As many of you know, I love basketball. I have played it ever since I can remember, it has always been a part of my life. From Rec. basketball, to AAU, to highschool, to just watching my Lakers play on the T.V. I have thought alot about the game of basketball and tried to see how it applies to the Gospel, so hear it goes.
In the sports world you hear the cliche alot that "defense wins championships" and that good defense leads to good offense. Many people say "well that is true but if you can't score a point you can't win" that as well is true, you need to have a good balanced attack. But like in the picture above, if you are able to get the other team to make turnovers it leads to easy lay-ups on the other end. No matter how bad of an offense you have, lay-ups should be a guarantee. It is all set up by the defense. Too many times in basketball though, people get in the mind set of, we will save our energy on defense so that we will have more energy on offense, or we will just out shoot them. Many times my highschool team just tried to get into a shoot out, and we played casual on defense. While this worked sometimes, most of the time we were playing from behind, and it usually ended in defeat. Another important thing to remember in the game of basketball is that it is a team sport and no one man can do it on his own. He must rely on his teamates to help him out when he needs them. All of this requires practice and development of different fundamentals, basketball is game of many elements, on defense you need to be able to develop good communication, court position, good defensive stance, hand placement, boxing out, and many other things. Without all of these key elements you won't be effective. Now to compare it to the gospel
