Saturday, October 4, 2008

Basket ball.. cool hobby turning th dreams come true....

Yep... Basket ball... My hobby since the third year of my BE ...
Well, from my school days i am a volleyball player.. And from my school days, we struggled to get a medal in that game.. But we had tough opponents.. Till this day, we couldn't get a medal in the game..

In the middle of my third year, i got attracted by the basketball... I, whenever the volleyball was not practiced, went to learn the game.. First few days of the basketball coaching.. Couldn't get the ball under control, missing again and again.. I badly wanted to learn it.. Something insisted me to continue..
Day by day, struggled to learn it.. Got a hell lot of sprains and hurt.. Made a hell lot of fouls while practice play.. Rough play... Every day, learnt something new.. And i loved to get tired and see the max extent that i can go.. Just tried to generate energy from within even when i was drained out of it.. Learnt that too...
Came to final year..First Basketball tournament came.. Tournament in Nellai... Two teams from our college.. Team A with all main players.. Team B with players who know the game.. I was asked to choose the team.. Which team, which team.. At the last minute, chose to play.. Play in the first tournament.. Even if i loose, i wanted to learn from it.. Went into the team B.. Lost and our team was knocked out of the tournament.. But... I came to the real game, real tiredness.. Just felt superb to experience it... Learnt a lot...

Then came volleyball zonals.. played a tough match as usual and lost.. Came back with disappointment.. Then saw that a month gap was there for the basketball zonals.. And i was amazed... The team captain and a junior who was a state player, both asked me to join in the team.. Their trust.. It just boosted me up.. My friends toooo.... And went and practiced.. Daily... And the day before the ZONALS, in PSN College.. I am not a good player.. Just learning... Went for practice.. Tried some 15 to 20 attempts.. Got only 3 to 5.. Got damn upset... Thought i had failed their expectations... My friend called up and said, Wat u saw today wont happen tommorow.. Trust me... I then left the ground..

Next day.. The ZONALS... First match, went on.. i played in the last two quarters, and finally... We WON.... I played a good game and did not fail, the words, came true... And similarly player the tournament, In semifinals, against the Home team.. That was one tough match... We won that too... At the end of the Zonals.. We were the Gold Medalists!!!! Came back with full satisfaction... Practiced for interzonals...

Interzonal, At Chennai.. Came.. All tough matches.. The team, Team players, our guys, too strong in what we learn't.. I didn't play in the first three matches, as they were all tough ones.. An finally, in semi finals... The score was 40-41..
Just one point.. One point that lifted us to the finals.... The finals, against JEPPIAR Engg coll.. All tall players.. 3 of them over 200cm.. I and captain Mani, were 186cm.. I had to play.. We were sure of losing.. Still played in the finals.. Played the whole game.. In the end.. We lost.. 17-47.. But we all were happy, since no other team has ever brought home a medal from the interzonals, and we were the SILVER Medalists... I was damn happy, since i scored 5 points for the team out of the 17.. After the game, seeing my performance, the state player said, we should have let him play in the whole tournament... Called my dad, mom, friends and said about the game.....

Dream came true......... My hobby... Playing basketball, brought my dreams come true.. Two medals in the Engineering life.... Thanks to mom, dad, bro, the GCE basketball team and all my friends who supported us and because of whom my dream came true:-)