that the other team was winning.

            When I finally got into the game, I was very excited to play.I thpught it would be easy to make shots, but it turned out being hard to at least GET the ball. But after some time, I got used to the opponents defense and found out how to get the ball from my teammates. I at least helped my team by getting a couple of offensive, and defensive rebounds.

           As soon as I got subbed out of the game, I was “observing” a few things from the game with my teammates. We were discussing about their deffense and how to overtake it.

          I got subbed in once again. But this time on the third possession, I scored a three pointer. I heard a few people from our bench cheering up our team so we can be energized and so we could play good. Right after that three pointer, I got an offensive rebound and scored a lay up. I played for a long time until I finally got subbed out.

        I watched the rest of the basketball game. It was then time to give a handshake to the other team. When the handshakes were over, I walked out of the court and went home with my dad.

NJB- A new league

       I have finally joined a new basketball league in San Jose CA. The league is called NJB (National Junior Basketball). It is a very competitive, and exciting league. It’s way better than the other league I used to go to. The better thing is, is that we get to be a travel team.

     The games didn’t start yet, but my dad put me in a team were i have practices scheduled every week. The team is called San Jose Naturals. We not only do basketball drills in practice, but we also make sure we have upper body strength, arm strength, and leg strength. We do a variety of drills to make sure we are strong and healthy. But during the middle of the day, I feel really tired and sore. But our coach just tells us to keep doing the drills continuously, then, we will be used to it. I really find these practices more hard-working than the ones in Michigan.

     Another thing is, if you want to qualify into a team, you first have to get signed up into the league, then got to the NJB tryout, held in a certain area. If you do good, you’ll be in a team which as a good record. But if you make a lot of mistakes, you’ll be in a team which has a lot of beginner players. But when I tried out in the beginning, I made into the good team. But after you try out in the beginning, you can then try out for All Net. All Net is a division were all the good players play. If you then play good in All Net, you will then be in the All Star team were your team can travel to places such as Los Angeles. But you don’t necessarily have to try out for All Net. It’s your choice.

      From what I think this far, I think that NJB is a really good league. I just hope I play good and probably make it into All Net.

Google Maps saved the day

This is a real, true story that happened yesterday night at a hiking place at Cupertino California. At 6:30 pm in the evening, my family (including me) and my cousins went to hike in Rancho Hiking Trail. The first thing we saw when we entered the trail was people flying big and unique remote-controlled airplanes. Everyone was looking at it with pure amazement. I was fascinated by the takeoff and the landing of the mini plane which made me want to use it myself. But I had some adventurous hiking to do ( which I hate doing ).

When we were about to enter the hiking trail, we had to get a map and set the GPS on my uncles i phone just in case if we get lost. So we all went off into the mountains of Cupertino. For the first half mile all we could see were wide open areas were things such as tennis courts were held. then after about one tenth of a mile, we started to get into the mountain and into the woods. That’s when my younger cousins and my sister started to talk about getting eaten by a mountain lion and what they would do to survive. Well, I found that conversation annoying to me. There were two trails, the first one was Coyote Trail and the second trail was called Wildcat Troop trail. So we decided to go on the Wildcat Troop Trail. When we were literally in the mountain, that was when the conversation started to stop. So my younger cousins and my sister were looking out for the appearance of mountain lions.

I just ignored that lookout for mountain lions and simply started to hike on top of the mountain. After about 3 or 2 and a half miles of hiking, we turned back to leave. So when we walked back , there were two entrances, so we took the one on the right. But just to tell you, that was the wrong one. My dad and my uncle were really confident that we were going on the right trail. But slowly and slowly, their confidence started to go a little bit down when they found out that the trail was taking us up instead of taking us down. But the worst part was that it was getting really dark. But my uncle had a flashlight on his i phone ( i phone 4 blackberry with GPS). That flashlight was bright enough to light up 1/4 of a kitchen. So as we went on the trail in the darkness,we saw a sign that changed everyone’s hope. The sign said : End of Trail. Every “Girl” was scared until we saw two roads. We didn’t know which one to pick so we thought about it and picked the right one. You might be thinking it was dumb of us to not use the GPS. We did, but google maps wasn’t accurate about the direction were going to, but my uncle fixed that problem and it told us to walk right. We walked about 700 feet and saw something that wasn’t expected to be seen. That ” something” was a mountain lion. My dad says it was a deer but most of us agreed that it was a mountain lion. My aunt was really scared. She was so scared that if we stayed there for another half an hour, she would burst into tears ( same thing goes to my mom ). After 20 seconds of when my aunt said she was scared, google maps told us to walk about o.1 miles more until we reached to our destination.

None of the people agreed except for my uncle and my dad ( they had confidence ). We walked until we saw the entrance which we came from. It was miracle. Google maps saved the day. I now have an experience of how it is to be lost in the nature. It’s scary, but when you get lucky and then get saved, you feel like partying and dancing. That’s just what my sister and my younger cousins did, they sang and sang and sang until we found the car. My uncle scared my aunt by saying ” Oh no, I can’t find my keys!” I fell for it, but my aunt was like ” Oh my gosh!” We got into the car and went towards this Indian restaurant, and that is the end of the epic,adventurous, and wild hiking day.

My dad told me to write some tips for you when you go hiking.

1. Always charge your phones before you go hiking.

2. Don’t go hiking in the evening in the Spring or in the fall. ( it gets dark very early).

3. When you go hiking, always stick to only one trail.

4. When you go hiking and get lost, don’t panic, but just find some lights and head towards there.

5. The most important thing to do when you get lost, is to have confidence that you WILL find a way to get out of the trail.

Moving to California

    About 4 days ago, me and my family moved to California. We live in San Jose. The flight was very exciting because I got to see the mountain views from way up from the sky. After 2 days of living in California I was already getting used to it. But I still had my jetlag with me. One thing that I have been looking forward to doing is playing alot of basketball and making a ton of friends. So far, I found a basketball court behind my court and I found some people who I could play basketball with. Also Im waiting for the T.V to come and all the video games that come with it.

   One thing I notice is that many people ride bikes around the neighborhoods and even around the streets. Even I am looking forward to getting a bike. Guess what? My house is on a mountain. Some day, me and my family are going to go hiking on the mountain.

   Well, this is all I have to say about my new place and I hope I make a ton of friends and play a lot of basketball.

 

PS3 vs Xbox 360

         During these past days and years, there has been conversations of wich game system is better, PS3 or Xbox 360. Well, I personally like PS3 more than the Xbox 360. But I found out that more people like Xbox 360 more than the PS3. The reason is because it is more easier to play online and also the $50  you pay every year is actually worth spending it because the online play is much better than the PS3′s.

One thing that makes the PS3 more better is the features. Sony provides the PS3 more better features than Microsoft does to the Xbox 360.

Skull Candy

          Skull Candy is a brand which makes one of the best headphones in the world. It not only makes headphones, Skull Candy also makes earphones, skateboards, snowboards, and MP3 players. The brand got launched in 2003. The head quarters for the company is located in Park City, Utah. Later in 2008, Skull Candy was named the worlds coolest ear bud. Since Skull Candy is in contact with sports, the company decided to make sports players headphones. Such as Derrick Rose from the Chicago Bulls. They put his name and his number on the headphones and many commercials about it. Skull Candy is making products. But as they make more, they get a lot of money.

NBA 2k

      NBA 2k has been the most famous sports games in the world. It all began in 1997 and it is still going on. The next game ( NBA 2k12) will be releasing on October 4, 2011. So far the main thing that 2k has had a success on is NBA 2k11. Lots of video game players come to play it, and before it even got released, there were many pre-orders.

     So far the most famous game is NBA 2k11. It’s because Michael Jordan is on the front cover. Also the ” Jordan Challenge ” has been a great success. It is a game mode where you get to play as MJ and do all the amazing performances he did in his NBA career.

    NBA 2k is getting better and better, but there is still more games that will be made.