Word: basket
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...anti-Catholic? That just burns my ass, because I'm out there trying to get people to think about God. I am working the good cause--and I'm anti-Catholic? I tithe! I don't bend down and tie my shoe when the basket comes around...
Young is an accurate perimeter shooter (.393 three-point percentage) like his predecessor Steve Goodrich, who forces opposing centers to come out of the paint on defense. But Young can also run Princeton's traditional backdoor offense, taking the ball with his back to the basket and either hitting a turnaround jumper or feeding a teammate for an easy...
Together, the sisters Johnson have the potential to be an intimidating presence around the basket, providing headaches for opposing teams on both ends of the floor...
...just picked up right where she left off," Delaney-Smith said. "She [still] has a phenomenal ability to put the ball in the basket...
...were poems, baseball would be a sonnet, basketball free verse; the thing finds its form according to who is doing it. Chamberlain was responsible for major rule changes that altered basketball's structure--all delimiting the ability of giants to operate in the sky over a 10-ft.-high basket. By his athleticism, he proved that basketball required the world's best athletes, not simply the tallest. And, in a way, he also showed it to be a team sport. No matter how talented an individual is, no one player, including the divine Michael, can beat a well-coordinated group...