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16 Cube from a chouette

Posted By: Chase
Date: Friday, 14 May 2010, at 6:07 p.m.

In Response To: 16 Cube from a chouette (Timothy Chow)

I'm still curious as to what the word "brick" means.

I assume it comes from basketball, where you like your shot to have a "soft bounce" (mostly caused by a high arch with some back spin) when it misses, so it "dies" over the rim and has a chance to fall in. "Throwing up a brick" is the opposite; the ball hits hard, clangs the rim or backboard and rebounds long, so it doesn't have that second chance to drop in. More generically, a "brick" is any ugly or bad shot.

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