Focus focus....
Basketball is truly a strange sport, but an exciting one too, if I may add. The objective is pretty simple: put the ball into the basket – hence the name ‘basketball’. Unfortunately, the basket is usually found way high up there in the sky beyond normal reach. I suppose that’s where it becomes more challenging…
why so high one?!!!
‘Attempts’ is the word they call for shots thrown at the basket. For small kids like me, they can also be called ‘Frustrations’. It’s hard enough to heave the ball into the air, let alone make any sensible aim of it. Now if the basket was as big as my laundry basket, I guess things may be more different…
if I could only mind bend the rim...sigh.
The round thingy around the basket is typically called the ‘Rim’. If most of my balls end up bouncing off the rim, I like to call it a ‘brimful of frustrations’…
A ‘Slam Dunk’ is when one could super humanly fly up above the rim and throw down the ball through the basket, hanging on to the rim for style and photo poses. For me, I usually need an ‘Assist’ to perform this stunt, as demonstrated here by my basketball coach/Kan Pa…hee!
Air Collin with the jam! Nice assist Kan Pa!
As with all sports, there will be some form of cheating every now and then. For me, when things get rough, and with no visible assist anywhere, I will find a way to climb up above and beyond the rim and do a simple drop down….:-p Shhhhhhhhh…..I call it a ‘Free Throw’…:-p
I call it resourcefulness...
Swish! nothin' but net!
