Attitude

   Today was the first time that I saw Esther Lu, who is the captain and Caroline Tan, who is the co-captain of the girls basketball team being so furious. The reason they are so angry is there is one player, Christine Kang, whose uncaring attitude causes a severe problem to the whole team. This player just joined the basketball team, and she doesn’t know how to do lay-ups. Esther, the captain, has offered a chance for this player to learn how to do lay-ups. However, the team member was unwilling to put more effort, and she didn’t stay after practice. Moreover, she always had excuses to get away from more tiring training. Thus, she didn’t know how to run certain strategies, and this resulted into bad cooperation between teammates on the court. Also, she just took a shot randomly whenever she had the ball, which was nonsense because we should only shoot when we’re in our shooting range. Due to her irresponsible attitude that resulted into a burden of the team, Caroline decided to kick her out.

   The event that Esther and Caroline were angry about was that Christine told people in the badminton team that the girls basketball team treated her badly. This was the most loathsome and unreasonable claim that I’ve heard of because we have been giving her so many chances to change, and she just ignored us. And now, how could she lie under her conscience? It would be fine that one doesn’t know how to do lay-ups as long as the person shows the positive attitude of willing to learn, unlike avoiding it or giving up because one doesn’t know how to perform it. I think the lying is really what tickles the fire in Esther and Caroline’s mind since they have been spending so much time on trying to help Christine while they are pressured by college application. Everyone wants to contribute something good for the team’s benefit, and I think it’s right to kick out those who shows lacking of interest of the team because they would only damage the team rather than helping it.