Playing basketball on the Portola basketball team has its fun and hard times. Our practices consist of a lot of running but our coach only runs us when we mess up after he told us the right way to do it so we cause ourselves to run. But when ever my coach stops us and corrects us or if he makes us run that's how we know he cares a lot about us and making us better at basketball. When he pushes us in practice its so we are prepared for high school. We also do a lot of defensive drills and all the other fundamentals. The hard parts of practice are when we run because we don't just run and then we move on we are timed and if we don't make it we go again until we make it which isn't very fun.  Another hard part about practice is when we do push ups because if someone doesn't  do them right we have to do the push ups again or the coaches tell us when to go down and when to come up. But all the hard things that we do make us a stronger and better team.