OS Basketball Players Thread.

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Blame it on the Alcohol why don't you.

Oh I will blame the post, my broken medicine cabinet and the hole in the wall of room all on the Alchohol

[VDusen04]

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In terms of talking trash I never really did it. However If guys would mess with me or my teammates, I would throw them elbows on Rebounds, foul them hard, and try to mess them up in any way way possible both physically and mentally. I have broken other players noses in the past with a quick elbow to the face just because they said something to me or one of my teammates in the past. If you try and one up me or one of my boys and act all cocky lets just say the next time you go up for a layup I will hit you low and hit you hard. I hate Arrogance and I hate cockiness.

I want to apologize for this post, I was out the entire day and night leading up to this and lets just say I had a few too many. I have never broken anyone's nose by throwing an elbow at them while playing basketball and while trash talk usually bothers me I just live with it for the most part. So once again I'm sorry I wasnt in the right state of mind at the time when I posted this.

Good stuff. Happens to the best of us.

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In terms of talking trash I never really did it. However If guys would mess with me or my teammates, I would throw them elbows on Rebounds, foul them hard, and try to mess them up in any way way possible both physically and mentally. I have broken other players noses in the past with a quick elbow to the face just because they said something to me or one of my teammates in the past. If you try and one up me or one of my boys and act all cocky lets just say the next time you go up for a layup I will hit you low and hit you hard. I hate Arrogance and I hate cockiness.

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Read my 2nd post about that

[mb625]

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5'8" 155 in my HS days but now 5'8" 175.
Played SG/SF
AGE: 19 been playing since I was pretty young.
I'm an okay shooter and hustle pretty well, but other than that I'm not that great. Didn't play much in HS. Played sparingly on Varsity and got quite a bit of JV time my Sr. year. I wear glasses, but refused to wear them when I played in HS and as a result my shooting suffered a bit. So basically, I'm like if half of Kyle Korver's shooting skills merged with all of Brian Scalabrine's (that's the hustle part) so I'm not that great, but I love the game and that's all that really matters (or so I have been told repeatedly.)

[Yeah...THAT Guy]

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So jealous of all you guys getting back out on the court right now. It's been over a month since I've been able to play because my thumbs been so screwed up. Gonna get that and my pointer finger checked out when I go home for Easter. Hopefully I don't need another surgery, because they said if I do, it would be a thumb fusion, and I'm pretty sure that would basically make it impossible for me to really ever play basketball anymore because I won't really have much if any mobility in my thumb so I won't be able to hold the ball. At least that's what it sounds like based on what I've read about the surgery.

Finally got to go play basketball again a couple days ago. My thumb/all my other fingers that are also screwed up are finally feeling better for some reason lol. Shot's rusty, but I was still able to knock down a couple 3's and I was carving the defenses up with my passing. Killed this one kid by going though my legs and then behind the back. Dude had no idea where I went lol. Feels so good to get back out on the court when I can. Hopefully I can get caught up on all my classwork so I can go back to the gym before I go home for Easter.

[Nathan_OS]

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Damn man. I've been feeling burnt out.

Haven't touched a basketball in 2 weeks.

[gerg1234]

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Am I wrong here?

I used to play HS basketball (12 years ago!!! Where has time gone!?!?!) and I just recently started a city league team. Now...if I start a league team I'd like to get the team together at least once a week to install somewhat of a semblance of an offense (like a 4 out motion...no plays per se'...just some organization) and work on defensive rotations.

6 out of the 8 guys have never played organized ball and are somewhat resistant to organizing.

If I wanted to play pick up type ball...I'd go play pick up games (which I do twice a week). I want to have one night that actually resembles organized ball!

[ASB37]

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Am I wrong here?

I used to play HS basketball (12 years ago!!! Where has time gone!?!?!) and I just recently started a city league team. Now...if I start a league team I'd like to get the team together at least once a week to install somewhat of a semblance of an offense (like a 4 out motion...no plays per se'...just some organization) and work on defensive rotations.

6 out of the 8 guys have never played organized ball and are somewhat resistant to organizing.

If I wanted to play pick up type ball...I'd go play pick up games (which I do twice a week). I want to have one night that actually resembles organized ball!

Not in the wrong at all.

I have a group of guys that I play pickup with and we've all played together for years. We are in a league in NYC that meets once a week on saturday and we have been getting killed. Why? Because we go out there and play like we do in the playground while less talented players and less skilled teams steamroll us.

Then we go out and play pickup games and we're all on our game. Every week we talk about getting together and organizing but it never happens. So you definitely have a right to want to get something going with the group.

[VDusen04]

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Am I wrong here?

I used to play HS basketball (12 years ago!!! Where has time gone!?!?!) and I just recently started a city league team. Now...if I start a league team I'd like to get the team together at least once a week to install somewhat of a semblance of an offense (like a 4 out motion...no plays per se'...just some organization) and work on defensive rotations.

6 out of the 8 guys have never played organized ball and are somewhat resistant to organizing.

If I wanted to play pick up type ball...I'd go play pick up games (which I do twice a week). I want to have one night that actually resembles organized ball!

I don't think you're in the wrong, but I'm not sure the other guys are in the wrong for resisting either. I have to be real, if my rec. league teams had required practices in addition to driving 40 minutes to the gym for our games every week, I'd be a little reluctant. I know you're not suggesting wind sprints or anything but for those guys, maybe the draw is simply playing on a nice court with a semi-formal setting (in contrast to street ball). As such, organizing to discuss play calls may not interest them much. They might just want to play, period.

[The 24th Letter]

After my 4th surgery as a result of basketball....I'm hanging up the Jordan's....

It's going to be hard, but it's about time I pick up some clubs at this point

[VDusen04]

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After my 4th surgery as a result of basketball....I'm hanging up the Jordan's....

It's going to be hard, but it's about time I pick up some clubs at this point

Does this mean no kind of exercise beyond golf ever again? No running? Biking?

[The 24th Letter]

I don't think running/biking is out of the question.....just no contact sports

[ehh]

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Am I wrong here?

I used to play HS basketball (12 years ago!!! Where has time gone!?!?!) and I just recently started a city league team. Now...if I start a league team I'd like to get the team together at least once a week to install somewhat of a semblance of an offense (like a 4 out motion...no plays per se'...just some organization) and work on defensive rotations.

6 out of the 8 guys have never played organized ball and are somewhat resistant to organizing.

If I wanted to play pick up type ball...I'd go play pick up games (which I do twice a week). I want to have one night that actually resembles organized ball!

Of the dozen-plus teams I've played on in my adult life I've never been on one that has put in an offense. It's frustrating but what are you going to do, most guys don't want to be that committed to a rec league or have no idea what they're doing to begin with.

Nothing like playing ball with a real offense though, I miss it so much. Being able to execute an offense and make reads is a huge advantage that most organized players have over streetballers. Out-smarting opponents is the most satisfying way to defeat them IMO.

I will say that almost every league that I've played in the champion has run some sort of offense, even if it's a simple motion. You'd think everyone else would get the clue.

[VDusen04]

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This was being discussed at another forum I frequent but I thought I'd ask here as well: Have you guys legitimately ever crossed someone up insanely enough to drop them to the floor? I'm pretty sure I can count my instances on one hand and I can't remember the last time it occurred. My "drop" numbers are so desperately low I even tend to count the one time I crossed over one of my 8th graders I used to coach.

Over time, I've found the most fertile situation for an ankle breaker comes when a defender is really trying to lock down. At this time, they seem much more susceptible to any sort of sudden movement. While all-out falls don't seem to occur too often, I have been able to induce the backwards waddle twice in the past two weeks, and that feels nearly as good. Unfortunately, I don't know how to finish the job (aka getting them to fall over altogether). I know the open look is what counts, so I don't worry too much about it, but the folklore behind getting someone to tumble (without stepping on their foot or something) is still pretty neat sometimes.

Tim Hardaway's defender at 2:39 is pretty much the most I've been able to elicit lately:
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Last night I had a plodding 6'6'' fellow foul me from behind on a dunk attempt (in clean and honest fashion) and he said something to his teammate about how I wasn't going to be dunking as long as he was on the floor. Through some good luck and coincidental timing, I was able to make him dance with the backwards waddle/crab walk the next time down the floor. As I alluded to earlier, I tend to not be able to make people do that on demand, things just timed out well.



Humblebrag, end.