Your question indicates you may need to do both a summary and an analysis of My Losing Season. Let's look at a very brief summary of the book, and then consider how you might complete one on your own as well as begin an analysis.
As noted in a previous answer, the book is a coming of age memoir of Pat Conroy's final year of high school basketball in South Carolina. He played for the Citadel Bulldogs and the book looks at the wins and losses the team suffered that season, and the many personal lessons that Conroy gained in that year as a result of basketball, and outside of it.
In general, a summary is meant to capture the main points of a text, in this case a book. A summary is shorter than the original, and the order in which you present the information may be in the same order as the original text or moved around as long as the meaning remains the same. If you think about it, we summarize all the time. For instance, when you go to a movie and your friend asks you what it was about, you tell them briefly the main points of the plot. Summarizing a book requires the same technique.
Analyzing a text requires us to go beyond just summary. In an analysis we have to examine something that happened and provide some insight about it. For instance, if we look at My Losing Season, we may choose to analyze the relationship that Conroy had with both his basketball coach and his father. Each of these men was formidable and influential in Conroy's life. By looking at how and why each of these characters was influential, we begin to analyze their importance to Conroy as well as their significance to the overall story.
My Losing Season is a sort of memoir. Written by Pat Conroy, it chronicles his senior season playing basketball at The Citadel, a military college in South Carolina. Conroy had written a novel, The Lords of Discipline, that was loosely based on his experiences at the school, but this book is nonfiction. As the title implies, the season of 1966–1967 was not the best season for The Citadel, but despite the overall losing record, Conroy remembers it as a year when he "learned much, much more from loss" than he would have from winning. He uses the book to reflect on his youth and on his traumatic experiences at The Citadel, a place where he never really fit in. His relationship with his father, a stern, borderline abusive man, is not unlike that of Conroy's relationship with his coach at The Citadel, Mel Thompson. Much of the book, then, is about his maturation and his relationships with his fellow cadets and teammates. One of the high points of the book is a chapter detailing a classic game against The Citadel's rivals, the Virginia Military Institute. He remembers it as a game in which "the boys on both teams honor[ed] the character and nature of their schools by playing in a game that glitters in remembrance." Conroy and the Bulldogs won that game in four overtimes. What is especially interesting about this chapter, however, is that Conroy uses it to look back on how he fictionalized it in The Lords of Discipline. This is significant because, as Conroy says in his epilogue, the book is as much about "the perilous and shifting nature of memory itself" as it is about a single season or even a single man.
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