Basketball outside at Jessie Davis

Jessie Davis is one of Douglasville's most popular parks to play basketball outside because there are three separate full courts. The first court has one seven foot goal and one nine foot goal with double rims on both of them. Both the court in the middle and on the end has ten foot goals with double rims as well.

The atmosphere on the courts all differ when you are out there playing.

 On March seventh around 3:30 p.m. I decided to play basketball on each of the courts to see what it was like to play basketball there. On this particular day a lot of the locals were out enjoying the weather at the park. On the small court I met some kids that lived near the park, and they were very energetic, and seemed to be having the time of their life while I was playing a game of twenty-one with them.  When I played on the court in the middle of the three courts; I noticed that it is primarily occupied by high school students. The level of aggressiveness increased from my opponents during our game of two on two. Although they were younger than me I still had to play them as if they were my age because they were both taller than me and arrogant as well.  After I finished that intense game I walked to the court at the end of all three.

This particular court was where all the desire to win and aggression grew tremendously with every game played.  This court was primarily occupied by grown men and teenagers that were really aggressive. Only games of five on five are played on that court. There were people sitting on the bleachers beside the court waiting for their turn. Once I realized this I wanted to play and measure my abilities and aggression with who ever won.  So in order to do that I had to call next;  you call next by telling someone that is on the court playing already that you want to play the next game.  After I waited for a while, my turn to play finally came and I got to pick four other people to be on my team.  When the game got started the level of intensity was great and it was felt from everyone. Every time someone got scored on or crossed reactions from the people who were watching could be heard such as their laughter and jokes.  Although no one would laugh or joke on the court, whoever got exposed would always try to make it a point to get whoever made them look bad back by attempting to cross them or scoring on them.  After that thrilling game was over I was exhausted.

The fact that Jessie Davis brings the luxury of having outside courts to Douglasville justifies  the reason why it gained its popularity. Compared to other parks in Douglasville that are located on the safer side of town such as Hunter Park, Deerlick Park, and Mont Carmel Park; Jessie Davis Park is the only one that caters to the game of basketball by providing both a basketball gym and three outside courts.

There is also a park security car the circulates the park to assure everyone’s safety and  park security is obligated to call the police if there is any suspension of criminal activity at the park. This procedure is emphasized a lot because the location of the park, but despite that the park still manages to attract people that do not live in the area.