Hardwood is basketball's longtime foundation. A German company would love to change that to glass

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• ianhclark510@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Just ask college baseball what switching from wood to composite was like

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  • Stern@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Oh yeah, history is rife with attempts to change flooring on sports that didn’t pan out, like Carpet Court or Blue Clay in tennis. For basketball, I walked on a Nike Grind court (Well, not 100% if was Nike Grind per se, but they said it was made out of recycled shoes so…) that they have at their Beaverton campus and the cushioning felt fairly noticeable.

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    • ianhclark510@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I was making a joke about something more like this but yeah I could see how messing with the floor surface would cause problems, I’m as far from a professional in either sport as you can get

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• acosmichippo@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  “The focus now up to today has been getting a surface that is comfortable for the athletes to play on, and we’ve done that.”

  how about you focus on asking people if we actually want to watch this bullshit.

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• Sl00k@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  As someone who always plays on shitty unmaintained rec center courts I’d give anything for some development of a good cheap court material other than wood.

  This ain’t it tho 😭😭

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