Landrew’s Take on Technology

Have you ever been hanging out with your friend, and everything is normal until all of the sudden he puts on some weird shoes and says, “hey man lets go shoot some hoops”?  You might think that what your friend wants to do is throw hula-hoops in the air and try and shoot them with a BB gun.  But actually, your friend is talking about playing the game of basketball.

Basketball is the game where there are baskets and two teams trying to get the ball into the right one.  One lame thing about basketball is that the teams know which basket is theirs at the very beginning of the game.  I think it would be cooler if the teams didn’t know and had to guess.  Maybe the announcer could give say things that seemed random but were actually clues.  At the end, they would tell everyone which basket belonged to which team and then, on the big screen above everything, there would be a flashback to all of the clues and then the players would be like, “We should have known all along!” and it would be really suspenseful.

Unlike other games where you can grab a ball and run with it, in basketball you need to bounce the ball everywhere you go.  This is called dribbling.  Nobody is sure why dribbling exists, but there are theories.  Here’s one of mine: the guy who invented basketball threw a party to show people his new game where you run around with a ball trying to score points.  To look cool, he had a special new ball made and at the party, the ball was still hot and fresh from the ball factory.  So when the guy went to show people how to play, he couldn’t hold onto it for very long at a time and had to bounce it.  Since there were girls at the party, he pretended it was what he always planned to do so he wouldn’t look like a loser in front of them.

If you’re watching basketball on TV, you might notice that when people score a normal basket, they get two points.  What if other stuff was like this?  Like lets say you used to be a sailor, and you are walking to your new job, which is in a boring office. Your walk goes past a lake and there is a guy with a boat who’s like, “One boat ride for dollar, step right up!”  You miss the water and have some time and a dollar, so you’re like, “Ok.”  He takes you around the lake, but when you get the place where you should get off, the guy starts going around again.  When you ask him what’s going on, he’s like, “One boat ride is twice around the lake.”  You’d be late for work.  That’s what it would be like if life was like baskets in basketball!

Basketball is a really great game to play with friends.  While not everyone is as good as the pros, anyone can play basketball and have fun, unless you get creeped out by the sound that a basketball makes when it bounces on a basketball court.  Then basketball would be more scary than fun.