Fast Break

I found a poem on poets.org titled "Fast Break" written by Edward Hirsch in 1950. The poem is about a team making the perfect relay to the two forwards on the court to lay the ball into the basket. Showing perfect sync between the members of the team. As Hirsch says "letting the play develop in front of him in slow motion, almost exactly like a coach's drawing on the blackboard." It ends with the defender going after the wrong forward where that man passes to his other teammate running the floor with him and passing to him to let him take the wide open lay up. We see this today in basketball, watching the DSU team or when I watch my home team. Except in today's sport, they most likely dunk the ball on a fast break, whereas with basketball around the 1950s, dunking wasn't much of a though let alone a specialty like it is now. Just a poem about a team perfectly executing a plan and making the basket, by utilizing their skills and teamwork in order to get what they needed and wanted, a basket.