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Havenport Basketball Art Message Sheets
The artwork shown below appearedpublicly first in the book Basketball Art (ISBN 0-9682705-0-6).The copyright to all artwork on this page belongs to theartwork's creator Cory Lewis. All rights are reserved.
Enjoy the art and thought. - CoryLewis, C.A.E., B.A., LL.B., LL.M.
The artwork:
Post Target
The player with theblue uniform has raised the hand farthest from the defender andprovided that hand as the target to which the passer should passthe ball. The player is leaning against the defender to preventthe defender from easily moving toward the pass’destination.
Pass By
A player passes the basketball past the shoulder of a defender. Because the defender’s left hand was raised and right hand was lowered, the right shoulder is the correct shoulder over which to pass the ball.
Triple Threat
This image shows the ball holder’s three classic options of shooting the basketball, passing the basketball, and dribbling the basketball.
Passing Holes
This image shows the passing holes around a defensive player through which an offensive player facing the orange defender may pass a ball to teammates when the defensive player is holding one hand low to guard against the dribble and one hand high to guard against a pass or shot. The passer’s teammates are shown in the passing holes.
Back Door
The six panels show the progression of a common basketball play named the back door. Panel 1 sets the scene with a ball handler, a red clothed defensive player guarding a green clothed offensive cutter. Panel 2 shows the offensive cutter moving to receive a pass with the defender moving with the cutter. One of the defender’s chores is to maintain either visual or physical contact at all times with the cutter. Panel 3 shows the ball handler faking a pass to the cutter. The result of the fake pass is that the defender, having seen the ball movement with the defender’s peripheral vision, turns toward the ball in order to concentrateon intercepting the pass. The offensive cutter having seen the ball fake has reversed direction and started to cut in the opposite direction. Panel 4 shows the ball handler bringing the ball back to the ball handler’s body to gain sufficient strength to pass the ball in another direction. The defender’s surprise is also evident. Panel 5 shows the ballhandler beginning the pass to the open cutter who has gained a spatial advantage over the defender through the back door play. The defender has reversed direction to attempt to catch up with the cutter. Panel 6 shows the ball handler’s pass on its way to the cutter and the defender in hot pursuit.
Spacing
Spacing tells a story about how an attempted pass is affected by the distance between the passer and a defender positioned between the passer and the intended pass receiver. The story is told twice, once on the top half of the work and once on the bottom half with different outcomes on each. The declining red score clock numbers and the red arrows pointing toward the right indicate the eye’s direction while following the story across the three vertical panels. The top half of the piece shows the successful completion of a pass due to the defender being relatively close to the passer. The bottom half of the piece shows the successful interception of a pass due to the defender being relatively far from the passer. The extreme top and bottom panels show all three involved players and the ball in the respective situations. The middle panel shows the relationship between the defender and the passed ball from the passer’s viewpoint. The straight and curved blue and green lines represent the players mouths and change from neutral emotion to either a smile or a frown according to the color of the team uniform and dependent upon the pass attempt’s outcome.
Ball Bounces
Philosophical statement based on the saying "That is the way the ball bounces." In this image the missed shot is presented to offset the far more commonly and disproportionately portrayed other half of shots attempted which result in the ball falling through the hoop.
Heavens Above
A shooter’s heaven is the ball falling directly through the hoop’scenter. Here the shooter’s heaven is shown against the natural heavens from a position looking upwards from beneath both.
Urban-Suburban
Both similarity and difference between urban and suburban life is shown in this social statement. Difference is shown through contrasting the traditional urban chain mesh net with the traditional suburban cotton mesh net. Similarity is shown through the use of identical sky for each, the use of a single backboard from which both hoops emerge, the placement of the ball directly in the center of both hoops, and the dangling ends of the net near the backboard in both hoops. The centering of the ball in both hoops and the dangling ends of net in both hoops suggest equal competence by players of both environments. The dangling ends of the chain mesh net also suggest that desirable behavior, the metaphor in this instance being successfully placing the basketball through the hoop, could sever the chains of urban existence which sometimes are blamed for preventing urban dwellers from escaping from the urban environment. For segments of the American urban population the breaking of the chain may have additional significance.
What you’ll see & What I’ll view
A shirt for the confident. Fields of vision as they may occur between two players. In the first panel we see what the inferior defender of a superior player will see, specifically the shoe of the superior player as the player leaves the inferior player’s field ofvision. In the second panel we see what the superior defender of an inferior player will see, specifically the ball which the defender has knocked away from the opponent is available to be recovered and used to score.
Women’s Basketball
The female symbol is shown by the basket, backboard, and support all inset into a basketball.
Glass Board
This is an image of rectangular glass backboard and metal rim shown in front of a basketball. Balance is maintained by the presence of a ball above the basket. This image is ideal on generic shirts and warm-up jerseys.
Peripheral Vision
This image combines color and assumes a blue field of vision by the player whose field of vision is shown. The court is yellow and the key is red. Where the player’s blue field of vision is above the court the yellow court is shown as green and the red key is shown as purple. Red and blue form purple and yellow and blue form green. The basketball message is that the players have limited fields of vision which may be exploited by opponents. In the image two of the round offensive players are located outside of the defender’s field of vision.
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