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Constant Failure Of Playing Basketball

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Most great players started playing basketball when they were as young as 4 years old. I wanted to be just like them but I started playing when I was 11. My 5th grade summer my family bought our first basketball hoop. That was a big step for my newly found passion. On that summer I played basketball every single day ( with my brother or not). My brother played basketball against me all the time and everytime he would beat me. I think this is why a I am so good now, because that made me want to practice because I felt that I should be able to beat him ( even though he was in the ninth grade). So I pushed myself and played pickup games with him and his friends. All ninth graders and above. Constant failure was my drive, and eventually

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