The worst pick up players.

[ProfessaPackMan]

Re: The worst pick up players.

Or the old head, who don't do NOTHING but call foul/travel/double dribble and that's literally ALL he does.

[ScoobySnax]

Re: The worst pick up players.

The person who plays no defense but continues to yell to step up the d. It pisses me off to no end if i'm guarding one of the better players on the floor and i'm getting yelled at because they get by me every once in a while while he gets scored on constantly.

Also the person who plays no help defense because he doesn't want to leave his guy and claims its "your man" (in my experiences this person tends to also be the person described above...)

The person who is awful, can do almost nothing basketball related, but when he scores its like he's freakin lebron james and acts like he could do it anytime he wanted.

By far one of the worst. I'm like, "Maybe we can stay on the court if YOU decided to lock up!"

When he gets blown by off the dribble, "Y'all supposed to have my back man, damn!" *repeats 5 more times throughout the game*

Aaaah! I'm hot right now just thinkin about it.

[bigrice25]

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This thread is the truth!!!

i wrote this article in 08 and when reading this thread u guys pointed out every personality i pointed out lol

http://www.associatedcontent.com/art...ll.html?cat=14

[VDusen04]

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The person who plays no defense but continues to yell to step up the d. It pisses me off to no end if i'm guarding one of the better players on the floor and i'm getting yelled at because they get by me every once in a while while he gets scored on constantly.

Truly, I read this post a few days ago and thought, "Meh, I'm not sure I've ever seen that from anyone above 6th grade." Of course, after thinking that, I ran into a guy exactly like that last night. He kept on asking his teammate if he was afraid of the guy he was guarding while the criticizer was getting worked himself. As if he were acting out your description, any time he'd get beat off the dribble he'd be upset about the lack of help defense. After his man blew past him again and nearly dunked on the help D, the guy continued to chastise, "Dawg you about to get dunked on!" Rough to watch, but entertaining on the same token.

[bakan723]

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Or the guy that's like, you wanna switch ? If you get scored on a couple of times or something, like he's some shut down defender or something.

[jeremym480]

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I just read of of this thread and it's great!! 5*s!!

I have a friend that fits this descprition to a T. He's so notorious in our circle for his passes that we call them "Montgomery passes", his last name. Every pass he throws is either to high or at your ankles, and they all have a 10089378489 rpm side spin, all the while coming at you like John Elway was trying to squeeze it in between a triple team. The funniest part is that he compares himself to Steve Nash. The fact that he's a horrific shooter and his passing is the absolute worst, makes it hard to believe people are that blind to their own shortcomings....

I play with a guy like this. It's especially annoying when someone is wide-open and a simple bounce pass will suffice yet, he chooses to do a no look or behind the back pass that sails out of bounds. He's also, the guy who attempts the crazy acrobatic layups that usually slam off the backboard.

Last summer, I put a couple solid hours of basketball in at the gym with my younger brothers who were in town for the week. On my way home, they saw a whole slew of people down at the park playing basketball. They wanted me to stop so they could see what the competition was like on my local court. It was the wrong choice.

At the park this day, playing basketball, there was:

-A player smoking midgame
-A player sharing that cigarette midgame
-Someone freestyle rapping on the sideline
-A player playing in his bare feet
-Two players in jeans
-One player in a camo-hat
-An ex-convict named Sin (who, to be honest, couldn't have been nicer)

To top it all off, one player had a camera set up on a tripod to tape this whole mess and create a mix tape out of it.

My brothers, obviously, thought it was hilarious and the best thing ever, so we played. It was one of the worst nights of my life. For days after this event, I would get upset at random moments, just because I was still so affected by that evening at the park. I'm getting a little frustrated just talking about it now. It was just one of those nights where the wrong crew ended up at the courts (likely because many of the normal ballplayers played with us at the gym beforehand). But now my brothers are going to think that's how my court is all the time, and that depresses me.

I guess the good news is both of my bro's got to play the role of "kid baller" that night, but just because it becomes 10 times easier to cross up a guy in jeans and bare feet.

In an unrelated note, at that same park, I capped off a game one night with a breakaway flush, which yielded this response from the sideline: "Who said white men can't jump? Just look at Yao Ming!"

Let that one sink in for a while.

the guy who, because we've lost track of the score, elevates his team score in a way that is inconceivably high, causing us to backtrack and recount every point.

Yeah, I hate that.

Another thing that is a pet peeve of mine is when me or one of my teammates in getting double-teamed & someone from the opposing teams starts screaming my/my teammates name to pass it to them like they're on your team. This is extra annoying because we play with the same 8-10 guys almost everyday and the teams change a lot from day to day. Also, we're just in regular gym clothes. We don't have jerseys or play shirts vs. skins or anything like that so, IMO it's a bit of a bitch move.

[wwharton]

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Sorry dawg, you HAVE to know who's on your team. It's only 4 guys, lol.

[jeremym480]

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Sorry dawg, you HAVE to know who's on your team. It's only 4 guys, lol.

I'm not saying it's right or wrong it's just a pet peeve of mine. Especially, since we play together almost everyday (M-F) and are often on different teams. Personally, I'm not in to trying to trick someone on the court by shouting their name but, that's just me. There is really only one guy who does it and 95% of the time it doesn't work but, it's still annoying to me. And I know that's how some people play and I understand that but, like I said, I would never do it.

[wwharton]

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I'm not saying it's right or wrong it's just a pet peeve of mine. Especially, since we play together almost everyday (M-F) and are often on different teams. Personally, I'm not in to trying to trick someone on the court by shouting their name but, that's just me. There is really only one guy who does it and 95% of the time it doesn't work but, it's still annoying to me. And I know that's how some people play and I understand that but, like I said, I would never do it.

I'm with you, I would never do it either. But shame on whoever falls for that crap too.

[jeremym480]

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I'm with you, I would never do it either. But shame on whoever falls for that crap too.

Yeah, I admit I've feel for it once or twice since we started playing in mid-February. However, there's this other guy who occasionally plays with us, who is from Venezuela & is primarily a soccer player. He falls for it at least once every time we play. I'd probably be fine with it if that guy didn't always seem to land on my team. He is "guy you have to constantly stop and explain the rules to" guy.

[kingkilla56]

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more of a hig school thing, but the kid is just walking by and the ball bounces to him and he tries to shoot it instead of just giving it back to the guys playing.

if they are especially far from the rim and brick, the ball flies across the whole court. WTF?

[wwharton]

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Yeah, I admit I've feel for it once or twice since we started playing in mid-February. However, there's this other guy who occasionally plays with us, who is from Venezuela & is primarily a soccer player. He falls for it at least once every time we play. I'd probably be fine with it if that guy didn't always seem to land on my team. He is "guy you have to constantly stop and explain the rules to" guy.

Yeah, "that" guy, lol. I feel you.

[Weeks]

more of a hig school thing, but the kid is just walking by and the ball bounces to him and he tries to shoot it instead of just giving it back to the guys playing.

if they are especially far from the rim and brick, the ball flies across the whole court. WTF?

Yeah this goes with they guy who walks by and asks if he can get a shot

[VDusen04]

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Yeah this goes with they guy who walks by and asks if he can get a shot

Ughhh, I was just going to bring him up. Happened yesterday. I was going through an individual workout; there were two guys shooting on one end and me alone on the other. Two fellows on bicycles arrive and just sort of. . .let themselves in on my workout. The kicker, of course - and you'll think I'm making this up but I assure you I am not - is that one of the teens only took shots from 30 feet away and half of his attempts sailed over the backboard and ricocheted across the park. Every time he rifled a shot to the moon he'd mutter, "Aw I don't even play basketball." I felt like I was on candid camera.

[Weeks]

Ughhh, I was just going to bring him up. Happened yesterday. I was going through an individual workout; there were two guys shooting on one end and me alone on the other. Two fellows on bicycles arrive and just sort of. . .let themselves in on my workout. The kicker, of course - and you'll think I'm making this up but I assure you I am not - is that one of the teens only took shots from 30 feet away and half of his attempts sailed over the backboard and ricocheted across the park. Every he rifled a shot to the moon he'd mutter, "Aw I don't even play basketball." I felt like I was on candid camera.

Haha he's probably the guy who goes 1-20 and when he makes one he acts like it's no big deal and he does it all the time.