playing basketball

Haven't played a real game in 15 or so years.

Used to love playing when I was in high school though.

aww

ive played a few times at those courts in the panhandle (this is what they call that little strip extending out from golden gate park right) when visiting my sister

Yeah that used to be a good pickup game spot (also down at Dolores Park too IIRC.)

been a couple years. we've been trying to organize a game for about a month now and everyone has endless excuses - bad back, got jazz tix, hangnail, moon is waning, feeling old at 30, etc

dude just go down to where people play and get next - i usually go w/at least one friend - but theres no need to bring a complete game w/you - that is the beauty

havent played since sr year in hs, havent put any effort into it since jr year

this used to be my friends favorite pastime but theyve all gotten too fat & lazy, same as me

While jhoshea is OTM that it's to get in pick-up games, it's a little harder to do if you haven't played in ages and your instincts and shot are totally pathetic (esp. pickup basketball can get a little intimidating IMO.) Still pick up a ball and practice your shot and you'll get it back eventually.

just play in shitty games til u get yr confidence back is all

or if yr feeling brave just get pwnd for a little while

i played a couple weeks ago after a 3 month+ layoff; i tried to stay out of games just shooting by myself but got cajoled into full on 5 on 5 sos i wouldn't look like a pussy, and surprised myself with how well i did. just played lowkey, concentrated on defense and hit a couple open jumpers. panting like a dog though, i need to start running again.

i have glass ankles unfortunately, since my teens it seems like i can never play regularly for more than 2 months before catastrophe strikes. i never had hops to begin with so no biggie, my shot is still there

Yeah, I'm a smoker + I hairline fractured my right ankle a couple years ago and never really had it treated = I will probably never play in a pickup game again in my life. Which sucks.

haha i've probably fractured mine or worse half a dozen times, i don't know what it would take to actually have them looked at by a doctor, now one of my ankles clicks just about every step i take but it doesn't really hurt anymore. last week i thought about picking up some 9.99 starburys to replace my tim duncans (!), i don't learn i guess. can't bring myself to buy nikes but the non-sweatshop shits suck for the most part.

god, mine still hurts like hell, particularly in the winter and occasionally just fucking buckles on me and I nearly fall over. This is most awesome when crossing streets.

i play when i can, which isn't much these days. my handle has left me completely. more than one dribble with the left is an adventure.

i use the racquetball court at a gym that doubles as a b-ball half-court. i'd rather use an outdoor court but i don't know of one near me. hadn't really played in years but my shot came back pretty quick

i love playing pickup basketball #1 advantage of free gym @ college

i am only okay but soooo much fun

actually i just thought of one court that i could probably walk to. just need a ball pump

I'm saving my body for old age. Hard cuts to the basket are not part of the program. I like to walk too much to chance it.

just camp out and shoot threes

I will fuck you all up. I hadn't played all that much in the last few years , but started playing more often recently with this dude from work. He works out every day and runs full court games at his gym 6X/week. I SUCK at decision-making in a 5on5 game, but made him eat his trash-talking words in 1on1. He's Mr Testosterone and takes shit way too seriously, which is pretty annoying but I still have fun.

just remembered this is like a 5 min from me but the names on the wall make it look like some "locals only" shit.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/188/442365195_d1b606bf52_o.jpg

lol n e 1 here got mad ups??? i'll be the first to admit i can't even come close to dunking

http://cache.kotaku.com/assets/resources/2006/11/WMCJ.jpg

i can barely touch rim and my hands are smaller than 95% of girls I've known. So nope, can't dunk neither.

melo's old cloverdale court is featured in nba street

http://sportsmedia.ign.com/sports/image/article/746/746257/carmelo-anthony-street-cred-20061115032614378-000.jpg

http://sports.ign.com/articles/746/746257p1.html
http://www.baltimorestories.com/main.cfm?nid=1&tid=291

i think i can get like halfway up the net or some shit on a good day

i once did like a rub dunk on a crooked outdoor rim. it was not pretty. my brothers got the good genes.

thread title makes me think of http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0yoPVAOJTk

grazed the rim once or twice back in high school days. how tall are u guys? i'm about 5'11 and i can probably barely touch the net now

oh come on, even a 5'11" with laimbeer hops could easily touch net. (I'm 6ft, 170. Just like AI!)

I rolled my ankle something fierce at a pick up game on saturday. swelling is down now but I’m still listed as day to day.

last week i thought about picking up some 9.99 starburys to replace my tim duncans (!), i don't learn i guess. can't bring myself to buy nikes but the non-sweatshop shits suck for the most part.

-- tremendoid, Friday, April 25, 2008 9:55 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Link

dude no youve probably heard this but everyone says those shits fuck up yr feet

its pretty sad cause what a great - lol right after they came out and people started complaining abt their feet marbury was all wtf i wear them theyre great - of course he was out w/a foot injury at the time

shaq has some wicked cheap shoes too http://payless.resultspage.com/shoes/Shaquille

my current dedicated basketball intended for tennis foot environment http://i30.tinypic.com/rbilbn.jpg

i played almost everyday from 8 to 19 but the last time i played was about 13 years ago in york beach, maine. i was abused by some 6' 7" 17 year old. my tar-coated lungs just couldn't get it done. it was embarrassing.

my heart would probably explode if i tried to play a full court game today.

eh yr a wirey guy right - i bet you could get back in shape pretty easily - it the extra weight thatll really hold you back

wiry, skeletal, whatever. mid 30s, smoking for over half my life now, not sure i could actually get back in shape. i'll bet i could still nail the open j though.

"either you slangin' crack-rock or you got a wicked jump shot"

annoying playground ball trend, pt 1: you score 15 or so quick points in 21 or 32, and then mofos start playing "defense" on you ie hacking like mad
annoying playground ball trend, pt 2: 3 other dudes playing, you come in, and no one wants to play 2 on 2, just 1 on 1 b.s.

omg ive been so on fire the last couple days - yesterday i mustve shot like 15/22 over the course of three games of 4 on 4 to 16 - hitting crazy threes off the dribble off balance floaters layups high of the glass everything - against good players too!

i'm going to try and get back out there this weekend. hope the ankle holds up.

do you have any sort of brace? i bought one a couple years ago, but I think it's too small cause there's more pain with wearing it than without.

yah prob too small - do you do any sort of strengthening exercises? def worthwhile. weird muscular over compensation/weakening as the result of a single injury is often what leads to the chronic variety.

i don't have a brace. i was just gonna go with a tape wrap and see how it feels.

it doesnt count if u only play against white ppl btw

well duh

LOL! i play against a lot of filipinos. i dominate the boards but the dudes kill me with their quicks. i pretty much suck. it all about the cardio workout for me anyways.

for the record canky where i play its abt 50/50 white/black w/one puerto rican dude whos better than everyone

"some of my best teammates have been black!!"

Everyone chucks cos 1) they are lazy and/or not in good shape 2) even if you make like one out of four it’s a good shot cos in most pickup games it’s worth twice as many points as any other shot

― four square ups... no punches thrown (Spottie), Sunday, February 12, 2023 5:00 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

exactly, it’s super valuable in pickup

2x zero. I'm sure that on at least a few of those plays someone could have driven and made a layup

playing by ones and twos is lame imo

no its good it encourages hoisting

https://i.imgur.com/KCEm704.jpg

My kid has got into it in a big way. He's 12, and at 5'9" is not afraid to play with adults. He's made me remember how much I enjoy playing, even though I've never been that good.

I broke my wrist last night, fell back and used it to save my head from a concussion, but it paid the price. Displaced fracture, lucky it didn’t break skin. Bummed, this might be it for me.

fuuuuuck sorry to hear that man

oh no sorry! you can bounce back tho, i broke my wrist, got a steel plate, all that stuff and it's been fine for 20+ years.

noooo spottie I’m sorry

I recently had to go to two ankle braces from just one, father time is undefeated

oh no sorry! you can bounce back tho, i broke my wrist, got a steel plate, all that stuff and it's been fine for 20+ years.

yeah i followed the same path (and injured myself basically the same way breaking a fall)--set in the ER, give it a few days and then assess with the orthopedist. mine wasn't going to heal right. surgery is obviously not pleasant but you get a more certain outcome i think.

I’ll say this… ketamine is a helluva drug

hell yeah

Damn spottie I’m bummed for you. I was just asking my dad how old he was when he tore his achilles which shut him down for life and he was just 5 years older than I am now. On the other hand some dude that must be in his 70s balls with us now and then so who knows

I said I’d never play again after I tore my achilles but the hoops spirits are persuasive and I was lured back after a few years.

Wow, Spottie good luck on the recovery.

Ty friends

damn man heres to healing up as fast and good as possible

Here’s my X-ray for a jump scare
https://imgur.com/a/qz9LUOx

https://imgur.com/a/qz9LUOx

o shit thats gnarly

now, im not a doctor, but if i had to guess u probably got a diagnosis of "fucked up bones syndrome" right there

(get well soon spottie)

the er doc did mention FUBS as a diagnosis.

I snapped the very tip of my pinkie back 90 degrees playing hoops 22 years ago. Can't even imagine the entire wrist - getting shivers right now thinking about it.

Are you rehabbing with Iggy?

I wish

my weekly monday night game now features a dude who played 3 years in the NFL and another who was an all-american cornerback for Maryland but blew his knee out on pro day. they are both prob 10 years younger than me. it's a blast

When I hear Jones say this phrase, I imagine that I'm playing basketball on a Sunday morning on the good courts at Roosevelt Park in Sacramento. It is not yet 9 a.m., but the June sun has already begun to bake the asphalt, trees, and detritus, an ominous sensation you smell more than feel. I have already played two games to 15 and am sapped to exhaustion when a new player joins the run, someone whose presence instantly heightens the game's tension. On every possession, they talk to themselves and their opponents. They hit beautiful swishes with an ugly jumper, and they staunchly refuse to call a foul even when they're thumped. They are making a really stupid ball fake work. They score the last bucket. Nobody sees them arrive; nobody sees them leave. They are wearing black Air Force 1s.

i was taking my child to the playground today and we have to walk by some basketball courts to get there. there was a one-on-one game happening between a couple of teens, one very lithe and muscular but small and one who was just enormous, not in shape at all but with an offensive lineman's body. i watched the bigger kid mercilessly back down the smaller kid and make an ugly layup adjacent to the rim, and a third kid who was watching yelled at the smaller kid about the quality of his defense. the smaller kid looked at the spectator with complete disgust and anger and said "he's 6'5", what do you want me to do?"

lol

played tonight for the first time in a couple of months — have really only been playing a few times a year since the pandemic, which is sad to think about. I play a good amount of reasonably high level pickleball, which is a solid workout, and I walk a lot, but it’s nothing like full court pickup. you get reminded pretty quickly that it’s a different beast when you’re out of playing shape. and pushing 35 and playing with college kids

anyway, I’m on the faculty at BU, so I decided to check out the rec center. (I’m trying to take better advantage of these faculty perks, like free museum passes etc, before I move to LA this summer.) got into a game pretty quickly, and overall think I played fine especially considering how rusty I am. played 2 games to 15, had 4-5 buckets each game including a couple of really tough finishes, and some nice dimes. but man was I gassed about halfway through that first game, and I had some sloppy turnovers in traffic just because I didn’t have the burst my brain thought I had. or maybe I’ll never get that burst back because I’m old now, idk.

anyway, legitimately nothing like pickup culture, man, I really miss it. always say I should get back into playing regularly, but never actually follow through. maybe the better weather in LA will make it easier

the only thing i ever found that kept me in basketball shape at all was olympic lifting which makes sense cause theyre both about explosive actions, not that i was trying to stay in ball shape just i had been doing a bunch of cleans and i played after a long layoff and was like what im not totally gassed, but i was still kind of gassed

just read this whole thread btw getting very wistful about my long gone youth and athleticism, getting old
is sad

nice moves, u rly shook ur defender, how is casper irl btw (or ird in his case)

― rhyme heals all goons (m bison), Tuesday, December 31, 2013 5:03 PM (ten years ago) bookmarkflaglink

the defender was ur mom but she was too tired after the first video we made, if u know what i mean

― k3vin k., Tuesday, December 31, 2013 5:09 PM (ten years ago) bookmarkflaglink

fucking wrecked m bise here tho lmao

just read this whole thread btw getting very wistful about my long gone youth and athleticism, getting old

ugh, fuck you

there's always That One Old Guy With the Set Shot but i don't like my chances for that either

also wtf don't go to la

I know but it’s “for love”

la is nice, driving is bad tho

xp aw

um exCUSE me k3vin (more like k0vin), missing some important context....

nice moves, u rly shook ur defender, how is casper irl btw (or ird in his case)

― rhyme heals all goons (m bison), Tuesday, December 31, 2013 5:03 PM (ten years ago) bookmarkflaglink

the defender was ur mom but she was too tired after the first video we made, if u know what i mean

― k3vin k., Tuesday, December 31, 2013 5:09 PM (ten years ago) bookmarkflaglink

why was my mom playing basketball after filming a porno with u? what a weird date.

― rhyme heals all goons (m bison), Tuesday, December 31, 2013 4:10 PM (ten years ago) bookmarkflaglink

she's a grown woman, she knows better than that.

― rhyme heals all goons (m bison), Tuesday, December 31, 2013 4:11 PM (ten years ago) bookmarkflaglink

What happened to granny dainger?

bise you got legit truck sticked there cmon take the L it was a long time ago

i just feel like for the scientific community's sake that we be presented with all the facts in order to make an informed decision (that my jokes were better)

can’t believe that was 11 years ago now man. glad to have you jokers in my life

I play with a 82 year old. It’s insane. He’s pretty awful, especially if the other team doesn’t have a dud to match him up against, but I’m so amazed by this man he is my hero. We have a chat going to notify everyone on court availability and the last time we had to bail he wrote, ok I guess I’ll start drinking. My heart melted.

let's get to it: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5969183/

been a year since i broke my wrist and i think im retiring for good. i kinda left it open in my mind that i might try again but every time i get the itch (often) i just think about the pain and rehab and how much it jacked up my life for a while and then i talk myself out of it. my old crew still texts me to come play and makes me sad. my wrist still isnt right, prob like 85% mobility and still gets achy.

playing at 82 is some life goals man, im hanging it up 40 years earlier...