playing basketball

https://imgur.com/a/pp07rSh

dude was running from cops and gave himself up right in front of the hoops I was at yesterday. Sounded like caught soliciting underage sex. Yeesh stay classy Cottonwood.

So that guy who fainted and cut open his head last week died. Crazy. Apparently was headed to Phoenix for more testing and died en route. They think this head injury was the last straw following several of them when he was younger and played football. Such a sad story. If he didn't try standing up while lightheaded, would prob still be alive.

Died 2 days ago so it was several days after his injury.

holy cow

Wow man wtf that is insane

jeez

yeesh

Holy shit that’s awful

Have had 3 guys who haven't been at open gym in months reach out to me today asking if we're playing tonight. Ah New Year's resolutions.

be nice!

lol

I still keep thinking about that dude that died...

So there's action shot of me hoopin in the local paper. Showed it to Mr Semi-Pro, Cam. Then he shows me pic of him on a huge fucking billboard in Laredo TX lolol ok you win dude.

pics or it didnt happen

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

his pic is on his instagram but I'm not on instagram so don't know his account

Killer. But did it go in?

It had to have. I'm terrible at finishing except for my righty scoops and reverses from left side.

mind you I do usually use my left from the left side, but sometimes you gotta go righty to avoid defender blk attempt from behind

if dude on left looks high af, it's because he is

haha love it! ive tried hooping in hats before and cant do it. holds in too much heat for me. same with headbands.

I wear one when I need a haircut. I sweat a lot so it's basically there as a sweatband.

While ago this guy was clowning on me for it. Like in a mean way. I barely knew him so it wasn't friendly joshing. I go "seriously is that the best trash talk you got? That you don't approve of my hat as a fashion choice?". Many months later it was just him and I in the gym and we had a big long deep conversation. He apologized for how he acted towards me initially. Turns out he was scared of me, is a big Kobe fan, and so was trying to mentally fuck with me lol.

lmao random pick up ballers trying to adopt that #MambaMentality

lol ikr. I'm like uh you realize this is just a pickup game in small town Arizona right?? Around that time, this woman got super physical with me. Like going out of her way to take cheap shots at me. Turns out it was that dude's wife! She was pissed cause he and I were jawing that one time.

woww

if there's one thing you can do, it's finger-roll

hahah props to dudes wife tho sticking up for her man

Yep it was kinda cool actually. Except when I called her an idiot (after I called her out on the cheap shots she was all up in my face, yelling nonsense. I wanted to punch her so I felt she got off easy with a light insult), she threw out "you're a racist!". They're both native american. Lost any respect for her then.

imo invite them both over for brunch

Last week I had to suspend this kid for a couple months. He threw a vicious elbow 2 feet from me. After game he asks me what exactly he did wrong. I explained that no matter what he thought another player did to him, he can't respond that way. He kept trying to justify it. I said sorry man there's no justification, if another player is playing dirty or whatever, let me know and I'll address it. Then he just stares at me and goes "you know you're a bitch right?". Uh ok? "What're you gonna do about it? Call the police cause you're a lil bitch? Let's 'go outside' right now."
He's actually a pretty sweet guy off the court. I've given him rides to the gym several times. Just gets hot-headed on the court. Maybe a napoleon complex too. This was like the 4th incident with him wanting to fight someone. Straw that broke camel's back.

oh I'm totally cool with that native guy now. He hardly comes tho cause he lives up on the rez.

Just broke my 2nd pair of glasses in as many months. Anybody here ever do goggles?

think most ppl use contacts

It would feel like I was lying.

Plus goggles look sick.

yeah i mean by all means dont think theres anything wrong w them after all this guy scored the most points

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

when I was a kid, before I got contacts, I begged my mom for Ho Grant style RecSpecs googles. Got them and immediately HATED them. Very uncomfortable. The strap on back of head presses them against the only contact point on the front of head: just above bridge of the nose. If strap is too hard, that spot starts to hurt almost immediately. If strap is too loose, the goggles jiggle around like crazy. And as soon as you get sweaty, they start sliding around some no matter what.
There's prob better versions/concepts for goggles now but there's def a reason why you hardly see any players wear them.

yeah good point i hate shit like that i tried to run with a camelback once and it drove me insane

any ideas for our league team name??
team facts:
we have no bigs
all wites with 1 asian
1 old guy (me) and rest are 20s-30
we met by playing at Sedona open gym (rest of teams aren't from Sedona)
we're all pretty goofy but have competitive streaks

1st yr team names was Plain White Ts (I didn't realize this was a band name)
2nd yr was FootSpeed, some sort of inside joke I was half in on, I think making fun of coachspeak cliches

'we have no bigs' is my favorite

We got a big! Recruited him from the dudes from rehab program who come to open gym. He's a Blake Griffin lookalike. Pretty skilled but I was able to contain him in the post. Post D is one of my strong suits but I'm too short and thin to stop a big who really knows what he's doing.

Our GM already chose a name. Valley Boyz. Apparently that's something some of the Suns players have started adopting? Logo looks p dope actually. Hoping my custom t-shirt lady can incorporate it.

Our GM already chose a name. Valley Boyz. Apparently that's something some of the Suns players have started adopting? Logo looks p dope actually. Hoping my custom t-shirt lady can incorporate it.

Rec league canceled 5 games into the season. Haven't been told open gym nights are canceled but I'm expecting that will happen soon. At least I can still go shoot around by myself I guess.

Can barely shoot around by myself now! Found one super janky hoop 15 minutes away that hasn't been closed. I noticed there's super nice outdoor hoops at this church at edge of town, might check n see if those are open to the public. I have key to a school gym but I'm not supposed to use it outside of running the open gym nights.

Got to play some 5 on 5 yesterday yesssssss shhhhhh don't tell Fauci

Seen this fairly small kid at local courts tearing shit up. Really hard to stop from scoring. Article about him in the paper today, accepting scholarship to a NAIA school in Iowa. Dude avg'd 26ppg senior year so now I don't feel as bad that he torched me a couple times.

played ball in high school -- i was okay, and at least tall -- but a year ahead of me was kevin lloyd, who was also not that good and of merely average height. but he was fuckin dirty. i mean we were on the same team but he would absolutely try to knee me in the groin in *practice*. in games i saw him literally spit on people.

his dad was also kevin lloyd, better known as spanky. they were a . . . florid people. our team colors were orange at home and black on the road, and 30+ years later i can still hear spanky (who later became mayor) at our away games bellowing 'D IT UP BLACK'

it's a phrase i simply cannot shake

nice