Basketball Analogy
In basketball, the key—officially known as the "restricted area" in FIBA (international) rules and the "free throw lane" in North American rulesets (NBA, NCAA, high school)—derives its popular name from the skeleton key. Originally, the width of the lane was narrower than that of the free throw circle, giving the appearance of a skeleton key.
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Famous quotes containing the words basketball and/or analogy:
“Perhaps basketball and poetry have just a few things in common, but the most important is the possibility of transcendence. The opposite is labor. In writing, every writer knows when he or she is laboring to achieve an effect. You want to get from here to there, but find yourself willing it, forcing it. The equivalent in basketball is aiming your shot, a kind of strained and usually ineffective purposefulness. What you want is to be in some kind of flow, each next moment a discovery.”
—Stephen Dunn (b. 1939)
“The analogy between the mind and a computer fails for many reasons. The brain is constructed by principles that assure diversity and degeneracy. Unlike a computer, it has no replicative memory. It is historical and value driven. It forms categories by internal criteria and by constraints acting at many scales, not by means of a syntactically constructed program. The world with which the brain interacts is not unequivocally made up of classical categories.”
—Gerald M. Edelman (b. 1928)