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the best thing I'll ever learn in basketball.

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This is my basketball team. We were formed to represent FACE, the Filipino club we have in William Paterson University. I have never played at a competitive level of basketball. I've played on the team in 4th - 6th grade but that'll never really count. I recently just closed up a season in Willy P's intramural league. And what a terrible, yet encouraging experience it was. We were at a great disadvantage. Most of us haven't played competitive basketball or lacked some experience. The worst disadvantage was our height. We're all just a bunch of short Filipino guys with an average height of probably 5' 8". We played against teams who had an average height that was taller than our big man. We lacked team experience and chemistry: passes were't going where they should've, some of us didn't even want to pass the ball, there were moments of no communication, we tried to out-fancy each other with our play styles, we didn't know how to control