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No Dribbling: Basketball
I've been meaning to check out the enigmatically named Flash game Basketball for a couple of weeks, after spotting it via Mr Parkins' blog, but first it wouldn't work, and then I forgot. I remembered again! I'm glad I did. This is rather fun. As the canniest amongst you may have deduced, it's a game [...]

Author: John Walker
Category: RockPaperShotgun basketball flash free online-games
Publish Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 12:22:09 +0000



I've been meaning to check out the enigmatically named Flash game Basketball for a couple of weeks, after spotting it via Mr Parkins' blog, but first it wouldn't work, and then I forgot. I remembered again! I'm glad I did. This is rather fun. As the canniest amongst you may have deduced, it's a game based on an element of basketball - a sport in which you must put balls in a basket.

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This aint bad!

It isn't but I am.

Stoat wrote:It isn't but I am.

I played it before but only managed to get the ball in the net three times or so.

You really have to be good at visualizing the other part of the parabola the ball will travel in. If you can see that right away you can launch the ball right away and get more shots in, and if you're visualizing it close enough you're going to make a good number of them.

I made us a group: http://www.onlinegames.com/basketball/?2m08gnh9ke

Can I shoot the ball?

I seem better at the long ones.

Hurrah! Finally managed to beat FJ