Green horns(poetry and comentatary on true life Basketball)

Green horns: Players and coach

Because I was new to coaching and they were new to the games, and it was their first experience outside the university, I have to encourage them to ask the official about a rule interpretation during a regular or 20-second timeout charged to our team. Because I was unable to discuss a judgment decision.

There was a time our play was so bad that I thought all the players will be fouled out and we had no bench, No team may be reduced to less than five players. If a player in the game receives his sixth foul and there is no substitute the player will remain in the game, resulting in a team foul, which was our worst undoing, when most of the players had four fouls to their names

Being over cautious to avoid team foul, lead to more mistakes, Steven Okoye went out injured, and we were soundly beaten

And then the excuse began…
A ballplayer laughs, and blamed me Coachy
Said they outplayed us in every phase of the game
Because Coachy refused to leave him inside
Taking him off for a scrappy player

A ballplayer laughs and said I hate him
Why else I didn’t put him to lead the team
For he wanted it more than a teammate does
And his assumption was we beat ourselves.

Voices said from the stand
It just wasn't meant to be our day
We had our chances but we let them slip away
Because the Coachy know not some basic rules

Emeka was my assistance as the coach
And he was a youth younger than most players
And admitted the best team won today
And that we came up a little short.

I don't want to point fingers
But the bull injury left us short
And therefore the turnovers killed us
And they out-muscled us

Ibrahim say they out-coached us.
Ayo said we got a wake-up call.
Beddie admitted we weren't mentally prepared.
And the coach came out flat.

TC said there were too many defensive lapses.
Voices said our defense was a non-factor.
Jonathan said we shot ourselves in the foot
And the coach dug us a deep hole

Obaro said we lost our focus.
Afeez said we didn’t get the big breaks today
When our defense didn't show up
to replace a disqualified player

I take full responsibility for this loss.
Because we didn't get the job done
they out-hustled the green horns we were
and ate our lunch in the basketball court

we can still hold our heads high
we guys have nothing to be ashamed of
because it is our first major tournament
and the others has twenty years over us

I tip my hat to them.
As the ball just didn't bounce our way
they just made the big plays and we didn't.
we only have to look in the mirror
and learn from what we learned in deed


Green horns: Account of the Game
( a game of promise)

One of my player looks around
He looked hard right and left
I look hard at him from the bench,
pointing out were I found an opening
to the point guard.

He fake left
then spin right,
he release the ball
it's in flight.

Saed; the point guard catches it
the perfect pass from john the bull,
now much closer he get
to backboard glass and line

He fake left
then spin right,
Player and ball rhyming
body dance like poetry in motion,


point guard sets
shoot the ball and miss the shot
yet the cheering crowd
wont forget…
Player and ball rhyming
body dance like poetry in motion