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Shooting underhand free throws will increase your FT% according to Rick Barry, who shot 90% in 14 years as a NBA player:

Watch Red Auerbach discuss the differences in free throw forms between Jamaal Wilkes and Rick Barry of the Golden State Warriors:



If one of the UK players, who have a poor FT%, start doing the underhand free throw and his %'s increased, it would be a revolution start, IMO
 
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College BB players were once called Cagers: In the early days (70's) of listening to Cawood, he would use this term often)

today cager is:
a popular word among motorcyclists and bicyclists for four wheeled motor vehicle drivers. The term is often used in a derogative sense, because the car body effectively forms a cage, isolating the said driver from having to interact with other road users. The term was coined by motorcyclists.

The old the source went like this:
"Cagers": the rules said an out-of-bounds ball belonged to the first team to touch it after it crossed the line. Naturally, this sent both squads into elbow-throwing stampedes to claim possession. Naturally, this resulted in bruised and battered spectators. Naturally, the spectators fought back. Pre-1914 basketball was a free-for-all -- players trampling fans, fans lobbing vegetables. A wire cage around basketball courts was the solution until one night some official sat bolt upright in bed and yelled, "Hey, Madge, wake up! I've got it! Howzabout we save on the chickenwire and just change the rules!" Backboards date from this era too. They kept missed shots from beaning fans, who often didn't like giving the ball back."
another quote:
Basketball at one time was referred to as the “Cage Game” and players’ “Cagers”. This was a result of wire mesh (chicken wire) or chain-link fencing being hung around the entire court in an effort to make the game go faster by eliminating all the out of bounds delays. However, in reality, it served more as a barrier to protect the players and rowdy spectators from each other, as well as from the objects being thrown onto the court. The wire cage actually resulted in additional rough play with players body checking each other into the wire mesh as in hockey. Players often received cuts, bruises, and even incurred infections from the rusting wire mesh. Although, the use of cages were abandoned by 1933, the term "Cagers" is still used today.

In 1913, the out of bounds rule was changed to the current rule of the team causing or touching the ball last when it goes out of bounds loses possession. This rule change was a major impact in reducing the physical play that was common place in the early games."

And we think College BB is strange today.

Edit: here is a pic I found of a game set up:

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another or 2:
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The last pic was: The first basketball "cage" was in Trenton's Masonic Temple design.

By the 1920s, the cage had been phased out of the game. Still, headline writers fell in love with the word as a synonym for basketball, and players are sometimes still called "cagers."
 
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unicorns only exist in certain places and tomatoes are a fruit.
 
Tulsa spelled backwards is "A Slut".

A slut backwards is $100.

This is an example of why political correctness impedes education. There is a property in mathematics which says if A = B, then B = A called the symmetric property of equality.

You just proved (sort of) that there are things which are not symmetric.

But only in Tulsa.
 
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The Hatfields of West Virginia and the McCoys of Kentucky started their feud over a pig.
 
I saw Kyle Wiltjer at a grocery store in Lexington three years ago. I told him how cool it was to meet him in person, but I didn’t want to be a douche and bother him and ask him for photos or anything.

He said, “Oh, like you’re doing now?”

I was taken aback, and all I could say was “Huh?” but he kept cutting me off and going “huh? huh? huh?” and closing his hand shut in front of my face. I walked away and continued with my shopping, and I heard him chuckle as I walked off. When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw him trying to walk out the doors with like fifteen Milky Ways in his hands without paying.

The girl at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like “Sir, you need to pay for those first.” At first he kept pretending to be tired and not hear her, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the counter.

When she took one of the bars and started scanning it multiple times, he stopped her and told her to scan them each individually “to prevent any electrical infetterence,” and then turned around and winked at me. I don’t even think that’s a word. After she scanned each bar and put them in a bag and started to say the price, he kept interrupting her by yawning really loudly.
 
I saw Kyle Wiltjer at a grocery store in Lexington three years ago. I told him how cool it was to meet him in person, but I didn’t want to be a douche and bother him and ask him for photos or anything.

He said, “Oh, like you’re doing now?”

I was taken aback, and all I could say was “Huh?” but he kept cutting me off and going “huh? huh? huh?” and closing his hand shut in front of my face. I walked away and continued with my shopping, and I heard him chuckle as I walked off. When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw him trying to walk out the doors with like fifteen Milky Ways in his hands without paying.

The girl at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like “Sir, you need to pay for those first.” At first he kept pretending to be tired and not hear her, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the counter.

When she took one of the bars and started scanning it multiple times, he stopped her and told her to scan them each individually “to prevent any electrical infetterence,” and then turned around and winked at me. I don’t even think that’s a word. After she scanned each bar and put them in a bag and started to say the price, he kept interrupting her by yawning really loudly.

You buffoon that was me.
 
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i'm beginning to think i have too much time on my hands.
 
I saw Kyle Wiltjer at a grocery store in Lexington three years ago. I told him how cool it was to meet him in person, but I didn’t want to be a douche and bother him and ask him for photos or anything.

He said, “Oh, like you’re doing now?”

I was taken aback, and all I could say was “Huh?” but he kept cutting me off and going “huh? huh? huh?” and closing his hand shut in front of my face. I walked away and continued with my shopping, and I heard him chuckle as I walked off. When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw him trying to walk out the doors with like fifteen Milky Ways in his hands without paying.

The girl at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like “Sir, you need to pay for those first.” At first he kept pretending to be tired and not hear her, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the counter.

When she took one of the bars and started scanning it multiple times, he stopped her and told her to scan them each individually “to prevent any electrical infetterence,” and then turned around and winked at me. I don’t even think that’s a word. After she scanned each bar and put them in a bag and started to say the price, he kept interrupting her by yawning really loudly.
Sounds like a doosh canoe.
 
I vividly remember sitting in Memorial Coliseum watching the ending of the Championship Game in the State Tournament on March 22, 1958 (St. X vs. Daviess County) when some U.K. kids came walking through the stands carrying high a bed-sheet banner that they had rigged up saying "From Freedom Hall -- U.K. National Champs -- U.K. 84 - Seattle 72" (or something like that). I hadn't even realized that the NCAA Final Four was going on in Freedom Hall at the same time. Of course, nobody called it "The Final Four" back then.

And I remember then thinking to myself, "Wow, U.K. was lucky to get to play that game in Louisville."
 
Did You Know....that the 1958 national championship team, the Fiddlin' Five, played all four tournament games in Kentucky? They played two in Lexington and two in Louisville.
Did you know that the 1957 NCAA Championship was tainted due to Frank McGuire giving impermissible benefits to recruits and having ties to Organized Gamblers in New York City where they drew recruits for years after and the Cheating blossomed for 60 years after with Dean Smith taking over after representing UNC against the NCAA
 
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