There Are Pandas, and Then There Are Pandas.
And this isn't either of them! The Pandas we're talking about here, are watches, not bears. And what got me thinking about them (again) was a link posted this morning by @cm.rook who pointed a few of us to the very attractive (and not terribly priced) Yema "Rallygraph" Panda which, in it's most traditional arrangement, looks like the one on the left, but can also be had in the version on the right: The model on the left is a true Panda, while the model on the right is called a reverse Panda. The reason for that distinction is clear--Panda bears, only come in the first arrangement. Now at this point, everyone should be thinking about the most well-know Panda, The Rolex Panda, which is actually a Daytona, and among Rolex Daytonas, the most famous of which is the Paul Newman Daytona, which was famous first, because it was Paul's, and second because it sold at auction for $17.8 million (US Dollars). The story of that auction is well-known so I'll only...
Nov 8, 2019
So just a guy at a high-school basketball game? You could try a high-powered strobe either on or off-camera. I imagine one or both coaches might object after the second photo and ask you to stop distracting the players. So that leaves us with using very high-ISO and fast shutter speed in S-priority mode. Basically at 1/8 or 1/80 second you do not have a chance of stopping motion. 1/250s is pretty marginal too. Your goal should be setting for 1/500 or even faster. That means much higher ISO and all the noise that will bring to you. If you camera has an auto-ISO setting, try it. It could salvage some shots. I have a sports mode on my camera bodies, and they do a fair job keeping the shutter speed fast and use the auto-ISO to compensate for when the f-stop bottoms-out. In my Nikons this mode also sets the auto-focus mode to something appropriate for tracking objects moving across the frame.
Beyond that, try shooting RAW mode (or RAW+JPG) and lean on the noise reduction filters of your processing software of choice.
Believe it or not, the rule-of-thirds actually works for subjects in motion pretty well. If you have a runner in the center of the frame, it kind of loses a bit of interest unless you are including action behind and in front of the subject. Put the subject closer to 2/3 of the frame being open in front of it's motion and it looks more right sometimes. Your first shot is more correct with the subject centered, but it can work with shots like the 2nd one where he looks like he is passing the ball.
So that is my 2 cents worth gained from experience multiple years photographing yo-yo contests at a somewhat dimly-lit Mall Of America. ;)