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Another comic where [[Randall]] takes a less than serious look at sports. | Another comic where [[Randall]] takes a less than serious look at sports. | ||
− | The halftime | + | The halftime pep talk of a {{w|basketball}} game is commonly used by coaches to inspire his team to come back from a seemingly insurmountable deficit, and to make strategic changes that will help them do so. Unfortunately, the basketball coach [[Cueball]] has absolutely no fundamental understanding of the sport, and has pulled his team (off Cueball-like players) into the locker room while the game is still in progress, enabling the other team to score at will. |
− | He could have tried to get a {{w|Time-out (sport) | + | He could have tried to get a {{w|Time-out (sport)time-out}}, but still he would not have been allowed to take his team down to the locker room. |
− | The title text parodies a common plot of, especially US, {{w|List_of_sports_films#Basketball|sports movies}} in which | + | The title text parodies a common plot of, especially US, {{w|List_of_sports_films#Basketball|sports movies}} in which an inexperienced team (and sometimes coach) still manage to win a title after a highly motivational pep talk (see for instance {{w|Hoosiers}}). In this case the players are not even just poor basketball players but rather {{w|chess}} players and the coach know nothing of the sport, the opposite of what is usually the case in said movies. And, of-course, in this case those pessimistic about their chances were proved right. |
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+ | In [[1392: Dominant Players]] Randall compares basketball with chess. | ||
==Transcript== | ==Transcript== | ||
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:Offscreen: Woo!! Score!!! | :Offscreen: Woo!! Score!!! | ||
:Coach-Cueball: Okay, now we're eighteen points down. ...Listen—I'm starting to think we should only take these breaks at halftime. | :Coach-Cueball: Okay, now we're eighteen points down. ...Listen—I'm starting to think we should only take these breaks at halftime. | ||
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{{comic discussion}} | {{comic discussion}} | ||
[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]] | [[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]] | ||
[[Category:Multiple Cueballs]] | [[Category:Multiple Cueballs]] | ||
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