SAISA basketball this year was hosted in Mumbai, India and consisted of 8 teams, the American School of Bombay (ASB, our host school and 2nd place overall, even though we would have beaten them), American Community School of Omman (ACS, rightful 1st place winners), the American International School of Muscat (TAISM, 4th place overall), the American International School of Chennai (AISC 5th place maybe?), Lincoln School (LS, last place), American International School Dhaka (AISD), and of course our school, coming 3rd place.

 

The season began in November meaning practice 3 times a week; on Tuesday, Friday (game day) and Saturday. Going into the season I was a bit skeptical of our skill, a mindset that wasent really disproven until after the Christmas break when our team really stepped it up a notch, after practising different offensive and defensive options, for the first time. It was this fundamental lack of basketball knowledge that caused this mindset in the first place and I was glad to have gotten rid of it. The entire season was filled with learning; because of how new our team was to basketball.

 

Overall, the tournament was great, and I’m glad calling it my last ever SAISA. Our team came second but we know we could have come 2nd, and the team that beat us to go onto first was rightfully deserved of that place. The team got a lot closer be it through our internal issues regarding our coaching, officiating of the tournament, the frickin prison food they served us (we litteraly had ramen and fries once for dinner) or our go-karting/mall run on the last day, we all became much closer, and drank prodigous amounts of coffee.

 

This post serves to show aspects of Creativity, as we had to come up with coaching solutions and Action, because the entire thing was about basketball, a physical activity. I cant really justify putting this as service unfortunatly.