last paper

After doing two papers in this class I struggle to get a creative topic, but I was thinking the other day about metaphors and basketball. I was sitting here in the hotel room since we are on the road for basketball, and I was like mmm....wonder if I could do metaphors dealing with basketball for my last paper. For example, we will say "set a pick to the hole" or "Go to the glass". If you took that literally we would have people picking in a hole and people running after class. In basketball its means to set a screen to get your player open and go get the rebound. There are numerous metaphors used in this sport, so hopefully it would work out. Any one have any ideas to help describe or explain a metaphor?