Vocabulary
This is a basketball move where a player dribbles quickly from one hand to the other.
What is a crossover?
What is your heart?
This is Josh's nickname.
What is Filthy McNasty?
Mom's job
What is the school principal?
This is JB's hero
Who is Michael Jordan?
This is a disease otherwise known as high blood pressure.
What is hypertension?
According to Basketball Rule #3, this is the limit that Dad has set for his sons.
What is the sky?
What does Josh have that he calls his "wings" which help him dunk?
What are dreadlocks?
Dad's nickname
What is DaMan?
The name of the boys' basketball team`
This means having a bad temper, and being difficult to work with
What is churlish?
According to Basketball Rule #4, if you miss too many of these, you will pay in the end.
What are free throws?
Josh can do this, but JB can't.
What is dunk?
Why Chuck Bell retired from basektball
What is patellar tendinitis?
"After the game, JB cackles like a crow." (37) What type of figurative language is this?
What is a simile?
This is an unexpected, undesirable event; often physically injurious.
What is a calamity?
According to Basketball Rule #5, this happens when you stop playing the game.
What is you've already lost?
This is the end result of a bet between JB and Josh.
What is Josh's dreadlocks are cut off?
How Dad dies
What is myocardial infarction (heart attack)?
"JB's mouth was swimming on the floor." This is an example of
Personification?
This is having great physical beauty and appeal.
What is pulchritudinous?
Who are true champions?
This is the end result of Josh's anger on the basketball court, which leads to him being suspended from the team.
What is he bloodies JB's nose with a hard pass?
Dad's free throw record
What is 50?
According to the TV show, which of the twins ends up an NBA player?
JB; Josh gets in a car accident and ends up in a wheel chair.