The Varsitarian

FANCY crossover moves, dribbling prowess and pure exhibition. These were the definitions of basketball for the Flip Ballaz squad, who stormed the campus cage crowd in an exhibition game last July 5 at the Engineering Complex.

“We’re not into ordinary basketball, but we’re more into a show—one-on-ones, ball-handling tricks and pure streetball,” Thomasian Earl “Tha Pearl” Real explained.

Real, a College of Engineering junior and the lone Thomasian in the group, headed the Flip Ballaz team in their exhibition stint at the University.

Formed in November 2003, the fancy basketball squad is composed mainly of college students who performed and met each other in the Nike Freestyle Basketball Contest last year.

The team demonstrated various tricks in the game like the “killer” crossover move, while trash-talking and taking extraordinary shots. Dino Paulo T. Maragay