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Billy loves basketball. He plays for a basketball 

team called the Ballers. When the season 

started, Billy didn’t really take practice 

seriously. Billy would always show up to 

practice late, never run hard, and barely shared 

the ball. Billy was a very talented basketball 

player. But the problem was that he knew he 

was good. He always thought that nobody was 

better than him. He thought that he was too 

good for practice. Billy had the potential to be a 

great player, but he lacked the discipline to 

become one.

 In the first game of the season, the Ballers 

were going against the Stompers. The 

Stompers won the championship last year. But 

Billy went into the game with all the 

confidence in the world. At the beginning of 

the game, Billy was playing like his usual self. 

Thinking he can take over the game by 

himself, he didn’t pass the ball. The Stompers 

caught on to this and started double teaming 

him but he still didn’t pass the ball. The 

Stompers got about 10 steals because of this. 

When the coach took him out of the game, the 

Ballers started coming back but it was too 

late. The Ballers lost by seventeen points. Billy 

was so mad, that he didn’t even shake the 

other teams hand. He was so confused. He 

couldn’t figure out why was he so good, yet 

his team lost by so many points.

 During practice the next day, Coach Parker 

pulled Billy to the side to have a talk with him. 

Coach Parker said, “What happened out there 

yesterday?   You didn’t run any of the plays you 

were supposed to, you didn’t pass the ball, and 

when the game ended, you didn’t shake the 

other teams hand.” 

Billy said,   “ I don’t know. I thought I could do 

it all by myself.”

“But it’s not a one man team. There are four 

other people on the court and they are there for 

a reason. Don’t get me wrong,   I think you are 

a tremendous basketball player, but you need 

to work on sharing the ball. We could have 

beaten those guys if you would have made a 

couple of passes.” 

This got Billy thinking. Did we really lose the 

game because of me he thought to himself? 

Maybe coach was right. Coach Parker forgave 

Billy, not before making him run extra laps of 

course.

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