How to Buy a Basketball Hoop

Video Transcript

"You know if you want to play basketball other then having a basketball the other thing you need is a hoop. Hi, I'm Travis. This is how to buy that hoop and how to find a perfect one for you. Before you buy the actual rim or the hoop, what you want to make sure you have is a back, backboard and you want to have some type of pole or support for that backboard. Once you got that support, that pole in place and got the back, the backboard attached then it's time to find that hoop. Now there's a variation of, of prices or and types of hoops that you can buy. But what you want to do is want to look for a hoop with, I like to get hoops with, that are thinner, that have one ply, one ply around. This one has two, it's a, what they a lot of time calls a double rim and sometimes the double rims can be harder to shoot on but when you learn to play the game you want to have, make sure you have some type of rim attached to that backboard. Now after you have that rim, you see here we have the chain. A lot of outside courts use that chain. At your home you might, you might choose to go with a nylon hoop, a nylon net. Now that chain, the purpose of that net or that chain is to keep the ball form going all over the place and you having to run all over the court trying to get the ball, that king of keeps the ball in place so you can kind of keep the game going. And there you have it, buying a hoop for the game of basketball."