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 people end up buying the wrong one.

Drive down any suburb in America and you are bound see rows upon rows of basketball hoops in the driveways. And more often then not, these hoops are usually the wrong hoop for the users needs. The biggest mistake anyone can make is buy a hoop before getting all your facts straight, yet this is what happens again and again.