Status Updates From Game

SETTING: Drew lives in a city where crime is common. It is 126th street and Lenox Avenue. ¨Two boys, boys who should have been in school, attempted to hold up the store......the two youth shot at the policeman.¨ This shows that this book's setting is in a dark scary Lenox Avenue that the kids here has a mentality that crime is okay and can easily try to kill someone.

Drew is angry about his coach not starting him. He knows that his team knows that he should be starting but he isn't. He had a talk with his coach but he didn't really understand what he was trying to tell him.

There's no use being in the game
If you know there's no chance of winning.

While Drew was at Tomas's house, Toma's mother was very descriptive in what life was like in the Czech Republic.

Drew's basketball team has their first practice of the second half of the season. There are 2 new kids on his team and he doesn't think much about them

Drew grew up in Harlem
Where crime happened often
While his mother worried about it all
Drew was focused on the ball.