[Hulk01]

Players who can get their hands on a ball and not let it go are valuable.  
Several of our players could benefit from improving their hand strength.

I certainly miss Dijonai in this regard. Once she got her hands on the ball, no one was taking it away.

My junior year, I always was assigned in practice scrimmages to a kid named Corky Smith.
If Corky got his hands on a ball, the ball was his.
At season's ends, the league coaches named two other players All League.
At the state tournament, the press named a third of our guys second team all-tournament.
When I and my teammates voted on our Most Valuable Player,
we chose Corky.

There was more to his game than that, of course,
but he merely our third leading rebounder and third leading scorer.
But he was brilliant at getting us what we needed to win:
the ball.

[Hulk01]

Players who can get their hands on a ball and not let it go are valuable.  
Several of our players could benefit from improving their hand strength.

I certainly miss Dijonai in this regard. Once she got her hands on the ball, no one was taking it away.

My junior year, I always was assigned in practice scrimmages to a kid named Corky Smith.
If Corky got his hands on a ball, the ball was his.
At season's ends, the league coaches named two other players All League.
At the state tournament, the press named a third of our guys second team all-tournament.
When I and my teammates voted on our Most Valuable Player,
we chose Corky.

There was more to his game than that, of course,
but he merely our third leading rebounder and third leading scorer.
But he was brilliant at getting us what we needed to win:
the ball.