playing basketball

OMG second week in a row that I got my Dikembe on -- despite being 5'10", I just about never blocked any shots in my salad days because no hops, and then one last week defending a jumper, and then THREE today, including one on the ballerest guy in our pickup game. Hopefully made up for my 2-3 boneheaded passes and load of bricks. I've become a no-rebounding defensive specialist!

nice!

:D

Also banked a couple shots in... from pretty much head-on to the basket.

haha those are more embarrassing than anything. I still havent played since my sprain. Being extra cautious.

I NEVER block shots either. Maybe a handful a year.

at 5'9" if i ever get to play against competition my own size it's a defensive revelation

I play against Asian dudes, so there you go, lol.

I'm 6'1" and will get referred to as a "big" at times. Which is cool if I'm the biggest on the court, not so cool when there's one other guy who really is a big and I have to guard him.

When you're out-bigged all you can do is fall back on good positioning, boxing out and hoping your man can't shoot worth a damn.

I love playing against taller guys. especially the ones that don't really know how to use their bodies.

Last night I forced a guy 5 inches taller than me into multiple bad shots, including one that hit the back of the backboard; it was my only consolation after missing 5 shots in a row. My experience is that average pickup player is not used to someone who both tries on D and knows what they're doing on that end to some extent.

I got stuck on a few rotations guarding a dude who has probably 3 inches on and me and, I unno, 70 pounds, he just did a simple pivot in the low post and all I could do was say Ooof.

Yeah exactly xp. Get a dude with game or someone that just understands basic post positioning and it's no contest if they have height on you. Like I couldn't even imagine what it would be like to guard z bo.

My experience is that average pickup player is not used to someone who both tries on D and knows what they're doing on that end to some extent.
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Saturday, 29 June 2013 11:08

this imo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gWxHFMog9w

haha. player coach gets under my skin the most. corollary to tall guy who only shoots 3's is any guy who only shoots 3's and plays no D, doesn't pass, ugh.

'respect the call'

heard all of those jokes before but it's well done

lolled at the player coach -- "banana swirl!" I have definitely played with *that dude* a couple times. Sometimes it's in the form of incomprehensible hand gestures followed by frustration that you don't get the incomprehensible hand gestures.

"this is streetball man"

the "old guy" usually has more game than the dude in that video though. Bad knees but crazy shots.

old guy at my court is 6'7" and played in college. annoying cause somehow I'm always the 2nd tallest guy and have to guard him or some other oaf.
the other day my local player-coach shot an airball and tried to play it off as a pass to me, "you gotta be ready for that". everyone started laughing, so then he played off that playing-off as a joke.

it's pretty cool though, I've worked up a network of 10 or so dudes to text for a game and amongst them and random drop by guys there's only been one dick. ratio was like 10x higher when I played in Chicago area. ~chillvibes~ man.

ime the old guy is also more likely to play a little dirty

the player coach is the worst especially when hes also the old guy

Hahaha playing at new place in Bronx, did a little 2-on-2 yesterday's, totally got matched up with Player Coach. Kinda loved it but I was abusing this dude inside and wanted Player Coach to take some shots just because idk it's just mellow basketball and wasn't trying to make anyone look bad. PC kept yelling at me to go inside and take him and getting irritated when I would take the pass and then pass it back out.

PC knows the math

What was funny is that he was also The Dad and had his kid there with him. He jumped in and just wanted to play one game; but, after we won the first one, he yelled to his kid to hang tight, daddy was gonna play one more game. And then another one after that.

Think he might've had some history w/ one of the other dudes and just wanted to twist the baller-knife a little bit.

haha

http://store.apple.com/us/product/HD748LL/A/infomotion-94fifty-bluetooth-basketball?fnode=39

Haha what the hell

lol thought it was gonna be an app that tells you where pickup games are going on on yr area

wtf is that? I read it and still don't get it.

yeah me either

prob tracks bounces etc idk

you bounced the ball 764 times today... CONGRATS!

U bouncin' GOOD

bounce faster bonce slower bounce more

continuously plays http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bounce_It & u cannot disable this feature

http://instagram.com/p/imgnhSMAcR/

no one in the gym today, so i worked on a couple of new moves

Awesome! quick moves

it took me a good 20 minutes to get the shammgod down, it goes against every natural instinct

its v unnatural, I've only tried it a few times but never in a game situation. Doesn't seem like something I would use. I use the white chocolate around the back to myself all the time tho.

nice moves, u rly shook ur defender, how is casper irl btw (or ird in his case)

the defender was ur mom but she was too tired after the first video we made, if u know what i mean

the little spin was me imitating parker and the lefty shammgod was supposed to be manu

why was my mom playing basketball after filming a porno with u? what a weird date.

she's a grown woman, she knows better than that.

2 things that suck about pickup ball
1) total lack of charging. certain guys seem to not even have a concept of it, and will relentlessly ram into you every possession.
2) 1s and 2s as default scoring mode rather than 2s and 3s. And the math geniuses I generally play with don't get how "1s and 2s" mode gives more weight to behind-the-arc shots.

in my pickup world people generally dont play with twos

tho i secretly like to cause theyre fun to shoot

Lol who the fuck calls a charge in a pickup game