Battier cut him off. Bryant tossed the ball back out to Derek Fisher, out of shooting range.
It gets the reader full into the story, like he is truly living those last seconds. However, it's just describing what happens, and that is an art itself, but I don't believe it's necessary for this article, perhaps for a description of a game
Bang:
Like a pistol, quick and direct, "metaphore"
50 . . . 49 . . . 48 . . .
The anxiety and uncertainty of what will the result be
55 . . . 54 . . . 53 . . .
He is putting you into the environment of the game
Yao Ming
Retire Chinese professional basketball player
“we lose by 12. No matter what happens now, none of our coaches will say, ‘If only we could have gotten a little more out of Battier.’
He makes the difference that is not as clear to the viewer as it really is, they are use to having a certain score and don't realize the without Shaen is would be much lower.
The effect of this, in his mind, was to raise significantly the importance of every little thing that happened.
Realate to Shane's life on how this little things were the ones that shaped him
As the third quarter
Starts narrating from a game, back to present?
“Who’s they?” I asked.“Pretty much everyone,” he said.“White people?”“No,” he said. “The street.”
This part is structured this way in order to make it seem more like a dialogue, he is directly quoting an exchange that happened during the interview. This is because is one of the most important part where it comes make to the argument and main thesis of everyone undermining him and thinking he is nor capable of doing anything
When Battier finished telling me the story of this unpleasant period in his life,
Now he is narrating the interview