Gil Thorp by Henry Barajas and Rachel Merrill for March 21, 2024

Pop is the sound a bouncing basketball makes?!? It was the sound of passing a basketball a few days ago…

P1: The boys discuss using Gil’s coaching award to get into the gentleman’s club for free.

Are any of their games ever a laugher?!?

GRAH!

Another bonus panel from Whigs! He’s been working like a man possessed. Will we get one more this week and give us seven GT’s for the price of six?

P1 Fistpump Man and Signman are going berserk and lathering up the Milford faithful into a wild frenzy. Meanwhile, Tays and Gil check their bank balances online to make sure they have enough cash on hand for the post-game trip to the gentleman’s club.

P2 ToBe: “Don’t make me get my other big ball out. Hey, commissioner, look at this!”

P3 The ball pops, the defender poops when he realizes that he just fell for the old bounce pass between the legs trick.

P4 Atazohoon-hite snaps his wrist on the shot. In another instant he’ll be on the ground writhing in pain waiting for the medi-vac helicopter to arrive.

The score and time remaining dialogue box is pain-free reading, for once.

P 3: great D by the valley tech mannequin.

P2 & P3- Really thought Tays and Gil were going to get Globetrotter creative and have Tobe run with a bucket of water to toss at VTs Coach Kim. Mopman is ecstatic sweeping up all that confetti.

Still a pretty high scoring game for the usual high school format of 8 minute quarters. In P3 Atazhoon looks to be an illegal #7 and #1 in P4. Maybe that was the trick-the old number switch.

Check it out. I’ve finally upgraded to color signs!

61-61 in the first quarter, 80-79 with a minute to go? I still think he’s pranking us.

Milford needs more practice on the old hit-your-opponent-in-the-groin bounce pass.

Leo’s offside in P3. The net goaltender clearly left to go alert the ref of this in P4 and it was empty.

Considering the name, Atazhoon-tite’s defender feels it’s responsible to keep practicing the 6-feet social distancing concept.

At Valley Modified, they’re careful not to use the phrase “timeout to burn” in case they take it literally.

panal three what happen to snap and crackle ?

you know gil and tays are not talking about the game . there just wondering if dumb pole dancers willtake italian lira as payment

everyone knows pedro will hit game winning shot and will tell marty it was as easy as getting peanut in the sack

The play never would have worked without the between-the-defender’s-legs bounce pass. That was the key to the whole thing!

Tays originates the “Nigerian prince” email scam.

From today’s Comics Curmudgeon:

Gil’s coaching stylings are always a great way to track his mood swings. Now that he’s gotten his groove back, sexually, we’re going to be seeing more of “fun Gil,” and you know what that means: zany trickeration plays! I certainly hope the Milford marching band has “Yakety Sax” ready to go for situations like this.

Would have been cooler if the pass was between Pedro’s legs.

ALL basketball games should be 2 minutes long, and each team should start with 100 points…

Tomorrow: Frightened by the frenzied crowd, the peacock escapes his confines and runs onto the court, $hitting all over Mopman’s beautuful floor. Pedro, running up the court and concentrating on making the game-winning shot, doesn’t see the commotion and slips and falls in the mess, resulting in an open tib-fib of his other leg. Unfortunately, the helo is transporting a patient with chronic constipation and is unavailable. Tragically, Pedro bleeds out while waiting for an ambulance. Mopman has an even bigger mess to clean up, and wonders why he didn’t call in sick today.

P 1.5 (Gil): “…since we struggle to beat anyone straight up, the only thing that ever works for us is gimmick plays anyway …”

..or P 1.5 (Gil): “…since we welcome failure around here, we got nothing to lose except the game (giggle)…”

P1: Henry and Rod discuss the upcoming month of strips.

Wait, was that the play they were hoping VT would fall for? A pass through the legs? How do you make the defender “fall” for that? Well at least Gil is trying to do something for once. And speaking for once, once you’re ready, you should read today’s Mopped Up Thorp. (Add back the two missing “.”)

moppedupthorp wordpress com/2024/03/21/rough-play/

Does a Hobby Horse have a wooden … ?