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Re: Hoops
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Originally Posted by Mr. Pockets
To anyone who has actually gotten ahold of one of baskets in question: would using a standard regulation basketball net give substantially performance results?
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Its a tough question to answer. FIRST has spent time to specify not only a different spring for the hoop, but a different net as well. I recall reading somewhere in the drawings that the additions would be fine for practice, but the real field would be using the substitutions theyve implemented. A regulation size basketball hoop is a regulation size basketball hoop. Functionally it SHOULD be the same, but theres really no guarantees unless you got them side by side.
It seems that changing out the springs and netting on whatever hoop you get would be worthwhile simply to make sure you are designing to what the field will offer.
-Brando
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