How can I have depth perception with only one eye?

Answer

When people look with two eyes, they see two images that are slightly different from each other. After all, the two eyes are not in the same place.
Because of that small difference in images, our brains learn to estimate distances at a very young age. The smaller the difference between the images, the further away something is.

This system works quite well, allowing us to estimate the distance to a basketball hoop, for example. We don’t need any other ways to estimate the distance, because the system works very well. So if you close 1 eye, you lose this ability to estimate because you only have 1 image and not two to compare with each other. So you lose depth perception.

However, when you have to live with one healthy eye and therefore lack depth perception, your brain looks for other ways to estimate distance. This can be done by getting to know the size of an object. Once you know how big a hoop is, and have learned (through experience) that it appears smaller the further away it is, you can estimate how far this hoop is from you. The differences are sometimes subtle, but your brain learns to estimate the correct distance based on this.
So your brain is capable of doing this because it has been trained to do this, while the brains of your fellow players have not learned this.

So you see that every problem also creates new possibilities. You can do something most others can’t.