Bullet points; more Yoko on basketball

The Cavaliers played the Raptors and here's what she had to say:

• A player was being swapped out with another player and as they switched, they slapped five.
"Do they have to touch like that?! No....! * It's not a relay."
*insert my maniacal laughter here

• "Are the people in suits the coaches? Why do they wear suits? The coaches in baseball don't wear suits, do they?"
"No, they wear uniforms. But, what, you want the coaches to wear shorts and tank tops? It would look ridiculous."
"Well, what about that..." (she points to the TV)
"Those are the refs."

• "I still don't like all that squeaking." Perhaps you will recall...

• She'd also asked me recently if they were "allowed to shove it down." By 'it' she meant basketball and by 'down' she meant into the net. This action is known to the rest of us as a slam dunk. It was cute.

Alien basketball fans

I was watching the Spurs/Nuggets game last night and my mom watched for a minute, too, and finally asked me what all that squeaking was about. I listened and then I told her it was the sound of their sneakers on the court as they stopped short (I'd stopped noticing it I guess). She said it sounds like an alien language.

I was watching the Celtics just now and was listening to the squeaks again. I told her it was pretty funny that she thought it was an alien language, and she explained further that she'd thought it was like a simultaneous broadcast of commentators, only this wasn't in a foreign language, but in an alien language.

Basketball is forever changed for me. I can only wonder what those alien commentators are saying.