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Jisu98 Posted 18 years ago
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were down by a basket?

0Help me. urgent. can't understand the meaning.02br
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00Soon we were down by one basket, then by two.02br
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00Does that mean 'one basket = two point'? 02br
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0Yes, 2 points per basket.0-
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0 Yes, a basket is 2 points in basketball terms. 0-
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01cite10Goodman12cite10Yes, a basket is 2 points in basketball terms.12blockquote
10Unless it's a 3-pointer, further away from the basket. 0-
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0 Maybe this part is obvious, but "we were01i00 down 02i00by one basket" means "we were 01i00losing 02i00by one basket -- the other team had scored one basket more than we had." 0-
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01cite10Jisu9812cite10Soon we were down by one basket, then by two.12blockquote
10 In very little time, our team was losing. The other team had made one more basket (two more points) than we had. Then our team was losing even more. The other team made one more basket while we had made none. They now had made two m
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