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.
Tag: Keisha
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!
Bag o' Tricks
Before Ann can succeed in boring the girls to tears, Bull mercifully cuts her short to get us to the point of this little history lesson. But the former coach will not be dismissed, and we find out what she’s got in that shoulder bag she’s been fiercely clutching.
In the Beginning
Yup, things were tough back then. “All right, girls, we’ll create a basketball program for you…but you can’t use the gym for practice. You can practice in the cafeteria…but don’t expect us to move the tables or clean the floor!” Hey, do you suppose that when that player slipped on the fishstick, the whole cafeteria heard her knee pop?
