Today Tuesday, November 22, 2011, I went to watch the basketball game between the Briar Cliff – Chargers against the Doane – Tigers.
During its development I was sitting next to a neighbor from the residence and I was able to recognize some of my life aspects that I had not remember from childhood (when I used to play basketball).
At the beginning, our team the Chargers was really good and we were up for more than 12 points. Later on, the team got distracted and maybe overconfident, we begin to fail on the scoring and the other team began to catch up. By the second half, the Tigers had catch up, and after a while they were with more than 20 points ahead.
Thanks to the game, I remembered how special is the relationship between each one of the teammates (between them and also with coach).
As the plot of the game went on, I was able to see how the players placed all their energy in their shots and passes, and how each one of them created a unique conception of a game inside their minds. In their eyes the objective was focused in scoring, but outside of it, the mind of the players was at other place. Some of them, were probably thinking about the coach’s pressure, feeling the directions of his voice on their minds. Others were maybe thinking about their relationship to the audience, to their team or to their family and friends who were at the bleachers. Others, perhaps moved to their future success as basketball players, they even thought about their physical world and their connection to the ball.
This and much more, connected the 31 individuals with their teams. Inside a place where millions of feelings were all carried by a single ball.
In every second and every point, there was a pursued experience of sports and there is an achieved feeling of timelessness during action.
At the end when the players are inside the court, the only thing that matters is the satisfaction of making the sport happen. Your goal becomes nothing else but the connection of your team against your opponent’s.
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