A strange little side quest
Cannoneer may feel immediate, but the ideas around basketball have been evolving for a very long time. Men's basketball became an Olympic medal sport in 1936, while women's basketball joined the Olympic programme in 1976. There is another connection worth keeping in the same mental pocket: Women competed in Olympic archery as early as 1904, making it one of the early Olympic sports to include women. That history is one reason familiar mechanics can still feel new when they are recombined well.
