Basketball lingo words how to#

“Kevin, you take Bikram classes, you’re obviously the point guard. The dude in your group of friends (who is probably the shortest and least physically gifted) whose main purpose is setting the team up with girls. She definitely has a dude these females ain't loyal.' point guardġ. The act of hooking up with a taken chick. “Bro, you spent all night talking to her about her ex-boyfriend – I had to steal her.”Ģ. To hook up with a chick one of your homies has already called dibs on. “Jess just got cheated on? Word, I’m gonna scoop her up off the rebound.” stealġ. The act of hooking up with a girl shortly after a breakup. He completely blocked my c*ck.” reboundġ.

“I was trying to talk to that blonde over there but Tom wouldn’t stop chirping about fantasy football. When a guy prevents one of his friends from hooking up with a female. I was waiting for the Mutombo finger wag.”Ģ. “I just tried buying that girl a drink and got blocked super hard. “Yo, I got this girl from school who is so eligible it hurts, I totally got you on the assist.” block The act of setting up one of your homies with a girl. The act of successfully hooking up with a chick.

“Yeah man, I hit her up on Facebook chat drunk last night – I’m pretty sure she flagged me. Creepily Facebook messaging a girl you barely/don’t know. “I think I have a pretty good shot at Kelly now that she’s single.”Ģ. “Yeah, after that breakup, it feels good to finally be back on the offensive side of the ball once again.” shot “I've got a pretty efficient offense, Rachel slept over last night.” Well, since basketball season is about to tip off – and I’m writing this from NYC, the MECCA of HOOPS – I’ve assembled a mini-dictionary of basketball terms that we men apply to the dating world. To be blunt, I’ve had a few rendezvous where I’ve left my apartment doing the “jazz hands” celebration, like I was Diego Costa scoring a stoppage time goal in the Champions League Final. If we can relate crossing streets in NYC to sports – the art of scoring with chicks shouldn’t be such a far cry from scoring in any sport. That’s normal, right?Ĭlearly this premise can, and does, translate to the dating world. Only to dust ourselves off like Kenny Lofton, and chalk it up to “a great jump” afterwards. Maybe while crossing the street in Manhattan, when the red hand is glaring (signaling an INOPPORTUNE time to cross), we’ll completely disregard the warning and sprint across anyway.

Basketball lingo words how to#

This is why a lot of inventors go crazy after spending too much time looking at their designs.īut we aren’t crazy, are we? Sure, when we have garbage at our desks, we feel obligated to shoot it, free-throw style, at the nearest garbage can.Īnd when we first got our hearts broken by a girl, we knew exactly how to survive such a tremendous letdown because we grew up a Jets fan (there were a lot more tears when Doug Brien missed two field goals against Pittsburgh in the 2005 playoffs). When you spend so much time doing anything, or following something, it’s only a matter of time before it starts to “take control.” For a lot of men, life is interpreted through the scope of sports.