Sometimes a shot won’t quite make it all the way into the basket. The ball comes up a little bit short and requires a bounce off the rim to make it in there. This is what we call a friendly bounce, which just so happens to be the name of this blog. Due to this circumstance of names being similar we have decided that it’s our duty, as The Friendly Bounce, to track these lucky bounces.
So first, we need to answer an important question. Just what is a “friendly bounce”? A friendly bounce will be defined as a shot attempt that takes a lucky bounce or roll into the rim. Think of this shot from Kent Bazemore the other night.
Also think of dunk attempts that come up short, hit the rim, and somehow go in anyways, or three-point attempts that bounce way high into the air and go in. It can be as traditional as Andrew Bogut attempting a bank shot, having it go long, but bouncing off the front of the rim and falling into the bucket for two points. They’re all amazing, and we feel as a blog it’s our job to take notice of it.
However, despite what many of you may think, we are not basketball watching robots tuned into every game 24/7. Hopefully I didn’t give up a big secret there, but we can’t keep track of every minute of every game. That’s where you guys come in.
When you see a friendly bounce take place during a game tweet at us, @FriendlyBounce, and yell out “@FRIENDLYBOUNCE IN PORTLAND!”. Let the entire world know what’s taken place. If you include video or Vine of it even better, but just letting us know we had a friendly bounce take place is good enough. Afterwards we will mark the bounce down and tally up the results at the end of the playoffs, similar to The Starters on NBA TV and wedgies. Except friendly bounces are cooler to be honest.