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The halftime pep talk of a {{w|basketball}} game is commonly used by coaches to inspire his team to come back from a seemingly insurmountable deficit, and to make strategic changes that will help them do so. Unfortunately, the basketball coach has absolutely no fundamental understanding of the sport, and has pulled his team into the locker room while the game is still in progress, enabling the other team to score at will. | The halftime pep talk of a {{w|basketball}} game is commonly used by coaches to inspire his team to come back from a seemingly insurmountable deficit, and to make strategic changes that will help them do so. Unfortunately, the basketball coach has absolutely no fundamental understanding of the sport, and has pulled his team into the locker room while the game is still in progress, enabling the other team to score at will. | ||
| − | The title text parodies a common plot of especially US sports movies in which an inexperienced team (and sometimes coach) still manage to win a title. | + | The title text parodies a common plot of especially US sports movies in which an inexperienced team (and sometimes coach) still manage to win a title after a highly motivational pep talk. |
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Revision as of 14:05, 17 August 2014
| Pep Talk |
 Title text: Listen! They said a team of chess players coached by someone with no understanding of basketball would never be competitive in the NBA! Well, it turns out they're pretty perceptive. |
Explanation
The halftime pep talk of a basketball game is commonly used by coaches to inspire his team to come back from a seemingly insurmountable deficit, and to make strategic changes that will help them do so. Unfortunately, the basketball coach has absolutely no fundamental understanding of the sport, and has pulled his team into the locker room while the game is still in progress, enabling the other team to score at will.
The title text parodies a common plot of especially US sports movies in which an inexperienced team (and sometimes coach) still manage to win a title after a highly motivational pep talk.
Transcript
- Cueball: Okay, team. We're sixteen points down. If we want to come back from this—
- Offscreen: WOO!! SCORE!!!
- Cueball: Okay, now we're eighteen points down. ...Listen—I'm starting to think we should only take these breaks at halftime.
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There is a community portal discussion of what to call Cueball and what to do in case with more than one Cueball. I have added this comic to the new Category:Multiple Cueballs. Since there is only one Cueball that "talks" it is obvious to keep him listed as Cueball. Just made a note that the other guys also looks like Cueball. --Kynde (talk) 14:43, 15 March 2015 (UTC) I think Cueball plural should be Cueballs. Anonymous May 8 2020
