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I will fuck you all up. I hadn't played all that much in the last few years , but started playing more often recently with this dude from work. He works out every day and runs full court games at his gym 6X/week. I SUCK at decision-making in a 5on5 game, but made him eat his trash-talking words in 1on1. He's Mr Testosterone and takes shit way too seriously, which is pretty annoying but I still have fun.

Granny Dainger, Saturday, 26 April 2008 23:23 (sixteen years ago) link

just remembered this is like a 5 min from me but the names on the wall make it look like some "locals only" shit.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/188/442365195_d1b606bf52_o.jpg

am0n, Sunday, 27 April 2008 00:18 (sixteen years ago) link

lol n e 1 here got mad ups??? i'll be the first to admit i can't even come close to dunking

am0n, Sunday, 27 April 2008 00:21 (sixteen years ago) link

http://cache.kotaku.com/assets/resources/2006/11/WMCJ.jpg

am0n, Sunday, 27 April 2008 00:22 (sixteen years ago) link

i can barely touch rim and my hands are smaller than 95% of girls I've known. So nope, can't dunk neither.

Granny Dainger, Sunday, 27 April 2008 01:08 (sixteen years ago) link

i think i can get like halfway up the net or some shit on a good day

J0rdan S., Sunday, 27 April 2008 07:41 (sixteen years ago) link

i once did like a rub dunk on a crooked outdoor rim. it was not pretty. my brothers got the good genes.

hytop, Sunday, 27 April 2008 17:03 (sixteen years ago) link

thread title makes me think of http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0yoPVAOJTk

am0n, Sunday, 27 April 2008 20:25 (sixteen years ago) link

grazed the rim once or twice back in high school days. how tall are u guys? i'm about 5'11 and i can probably barely touch the net now

6335, Sunday, 27 April 2008 20:48 (sixteen years ago) link

oh come on, even a 5'11" with laimbeer hops could easily touch net. (I'm 6ft, 170. Just like AI!)

Granny Dainger, Monday, 28 April 2008 13:20 (sixteen years ago) link

I rolled my ankle something fierce at a pick up game on saturday. swelling is down now but I’m still listed as day to day.

carne asada, Monday, 28 April 2008 14:12 (sixteen years ago) link

last week i thought about picking up some 9.99 starburys to replace my tim duncans (!), i don't learn i guess. can't bring myself to buy nikes but the non-sweatshop shits suck for the most part.

-- tremendoid, Friday, April 25, 2008 9:55 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Link

dude no youve probably heard this but everyone says those shits fuck up yr feet

its pretty sad cause what a great - lol right after they came out and people started complaining abt their feet marbury was all wtf i wear them theyre great - of course he was out w/a foot injury at the time

shaq has some wicked cheap shoes too http://payless.resultspage.com/shoes/Shaquille

my current dedicated basketball intended for tennis foot environment http://i30.tinypic.com/rbilbn.jpg

jhøshea, Monday, 28 April 2008 14:32 (sixteen years ago) link

i played almost everyday from 8 to 19 but the last time i played was about 13 years ago in york beach, maine. i was abused by some 6' 7" 17 year old. my tar-coated lungs just couldn't get it done. it was embarrassing.

my heart would probably explode if i tried to play a full court game today.

chicago kevin, Monday, 28 April 2008 15:52 (sixteen years ago) link

eh yr a wirey guy right - i bet you could get back in shape pretty easily - it the extra weight thatll really hold you back

jhøshea, Monday, 28 April 2008 16:56 (sixteen years ago) link

wiry, skeletal, whatever. mid 30s, smoking for over half my life now, not sure i could actually get back in shape. i'll bet i could still nail the open j though.

chicago kevin, Monday, 28 April 2008 17:26 (sixteen years ago) link

"either you slangin' crack-rock or you got a wicked jump shot"

carne asada, Monday, 28 April 2008 17:36 (sixteen years ago) link

annoying playground ball trend, pt 1: you score 15 or so quick points in 21 or 32, and then mofos start playing "defense" on you ie hacking like mad
annoying playground ball trend, pt 2: 3 other dudes playing, you come in, and no one wants to play 2 on 2, just 1 on 1 b.s.

Granny Dainger, Wednesday, 7 May 2008 01:03 (sixteen years ago) link

omg ive been so on fire the last couple days - yesterday i mustve shot like 15/22 over the course of three games of 4 on 4 to 16 - hitting crazy threes off the dribble off balance floaters layups high of the glass everything - against good players too!

jhøshea, Thursday, 8 May 2008 13:09 (sixteen years ago) link

i'm going to try and get back out there this weekend. hope the ankle holds up.

carne asada, Thursday, 8 May 2008 13:43 (sixteen years ago) link

do you have any sort of brace? i bought one a couple years ago, but I think it's too small cause there's more pain with wearing it than without.

Granny Dainger, Thursday, 8 May 2008 14:08 (sixteen years ago) link

yah prob too small - do you do any sort of strengthening exercises? def worthwhile. weird muscular over compensation/weakening as the result of a single injury is often what leads to the chronic variety.

jhøshea, Thursday, 8 May 2008 14:12 (sixteen years ago) link

i don't have a brace. i was just gonna go with a tape wrap and see how it feels.

carne asada, Thursday, 8 May 2008 14:34 (sixteen years ago) link

it doesnt count if u only play against white ppl btw

cankles, Thursday, 8 May 2008 18:00 (sixteen years ago) link

well duh

Granny Dainger, Thursday, 8 May 2008 18:12 (sixteen years ago) link

LOL! i play against a lot of filipinos. i dominate the boards but the dudes kill me with their quicks. i pretty much suck. it all about the cardio workout for me anyways.

carne asada, Thursday, 8 May 2008 18:34 (sixteen years ago) link

for the record canky where i play its abt 50/50 white/black w/one puerto rican dude whos better than everyone

jhøshea, Thursday, 8 May 2008 18:39 (sixteen years ago) link

"some of my best teammates have been black!!"

am0n, Thursday, 8 May 2008 19:40 (sixteen years ago) link

haaaaaaaaa

jhøshea, Thursday, 8 May 2008 19:41 (sixteen years ago) link

Other than games I or a friend organize, I'm usually the only white dude at the courts. Last week, this white dude I didn't know approached me and wanted to play against two black dudes who were at the adjacent court. They scored the first 5 buckets, and then my "teammate" goes "oh that's it. I quit. I thought I could still play, but I can't". MOTHERFUCKER! What kind of person does that?!? I'm competitive enough of a person for that to drive me up a wall. The other dudes were good (one was a dead ringer--style-wise and body type-wise--for Grandmama. plays on his JUCO team), but they weren't THAT good. I didn't even get a chance to make halftime adjustments, dammit.

Granny Dainger, Thursday, 8 May 2008 19:47 (sixteen years ago) link

quiting halfway through whaaaa - sometimes you lose - then you just play again wtf

jhøshea, Thursday, 8 May 2008 19:49 (sixteen years ago) link

exactly. it's not even like we were getting all our shots blocked/our cookies tooken or something. played make it/take it, so we only had about 2 offensive possessions. Larry Johnson Jr whupped my ass in 21 and 32 (is this just a Chicago thing? same as 21 one but w/o free throws. we didn't play it when I was young, but it's very prevalent now). But I didn't care, I like trying to defend someone 1on1 who's too black, too strong.

Granny Dainger, Thursday, 8 May 2008 20:04 (sixteen years ago) link

ive never heard of 32 - hows that different from 1 on 1?

jhøshea, Thursday, 8 May 2008 20:06 (sixteen years ago) link

you've heard of 21, tho, right? one on x? make a shot, you get either 3 free throws (3 n out) or unlimited (all day). 32 is obv up to 32, no FTs. Perfect for those who love to ball handle and drive but have no shot, even from 15 ft and uncontested.

Granny Dainger, Thursday, 8 May 2008 20:10 (sixteen years ago) link

ah yah i was forgetting abt the multiple player dynamic

jhøshea, Thursday, 8 May 2008 20:11 (sixteen years ago) link

we called that 21 game 'poison' for some reason

6335, Friday, 9 May 2008 05:30 (sixteen years ago) link

see we called poison the version where you'd go back down to zero if someone tipped in one of your misses (obv stopped playing that once we hit puberty and tip ins were no big deal)

Granny Dainger, Friday, 9 May 2008 13:18 (sixteen years ago) link

Does "NO B.S.A.!!" ring a bell for anyone?

Granny Dainger, Friday, 9 May 2008 13:43 (sixteen years ago) link

Boy Scouts of America?

Aimless, Friday, 9 May 2008 17:28 (sixteen years ago) link

that version of poison reminds me of what we used to call 'tip-in', which starts w/ free throws (1 pt apiece) and then tip-ins were worth 2, but all tips had to be made in the air. scoring a tip-in got you to the line no matter who was next, but anytime the ball was grounded it would then rotate to the next player in line. if you went over 21 then you went back to 11 or 0, depending on who you were playing with

6335, Friday, 9 May 2008 21:54 (sixteen years ago) link

four months pass...

we go play hoop

;y=ー( ゚д゚)・∵. (am0n), Tuesday, 23 September 2008 16:04 (sixteen years ago) link

where

mookieproof, Tuesday, 23 September 2008 16:12 (sixteen years ago) link

I wish I still had buddies to play ball with. :(

polyphonic, Wednesday, 24 September 2008 18:35 (sixteen years ago) link

one month passes...

where the choom gang @

✧✦✵✶✴i feel magical✴✶✵✦✧ (ice crӕm), Monday, 10 November 2008 13:18 (fifteen years ago) link

walking through london fields yesterday toward the market, with an empty sack in my right hand, i see a guy wrapped up in watch cap and track suit and shooting around on one of the hoops in london fields. these hoops are hilarious because they are mounted in GRASS - that's right, there's no hard surface to play on, just beaten down dirt. i couldn't resist joining him so i dropped my empty sack, asked to play, he had never heard of "horse" so i told him how to play that. he was pretty good, named pedro, from spain. then we did 1-on-1 and after 15 minutes i wanted to puke.

Tracer Hand, Monday, 10 November 2008 13:25 (fifteen years ago) link

haha awesome!

✧✦✵✶✴i feel magical✴✶✵✦✧ (ice crӕm), Monday, 10 November 2008 13:26 (fifteen years ago) link

i played 2 on 2 w/some kids in a town in the mekong delta once - they were pretty good

✧✦✵✶✴i feel magical✴✶✵✦✧ (ice crӕm), Monday, 10 November 2008 13:27 (fifteen years ago) link

my 1-on-1 offensive skills are deplorable - there's a whole syntax of body fakes that weren't even in the frame when i was playing ca. age 10

Tracer Hand, Monday, 10 November 2008 13:33 (fifteen years ago) link

one on one is kinda tedious

✧✦✵✶✴i feel magical✴✶✵✦✧ (ice crӕm), Monday, 10 November 2008 13:34 (fifteen years ago) link

yeah there's no chess involved, it's ENTIRELY about the psyche-out and quickness off the dribble whereas my game is entirely about the, uh, pull-up jumper, the uncontested layup and the bounce pass

Tracer Hand, Monday, 10 November 2008 13:35 (fifteen years ago) link

i was taking my child to the playground today and we have to walk by some basketball courts to get there. there was a one-on-one game happening between a couple of teens, one very lithe and muscular but small and one who was just enormous, not in shape at all but with an offensive lineman's body. i watched the bigger kid mercilessly back down the smaller kid and make an ugly layup adjacent to the rim, and a third kid who was watching yelled at the smaller kid about the quality of his defense. the smaller kid looked at the spectator with complete disgust and anger and said "he's 6'5", what do you want me to do?"

call all destroyer, Sunday, 16 April 2023 03:04 (one year ago) link

lol

Spottie, Sunday, 16 April 2023 05:52 (one year ago) link

eleven months pass...

played tonight for the first time in a couple of months — have really only been playing a few times a year since the pandemic, which is sad to think about. I play a good amount of reasonably high level pickleball, which is a solid workout, and I walk a lot, but it’s nothing like full court pickup. you get reminded pretty quickly that it’s a different beast when you’re out of playing shape. and pushing 35 and playing with college kids

anyway, I’m on the faculty at BU, so I decided to check out the rec center. (I’m trying to take better advantage of these faculty perks, like free museum passes etc, before I move to LA this summer.) got into a game pretty quickly, and overall think I played fine especially considering how rusty I am. played 2 games to 15, had 4-5 buckets each game including a couple of really tough finishes, and some nice dimes. but man was I gassed about halfway through that first game, and I had some sloppy turnovers in traffic just because I didn’t have the burst my brain thought I had. or maybe I’ll never get that burst back because I’m old now, idk.

anyway, legitimately nothing like pickup culture, man, I really miss it. always say I should get back into playing regularly, but never actually follow through. maybe the better weather in LA will make it easier

brony james (k3vin k.), Friday, 5 April 2024 01:11 (six months ago) link

the only thing i ever found that kept me in basketball shape at all was olympic lifting which makes sense cause theyre both about explosive actions, not that i was trying to stay in ball shape just i had been doing a bunch of cleans and i played after a long layoff and was like what im not totally gassed, but i was still kind of gassed

lag∞n, Friday, 5 April 2024 01:35 (six months ago) link

just read this whole thread btw getting very wistful about my long gone youth and athleticism, getting old
is sad

brony james (k3vin k.), Friday, 5 April 2024 02:00 (six months ago) link

nice moves, u rly shook ur defender, how is casper irl btw (or ird in his case)

― rhyme heals all goons (m bison), Tuesday, December 31, 2013 5:03 PM (ten years ago) bookmarkflaglink

the defender was ur mom but she was too tired after the first video we made, if u know what i mean

― k3vin k., Tuesday, December 31, 2013 5:09 PM (ten years ago) bookmarkflaglink

fucking wrecked m bise here tho lmao

brony james (k3vin k.), Friday, 5 April 2024 02:01 (six months ago) link

just read this whole thread btw getting very wistful about my long gone youth and athleticism, getting old

ugh, fuck you

there's always That One Old Guy With the Set Shot but i don't like my chances for that either

mookieproof, Friday, 5 April 2024 02:10 (six months ago) link

also wtf don't go to la

mookieproof, Friday, 5 April 2024 02:11 (six months ago) link

I know but it’s “for love”

brony james (k3vin k.), Friday, 5 April 2024 02:19 (six months ago) link

la is nice, driving is bad tho

lag∞n, Friday, 5 April 2024 02:23 (six months ago) link

xp aw

mookieproof, Friday, 5 April 2024 02:30 (six months ago) link

um exCUSE me k3vin (more like k0vin), missing some important context....

nice moves, u rly shook ur defender, how is casper irl btw (or ird in his case)

― rhyme heals all goons (m bison), Tuesday, December 31, 2013 5:03 PM (ten years ago) bookmarkflaglink

the defender was ur mom but she was too tired after the first video we made, if u know what i mean

― k3vin k., Tuesday, December 31, 2013 5:09 PM (ten years ago) bookmarkflaglink

why was my mom playing basketball after filming a porno with u? what a weird date.

― rhyme heals all goons (m bison), Tuesday, December 31, 2013 4:10 PM (ten years ago) bookmarkflaglink

she's a grown woman, she knows better than that.

― rhyme heals all goons (m bison), Tuesday, December 31, 2013 4:11 PM (ten years ago) bookmarkflaglink

polyamerie "it's more than this 1 thing" (m bison), Friday, 5 April 2024 02:57 (six months ago) link

What happened to granny dainger?

I Chet the Holmgren (Spottie), Friday, 5 April 2024 03:00 (six months ago) link

bise you got legit truck sticked there cmon take the L it was a long time ago

brony james (k3vin k.), Friday, 5 April 2024 03:22 (six months ago) link

i just feel like for the scientific community's sake that we be presented with all the facts in order to make an informed decision (that my jokes were better)

polyamerie "it's more than this 1 thing" (m bison), Friday, 5 April 2024 03:24 (six months ago) link

can’t believe that was 11 years ago now man. glad to have you jokers in my life

brony james (k3vin k.), Friday, 5 April 2024 03:27 (six months ago) link

I play with a 82 year old. It’s insane. He’s pretty awful, especially if the other team doesn’t have a dud to match him up against, but I’m so amazed by this man he is my hero. We have a chat going to notify everyone on court availability and the last time we had to bail he wrote, ok I guess I’ll start drinking. My heart melted.

Comfortably numbnuts (Heez), Friday, 5 April 2024 12:32 (six months ago) link

let's get to it: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5969183/

Comfortably numbnuts (Heez), Friday, 5 April 2024 12:43 (six months ago) link

been a year since i broke my wrist and i think im retiring for good. i kinda left it open in my mind that i might try again but every time i get the itch (often) i just think about the pain and rehab and how much it jacked up my life for a while and then i talk myself out of it. my old crew still texts me to come play and makes me sad. my wrist still isnt right, prob like 85% mobility and still gets achy.

I Chet the Holmgren (Spottie), Friday, 5 April 2024 22:15 (six months ago) link

playing at 82 is some life goals man, im hanging it up 40 years earlier...

I Chet the Holmgren (Spottie), Friday, 5 April 2024 22:15 (six months ago) link

three months pass...

Apparently Fauci challenged Obama to a game when Barry was in the WH.

Élisabeth Vigée Lebron (Leee), Saturday, 3 August 2024 18:33 (two months ago) link

Fauci played in high school versus Donnie Walsh (ex Pacers GM and North Carolina college player).

earlnash, Sunday, 4 August 2024 07:38 (two months ago) link

so I was in hidden hills yesterday playing pickleball (pause for laughs) and there was an empty basketball court there. if I go back next time I’ll knock on kevin durant’s door and challenge him to 1v1

brony james (k3vin k.), Wednesday, 7 August 2024 22:25 (two months ago) link

kevinvkevin

lag∞n, Wednesday, 7 August 2024 22:32 (two months ago) link

k35vin k.

I Chet the Holmgren (Spottie), Wednesday, 7 August 2024 22:59 (two months ago) link

two months pass...

got the “you’re pretty fast for 35!” backhand treatment today. fuck these kids

brony james (k3vin k.), Thursday, 24 October 2024 00:40 (one week ago) link

used to say that shit all the time as a youngin too and now it makes me want to die

brony james (k3vin k.), Thursday, 24 October 2024 00:41 (one week ago) link

loool. it comes for everyone

walking down the street today there was a little kid with a huge backpack dribbling a basketball in front of me

he was pretty good! not super easy to dribble between your legs when you're like 4'6"

i was considering whether it was appropriate to compliment him when he banged one off his heel and it bounced across the street. at least he paused to look for traffic

mookieproof, Thursday, 24 October 2024 03:12 (one week ago) link


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