playing basketball

btw so amped to return to usa and try some dirk style one leg jumpers

― ice cr?m, Thursday, May 26, 2011 12:33 AM (15 hours ago)

i've been fucking around with the slow-motion ballerina one-legged fallbacks in shootaround, tons of fun and surprisingly not terribly difficult! gets pretty tough past 17 feet tho

pick up culture in nyc is unsurpassable anywhere imo fwiw, just like so many games everywhere

like these are the neighborhoods which ive played basketball a bunch in: e village, chinatown, battery park city, ft greene - and thats just cause those were places i was near - when i was in sf for a couple months i had to like drive to find a game, boston is a lil better but still not up to nyc levels, basketball seems p non existent in colorado from what ive seen

So I started to find my game today -- totally destroyed this dude in one-on-one. Basically I'm good at maybe three things -- overall endurance (because I'm in pretty good shape), staying focused on defense, and short/mid-range jumpers (I've been drilling these about an hour a day for at least a month). The dude I played was a little fat and out of shape, though he was a good inside defender and had an ok shot. So I did two things -- I moved around a lot on both offense and defense early on to get him tired, and I kept backing him into the post like I was going to go inside and then stepping back for short jumpers (with some variety to avoid it becoming too predictable). I was hitting everything - it felt amazing. The dude was like "damn, you've got a jumper." Lol I guess so, I guess so.

nice1 dude!

Unfortunately not everyone is going to let me take as many open shots as this guy did. Need to develop some moves.

when i was in sf for a couple months i had to like drive to find a game

― ice cr?m, Monday, May 30, 2011 10:30 PM (3 days ago)

rong

I play about 3 times a week. I got in good with a couple medical students nearby and they have a gym on campus. I organize all the games, send out emails etc and now we have a consistent run of about 12-15 dudes. 6 of them played on some collegiate level and the rest of us can hang. I play pg, always look to pass first. My pride and joy is my soft left around the rim which I have been working on since 1989, and my 8-10 foot bank shot is gwap.

idk steve shasta there was a dece game on the panhandle besides that, was not a vibrant basketball scene ime, maybe youre a super ballin dude tho lol

too many wites maybe???

^^this is a major problem with being away from school

wbiw spottie

wbiw ?

I dunno what SB is either, everyone's getting SB'd around here and I have no clue whats happening.

Hey Sansky, next time you come to SF, let's run a quick game and I'll send your sad saggy ass back east where you can enjoy your rainbow color of wackassery. if I skunk you then you have to permanently change your ilx name to SuperBallin Shasta's Bitch lol.

SBS'sB

SB is suggest ban, ppl are usually joking when they say that - if 51 people actually SB you then you get banned from posting for 30 days

wbiw i just made up, it's a variant on wkiw (would kick it with) - would ball it with

who is sansky im confused, anyway i if you are referring to me i will be totally happy be lead on steve shastas tour of epic san franciscan street ball spots, might be out there in like august

Thanks for clarifying. If you come to PHX we can ball it up for real.

haha, i forgot who you were! everybody come to SF and I will take you all on singlehandedly.

ilh tourney 2011

I'm in, I'll be home in Salinas around Christmas time so I can swing by and drop some knowledge on you chumps.

played todays, hella rusty, missed every shot possible, it was fun tho my team had sweet ball movement and we won a bunch in a row

cr?my are u back? i would like to ball w/u some time w/the understanding that i am old, haven't played in like a year and a half, etc.

on the other hand, i'm 6'4" and have historically been awesome in my first game after a long layoff before deteriorating into utter crap

yeah im only around for a couple weeks but thatd be rad

well, my schedule sux for now (working evenings sun-thu) but lemme know when you play i guess

hey dude playing today at 4ish courts on dekalb and adelphi in ft greene!

fuk the rain

I would be down to play some time too if you're willing to humor me. I'm only 5'9" but my mind is tall.

Anyway I'm doing nothing but bar study, so I'm flexible, and I don't live too far from ft greene.

This was my # btw:
http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/basketball/blog/the_dagger/post/Why-these-players-chose-the-sport-8217-s-least-?urn=ncaab-wp3343

(I am not a 7-footer either btw)

54 - that's my number

basketball seems p non existent in colorado from what ive seen

one of my proudest pickup game moments was passing through Glenwood Springs CO, seeing a pickup game in progress, and whupping them (we were all white btw)(other proudest moment was black dude saying "you must have some black in you somewhere). it was like some dude from Brooklyn entering a emcee cipher in Omaha.

least proudest: rolling up to random rich kids' (we were about 5 yrs older) driveway hoop w 3 females in tow (1 being my gf) and challenging them to a game of 2 on 2 and losing. our excuse was that we were high as shit but still.

playing high is exhausting. one of my friends dropped 30 in high school game drunk though.

my college friend would go to games drunk while in hs but he was a benchwarmer. while in college, we played w/his hs teammate who was on U of I's team but never saw the court cause of academics. only time I played with someone so athletic you think you're playing perfect d, you're in perfect position, there's nothing he can do...and then he's flying over you and dunking. some humbling, depressing shit.

It's weird how inconsistent my shooting can be -- like one day it feels like I have a perfect jumper and the next day I'll be all over the place. I don't know if that's just everyone or if it's partly a product of learning late. Some days I just feel like I have stiff hands.

historically, after a long layoff, i shoot ridiculously well in my first game. then i gradually get worse and worse for the next month or so, then go back to what i actually am/was (which is a decent but not great shooter)

how's the left hand, hurting?

I can shoot, I'm just terrible at moving without the ball, so when I do catch a pass, I'm often not in good position to shoot.

how's the left hand, hurting?

― bite this display name (k3vin k.), Friday, June 17, 2011 8:08 PM Bookmark

As a shooting hand or as support? I definitely do notice that I shoot better when I get my left hand more under rather than on the side of the ball, which is sort of counterintuitive for me but good to remember.

do you also do the thing the pros often tell you to do where you look at the back of the rim as you release the ball? that usually helps my accuracy/foot placement

You mean when I'm practicing nice soft jumpers by myself or when I have a hand in my face?

But no, I don't think I particularly do that. Maybe I should try it. There are days when I feel like I can just "put" the ball into the basket, at least with shorter jumpshots, and other days where I feel like my hands just do their own thing. Some of it also seems to be rest -- I think I don't get enough sleep, and when I do my shot is way better.

xp i meant dribbling actually - one of the best drills is just to bring two basketballs out there and try to run up and down the court dribbling with both hands, eventually moving backwards and laterally and changing directions quickly. a good 30 minutes of that and the forearm on your weak hand should be real sore - it's a great way to work on ballhandling and strengthen your weak hand

Oh yeah, I've been doing some two-ball drills. Lol @ 30 mins. I'm sore after like 3.

One thing that helped my shooting was to not shoot for the rim, but for an imaginary hoop high above the rim where the ball should go through at its apex. you get some nice arc.
played for the 1st time in a year. 7 dudes who apparently meet every friday at the school right across the street from my place. perfect. was freakin fools like mj (actually, got called manu 5 mins in. cause of fakes i think?), couldn't miss, got a couple blocks...then lost my wind and huffed n puffed and half-assed my way through 3 of the 4 games.

feel like i need to wear a shirt that says "I AM 33 YRS OLD" when i play w/teenagers and 20-somethings. i def look a lot younger than my age.

It's weird how inconsistent my shooting can be -- like one day it feels like I have a perfect jumper and the next day I'll be all over the place. I don't know if that's just everyone or if it's partly a product of learning late. Some days I just feel like I have stiff hands.

― mississippi delta law grad (Hurting 2), Friday, June 17, 2011 7:52 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

eh everyone is streaky, but i mean you def dont have a perfect jumper lol

i played a super physical set of games the other day, totally bruised over here

i hate that guy who always TOO physical. and you really can't say shit cause it's streetball y'know? talkin bout dudes who foul literally every 5 seconds.