Not P but yet another English question

[Mike Jing]

That's what I imagined as well, but I couldn't find any such reference to
the term.


On Sun, Nov 6, 2022 at 3:27 PM David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> Knowing nothing about basketball, the context of reading makes set-pick
> sound as if it is an acrobatic bounce off the body of another person.
>
> On Sun, Nov 6, 2022 at 3:00 PM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Thanks, Mark.
>>
>> I did encounter the basketball term while searching, but I wasn't sure how
>> it applies to this situation. Is Ron Jeremy supposed to be the "pick"
>> here?
>> Does it mean he was in the way and she got around him somehow? I'm still
>> not quite sure how it works.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Nov 6, 2022 at 3:46 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> >
>> >
>> > What does it mean to set a pick? ---
>> > Here's the definition of a pick: *When an offensive player legally
>> blocks
>> > the path of a defender to open up another offensive player for a shot
>> or to
>> > receive a pass*. When setting the pick, you should: Feet spread - you
>> > want to create a wide base that is hard for the defender to get around.
>> >
>> >
>> https://www.breakthroughbasketball.com/articles/how-to-set-pick-in-basketball.html
>> >
>> >
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pick_and_roll#/media/File:Trevor_Booker,_Tony_Parker_and_Kirk_Hinrich.jpg
>> >
>> >
>> https://www.google.com/search?q=set+a+pick+basketball&newwindow=1&sxsrf=ALiCzsZoZEjO0EiRwQ2CHJcoKqjp5M5Bbg%3A1667723620525&ei=ZHFnY5HcH62bwbkPoeOPwAY&oq=set-pick&gs_lp=ugYGCAEQARgJEgxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnC4AQH4AQEqAggAMgYQABgHGB4yBhAAGAcYHjIIEAAYBxgeGAoyBhAAGAcYHjIGEAAYBxgeMgQQABgeMgQQABgeMgQQABgeMgQQABgeMgQQABgewgIKEAAYRxjWBBiwA8ICDhAAGOQCGNYEGLAD2AEBwgIHECMYsQIYJ5AGDUiva1DlCVjJDXABeAHIAQCQAQCYAV-gAZsBqgEBMuIDBCBNGAHiAwQgQRgA4gMEIEYYAYgGAQ&sclient=gws-wiz-serp#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:39f66c8a,vid:ke5-IMRUcXY
>> > I once saw this done on an elevator in a business setting. Kept
>> > someone from confronting another as they started arguing on the
>> > elevator and were now getting off...
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On Sun, Nov 6, 2022 at 12:36 AM Mike Jing <
>> gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> >> The following excerpt is from David Foster Wallace's *Big Red Son
>> *(from*
>> >> Consider the Lobster and Other Essays*):
>> >>
>> >> Whereupon in turn Ms. Jasmin St. Claire, seeing Harold Hecuba clutching
>> >> the
>> >> upraised hand of an agitated and off-balance Nici Sterling, performed a
>> >> set-pick off the three-foot width of Ron (“the Hedge-hog”) Jeremy and
>> >> leapt
>> >> on Hecuba’s back and deployed what Filth averred was a pretty
>> authentic-
>> >> and impressive-looking LAPD-style chokehold
>> >>
>> >> What is a "set-pick"?
>> >> --
>> >> Pynchon-L: https://waste.org/mailman/listinfo/pynchon-l
>> >>
>> >
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>>
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