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Message: [QUOTE="Kolumbo, post: 4207146, member: 4613"] This is a fun thread and I enjoy the role of[I] The Band [/I]dodging beer bottles behind the fencing. I think many folks don't appreciate the role that luck and chance play in sports. Size, speed, strength, skill, luck. Football and Soccer, forgetaboutit. They play fast games on large fields and there is no way an average guy (and I'll go with a weekend warrior type of guy) could keep up. I'd be as useless as tits on a bull and likely suffer serious injury. Hockey, hell no. Baseball. I could play second base and eventually someone would roll a routine grounder my way which I could field cleanly. I could even go up and take some healthy swings and eventually get a base hit. The zone is only so big and eventually wood will connect with ball and find a hole. Eventually. Scoring would be highly unlikely. NBA Basketball. It's a relatively small court. I know I can chuck the ball up from anywhere within half court and have a good chance of hitting the rim. They spend a good deal of time walking the ball up the court, passing it around, one guy takes a J and misses, another guy takes a J and makes it. Great. He just made one of about 90 buckets on the night. whoop-dee-do. It's the one sport I don't watch because I find it boring as hell. That is why any average guy has a chance of scoring. Maybe not 20. But all it takes is a heave and some luck to score. That's pretty much the point of the tweet. People here talking about insane in your face defense and constant sprinting from one end of the court to the other, well I admittedly don't watch so maybe the game has changed dramatically, I'll have to check in and see. That said, I see no problem getting a catch and shoot shot off quickly enough and with a little luck, measuring and deploying the ball, even accidentally, with the right arc, force, and spin enabling the graceful projectile to fall through the hoop, which happens to have a circumference large enough to fit 3 basketballs simultaneously, tickling nothing but twine, aka, swish. [IMG alt="GIF by SB Nation"]https://media1.giphy.com/media/2rJTOyIwighpe/200.gif[/IMG] [/QUOTE]

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