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BIZORT posted:
This is the most important point in the whole thread. Basketball is fun, people play to have fun.
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| # ¿ Mar 6, 2012 20:39 |
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| # ¿ May 22, 2013 15:34 |
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This thread brought me out of my pickup hiatus and I wasn't completely terrible! I do want to start and international court to try people who stop running back on d and letting games degenerate into Lob Ball for crimes against basketball though.
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| # ¿ Mar 9, 2012 21:26 |
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cisneros posted:What I can't take is their constant cherrypicking, every 2 plays or so someone won't go back to defense, and there's at least 1 guy that will straight up just stay under the other basket. That is literally not basketball, gently caress those people.
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| # ¿ Mar 11, 2012 00:30 |
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Yeah, the best way to play pickup is to find a group of folks to play with consistently that you know are not complete knuckleheads. I know I play way better with my buddies than just a bunch of randoms because we all know where we like the ball and move around without the ball and make passes and will actually pass me the ball when I'm wide open instead of playing one on five hero ball while everyone just stands around and tries to get the inevitable rebound. More importantly, I like playing with my buddies because I know they're not assholes and don't take things way too seriously.
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| # ¿ Mar 11, 2012 17:38 |
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Playing pickup basketball with your buddies is the best thing in the world because you can give each other the fist antlers when you assist each other.
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| # ¿ Mar 25, 2012 02:13 |
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Basketball is a game, it is fun, go have fun and play basketball.
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| # ¿ Jun 6, 2012 16:23 |
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Cherry picking lob passes are not loving basketball and if I could I would just walk off the court and do something else once that starts happening because it's a complete waste of my time.
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| # ¿ Jun 11, 2012 03:38 |
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elbow him or her in the sternum
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| # ¿ Jun 27, 2012 18:49 |
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If that happens again, just claim that the move is a crab dribble.
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| # ¿ Jul 11, 2012 18:45 |
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Wear a suit on the sidelines and draw up plays for your buddies. Look the part, be the part, motherfucker.
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| # ¿ Feb 13, 2013 23:52 |
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I'm basically blind, but if I didn't wear contacts, I'd definitely be balling in some Horace Grant-style goggles.
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| # ¿ Apr 26, 2013 14:17 |
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Dog Jones posted:I hosed up and told some guys I had never played with before that I was left handed way early in a game today. Yeah, my secret leftiness is pretty much the only way I can score in pickup games until they figure out I can only go left and then I'm done. Actually, I'm usually done when teams literally look at me for two seconds and see how appallingly unathletic I am and then I spend the rest of the game futilely running up and down the court never touching the ball and probably guarding the other lovely guy who never touches the ball on their team.
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| # ¿ May 2, 2013 21:40 |
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| # ¿ May 22, 2013 15:34 |
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Dogs Bower posted:Cut hard to the hole and set screens. Eventually your gonna be so open when you roll or cut that your teammates would be idiots to not pass to you. Also you'll open space for other people to score. IF your team wins you get to keep playing so it doesn't matter if what you isn't related to scoring. I am a big believer in that idea. I do those things, but I usually play with a bunch of knucklehead college students who are much younger than me and would rather play kobeball than actually pass to an open person who the other team has literally stopped guarding. e: In their defense, it takes me half a game to figure out who is on my team and I often fall prey to the unsporting "here pass it to me" subterfuge which is really embarrassing.
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| # ¿ May 3, 2013 02:57 |
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