Why You Probably Got Ripped Off When You Bought Your Portable Basketball Goal

Basketball hoops are totally unlike any other kind of sports equipment. While equipment from other sports is fairly uniform in nature, the sheer variety of basketball hoops make it very difficult to find the exact basketball hoop for your specific needs. Most salespeople at retail stores have absolutely no clue about what makes for a good basketball goal, so they always wind up buying the wrong one.Here are some of the prime ways reasons that you probably have the wrong hoop in your driveway.

Wrong Size Backboard - Backboards can range in size anywhere from forty-two inches all the way up to the NBA regulation size of seventy-two inches (a full six feet across!) Yet you see people who have a decent budget with these dinky-sized hoops in their driveway. Usually, this is because they went to a store that didn’t have any basketball goals with larger backboards on hand, so they just recommended a smaller size. This is sad, because if they had just ordered a larger hoop online and waited until it came, they could have had a Pro-worthy system.

Wrong Shape Backboard - One of the worst mistakes that anyone can make when purchasing a backboard is buying a fan shaped backboard. Fan shaped backboard are never more expensive than rectangle backboards, but fan shaped backboards have a lot loss area that you make bank shots off of. So why on earth would you spend the exact same amount of money for less backboard area?

Wrong Material Basketball Backboard- One of the saddest things that you can witness is someone buying an acrylic basketball hoop when there is a perfectly good polycarbonate basketball hoop for the exact same price. Polycarbonate is a lot like acrylic, except that is five times stronger, and therefore much harder to break. When facing a decision between acrylic and polycarbonate, always go with polycarbonate backboards.

Wrong Adjustment System - When salespeople recommend the pneumatic adjustment system over a hand crank system because it’s easier, they have no clue what they are talking about. Hand crank systems might be less “advanced,” but anyone who has used one can tell it tells a heck of lot less effort to raise a lower a basketball backboard with a hand crank system than with a gas powered adjustment system.

The only way to prevent yourself from getting ripped of and spending way too much money on a inferior hoop is by boning up on different basketball hoops and basketball hoop brands.

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1. joe February 11, 2010 6:02 pm

   Very Good article on the main way people get ripped off at the sporting goods store.
   Like every thing else you have to do your homework up front.