the adams morgan courts at columbia and 19th get decent games too.
― Moreno, Saturday, 26 March 2011 15:40 (thirteen years ago) link
So, anyone want some Nike Air Max Turnaround Low 10.5 barely used for cheap?
― rock rough 'n' stuff with h.r. pufnstuf (Hurting 2), Monday, 28 March 2011 17:49 (thirteen years ago) link
lol wha happen?
― who is john nult? (dayo), Monday, 28 March 2011 23:38 (thirteen years ago) link
so do people play either of the following games on the playground still
21Knockout
― check out my malady (San Te), Monday, 28 March 2011 23:44 (thirteen years ago) link
21 def if there's not enough people for a game. good way to work on some skills you don't use that often in a real game.
knockout in gym class maybe
― kl0p's son (k3vin k.), Monday, 28 March 2011 23:45 (thirteen years ago) link
They turned out to not quite be the right fit and fucked up my feet pretty bad. I've had blisters and wounds that have not healed for over a week. Too narrow in front and pinched my toes together, but stiff on the sides so they wouldn't spread like most of my shoes have.
― rock rough 'n' stuff with h.r. pufnstuf (Hurting 2), Monday, 28 March 2011 23:45 (thirteen years ago) link
xpost I always liked 21 because I have no ballhandling skills but I have a competent jumper and am taller than most of my friends.
damn Hurting that sucks.
― check out my malady (San Te), Monday, 28 March 2011 23:46 (thirteen years ago) link
I wonder if there are enough NYC people for an eventual FA3o3 game
― rock rough 'n' stuff with h.r. pufnstuf (Hurting 2), Monday, 28 March 2011 23:46 (thirteen years ago) link
you, icey, me + erstwhile ilxor yanc3y play
sleep is pretty fucken tall
would pay some $ to see jw play
― mookieproof, Monday, 28 March 2011 23:57 (thirteen years ago) link
So in terms of more mildly lame liveblogging, I've seen a couple of big improvements in my game lately -- first a few days ago I realized my jumper was showing some consistency, and then yesterday I realized I had developed enough ball control to actually one-hand a layup straight off a dribble, i.e. bring the ball up with the dribbling hand only -- not the most impressive thing I know but it felt good
― rock rough 'n' stuff with h.r. pufnstuf (Hurting 2), Saturday, 2 April 2011 05:18 (thirteen years ago) link
now do that w your opposite hand
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Saturday, 2 April 2011 14:17 (thirteen years ago) link
i still can't do a layup w/ my left hand, but then again my left arm/hand is pretty pathetic
― San Te, Saturday, 2 April 2011 14:20 (thirteen years ago) link
the one move I mastered was the running one-handed jumper. usually from about the free throw line. however, get me to do a hook shot and it probably winds up smashing someone in the face
so i was playing today at chelsea piers w/a friend and it was dead just us two playing one on one and some children then a bunch of employees of the place started showing up and shooting around on the other court so i was all to them hay we should get a game and they were like we have one set up just waiting for people and i was like whatre you playing maybe we could jump in and run full and they were all yeah maybe in a v non committal strage way - so then like 20 minutes later they let the singer for the strokes in the side door and he was not v good
― ice cr?m, Friday, 8 April 2011 21:44 (thirteen years ago) link
i feel like there are at least two other thread i couldve put that amazing anecdote on but i chose to bless you the beloved contributors to ilh
― ice cr?m, Friday, 8 April 2011 21:45 (thirteen years ago) link
Wait so did you run full court with Julian Casablancas or not?
― rock rough 'n' stuff with h.r. pufnstuf (Hurting 2), Friday, 8 April 2011 21:47 (thirteen years ago) link
And were you like "damn, that shot was a little HARD TO EXPLAIN"
― rock rough 'n' stuff with h.r. pufnstuf (Hurting 2), Friday, 8 April 2011 21:48 (thirteen years ago) link
did they let you run full? cause that's terrible if they didn't
also i hope you kicked that guy's ass
― mookieproof, Friday, 8 April 2011 21:48 (thirteen years ago) link
no they wouldnt let us play! it was 5 employees and the dude playing 3 on 3 per some celebrity arrangement - my friends did play v leonardo decaprio there once but i was not in attendance
― ice cr?m, Friday, 8 April 2011 21:51 (thirteen years ago) link
the worst part was i just really wanted to get a game minor ny celebrity or no
― ice cr?m, Friday, 8 April 2011 21:52 (thirteen years ago) link
although obvs if i did play v dude i would mention it everytime i heard the strokes until the end of time
― ice cr?m, Friday, 8 April 2011 21:53 (thirteen years ago) link
Shame I was hoping u got skool that dude
― Aerosol, Friday, 8 April 2011 21:53 (thirteen years ago) link
hes tall like 6-4 or so but seemd p slow and not that skilled - he was dressed as you might image a stroke would dress to play basketball
― ice cr?m, Friday, 8 April 2011 21:55 (thirteen years ago) link
haaa
― mookieproof, Friday, 8 April 2011 22:03 (thirteen years ago) link
headband?
― k3vin k., Friday, 8 April 2011 23:09 (thirteen years ago) link
one time when the real world dc was going on a couple cast members showed up to my gym and ran full court and were embarrassingly bad. one guy kept falling over bc he was wearing sketchers or some shit. two camera dudes were running around trying to film the whole thing.
― Moreno, Saturday, 9 April 2011 04:52 (thirteen years ago) link
that is like . . . america
― mookieproof, Saturday, 9 April 2011 04:57 (thirteen years ago) link
More 3-on-3 today. It's interesting to learn a sport almost from scratch -- I feel like I'm Johnny 5. Like today I kept having all these basic realizations, like "Oh, if I stare straight at the guy I'm passing to for too long, someone is going to read my pass," or "Hey, if I move this way, I draw my defender out of the way so my teammate can drive to the hoop." I started to feel more the sense of the three as a unit. I was still pretty bad but I had some clutch rebounds, a few layups and putbacks, and I made a difference on D although my man was pretty fast and hard to stay in front of. My in-game jumper is still complete garbage.
― rock rough 'n' stuff with h.r. pufnstuf (Hurting 2), Saturday, 9 April 2011 23:00 (thirteen years ago) link
YMCA pickup ball can be kind of hilarious too. The first game I played was with a couple of maybe college-age guys and a few maybe 12-15 year old kids who kept calling me "sir." An old-timer with a good fancy hook shot jumped in later too. There was this one wiry as fuck kid who was probably 12 or 13 and was by far the sickest shooter out of any of us -- just putting up threes like nothing to the point that you couldn't take the pressure off. At another point I had to guard this little runt kid with basically no skills, and I pretty much took all the pressure off him but they still wouldn't pass to him.
― rock rough 'n' stuff with h.r. pufnstuf (Hurting 2), Saturday, 9 April 2011 23:06 (thirteen years ago) link
Class 1: managed to run the court for the full 30-minute scrimmage. Pulled my neck. Ow.
― rock rough 'n' stuff with h.r. pufnstuf (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 12 April 2011 14:46 (thirteen years ago) link
Been playing occasional one-on-one. Managed to beat a so-so teen who was slightly shorter than me. Have figured out a few things, e.g. starting to get the hang of "planning" what to do when you dribble, also in one-on-one how to vary your attack to throw off your opponent. E.g. I managed to get a couple of good right-side drive layups, so when the kid caught on I pulled a simple spin move. When he caught onto the spin move I used a spin fake and went back the other way.
Today I played one-on-one with two different guys who were clearly miles better than me and it was no contest at all, but it was good practice I guess, at least for trying to stay in front of someone bigger and faster than me.
― rock rough 'n' stuff with h.r. pufnstuf (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 27 April 2011 02:15 (thirteen years ago) link
ice craem have you found that indians always go to the right?
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 27 April 2011 02:55 (thirteen years ago) link
btw question: one dude kept saying "watch the travel" -- I thought as long as I was dribbling it didn't matter how many steps I took or how much my feet shuffled, and I couldn't figure out what else I might have been doing wrong. Is this something that a lot of people are confused about?
― rock rough 'n' stuff with h.r. pufnstuf (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 27 April 2011 03:07 (thirteen years ago) link
you carrying?
― br8080 (dayo), Wednesday, 27 April 2011 03:45 (thirteen years ago) link
I mean hard to say what is happening without seeing you play. but could be that you're cupping/carrying the ball too much. there are NBA carries used for misdirection & crossovers that everybody generally accepts, especially on the playground, and then there are the "I'm trying to protect the ball" carries that everybody calls.
― br8080 (dayo), Wednesday, 27 April 2011 04:17 (thirteen years ago) link
oh yeah maybe I am unwittingly carrying
― rock rough 'n' stuff with h.r. pufnstuf (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 27 April 2011 04:24 (thirteen years ago) link
weekly clinic is kicking my ass
sort of getting a handle on screen aways and give and gos but most of the time it's just kind of like "DAH DO SOMETHING"
scary chinese girl kept yelling at me I'm like "u know this is a beginner class right?"
― bin caught laden (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 10 May 2011 04:10 (thirteen years ago) link
lmao
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 10 May 2011 05:46 (thirteen years ago) link
― mookieproof, Tuesday, April 26, 2011 10:55 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark
haha forlornly watched some children playing basketball through a chain link fence yesterday, they were noticeably worse than their american counterparts, prob much better at cricket tho
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 10 May 2011 05:47 (thirteen years ago) link
Can anyone give a link or recommend a book or something with a good basic explanation of positions? I don't really understand any of them except point guard.
― bin caught laden (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 11 May 2011 20:20 (thirteen years ago) link
positions aren't really important unless you're running a particular offensive set (or are playing zone defense), which you presumably aren't in pickup. but i'm sure there's stuff on youtube about hoop strategy.
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 11 May 2011 20:27 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah, it's more for my NBA knowledge actually -- like I just want to understand what guys mean when they say so-and-so is playing 3 or whatever.
― bin caught laden (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 11 May 2011 20:29 (thirteen years ago) link
in theory,
1 point guard2 shooting guard3 small forward4 power forward5 center
it's more fluid than positions in most other sports, tho
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basketball_positions
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 11 May 2011 20:32 (thirteen years ago) link
you wanna have some big guys and you wanna have some small guys
― dayo, Wednesday, 11 May 2011 22:09 (thirteen years ago) link
incidentally all my life I have been really thick about running/executing any kind of play in any sport. It's like there's some category of intelligence -- the translating-guy-yelling-at-you-into-doing-physical-stuff intelligence, that I lack.
― hated old moniker, too tired to think of a clever new one (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 11 May 2011 22:27 (thirteen years ago) link
i could still run the offensive set we used against man-to-man defenses in high school 22 years ago
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 11 May 2011 22:31 (thirteen years ago) link
in pick up u dont really run plays anyway so w/e - i mean maybe a lil pick n roll if youre feeling ambitious
― ice cr?m, Saturday, 14 May 2011 07:39 (thirteen years ago) link
but turn towards the ball
― mookieproof, Saturday, 14 May 2011 08:05 (thirteen years ago) link
ballers around here are so lame - how do i have to go to 4 parks to find a good game on a nice saturday afternoon? what are ballers doing besides playing basketball? idgi
i'm playing great right now too
― max tldr (k3vin k.), Sunday, 22 May 2011 14:16 (thirteen years ago) link
what are ballers doing besides playing basketball?
hangin w/ randoms
― am0n, Sunday, 22 May 2011 17:11 (thirteen years ago) link