CSM: I did this for my friend's son's birthday and he is a Maverick fan. The cake is strawberry with an actual cheesecake for filling and buttercream frosting. Thought I'd make it look like a basketball hoop-- at least that was the attempt. Instead of making the cake dark and strings white , I opted to make the net dark blue and I'm afraid it gave more of a 'drum' look than a basketball hoop look. Those fondant strings kept breaking!!. First time I've covered the cake board with fondant and painted it to look like a wood floor. The Maverick's logo I did out of gum paste. That I thought turned out pretty well. Wish I could say it was a fun cake to do, but it was on the verge of being a cake-tastrophe! For some reason my cake...even cold...was very soft. It even tilted! Glad to get this one out the door while the strings were hangin' on! Comments on what I could have done better and how to do it will be appreciated!