The sentence that contains an informal fallacy in this passage is: "Students get so hooked on basketball, that they stop doing their homework and seeing their friends."
This statement contains a logical fallacy known as a "hasty generalization." It makes a broad generalization about all students who play basketball based on the behavior of some students. Not all students who play basketball stop doing their homework or seeing their friends. By using extreme language like "all" or "every," the argument weakens because it fails to consider the diversity of student experiences.
To strengthen the argument, the speaker could provide more specific examples or statistics to support the claim that playing basketball leads to neglecting homework and social relationships. Additionally, acknowledging that not all students react the same way to playing basketball would make the argument more convincing and less prone to logical fallacies.
