Jack M’s Reviews > Travel Team > Status Update

Richie Walkers motivation is to help his kid feel better after not making the travel team squad. That was direct. The implied is that he made a travel team called the warriors so his kid could play travel ball.

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As Danny's friend Will put it "your dad is the God of Middletown travel basketball and you didn't make the team.

When Danny didn't make the travel team he's was really upset. Danny was getting made fun of by almost everyone in the town. You wouldn't know why he was so mad if you didn't know he was Richie Walkers son. Richie Walker was Danny's dad he also was Middle-town's most famous basketball player. He took the 1981 Middletown, middle school basketball team to the national championship.

I feel like Danny is about to change. His dad created this new travel basketball team. At first they weren't very good, but they actually almost won there last game. I predict that Danny is going to start to believe in his dad, in his team, and in his self.

When Danny didn't make the travel team at first the author described it like it was "The end of his life" the author author also used short choppy sentences. This tells me that the scene was devastation.