Reading this article By Stephen curry was related-able to me. I can relate to his AAU days to mine, When i was coming into my second year of organized basketball and AAU being introduced to me the first time it changed my mindset. I used to always get told i played ‘street ball’ style basketball. That didn’t work well for me with organized high school or middle programs but with the playing flashy i had it was great for these AAU programs and big tournaments. Don’t get me wrong i was skilled enough to do big numbers on this fundamental games in middle school and it went to decent numbers in high school. My first year of AAU i played for MN Heat but it was far so i rarely went to practices and some tournaments sadly. But when i played everyone could see i had put hours and hours to my craft so making a mistake would bother me and regret to let it happen twice. my sophomore i played up a grade and played for both 15U and 17U. this was the year i had seen that the hours i had put in wasn’t enough, although i was putting up 15 points and 6 plus assist a game. I was doing fine but i wasn’t doing what i believe was my best. When Stephen went to the national tournaments and doing poor was similar to me at the battle of the lakes. That was wake up call, playing higher competitions made me hungry. Steph had to to put the work in if he wanted to get to his goals. I had Put hours of work into my jump shot like he did so that is why i believe me and other say it’s somewhat similar. I was short but i was playing basketball for fun at one point i took it serious but i stopped growing and stopped touching rim so i half tried. The one thing me i saw different from steph was when people talk trash or said talked down on me, it wouldn’t bother me at first. Steph said ‘ But at the time?? Man…. it’s hard to even describe how much comments like that bugged me.’ (4) although he was bugged from the comments for me i didn’t really care until it got to the point i was annoyed super mad at the opponents. Then i would hit a stage that i was going to make you look stupid and weak for talking trash. I would play physical and get my teammates involved. the goal was then to beat you in every category. These moments were rare cause i don’t really care what people think about me or say honestly but i enjoy it because i get a rush of adrenaline. Although Steph had comments made about him in basketball performance and then turn it to growth moment and eventually make money out of his worked on talented. He deserves what he worked for, having to write that piece on the player tribune was like reading a documentary and hearing his voice its format style was unusual but i enjoyed this article.
work cited
Curry, Stephen. “Underrated | By Stephen Curry.” The Players’ Tribune, 9 Jan. 2019, http://www.theplayerstribune.com/en-us/articles/stephen-curry-underrated
Curry, Stephen. “Underrated | By Stephen Curry.” The Players’ Tribune, 9 Jan. 2019, http://www.theplayerstribune.com/en-us/articles/stephen-curry-underrated.
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