playing basketball

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3doDhXLYtUM

;)

http://racquetdepot.com/images/medium/new_balance_ct1004bk_mens_tennis_shoes.jpg

^tennis shoes, but if I don't feel like wearing my hi-top KG's (best bball shoe I've ever owned. endorsed by the american podiatry society!), I'll wear them to hoop. you can find the black ones for about 1/2 the price of the white ones.

was getting discouraged the last few times I hooped. body couldn't do what i was telling it to, WHITE guys were blocking my shot. but the other day I was scoring the vast majority of my team's points without forcing it, and my guy only scored once in 2 games.

yeah, I play outside.

thanks for the recommendations guys.

making an appointment to play basketball and then having it start raining just as you get there is ;_;

didn't stop us tho

thx for popping me in the nose today, really aggro mid-50s elbow-swinging dude :(

its how we did it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzn2MV8YfQw

^saw this dude score 45 pts in a HS conference title game tonight (keep in mind they play 8 min qtrs). played with him a few times a couple summers ago at one of the courts in my hometown, dude is QUICK and very crafty, also has great vision. him and his boys--one of whom is on his HS team with him--held court for 2 hours or so, pretty much embarrassing the rest of uss. committed to USC when he was 13 (!) but that's off now that Floyd left.

An overflow crowd of 1,500-plus was treated to the main course on Friday as Boatright erupted for a personal-high 45 points - including a mind-boggling total of 35 in the fourth quarter and overtime -

So that's 35 pts in a 12 minute span, against a team ranked 8th in the state. His team isn't in the top 20.

i play 2 or 3 times a week at the Y downtown. it's pretty competitive and my body's usually aching the next day (lower back) but it's one of my favorite things in life so well worth it.

got not one but two charlie horses today. kinda frustrating when it seems like you're the only one who even tries to make an effort to play by the rules.

find myself yelling at people for not playing defense, which may be a little overboard for the Y, but it annoys the shit out of me when everybody else is busting their ass on d on one dude's fucking it up w/ his laziness. k i'll mellow out now.

no i def hear you on that

play pickup at the gym all the time at school. im on break now and played this morning at my JCC - not as good of pickup as the kids at the city Y but a couple of these dudes could play

besides go to class and study play bball is all i do basically

played with a really annoying guy yesterday. on defense, if you were driving he'd body check you and then pretend nothing happened. on offense, he'd drive, call foul, then launch floaters with 10% chance of going in - basically ensuring that his team would get the ball back no matter what. lol @ playing in places not in america

this old 5'5 paulie walnuts looking dude i play with calls foul if u play any defense whatsoever but everyone just tolerates it, just joe being joe. he's automatic from 3 pt. so people def. don't mind having him on their team, kick out and win. he must honestly think steals are illegal

lol I think everybody has that kinda guy at their gym. yeah this guy was also 5'5ish (though I'm only 5'7ish). I dunno I grew up playing no blood no foul, so it's really frustrating to have to give the ball back to him after he runs into you and calls foul.

is it just the courts I've been going to the last few years or are most bball players raging assholes?

I think maybe if I played with dudes more my age (32) it'd be different, but there's so many testosteroned-out d-bags I've encountered lately that it's soured me on pickup games.

couple weeks back: I hacked dude on the arm when going for a steal. I immediately apologized. His response: "get a fucking life, dude". um, ok?

f that shit

dudes i end up playing with are usually super cool Filipino bros

your mistake was in apologizing

also playing w/out a life, big transgression there

technical

some courts are bad

oops, there's always 2 sides to the story.

that response could be qualified by some type of play that could be considered cheap or weak, esp with the hack.

nah that dude was being a sociopath w/everyone, trust me

its always a variety of dudes in this court called life

i mean if you're gonna be up in arms anytime someone slaps you across the arm when going for a strip, prob shouldn't be playing. this was about 1 minute into my 1st game, never seen dude previously, so it wasn't a straw/camel's back thing, either.
in the non-asshole yet still d-bag dept, another dude recently refused to take out his earphones when playing. now I know what playing w/a deaf teammate would be like.

some courts are bad

― mookieproof, Friday, August 6, 2010 6:24 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

mookie u play in bk?

not really -- the only court i know of with regular games only has them in the morning on weekends. and i can't go for that

ive played for years at dekalb n carlton, sweet neighborhood sitch, not sure id seek it out if i didnt live around the corner tho

is it just the courts I've been going to the last few years or are most bball players raging assholes?

― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Friday, August 6, 2010 3:54 PM (7 hours ago)

def the opposite for me. you get douchebags but they're usually white dudes straight outta high school with shit to prove

the comraderie i encounter in most pickup games, even at high levels is pretty cool actually

yah i pretty much agree

not abt the post collegiate white guys, just to be clear, not sure abt all that

finally found a really good regular pickup game in my hometown in the winter...just in time to go back to school (where i can get good games 24/7 so no problem there). sunday afternoons at the city YMCA are a gold mine, couple dozen really good high school players and 20-somethings playing all day long - was the only white dude there too which is always a plus

i'm awesome at shooting as long as there's no dribbling involved

cmon watch earl the pearl monroe

just start spinning

i got out there last week and this weekend, on this concrete court. mostly shooting alone then on sunday 7 dudes show up they all know each other but are reuniting from since 10 years ago or something. anyway they were cool everybody played well i shot well and then i get pushed into butting heads with this other dude, i got this boxing gash right under my eyebrow gushing blood, but it stopped pretty quick i dunno. i didnt get it checked out yet...

i made 39 straight foul shots today /braggin

damn bro

on one of those pizza hut mini-hoops

played full court yesterday, won like 8 straight games, fun, sort of rusty, hit some threes

xp haha when im just shooting around i usually have to make 10 str8 free throws before i can go - made my first 10 and wanted to see how far i could push it. got to 39/39 then only made 24 of my next 34, but then made my next 22 for 85/95. ive never been 90/100 so i really wanted to get that but missed the next 2, settled for 88/90 which i think is my best

hella streaky

88/100 i mean