The Court System (761 hits)
Category: GraphicsRating: 0.18 on 12 reviews (Rate this item) (V)
Submitted by <ejryuu.at.gmail.com> (View user info) at 2008-06-13 13:22:44 EDT
I love basketball.
Because I was a shy, quiet, nerdy outcast as a kid, I only spent one year playing organized basketball in highschool. That and the coach was a penguinesque bald man that wore a pirate patch over the eye socket that Vietnam sniper fire had claimed. He frightened me a little. As a result, I spent a lot of my time playing on outdoor courts. Whether it was the hoop with the graphite backboard on our slanted driveway, the uneven blacktop and sweltering humidity of the local beach court or the elementary playground courts that had no way of stopping your ball from rolling a quarter of a mile, I was there.
Many more factors need to be taken into consideration while playing outdoors than indoors. Is it windy? Is your hoop comprised of a single rim or is it one of those hellish double-wielded rims that doesn't believe in giving kind rolls? Are there any potholes to watch out for? What kind of a bounce does the backboard offer? Are the nets cotton, chain or even there at all?
Answers to the above questions provide a truly unique experience when playing outdoors. I've fallen in love with some courts and sworn never to go back to others. While my level of skill (or lack thereof) is constant, the changing environment forces adjustments.
While looking at the pictures below, I can imagine the noise my shoes would make on chalky pavement. I can hear the thick swoosh of the chain net and the noise the pole makes after a particularly bad pass. I can feel the texture of the ball after it rolls through a pool of leftover rain water and smell the forest surrounding the court.
I can't wait to find my next court.
User Reviews
Submitted by traxadron (user info) at 2008-08-01 10:26:01 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
Ape material
Submitted by Pentameter (user info) at 2008-06-16 12:48:23 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I liked this.
Submitted by AlwaysAnEagle (user info) at 2008-06-16 11:02:18 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
It's not great literature for the ages but I really like the sentiment and am a sucker for sports.
Submitted by BLITZKREIG_BOB (user info) at 2008-06-13 22:51:02 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
I'm not a big jungleball fan.
Submitted by Doodles (user info) at 2008-06-13 15:31:56 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
I sort of liked it. In a way. A little bit.
Submitted by Mud (user info) at 2008-06-13 15:22:27 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
what the fuck: was this written by a twelve year old with knowledge of spellcheck? this sounds like a mentally retarded kids creative writing project.
Submitted by DudeThatsBOSH (user info) at 2008-06-13 15:03:21 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
this was different.
Submitted by FALLEN (user info) at 2008-06-13 14:55:47 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
the pics are missleading.
Put up a bb court and it will be filled with Nubians in under an hour.
Submitted by corn_nugget (user info) at 2008-06-13 13:35:52 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
and aj can't play bball either.
Submitted by Director (user info) at 2008-06-13 13:28:29 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
That's not true, Oathmeal. My brother is also 6'2" but has the coordination of a newborn giraffe and cannot play basketball to save the world.
Period.
And he even has two hands.
Submitted by GangsterSquid (user info) at 2008-06-13 13:26:36 EDT (#)
Ranking: -1
Basketball is like punk music.
Boring as fuck and any retard with two hands can play it.
Submitted by Director (user info) at 2008-06-13 13:26:29 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
+2 because it was better than my last post(s), because I'm 6'2" and I also love basketball and when I was younger was halfway decent, for a white guy from bumfuck Texas, and because I just had fantastic sex with a pigeon.
Just sayin'.