What object is personified in the poem "foul shot"?

Foul Shot with two 60's stuck not the scoreboard and two seconds hanging on the clock, the solemn boy in the center of eyes, squeezed by silence, 5 seeks out the line with his feet, smoothes his hands along his uniform, gently drums the ball against the floor, then measures the waiting net, raises the ball on his right hand, 10 balance it with his left, calms it with fingertips, breathes, crouches, waits 15 and the though a stretching of silliness, nudges it upward. That my answer