Then add earplugs so the player cannot hear a swish or the ball hitting the backboard.
Trawick's heave from halfcourt banged off the backboard, and the jubilant Orange held on.
The hole was smaller than I expected about the size of a basketball backboard.
Toronto manager John Gibbons stood on the mound as Happ was strapped to a backboard and immobilized.
Somehow they were worse the closer they got to the backboard 3 of 31 inside the three-point line.
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The point guard had a clear look at the clock as it raced toward zero atop the backboard.
We watched from a driveway, standing under a weathered backboard-and-rim fastened to the ridge beam above the garage door.
The 7-foot-2 Haddadi got the rebound but his shot was too hard off the backboard and the Nets escaped.
Against the Boston Celtics last spring, he was performing a trick dunk in which he slapped the backboard in pregame warm-ups.
At the base of the cardboard backboard is a black plastic box with a pair of small orange switches on it.
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Smith took an off-balance 3 from up top that was way off, slamming into the backboard and setting off another Marquette celebration.
Gregory Echenique had no chance on a wayward alley-oop lob that knocked off the backboard, and he fumbled the ball the next time down.
Augustin took off the other way on an apparent layup, but only to throw up a wild shot that struck the bottom of the backboard.
And then there was a spin-move James did at the three-point line, followed by a pass under his legs, then a hook-shot-toss off the backboard.
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"I thought if we could just hold the fort on the defensive end, on the backboard, maybe we'd make some shots and score a little, " Brey said.
Two robotic high definition cameras above each backboard plus one at center court on the scorers table will give a unique "you are there" perspective for this game.
Gottlieb threw her arms in the air when Shacobia Barbee's desperation half-court shot at the buzzer bounced off the backboard and wore a huge grin throughout the postgame celebration.
Kelly Faris then heaved a desperation attempt from 65 feet that fell harmlessly off the backboard, setting off a wild celebration for the Irish, who have won 26 straight games.
So James wound up throwing a pass off the backboard to himself finishing the play with a dunk that had a half-dozen Heat players leap off the bench in unison and crane their necks toward the scoreboard to see the replay.
Syracuse beat Louisville 70-68 in mid-January in the final seconds when Carter-Williams stole a pass at the top of the key and raced the length of the court, slamming home a two-hander that Dieng couldn't contest and landing hard on his back underneath the backboard.
Especially the stretches when forward Renaldo Balkman spent time guarding Kobe Bryant and gave the future Hall-of-Famer Bryant a platform for the best play of the night: Balkman lunged at Bryant, who was shooting an off-balanced three-point shot Balkman was called for a foul and the shot banked off the backboard and in to create a four-point play that made the score 78-64.
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