Buddy Hield's childhood hoop was a crate nailed to plywood

Buddy Hield is, by all standards, ungodly good at shooting basketballs.

The Oklahoma shooting guard has lit up the NCAA tournament, shooting 56.7 percent from the floor and sending NBA prognosticators into fits over whether or not he, a 22-year-old, is too late-blooming to flourish at the next level.

And all of this falls away, or maybe even comes more into focus, when you look at the hodgepodge of nails and plywood all of this ruckus began on.

ESPN's Jeff Goodman tweeted a picture of one of the makeshift basketball hoops Hield grew up playing on in his hometown of Eight Mile Rock, Jamaica.

Yeah, that's plywood, a wooden post and a plastic crate. And given the size of the backboard, I assume this contributed heavily to Hield's penchant for draining pretty much every good look he puts up.

I just hope the bottom of the crate was cut out. Because the way Buddy shoots, he might've spent hours climbing up to retrieve buckets.

Dan is on Twitter. His first basketball hoop was really nice. It was also his friend's basketball hoop, which taught him an important lesson: Always have a friend with a basketball hoop.