playing basketball

if you're in good shape it's great, gives you such an advantage

my problem with it is finding 7 others who are in good enough shape. otherwise it turns into a shitshow after a few times up n down the court.

Def not in good enough shape for full anything but i can dream

hah i have an older mate who i normally play to 21 with, standard procedure is for him to get up like 14-nil before he runs out of puff and i win by a point

i used to to run for like 3-4 hours a night. done after a few good games now :/

spin or behind the back dribble going toward the basket when someone is overplaying yr strong hand on the perimeter is such a crucial move to have in ones arsenal

get the ball on yr back hip wait for them to lunge and then go

I Was Never Jackie Chan, and I’m Not Jeremy Lin

i get his point -- and the story about the guy at the bank (among others) is fucked up -- but i think this is kind of the culture of pickup? you don't know names, there are no numbers, so people make up shorthand

as a white person i wld like to state that i am the true vicitm

tho not anymore now that i live in colorado

i tried the mkg feet-perpendicular-to-the-baseline-spin-ball-off-side-of-hand corner 3 yesterday and had to stop after a couple shots b/c it was making my hand feel weird

lol

been meaning to tell u guys last week i made a perfect bounce pass through three defenders guy caught it in stride dunked w two hands and i screamed

^5

same

https://theringer.com/nba-footwork-demar-derozan-giannis-antetokounmpo-jj-redick-c7819c1289b9#.m3aib68cw

love that the first video is a blatant travel

only a travel if it gets called :)

noticed a lot of guys shot with their feet parallel and at an angle these days, been giving it a shot and its very powerful, easy to generate some loft under the ol ball

what u mean

ha yes that was not clear, feet parallel angled toward the shooters offhand side like 15 degrees, feel like a lot of ppl myself included shoot w the stronghand side foot at that angle but the weak foot is m/l pointing forward creating a pigeon toed stance, then there are also all sorts of more squared up 1-2 set ups with the strong foot well forward of the weak foot

im gonna need a graph and mockup

oh yeah squaring up is totally archaic at this point ime

it's like closed forehand stance in tennis or elbow up in baseball, more of a low-level coaching cliche than anything that is actually useful

it's cool if it works or keeps yr elbow in or something but idg why it would generate extra loft?

it feels like yr generating torque through yr core but idk

http://i.imgur.com/oCQHlno.png
u cn see it this coach nick breakdown of stephs form, he calls the motion it generates "the turn"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lvc8lN6KEA0

its weird it doesnt seem like it shd work but then when u do it it feels really natural

I see now. Love those coach nick breakdowns

are u making more shots now y/n

just been messing around w it cant say also my shooting shoulder is mildly injured which kinda fs the whole process up

just noticed coach nick misuses the term year over year in that breakdown, for shame coach nick

i played basketball all the time in high school but then i broke my ankle and hadn't really since but i went last night to play w/ a bunch of guys and damn i do not remember it being so demanding - i've been exercising and stuff so i'm not totally out of shape but after the first 15 min game i was totally wiped out. i didn't do terribly - took two shots, missed both but took a foul on one of them. got 2 rebounds. guy i was covering didn't score, rebound or assist so that was good. but damn. i mean i guess it's good if i keep doing it i'll actually get into better shape but it's not like i remember being in particularly good shape in high school. it's like my entire body has basketball atrophied.

yea my first time back after not playing for years was rough. i was sore for days

u old

it's a totally different type of fitness than just like exercising on yr own

also my shot was never particularly good but now it's embarrassingly bad so i gotta practice that a bit

basketbtall is the best

it is

i feel like if i could play once a week or a few times a month i would be in great shape

cad otm, basketball shape is pretty different than normal shape. One thing I notice that gets sore after I play a lot is my shoulders/traps due to putting your arms up and down so much

once a week goes a long way honestly

injuries tho are kind of scary and seem like they easily occur in basketball, i had some weird shit happen the last time i played (tho i played probably too hard) and hyperextended my knee a little bit, it wasn't fun

we did too much that day. i think we played for like 2-3 hours, full court 4 on 4 and it was exhausting

injuries are v bad for hoops. I've had quite a few. some from years back that still affect me.

both my ankles are fucked so I have no expolosiveness to finish nor do I have much strength...but I get a ton of aerobic exercise so I just try to out-stamina everyone, even the young guns. After a few games I start getting wide open looks cause defender gave up on chasing me around :D

i hate your kind

lol

i think i retired again its too hard on my body + i have to play a ton to stay on top of my game, it was a sweet swan song tho

smh

^^

thank u for yr support as a transition from my basketball career to focusing on making documentaries about myself