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streetlamp
May 7, 2007

Danny likes his party hat
He does not like his banana hat
This is a pretty good and funny series of articles on pick up basketball

http://basketbawful.blogspot.com/2010/06/pickup-diaries-part-1-fat-to-fit.html

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streetlamp
May 7, 2007

Danny likes his party hat
He does not like his banana hat
I'm 6'2" and just started seriously working out and trying to eat okay about 3 months ago, went from 205lbs to 185. I'm going to try and dedicate the summer to making a serious attempt at dunking a ball.

I can grab a 10' rim fairly easy and can dunk fine on 9' but absolutely no hope in getting a ball over a 10' rim it seems.

My basketballs skills are a strange strange mix of average at everything, I had most of my height really early on and my uncle was my YMCA coach and always had me playing under the rim and actually learned a decent amount of post stuff. But as I got older and kept playing, kids caught up to me so 6'2" wasn't that great and I had to start learning how to dribble, face people up, jump shooting and so on. Just never got great at anything, I spend most of my pickup games under the basket collecting the trash.

streetlamp fucked around with this message at 06:37 on Mar 11, 2012

streetlamp
May 7, 2007

Danny likes his party hat
He does not like his banana hat
Try aiming at the back of the rim

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streetlamp
May 7, 2007

Danny likes his party hat
He does not like his banana hat

Yaphet posted:

What are your guys' opinions on people screaming/yelling/clapping at someone while they take a jumpshot? I think that poo poo is annoying as hell...

I've probably yelled at a few people taking a jump shot but if your doing it constantly its just annoying and immature.

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