Basketball Team Games!

Creativity+Action+Service

The new format

By observing the quality of the games, member's skill level and people's feedback, I came to a conclusion that the format of games should be changed. Instead of having training session, I felt that shooting and passing practices are not in demand, and by forcing it would result in members leaving. Due to this possible issue I have reoriented the club to a game focused one. 

 My plan was to make 3 fixed teams, each being approximately equal in strength,so they could compete every week toward a championship title or something along those lines. About time management, I though it would be good to have 4 sections of 3 games, allowing each team to play two each section. Between sections there would be a interlude period, when players can drink water and rest a little bit. 

  

 This is first 3 week's personal shoot statistics. 

Even though this is more professional, but I feel that our club can't accurately record this, because for accuracy one person should be dedicated to do that. Nevertheless, this is good evidence of personal skill level of each player which I have incorporated in team making process. 

The Week 4 games 

Last weeks games went accordingly to my plan. Most members were happy with the new team, but like any collective of human beings there were some complains, mainly focused on refereeing. On this problem I would try to assign few people, who have potentials to referee as just as possible or ask some teachers. 

This is the final product which has been put up on the wall. For the layout I got the inspiration from the football club.(Thanks guys!)

I have accordingly filled in the colours for each team and added an overall high score for all the members.(Right side). 

Overall, this was a exciting experience and I felt more confidence into it because of past experiences gained throughout first 3 weeks running the club. 

I still have many things to improve on, such as my own skills (I only scored one, very disappointed) and mastering the the new routine. 

I believe I have achieved:

• Increased Awareness of strengths and areas for growth: through analyzing club members' performance and making the new teams.
• Undertaking new challenges: by experimenting with the new team and calibrating from incoming feedback.
• Planned and initiated activities: by planning the new teams and putting them to use.
• Working collaboratively with others: through listening to feedback and involving others to refereeing, time keeping and score writing tasks.
• Showing perseverance and commitment: I have listened to feedback and have attended the club regularly, even disregarding my opportunity to play the game. 
• Developing new skills: I learn how to make displays and manage the club at the basic level.  

ALLEY OOP!

First attempt

 From the last Monday, when I and my fellow basketball members realised that the basketball club manager is no longer here, we have decided to run the club on our on. Last week, even though it's a bit late to say now, but we have did some basic planning for the first session of the new school year.

 Basically, we made a rough draft of a plan, involving the possible activities we will do on the session and how the game will play out. Frankly, I wasn't involve as much in the first draft of the planning but I sure was involved applying it on the day (last Wednesday).

 As the result, the day was fairly good, but there were some complaints from the members and the whole section lacked structure.

The "new plan"

 Therefore, I have made a newer version of the plan yesterday, just before the second session. In this plan, I have redesigned the warm up section into more detailed drills which is an improvement from the last time. I addition, I have also added a register for the club, in order to see how frequent and punctuate are the members of the club. Finally, as sort of a manager ( I guess I am the manager, I don't fully know) of the club, I have delegated some of the work to fellow members. Those delegations involve: 

•  Splitting the people into two groups, thereby making the drill be more time efficient (delegated the work to the other leader of the group)
• Assigning special tasks (recording the score-miss table for each participant, taking a video (still working on this) and recording the score) to the players who are not playing at the time, because two out of three teams will play, leaving one team to watch. 

 Those delegation shows that I have allocated the work to others in order to make the club run normally, otherwise I could not have done everything myself due to the fact that there is not enough time to perform them alone. 

 Today was a busy but exciting day. After the school has ended, I hurried to the gym to start the plan. In beginning, I was a bit nervous, due to my shy nature, but I found some courage in myself and started the club my announcing few important elements that my new plan had. 

Firstly, I took the register which I have made yesterday, and guess what; it was a great idea to know how many people came today, which will be helpful when it comes to splitting teams for games. I have also added two new member of the club, 2 year 8 girls. I guess my plan for the sign up sheet worked. Anyway, I found out the number of people and began the drills, everything went smoothly, until I and my friend found out the amount of drills was too little for half an hour. In panic, I quick asked one the older member of the club, if she had any good ideas, and luckily she had one. Next time I have something to improve on. 

 When the game has started, I took the responsibility of refereeing the first game, simply because it was my duty. Even though it was my first time doing this, but I did a pretty good job, hopefully not overly biased here, because of the times I watched how others refereed last year. 

 The part about recording the score-miss sheet, people picked it up very willingly, so there was no problem with that. Everyone was very collaborative today which really made happy and I hope this will continue throughout the year. 

 At last, it’s time for some criteria meeting session:

• I have successfully identified the weakness of the last plan and has improved upon it, but still open for further improvement. 
• The managing a club is a brand new challenge for me, because I have never done anything this size before. 
• I have successfully planned the activities and enthusiastically initiated it as much as I could.   
• On the route to today's small success I have learn the importance of collaboration.
• I have shown perseverance and commitment throughout the last year in basketball club and this will continue this year as usual.
• This maybe under considered, but in my posters I have welcomed everyone to join, regardless of the year, gender, which to certain extend attributes to the global issue of discrimination.
• Concerning about ethics, our club will always play fair games and trying hardest to minimise injuries and any form of bullying. 
• At last I have developed some managerial skills such as announcing news and applying theory into practice.