Summer Ball is when you have time to work on your game, get better and really have a chance to be good. But the one thing that you can’t work on or improve is the height you are given. When you’re the smallest kid playing in a big man’s game, the challenges never stop.
There is a lot of ways to play the game of basketball and being the smallest kid on the court never helps, trust me I know. When I say there’s a lot of ways to play the game, I mean it. First you have to now how to shoot and dribble, and as you get better there are other things you can learn. Like more complicated dribbling, shooting from farther out, passing, defense and being a teammate. Those are probably the most important things in this great game.
Throughout this book you see how Danny needs his friends to make it through the summer basketball camp. Not only would I need my friends to help me through it, I would also need my family if I was going away for a month. If you read this novel I thought it was good at showing kids that you have to be tough, make it through hard times and stick with the stuff that you love. In this novel it also shows that when your down and that is how you’re acting you’ll stay that way and it will only get worse.
As soon as Danny, Ty and Will (the three main characters) enter the basketball camp they are immediately forced to win by their coach. If you were someone reading this book, you’d think yeah it is fun to win but if your coach says the team has to win or you are done then it wouldn’t be much fun anymore. That is how Danny felt after his coach said that, and anyone else who plays basketball including me would not have much fun with that coach either.
Summer ball is a great book and I read it because it came after another good book Travel team, both by Mike Lupica. Both of those books say that it is ok to be small and play the sport. Because when you’re the smallest kid playing in a big man’s game the challenges never stop.
By, Jackson kunnert
