Shawn Villeta                                                                                                                        9-7-16                                                                                                                                   Professor. Schutz

When a person is focusing they block everything else out of their mind and their brain is on whatever they are focusing on. For an example a person can be watching a movie at the theater and the climax of the movie is about to show and your friend asked you to pass them the popcorn and because you didn’t hear them you didn’t pass them the popcorn so they reached over you and got it themselves. I ( Shawn Villeta) have been through this situation, what happened was this summer in the Venice Beach, California near Los Angeles, I was selected to play at a tournament by one of my scouts. Basketball is a game of ”runs” meaning you can be up 10 points now and lose by 5 so what happened was it was the start of the 4th quarter my team was up 12 points with 8 minutes remaining. My coach then subbed me in the game because the starting point guard was in foul trouble and all I had to do is kill the clock every time we got the ball. The opposing team cut the deficit to 6 points and the pace of the game was going at a high speed so while I was bringing up the ball on the sideline my coach was talking to me I’m assuming he was giving me a play to run and because I was focused on the defender in front of me the information he gave me didn’t register and because it didn’t register we ended up losing the game by 3 because of free throws.

Reference: Personal life experience

Location: July 22, 2016 Venice Beach, California