Basketball lines are built on shooting your shot, which is the rare metaphor that describes the act of using it. Court-side, pickup games and watch parties are the venues; the vocabulary — rebounds, assists, buzzer-beaters — maps onto romance so neatly the lines almost write themselves.
The dunk and height jokes need the right target. The "shoot your shot" family works on everyone, because everyone knows the stakes.
Basketball supplies the only pick up line vocabulary that is also life advice: you miss every shot you don't take. Pickup games, watch parties and the queue for court time are the venues; the material assumes nothing except that both of you know what a hoop is, which makes it unusually portable. Post-game endorphins are the best delivery window in sport.
The rest of the sports section — soccer, volleyball, MMA — runs the same play for different courts.
