Oh, you forgot that Jinx was a “sports junkie“? You must not remember her excitement when step-mom Linda signed her up to play girls’ softball a few summers ago (and guess who she volunteered to coach?). The news of the She-Goats’ advancing to the state tournaments is greeted with utter indifference by everyone but Summer, Cayla, and Les, who is smirking up a storm. Jim the science teacher isn’t even looking at the TV; he just stares into space, contemplating retirement.
Tag: Keisha
Pass-ketball
“Coach” Fairgood has really had an effect on the heretofore hapless She-Goats: watch today as they flawlessly execute a complex play that Ann has pulled out of nowhere, and which they have never run in practice. And check out how #31’s hair color changes from blonde to brown to blonde again! How the hell do you defend against that?
Merry Pookster
January 24, 2012 at 12:58 am
…The real story is how Sum-mor, a girl (?) can jump so high as to rest the backside of her hand 10 feet at the rim…. or do girls HS girls in Ohio play with 8 foot rims like we had in grade school?
If not, there must be a trampoline beneath the hoop! Girls from both teams are getting some serious air in that last panel.
Fishstick Annie Breaks It Down
Fishstick Annie has completely taken over the helm at this point, and Bull (“I thought I told you to sit! Sit!”) is reduced to just standing around, arms akimbo, looking like he even has a clue what’s going on. I’m surprised Ann doesn’t make him carry her clipboard. Meanwhile Owen (or perhaps his “Clowen”) looks on pensively.
Two Points
sourbelly
January 21, 2012 at 3:06 am
Weave screen? That’s pretty basic stuff. Wouldn’t exactly call it Old School, or any “school” really. Merry Pookster called it: It will work a couple of times before the other team figures it out, and yes, it’s only an offensive play.
I leave it to the more hoops-savvy snarkers (and there are quite a few among you!) to determine if the play happening here is a weave-screen (it could be the Old Dipsy Doodle). But I reckon it is, based on a.) the confident expressions on Kei$ha’s and Summer’s faces in panel 1, and b.) it results in a basket. Ann was right when she said the opponents wouldn’t be “coaching to defend it“: in fact, it looks like they have the same hapless blond player defending both Keisha and Summer.
Un-be-Weave-a-Bull
Epicus Doomus
January 19, 2012 at 1:35 am
…[W]hy did Ann stop attending WHS girls’ basketball games in the first place?…[W]hat was she doing for all those years, hiding in her house reading comic books? It makes no sense I tells ya!
Looking for sense in a Funky Winkerbean story arc? That way lies madness! Silly Epicus: Ann’s been lurking in the wings this whole time, just waiting for the She-Goats to falter so that she could dust off the ol’ “weave-screen” play!
Son of Stuck Funky 