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Basketball on Nintendo Switch Sports is lovely mean-spirited fun


A morning spent with Nintendo Switch Sports' new basktball mode.

Shake the Joy-Con to dribble, squeeze the trigger and raise it to ready yourself for a shot and then a flick of the wrist sends the ball home - or bouncing off the backboard. Two-on-two is a treat, and I'd say it's a little stop-start, but I once saw a basketball game at Madison Square Garden - the Celtics were not on form, and yet the Knicks still lost - and so I'd say the pace is about right. Beautifully, though, you can do it with friends, either as a three-point contest, in which four of you stand in a row and you all throw at once, or the five-streak battle, truly the Elden Lord of basketball, in which you need five baskets one after the other with no misses.

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