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Old Sat Jun 07, 2025, 02:15pm
BillyMac BillyMac is offline
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Old Habits Die Hard ...

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I started in the 1980s. I remember this all too well along with having to "score" every basket and using the wrist flicks to count.
I will occasionally and absent mindedly put up one finger (one point) after a successful free throw.

Remember when the numerals one and two were illegal uniform numbers?



IAABO guys and gals in Connecticut still use the wrist flick to count ten seconds for a free throw.

When I get to ten I continue to eleven and so on and so on ...

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Some things belong in the past.
Amen.

As we've all well learned in all the Jurassic Park franchise movies.

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