playing basketball

kembas got to declare right, tho i guess lol lockout so

god i hope not, we could be incredible next year if he stays

don't think he's really ready either but if he wins player of the year idk why he'd stay

why are we talking about this in the "playing basketball" thread tho

cause i played w/him once in a pickup game
yeah he doesn't pass much but he has pretty good vision and ive seen him make some pretty sick passes. just has no talent around him. his team's bigs missed about 7 point blank shots in the 4th qtr alone yesterday.

cause i played w/him once in a pickup game

oh nice!

btw my alma mater has been #1 in the state for like 5 straight years, has 2 div I recruits on the current squad including the reigning Ms Basketball...kinda interested in catching a game but as a 32 yr old male feel like everyone would be staring at me like "ok who let the molester in?".

eh i dont think anyone really pervs on lady ballers

id be curious to see how good a top girls team is

ive seen broadcasts of them in the state tourney and its like "wow these girls are very competent".
seems like about 95% of hs players don't stand out due to lack of athletic talent or bball skills so much as not being able to produce under the lights. you get a sense of how crucial poise/clutchness/not being rattled is to being a successful athlete. obv that's key in college and pros but the gap between the haves/have nots and the rarity of the haves is much more dramatic.

eh i dont think anyone really pervs on lady ballers

right but she kinda cute. ms bball that is:
http://espn.go.com/womens-college-basketball/recruiting/player/_/id/77250/morgan-tuck

shit didn't realize the pg is ranked even higher nationally
http://espn.go.com/womens-college-basketball/recruiting/player/_/id/73085/ariel-massengale

my best friend, who practices with the girls, was just telling me how insane their recruiting class is for next year

uconn's i mean

BATTLE WOUND

http://i52.tinypic.com/2ckjzr.jpg

wtf were u playing Bruce bowen

ha no i was playing defense, dude is drivng to his right and i go for the steal, he lowers his head into mine, hello facial laceration & 5 stitches

damn son!!

haha so baller. i once went to the infirmary due to a 'bow from cherokee parks, but did not need stitches

waaaaaaaaaait you played ball with cherokee parks???

Is this on ballers w/ randoms?

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/124/417257141_9f31d43412.jpg

Thank god it is!

This one however does not appear to be:

http://a729.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/55/l_486f981d58716cbf8811d92cf02a6a50.jpg

damn kev

I hate that I suck so bad at this sport. I'm an okay shot and can usually hold my own one-on-one, but I'm a damn turnover machine in a game. No D either :(

I've been teaching myself to play after not even trying for like 15 years and never having been any good. So far I've played in a couple of 2-2/3-3 games and it was pretty bad. Dudes were nice and were basically humoring me. I play at the Y so it's not an ultra-competitive vibe even though there are some serious players there.

I have an obsessiveness that is helping me improve though. I often do little no-dribble ball feel/handling drills around my apartment, and when I practice shooting I tend to kind of lose track of time. I've at least gone from "has this guy ever seen a basketball?" to "this guy sucks at basketball" I'd say.

I'm really retarded though. Like I'll get a drive/burst-of-speed going and then realize I have no sense of where I am in relation to the hoop. I also find that even though I consider myself in decent shape, I tire out a lot faster than I would have thought. All the stop-start and arm waving and jumping is a little different than just running on a treadmill.

i know it's easier said than done (esp since it was my downfall in organized hoops), but try to be more relaxed/don't freak out when you get the ball. i think the natural instinct is to play in a frenzy to compensate for lack of skills but that rarely works for most guys, at least not on the offensive end.

pass until you have an easy shot is a practice that will bother exactly none of yr teammates

i barely play anymore since my Y started renting the courts to grown-ups playing kickball and dodgeball :(

laaaaaaaame

yeah they're the fucking worst

i kind think its sweet that people who arent 'into' sports are getting to play them via 'irony' but they shouldnt be displacing actual sports

there's a nice new rec center right down the street from me. 3 full-sized courts yet there's only open gyms from 2-4 M-F and 2-4 on Sunday, cause the rest of the time there's volleyball games and like tykes playing with huge purple balls or some stupid shit. so of course the open gyms are PACKED on Sunday and empty during the week.

I also find that even though I consider myself in decent shape, I tire out a lot faster than I would have thought. All the stop-start and arm waving and jumping is a little different than just running on a treadmill.

― hey boys, suppers on me, our video just went bacterial (Hurting 2), Sunday, February 13, 2011 12:57 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark

I forget the name for this but this is because there are two kinds of cardio - low-intensity, long cardio and the high-intensity, short cardio. jesus where is my mind. anyway, running on a treadmill doesn't really translate onto the court too well. try doing suicides

(those are running exercises, btw, hurting)

k3v k. you are a goddamn warrior on the court!

^^^^

ha ty ty, sucks too cuz i was on a really good team and had my A game last night

waaaaaaaaaait you played ball with cherokee parks???

couple times. he was/is huge, which is one thing. but i played against bobby hurley once -- who is a couple inches shorter than me -- which was a truly humbling experience.

i kind think its sweet that people who arent 'into' sports are getting to play them via 'irony' but they shouldnt be displacing actual sports

― ice cr?m, Saturday, February 12, 2011 2:44 PM Bookmark

truth bomb

waaaaaaaaaait you played ball with cherokee parks???

couple times. he was/is huge, which is one thing. but i played against bobby hurley once -- who is a couple inches shorter than me -- which was a truly humbling experience.

― mookieproof, Sunday, February 13, 2011 7:19 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i really cant imagine what itd be like for me to play against former nba guys -prob something like playing against five year olds - except you know from the other perpective

well they weren't in the nba at that point just yet

the thing that remains amazing to me is that okay, cherokee parks is huge and there's nothing you can do. but hurley was this pasty white kid from new jersey. and it wasn't like he was raining 30-footers on me. i was backing off like seven feet off him and he went around me like fuc. and however much you love the game and however much you shoot, i don't know how you get *quick* like that

under what circumstances did u play against these dudes, were they at duke together

i recall some coach saying hurley was the best ball handler like ever, prob has a lot to do w/quickness in a basketball sense

yah hurley was my year, parks two years younger

ah so

Bobby hurley is such a great white bball player name

bobby hurley, a coaches son

So I hate to be all liveblogging my basketball attempts, but I'm noticing significant progress. It's kind of amazing what you can accomplish with a little bit of obsessively-focused practice. I've been focusing on short shots just to get my form down -- maybe 10-20 feet. I'm starting to pretty consistently hit the shorter shots and with less effort. I've also been feeling a difference in my ball-handling. Working a lot on just basic repetitive crossover dribbles, precision dribbles, extra focus on the left hand, etc. I actually find a lot of drum practice ideas remarkably adaptable to bball (various permutations of left-right combinations, rhythm dribbling, etc.)

Also the Y only has open court at certain times, largely in the morning, so bball has been a great workout motivator generally since I want to get there to shoot around and then I just lift or do other stuff after. In the best shape I've been in in a long time.