On an earthen dam, if you don`t do maintenance and you have vegetation growth, tree roots penetrate into the soil and then it weakens the soil or creates cracks or gaps where water can seep in.
As a group, we don`t have the size and strength of other basketball players, so we try to create our own little world of basketball. We`re not trying to lock people out because we`re better. We`re protecting our weaker status.