Basketball Thread About Nothing

[206to813]

I think it's just the kids today in general. Everyone wants to act tough but when face to face they're scared af

Last several times it got spicy for me was with some Asian college kids.

On my fadeaway the kid pushed me as I was in the air with my back turned. I hit him back and his white savior, who was on my squad, ran up on me and told me to watch my back

Another Asian kid at a different game basically tackled me and continued to talk about it's a legal screen when he ran into me as I'm on the ground. Best believe I hit him in the face when I got back up and he changed his tune to saying he was going to get his boys now

To make it worse, after he said that he quit the game and ran away

sounds like u be throwing hands in pick up a lot

I’m not gonna lie when dudes wanna fight I just back up and grab my invisible popcorn but there’s almost never any hands thrown. Either they’re all talk or someone with actual maturity (not me) makes sure they don’t scrap. I’m tryin to see something lol

 

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[206to813]

I liked his message…
But I checked comments and say majority were about parents shouldn’t be in practice. I gotta say my girls play volleyball and it has been a big deal my wife goes to almost every practice and a lot of parents do. 3x a week, 2 hr practices. Cuz when our girl gives us excuses, blames coaches, blames her teammates, she’s not getting set up, not getting reps, not getting coached right….
Guess what? Sometimes she’s dead wrong. And sometimes she’s right. Or a mix. But no way for us to know and just take her word. And wonder why she’s not improving like we expect. Nah. But being involved *respectfully*, being present, it matters, and does result in more playing time at the end of the day. We all know how much politics play in youth and competitive sports. A lot of kids are very similar in ability but get treated extremely different. And for every 100 youth coaches there’s 5 good coaches.

 

[duke40]

I liked his message…
But I checked comments and say majority were about parents shouldn’t be in practice. I gotta say my girls play volleyball and it has been a big deal my wife goes to almost every practice and a lot of parents do. 3x a week, 2 hr practices. Cuz when our girl gives us excuses, blames coaches, blames her teammates, she’s not getting set up, not getting reps, not getting coached right….
Guess what? Sometimes she’s dead wrong. And sometimes she’s right. Or a mix. But no way for us to know and just take her word. And wonder why she’s not improving like we expect. Nah. But being involved *respectfully*, being present, it matters, and does result in more playing time at the end of the day. We all know how much politics play in youth and competitive sports. A lot of kids are very similar in ability but get treated extremely different. And for every 100 youth coaches there’s 5 good coaches.

I did the same thing - went to almost all of both my daughters practices. If I said anything at all it was “get back to work” - or one time did I question a coach in front of a team during a practice. But my girls like to take about practice in the ride home and because I coached both Vball and basketball it helped them understand where the coach was coming from.

BTW - how old are yours and playing what level? Both of mine are NAIA players (setters) at competing schools in Kansas. They are 30 mins apart and play each other twice a year.

 

[tokes99]

I’m 6’4 and I play inside or outside, but I am a great shooter lol. I definitely think the shift in how basketball is played now with the emphasis on 3s has fully taken over pick up, at least in my runs. It only makes sense (I mean, it’s math, duh) but even more so since it’s a 2 vs a 1, instead of just a 3 vs a 2. But it’s kind of normal for pick up games to just be almost all 3s (or lays).
But what I was gonna say about your post is as a tall player (for pickup) I definitely find it annoying when a brolic 5’10 guy wants to guard me and is hella physical. Their low center of gravity is annoying and I can always shoot over them but something about any low contact tends to throw me off, whether it looks significant or not from the sidelines.

i hear all of that…so i don’t begrudge the vertically favored for not wanting to endure the yeoman work that is being ‘big man’ just because they happen to be tall, however if the team needs a bucket and the 6’4” dude is on the perimeter spotting up with a 5’7” dude guarding him…it like you trying to stay on the court/win or nah my guy?

seems to me having parents at practice(s), is something no good can come of, from the coaches perspective…altho oversight could be an issue, as such ground rules of no injections or criticisms from guests would be a must!

 

[DCAllAfrican]

Interesting convo.

 

[206to813]

I did the same thing - went to almost all of both my daughters practices. If I said anything at all it was “get back to work” - or one time did I question a coach in front of a team during a practice. But my girls like to take about practice in the ride home and because I coached both Vball and basketball it helped them understand where the coach was coming from.

BTW - how old are yours and playing what level? Both of mine are NAIA players (setters) at competing schools in Kansas. They are 30 mins apart and play each other twice a year.

Mine are 12 and 8 (first year).

 

[tokes99]

Interesting convo.

i understand what gil is saying in theory but in practice i don’t think it is the case that players aren’t in shape or aren’t training their conditioning. for one arenas was kinda a maniac, most players even in his era (by his own past admissions) didn’t train like him, so he is kinda committing the mistake of making the exception the rule. just by the eye test, there aren’t nearly the same amount of fat players in this generation nba than in the ones prior .

in terms of injuries, the game is played different today, players have more freedom, operate with much more space, without the impediment of hand checking, get ‘creative’ interpretation of the rules, such that players are routinely accelerating & decelerating at joint angles that players in other eras would rarely hit; the physicality, rule interpretations, and lack of spacing almost insured that players in the past would not get the momentum up to do so…add in that young players are coming into the league sort of specialized having played much more competitive basketball with aau and not much else in terms of other movements/sports, such that they already have overuse injuries entering the league

then there’s also the science, technology, training, & recovery that is enabling players to be more explosive/put more force out/absorb more force and be able to be able to do so over the course of an nba schedule…this all has ramifications that impact health, injuries, & longevity; in part teams today don’t practice like they did in the past because of theses concerns.

there is also the way that the championship competitive teams are incentivized to ‘load manage’ players for playoff readiness as the be all end all, as tho championship contention is the only thing that matters. you don’t much hear about the turrible teams doing this with their players so it like a feast or famine thing, teams are either contending or ‘tanking’/rebuilding…teams in the middle are really the worst of both worlds

 

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[duke40]

Mine are 12 and 8 (first year).

I wish I had that much time left to watch mine. The best part is watching them realize their ability, either serving over the net for the first time or when they get that first letter/call from a college.

 

[206to813]

Man, the nostalgia . I’m def down for some and1 90s style gear. I always loved that one handed reverse lay Skip did in the mixtape

 

[DCAllAfrican]

^ Yea, that layup is something that Iegit randomly think about every so often when I am on the court.
So graceful.

 

[tokes99]

Man, the nostalgia . I’m def down for some and1 90s style gear. I always loved that one handed reverse lay Skip did in the mixtape

those tees with the character talking trash were so valid... definitely remember stopping people in hallways to read their shirt

still have those vhs mixtapes somewhere in storage, would literally watch right before spending the whole day at the park during summer, that era was a vibe

^ Yea, that layup is something that Iegit randomly think about every so often when I am on the court.
So graceful.

can't tell you how much i re-watched that specific sequence ...not only the fluidity but the seeming ease/effortlessness/naturalness of it

 

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[Public Enemy]

^ knew that would be in here the moment it happened

 

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[ogbobbyjohnson773]

interesting to hear nfl players talk about nba players

is it easier to go from nba to nfl or vice versa


starts @:55

 

[DCAllAfrican]