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Vincent Teo Posted 18 years ago
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technique - playing basketball

0How do you say, if a basket player put the basketball on his fingertip. There is a kind of technique. 02br
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0 Like 05000? " You might want to add "on his fingertip" to make it completely clear. If you wrote, "The basketball player is twirling the baton now" everyone would know exactly what you meant, but "twirling the basketball" is not an extremely common phrase.

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  • " You might want to add "on his fingertip" to make it completely clear.
  • If you wrote, "The basketball player is twirling the baton now" everyone would know exactly what you meant, but "twirling the basketball" is not an extremely common phrase.
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0 Like 05000? Apparently it's called "twirling." You might want to add "on his fingertip" to make it completely clear. If you wrote, "The basketball player is twirling the baton now" everyone would know exactly what you meant, but "twirling the basketball" is not an extremely common phrase. 0240hrefhttp://www.jupiterimages.com/popup2.aspx?navigationSubType=itemdetails&itemID=2332999
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0Yes. the picture is correct. But, the basketball player was playing the basketball by using this technique. I think we can't to say "twirling a baton". "baton" is not a basketball. How to say if we use "basketball"? 0-
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0 I'm sorry, I was not clear. If I were writing "The basketball player is twirling the basketball" I would add "on his fingertip" to make it crystal-clear what I was talking about. 02br
00"The basketball player twirled the ball on his fingertip for a full two minutes, while the crowd applauded heartily."02br
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0Hi,02br
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00'Ttwirling' is OK, but personally I'd prefer 'spinning'. Or 'balancing', if the ball is simply sitting motionless on his fingertip.02br
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00Best wishes, Clive0-
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