Prominent Posters Who Have Never Posted A Pic

[rufuspaul]

Post a pic of who you think they might look like for:

JtotheIzzo
Inspiredllebowski
L. Kizzle
Maniac
ProfessorMurder

and any others you can think of.

[PowerGlove]

ProfMurder posted a pic here before.

[heyhey]

I haven't posted a pic but once I hit 3,141 posts I will.

before anyone point it out I know I'm not a prominent poster lol

[playtetris]

boozehound - well, i haven't seen his
rasheed
kblaze?
thorpe

[Se]

boozehound - well, i haven't seen his
rasheed
kblaze?
thorpe

Agreed. I'd like to know who Thorpe played for at college, too. I think he played Div 1 from memory in the 90's.

[playtetris]

[QUOTE=Se

[rufuspaul]

ProfMurder posted a pic here before.

My bad. Here's Inspiredlebowski:

http://www.lostlettermen.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Eric_Montross_Bloody.jpg

[HisJoeness]

you can tell by the way he talks about ball he's played at a pretty decent level.

OT: I would like your thoughts on Big KRIT, if you've heard of him. Children of the World has me curious.

[playtetris]

OT: I would like your thoughts on Big KRIT, if you've heard of him. Children of the World has me curious.

i have heard of him but i haven't checked him out as yet. maybe it's the dumbass name that's stopping me. :oldlol:

[HisJoeness]

i have heard of him but i haven't checked him out as yet. maybe it's the dumbass name that's stopping me. :oldlol:

:roll: I thought the same thing when I saw his video on MTVJ.

[playtetris]

:roll: I thought the same thing when I saw his video on MTVJ.

whenever i hear that name i think of a b-movie gremlin creature... maybe i'm just high too much. :oldlol:

[rufuspaul]

http://sporeflections.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/mountie.jpg

JtotheIzzo

[PistonsFan#21]

My bad. Here's Inspiredlebowski:

http://www.lostlettermen.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Eric_Montross_Bloody.jpg

Is that actually him?? How tall is he and what position did he play?

[Se]

http://sporeflections.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/mountie.jpg

JtotheIzzo

Close, but wrong. He's on the left here:
http://www.canoe.ca/WrestlingImagesB/bbm_vs_mountie.jpg

[UK-NJ]

Is that actually him?? How tall is he and what position did he play?
:oldlol:

[Se]

:oldlol:

I repped him for that post

[Thorpesaurous]

[QUOTE=Se

[Jasi]

boozehound?
primetime/playmaker?

[rufuspaul]

boozehound?
primetime/playmaker?

They've both posted pics.

[Jasi]

They've both posted pics.

I always miss big time

[HisJoeness]

I've been on courts with Steve Francis, Iverson, and more than a few other high end college guys and even a few pros

So you may have played in the ACC?

[PowerGlove]

So you may have played in the Big East?
fixed.

[rufuspaul]

I thought he said mid-major. St. Joes?

[HisJoeness]

fixed.

Why would he play in an inferior conference?

[HisJoeness]

I thought he said mid-major. St. Joes?

He did. I saw Steve Francis and ran with that lol.

[Legend of Josh]

I thought I read somewhere that JtotheIzzo was black.

[joyner82]

why would you want to see what other posters look like? that's mad gay

[Jasi]

Wait, d'you mean I have missed also J$'s pic?

If I did, please someone post the link...

[Se]

I'll give you a hint. I lost in the tourney to a team with not one, but two top five picks.


Thorpe, nice!

I've got a list of teams, this is a very hard game trying to figure this out.
Murray State
Iowa State
Georgetown
Kentucky
Navy
Charlotte
Michigan State
Connecticut

I'm guessing you played against either:
Jerry Stackhouse and Rasheed Wallace
or
Antwan Jamison and Vince Carter

Close?

If not, you played against Jay Williams and Mike Dunleavy Jr or Okafor and Gordon. But I feel like those names are too recent. I think it's one of those north Carolina combos.

[Thorpesaurous]

Those schools are all way better than the school I went to.

Steve Francis went to prep school in the town next to me. I played with him a bunch of times the whole summer before he went to Maryland.

I played with Iverson at the rec center at GTown while my buddy was going to school there.

[HisJoeness]

why would you want to see what other posters look like? that's mad gay

It looks like your the only gay who's mad here!


*rimshot*

[Thorpesaurous]

[QUOTE=Se

[joyner82]

It looks like your the only gay who's mad here!


*rimshot*


:facepalm

[HisJoeness]

:facepalm

:cletus:

[Jasi]

:facepalm

Well, homophobic judgements like the one you made most likely come from latent homosexuals.

[Se]

You don't have the school listed ... but you're sniffing it out.

You're original post was to cryptic for me. I'm just going to throw it out there that you are:
Robert Archibald

[JtotheIzzo]

Thorpe...are you William Moore?

[Se]

Thorpe...are you William Moore?

We should be able to guess this between us.

Also, if you, Thorpe and I were in our "primes" (LOL) we'd probably make for the best pick up team on ISH, unless Scottie Pippen posts here.

[Jasi]

Thorpe, are you Keyser Soze?

[joyner82]

Well, homophobic judgements like the one you made most likely come from latent homosexuals.

My original post was in jest and clearly making fun of the typical male stereotype which would exist on a basketball board. But yes continue on with your glaring stupidity.

[JtotheIzzo]

[QUOTE=Se

[Thorpesaurous]

Thorpe, are you Keyser Soze?


Great, now I have to kill you.

[Jasi]

My original post was in jest and clearly making fun of the typical male stereotype which would exist on a basketball board. But yes continue on with your glaring stupidity.

Ok, I didn't see the sarcasm, no biggie.
That's probably because 99 times out of 100 a comment like yours would not be sarcastic, on ISH :confusedshrug:

[playtetris]

http://www.columbo-site.freeuk.com/scrapbook/hommertv.jpg

[Jasi]

Great, now I have to kill you.

Shit, I'll die before seeing boozehound's and J-money's faces.

[Andrei89]

Post a pic of who you think they might look like for:

JtotheIzzo
Inspiredllebowski
L. Kizzle
Maniac
ProfessorMurder

and any others you can think of.

Really curious how Izoo looks like

[B-Low]

Haven't posted the banner in a while. Guess this is a good enough excuse to help weed out the slackers

http://img401.imageshack.us/img401/9176/ishrolecallnew.png

[HisJoeness]

I'm pretty hot.

[Se]

Really curious how Izoo looks like

Ricky Blanton
http://image.cdnl3.xosnetwork.com/pics21/265/VA/VANKIWVVKBYGRZA.20090128161332.jpg

[PowerGlove]

LOL @ Kwajo.

That gets me everytime.

[UConnCeltics]

Is it Cincinnati Thorpe? They had 2 top 6 picks, so maybe you just messed it up a little. They beat Delaware in the tourney, which fits your description.

[Se]

Glad I'm not on that jpeg, LOL.

Jefferson$ is punjabi? LOL

[Se]

Is it Cincinnati Thorpe? They had 2 top 6 picks, so maybe you just messed it up a little. They beat Delaware in the tourney, which fits your description.

Good call. They also beat:
UNC-Wilmington

[Jasi]

:lol

Nice banner.
I still don't see boozehound though...

I am also curious about fellow Knicks fans bagelred, Knicks101, Bano and franchize...

[Jasi]

Quizno looks like Quata.
Are they the same person?

[Se]

I am also curious about fellow Knicks fans bagelred, Knicks101, Bano and franchize...

http://scrapetv.com/News/News%20Pages/Sports/images/creepy-guy.jpg

[B-Low]

[QUOTE=Se

[LJJ]

Haha, man I look weird.

And that primetime pic, I believe he actually didn't post it but someone stole it from the website of his employer. :oldlol:

[Se]

Why ARENT you on it? You were posting your pic on here before posting your pic on here was fashionable :oldlol:

I guess it's because I was absent from Off the Court for awhile. Anybody who's somebody posts here! (does that make sense?)

Feel free to use one of these:
http://i36.tinypic.com/346s66p.jpg

http://i35.tinypic.com/2gsg01e.jpg

I don't know what other photos are floating around out there. I'm sure I've posted some awful ones in the past.

[Thorpesaurous]

[QUOTE=Se

[B-Low]

we gotta get Fashionissues to update it. Especially now that Hateraid's posted one too

[Jasi]

EroticVanilla?

[Posterize246]

You had the combination of players, but not the school, in your earlier post.
Liberty?

[Se]

You had the combination of players, but not the school, in your earlier post.

I think I'm going to have to call it a day and give up. Unless you actually beat the combination of players, and in that case you played for Utah, and have probably been shouted at numerous times by Rick Majerus and thrown a few alleyoops to Keith Van Horn!

[simcjt]

:roll: After seeing Agent Zero's pic everything makes sense now

[Se]

Liberty?

I think you got it. 1994 tournament.

Peter Aluma?

[Nanners]

Is gencbiba the same person as shogon rommel? they look really similar

[mlh1981]

The banner needs updated.

Many of those names, I haven't seen post in ages.

[JtotheIzzo]

Thorpe is Kevin Benton

[HisJoeness]

I really may be the best looking poster on this board.

[Posterize246]

[QUOTE=Se

[rufuspaul]

:roll: After seeing Agent Zero's pic everything makes sense now

:oldlol: I like vapid's nice green skin tone too.

[DC's Finest]

[QUOTE=Se

[rufuspaul]

http://www.mooncostumes.com/image/12720

I typed "Maniac" into Google Images.:confusedshrug:

[vapid]

:oldlol: I like vapid's nice green skin tone too.
Just the reflection of the willows off my beautiful face.

But that banner needs to be badly updated. A lot of those posters have grown up and have definitely changed.

[boozehound]

Jasi, I like you enough that I will post my picture for you.
http://www.funpicsfree.com/image%20voting/images/Funny%20Ugly%20Dude.jpg

[Jasi]

I already liked you, but now... *love*

[boozehound]

alright. heres a real one. http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs198.snc3/20542_102335626460995_100000536754211_62018_183739 7_n.jpg

[Jasi]

I'm guessing you are the guy who looks like Mr.E?
Just like I imagined!

[boozehound]

I'm guessing you are the guy who looks like Mr.E?
Just like I imagined!
not sure who mr. e is? I am the taller one in the leather jacket. this was late dec/early jan of this year.

[rufuspaul]

alright. heres a real one. http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs198.snc3/20542_102335626460995_100000536754211_62018_183739 7_n.jpg
Are you the hipster lumberjack or crazy earring guy?

[Jasi]

not sure who mr. e is? I am the taller one in the leather jacket. this was late dec/early jan of this year.

Eels' frontman
http://www.ondarock.it/images/livereport/eels_4176.jpg

[boozehound]

Eels' frontman
http://www.ondarock.it/images/livereport/eels_4176.jpg
yeah, he does look like me.

[Se]

yeah, he does look like me.

Erm.... huh are you? You look like him!

[JohnnySic]

Here's my first pic:

http://www.willhines.net/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/dodd_head_watermelon2.jpg

[boozehound]

[QUOTE=Se

[Jasi]

well, Im clearly better looking and more famous.

True, but you should give a listen if don't know them, I think you may like them.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=362egby9cu0



And this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNEVbhqkKhY

[oh the horror]

Hawker literally has the same face as the main Oompa Loompa here...Look

http://uvtblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/oompa-loompa-costumes-01a.jpg

Hawker is right below






http://img401.imageshack.us/img401/9176/ishrolecallnew.png

[boozehound]

True, but you should give a listen if don't know them, I think you may like them.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=362egby9cu0



And this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNEVbhqkKhY
yeah, I do like them. Have a friend who is very into them. Definitely enough acoustic elements for me to enjoy.

[Maga_1]

I don't recognize many posters in that banner !
Are they very old posters?

[step_back]

I really may be the best looking poster on this board.

2nd time you posted that, stop fishing for compliments:lol

[kentatm]

just wanna say that TMacsonegoodeye used to always post pictures of a black dude with a jheri curl in the post your pic threads on Dallasbasketball.com and not that whitey we have here.

[craigthomasb]

lol @ handsome man in the ish group photo

[joyner82]

http://img806.imageshack.us/img806/9716/gfffffffffffff.jpg

[pete's montreux]

nice beard beardy face

[mlh1981]

Rmwg

[Tito Beasley]

real men wears green has been here for years and whines and cries about politics and is a overzealous moderator in the basketball forum. but his kryptonite is for anyone to actually see what he looks like.

[Jailblazers7]

nice beard beardy face

http://www.rankopedia.com/CandidatePix/27814.gif

[rufuspaul]

I don't recognize many posters in that banner !
Are they very old posters?

Most have grandkids now. Some are even older than Yoda.

[pete's montreux]

http://www.rankopedia.com/CandidatePix/27814.gif

Nothing came up for me.

[statman32]

Almost positive Thorpe played at Fairfield. Pretty sure he told us awhile ago. For some reason I was thinking Hartford lol

[B-Low]

lol the ONLY reason i can think of for Kizzle to not have posted one is because he's not black afterall. I think my head will actually explode from not being able to deal with that revalation if it ends up being true

[Jailblazers7]

Nothing came up for me.

It's Beardface from scrubs.

[vapid]

lol the ONLY reason i can think of for Kizzle to not have posted one is because he's not black afterall. I think my head will actually explode from not being able to deal with that revalation if it ends up being true
I think most of us have come around to this realization. You better tell the rest of the black council of the traitor amongst your midst.

[B-Low]

I think most of us have come around to this realization. You better tell the rest of the black council of the traitor amongst your midst.

http://www.catnkitten.com/catpictures/funnycat313.jpg

[joyner82]

That can't be you... Durant's dick is nowhere near your mouth.

U do realize the only reason I hype Durant is due to the fact the LeBron dick riders did the same thing with LeBron when he was that age, correct? And i'm merely causing them to cry about it due to the fact Durant is better than LeBron was at 21.

[RedBlackAttack]

U do realize the only reason I hype Durant is due to the fact the LeBron dick riders did the same thing with LeBron when he was that age, correct? And i'm merely causing them to cry about it due to the fact Durant is better than LeBron was at 21.
So... You were annoyed by all of the hype that James got coming out of high school and in his first couple of years in the league, so you decided the best course of action was to be even more annoying when it comes to Durant?

Excellent strategy. You have sufficiently annoyed everyone on the board.

[rufuspaul]

http://www.catnkitten.com/catpictures/funnycat313.jpg

Okay B-Low I need your help here. Who are the members of the black counsel? I'm pretty astute, as you know, so I've compiled my own list. Just let me know, in code form of course, if I'm close.

Stroshow
Meticode
Hawker
Kebabstall
Inspiredlebowski
Catzhernandez

I know for a fact that these dudes are so black, when they assemble light bends around them.

[Lamar Doom]

we've still never seen RBA or Inspired right? Inspired shopped his face onto some dreadlock kid one time but it didn't count. JtotheIzzo?


edit- inspired are you really missing a finger? the whole thing? which one? accident?

[TheGreatDeraj]

It's Beardface from scrubs.

It's Beardfac

[Jailblazers7]

[QUOTE=TheGreatDeraj]It's Beardfac

[vapid]

Okay B-Low I need your help here. Who are the members of the black counsel? I'm pretty astute, as you know, so I've compiled my own list. Just let me know, in code form of course, if I'm close.

Stroshow
Meticode
Hawker
Kebabstall
Inspiredlebowski
Catzhernandez

I know for a fact that these dudes are so black, when they assemble light bends around them.
Stro would definitely be chairman.

[rufuspaul]

Stro would definitely be chairman.

Dude this is Stro in 2 years, straight talk.

http://inlog.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/WhiteBoy-775471.jpg

[Black Joker]

i don't even want to be on the stupid black council

[rufuspaul]

i don't even want to be on the stupid black council

Dude, the Bobcats forum has adopted you. You are now on the Pan-Afro-Asio-Polynesian-caucasian council.

[Black Joker]

Dude, the Bobcats forum has adopted you. You are now on the Pan-Afro-Asio-Polynesian-caucasian council.
i was posturing to get this position :cheers: :dancin

[RedBlackAttack]

we've still never seen RBA or Inspired right? Inspired shopped his face onto some dreadlock kid one time but it didn't count. JtotheIzzo?


edit- inspired are you really missing a finger? the whole thing? which one? accident?
I've posted pics several times over the years... Some of them were in the ISH music thread (pics of me playing in a club) and I think I posted pics from my college graduation at some point.

[rufuspaul]

I've posted pics several times over the years... Some of them were in the ISH music thread (pics of me playing in a club) and I think I posted pics from my college graduation at some point.

Oh yeah, you are one handsome dude, yes homo. I think the ones in the OP besides profmurder are the ones who have never posted a pic.

[RedBlackAttack]

Oh yeah, you are one handsome dude, yes homo. I think the ones in the OP besides profmurder are the ones who have never posted a pic.
I will give *favors* for free dental work....

Just sayin'.

[Maniak]

Yay for me getting attention

[mattevans11]

thorpe has gone quiet... i think someone guesed it.

[rufuspaul]

I will give *favors* for free dental work....

Just sayin'.

Deal!:rockon:

[StroShow4]

Sup guys?

[Timmy D for MVP]

This is from a few pages back:

I didn't know Vap was Asian.

[playtetris]

This is from a few pages back:

I didn't know Vap was Asian.

i didn't know it was possible NOT to know that.

[Timmy D for MVP]

i didn't know it was possible NOT to know that.

Learn something new everyday.

AND KNOWLEDGE IS POWER!

[plowking]

I thought JtotheIzzo had posted a pic before.

[Timmy D for MVP]

It is weird to see the pictures of people after seeing them post for a while because you build a picture in your head and then it can be blown away by the actual person.

For example you all prob look at my stuff and picture a handsome young man with a great smile... which is true. Alright bad example.

But you know what I mean. :lol

[B-Low]

For example you all prob look at my stuff and picture a handsome young man with a great smile... which is true. Alright bad example.

http://i.cdn.turner.com/nba/nba/.element/img/1.0/sect/allstar/profiles/tim_duncan.jpg

[Timmy D for MVP]

http://i.cdn.turner.com/nba/nba/.element/img/1.0/sect/allstar/profiles/tim_duncan.jpg

Exactly!



No homo.

[Jackass18]

Romosexual was one handsome bitch.

[Andrei89]

:lol :lol

[HisJoeness]

2nd time you posted that, stop fishing for compliments:lol

:lol

[Se]

real men wears green has been here for years and whines and cries about politics and is a overzealous moderator in the basketball forum. but his kryptonite is for anyone to actually see what he looks like.

This is true. I don't want to even see his pic. I can already imagine what a negative asshole like that looks like.

[Bosnian Sajo]

Yea proffmurder was the really pale tall guy with long hair, as I remember from his pic. (stalking level up to 66!)

[HisJoeness]

Was I the only one who found canadianballer's pic hilarious?

[Thorpesaurous]

:cheers:
Almost positive Thorpe played at Fairfield. Pretty sure he told us awhile ago. For some reason I was thinking Hartford lol

[rufuspaul]

:cheers:

per wikipedia:


in the 1997 NCAA Tournament (http://www.insidehoops.com/wiki/1997_NCAA_Men%27s_Division_I_Basketball_Tournament ), the Stags nearly achieved a historical upset of top-seeded North Carolina after leading the Tar Heels by seven points at halftime.

That game almost gave me a heart attack. I was thinking "oh shit we're gonna be the first 1 seed to lose to a 16 seed".


Stag legend Greg Francis (http://www.insidehoops.com/index.php?title=Greg_Francis&action=edit) '97 almost single-handedly upset the Tar Heels scoring 26 points including eight three-pointers. Following the game, legendary North Carolina coach Dean Smith (http://www.insidehoops.com/index.php?title=Dean_Smith) said "I had to find Francis after the game but I couldn't shake his hand because it was so hot."

[Thorpesaurous]

per wikipedia:



That game almost gave me a heart attack. I was thinking "oh shit we're gonna be the first 1 seed to lose to a 16 seed".


We were certainly among the worst teams to ever make the tournament. But we weren't as bad as our record. We had two really good players who missed chunks of the season. Francis was a really top flight lower level shooting guard. The kind of guy who if you saw him in a pick up game with any number of pro players, you'd have to watch for a few hours before you realized he wasn't any better than them. For guys like that, it's a matter of a few inches, a few shots out of a 100, that seperates them from the best of the best, and it can be really hard to tell during certain stretches.

The other guy was the more prototypical small school guy. Shannon Bowman. He couldn't a been 6-5. Overweight. But really skilled on the block. He missed a ton of the season. But once he was healthy he was good to go. The Carolina front line was too big for him though. He's the guy you don't pick up early picking teams in a pick up game and he winds up winning 8 straight games before he throws up. A great guy too.

I secretly was hoping we'd get blown out before the game so that I'd have a shot at getting in, but I wouldn't trade the rush we were on during that game for anything now.

[step_back]

We were certainly among the worst teams to ever make the tournament. But we weren't as bad as our record. We had two really good players who missed chunks of the season. Francis was a really top flight lower level shooting guard. The kind of guy who if you saw him in a pick up game with any number of pro players, you'd have to watch for a few hours before you realized he wasn't any better than them. For guys like that, it's a matter of a few inches, a few shots out of a 100, that seperates them from the best of the best, and it can be really hard to tell during certain stretches.

The other guy was the more prototypical small school guy. Shannon Bowman. He couldn't a been 6-5. Overweight. But really skilled on the block. He missed a ton of the season. But once he was healthy he was good to go. The Carolina front line was too big for him though. He's the guy you don't pick up early picking teams in a pick up game and he winds up winning 8 straight games before he throws up. A great guy too.

I secretly was hoping we'd get blown out before the game so that I'd have a shot at getting in, but I wouldn't trade the rush we were on during that game for anything now.

out of curiosity did you go on to play any professional ball?

In the late 90's going to europe was not such a common career choice.

[pete's montreux]

Thorpe, do you keep up with your old teammates?

Also, are you one of those guys that could not touch a ball for say. . . 6 months to a year, but hit like 30 jumpshots the first time you do? I hate those guys. Goddamn pure shooters.

[SCdac]

I posted a pic of me and popeye jones awhile back, one of those post your pic threads.

[johndeeregreen]

Also, are you one of those guys that could not touch a ball for say. . . 6 months to a year, but hit like 30 jumpshots the first time you do? I hate those guys. Goddamn pure shooters.
He probably is. He played at a higher level than I ever did (albeit different sport) but I can still step into a cage with a pitching machine pumping, say, 85, and tear the cover off the ball. And I haven't seen a live pitch since our conference tournament in 2007. So to think that a former D-1 guy could go out and swish open J's effortlessly isn't far fetched at all.

[pete's montreux]

He probably is. He played at a higher level than I ever did (albeit different sport) but I can still step into a cage with a pitching machine pumping, say, 85, and tear the cover off the ball. And I haven't seen a live pitch since our conference tournament in 2007. So to think that a former D-1 guy could go out and swish open J's effortlessly isn't far fetched at all.

Makes sense. I worked my tail off for a year to become an above average basketball player. Worked enough to get some semblance of confidence and a tiny bit of swagger. Haven't played much in the last 2 1/2 years, though. I tried to play last week and it was just embarrassing. If you're not naturally gifted or haven't been playing your whole life, you pretty much just lose whatever you had. Not to mention I'm ridiculously out of shape. I took 30-40 jumpshots and hit two, both off the glass from straight-away. Hit a few free throws, but my arm isn't in 'free throw' shape so I was straining to use proper technique and flipping them up there. I had to take them from one step in from the three point line because I was too lazy.

Anyways, I'm just saying it sucks if you're not one of 'those' guys. I have no doubt in my mind that it would take just as long, most likely longer to get where I was about 3 years ago. 80 pounds lighter and 10 more inches of hair and that should do it.

I just lost. . . all the feel I had for the ball. It feels like a foreign object when It's in my hands. Can't dribble, can't shoot, lost my touch around the basket.

But, hey, I suck at baseball now too!

[johndeeregreen]

Makes sense. I worked my tail off for a year to become an above average basketball player. Worked enough to get some semblance of confidence and a tiny bit of swagger. Haven't played much in the last 2 1/2 years, though. I tried to play last week and it was just embarrassing. If you're not naturally gifted or haven't been playing your whole life, you pretty much just lose whatever you had. Not to mention I'm ridiculously out of shape. I took 30-40 jumpshots and hit two, both off the glass from straight-away. Hit a few free throws, but my arm isn't in 'free throw' shape so I was straining to use proper technique and flipping them up there. I had to take them from one step in from the three point line because I was too lazy.

Anyways, I'm just saying it sucks if you're not one of 'those' guys. I have no doubt in my mind that it would take just as long, most likely longer to get where I was about 3 years ago. 80 pounds lighter and 10 more inches of hair and that should do it.
To be fair, being one of 'those' guys generally takes 15+ years of consistent hard work to become. So whilst your year of hard practice is certainly an achievement, you need more than that to "become a natural." I put that in quotes because we always say a guy like say, Pete Rose could hit .300 in his pajamas, but he wasn't born that way.

I can't speak for Thorpe, but by the time I was able to be a legitimate collegiate baseball player, I had played and trained year-round since I was probably 13, and been playing since I was about 4. So now when I go to swing it in the cage, I've got literally close to 20 years of waking up to play baseball behind me.

Of course, you do have your Wince Carter types who were just simply chosen by God to play ball for a living.

[pete's montreux]

Well it was a year to become average, but I played 'seriously' for 3 years. So It's 3 years! So what if I only needed 12 more?

I was only a couple months away from free throw line dunks. I know it.

[johndeeregreen]

Well it was a year to become average, but I played 'seriously' for 3 years. So It's 3 years! So what if I only needed 12 more?

I was only a couple months away from free throw line dunks. I know it.
Nah, not what I'm saying buddy. I just mean that even a guy like Manny Ramirez worked his ass off in the cage every single day. There are very few guys (Carter being one) that are world-class without really seeming to try that hard. By the sounds of it, Thorpe was one of those guys with above-average talent that worked extremely hard to get himself onto a D-1 roster but simply didn't possess the God-given ability to become a truly top flight player.

Like me, except better.:oldlol:

[pete's montreux]

Well, I don't know what word I could use to describe my talent level, but after those three years, I felt like I could walk into a majority of pickup games [parks/gyms] and hang with anyone on the court. I'm not saying I'd be the guy who would drop 30 or something, but you know, if you left me open, I was gonna hit it, if you didn't box me out, I was gonna get it, if you weren't D'ing up, I'd drive by you, if you didn't close out, I'd lay it up, etc. Does anyone know what I'm talking about? :mad:

This thread is bringing up some of my memories. My top ten personal plays are running through my mind right now.

[Thorpesaurous]

Thorpe, do you keep up with your old teammates?

Also, are you one of those guys that could not touch a ball for say. . . 6 months to a year, but hit like 30 jumpshots the first time you do? I hate those guys. Goddamn pure shooters.


There's only one guy I see occasionally, and frankly we're not huge fans of each other, but we're amicable. I came on at a weird time. Most of that team were upperclassmen, and I was a walkon underclassmen. Then my final year we had a new coach, a few guys left, and a whole new group was bought in.

I am absolutely NOT in fact a guy that drain jumpers first time walking on a court. I have a friend who went to Catholic, and he's like that, and like you, I hate that guy's ****ing guts. Like JDG was saying, there was no shortage of work getting to that point. But I sort of disagree with JDG, in that stroking a jumper, and hitting a baseball for that matter, while the result of a massive amount of work, also has a certain natural ability to it that simply cannot be taught. Billy Bean talks about it in Moneyball. He was a huge prospect, and he had all the natural ability in the world, and he put in the work, but he was never gonna be a great hitter, and he just could never figure out why. That's why he hunts for these statistical anomylies who's numbers say they can hit, regardless of whatever other physical traits they have.
I was a pure PG, through and through. I turned myself into a pretty good shooter, considering I wasn't particularly good in HS. Streaky, but range well out to the NBA line. You may give me a couple, but if I hit them, then I became a big problem, and if I didn't, I wasn't the kind of shooter to keep taking them. I can't say I was a physical specimen, but I was moreso than most probably. I'm just about 6', and in college played around 215lbs. I could marginally dunk, if my hands were bigger I'd be able to do it more often. But I was strong, and something of a bull in a china closet going to the hoop, with a knack for finishing from all kinds of goofy angles and weird release points. I was extremely difficult to block. My main gift was always being able to see things no one else could see. I was a really good passer. Guys with bad hands used to hate playing with me because until they got used to it, I was prone to jamming fingers and hitting noses with balls to guys who weren't even aware they were open. My handle is safe, not showey, and off the bounce I don't need much room, so while I may not make anyone fall over, I was plenty quick enough to get half a step on someone, and at 215 or so, if I got shoulder even with most PGs, it was a done deal, and I had a ton of ways to score once I got in there.

And probably my greatest asset, at least in college, I love basketball, and I watched it constantly, and I'm relatively bright, and as a walk on PG, I was asked to run scout teams all the time. I could pick up opposing offenses and defenses and inbound plays pretty quickly from tape, and I could run them. It wasn't always easy because my scout teammates weren't great, but I could usually get things together pretty well.

All that is part of why I've sunken into a bit of a depression since my knees really went. If I were one of those pure shooter types, I could still trot around out there and make due, but I just can't do that. And in practice with my 7th 8th graders, I can still get out there and make a few wow plays off the bounce, and throw create plays so the worst kid on our team gets a couple layups because I still understand how to get other people open, but my knees just wont let me run tirelessly like I used to. So it's been about four years since I really played a game. But my right knee gets operated on this Monday, so I'm hoping I can at least jog through some games soon.

And no I never played pro in Europe. I did live in the Czech Republic for a summer. And I did play with a handfull of pros, and probably could've if I really persued it, but I was just out of college, it'd been a long run of hoops. The walk on role is a lot of work and not a ton of reward (although all the learning I did I wouldn't change for most hoops roles in retrospect short of starring on a major team). So I did a lot of drinking, carousing by night, and was playing in the best pickup games I could find the rest of the time. And I could pretty much always hang.

[Andrei89]

TheLogo must post a pic

:lol :lol :lol

[Kebab Stall]

I would post some pics, but I'm incredibly drunk in pretty much all of them.

[hateraid]

Thorpe, you desrve your own thread for this. Great stuff.

[Thorpesaurous]

To be fair, being one of 'those' guys generally takes 15+ years of consistent hard work to become. So whilst your year of hard practice is certainly an achievement, you need more than that to "become a natural." I put that in quotes because we always say a guy like say, Pete Rose could hit .300 in his pajamas, but he wasn't born that way.

I can't speak for Thorpe, but by the time I was able to be a legitimate collegiate baseball player, I had played and trained year-round since I was probably 13, and been playing since I was about 4. So now when I go to swing it in the cage, I've got literally close to 20 years of waking up to play baseball behind me.

Of course, you do have your Wince Carter types who were just simply chosen by God to play ball for a living.


Definitely don't mean to belittle the amount of work it takes to truely excel at anything. I would be considered on most fronts to be really really good with numbers, but I'd hate for anyone to say that I was born that way. I studied and put in tons of hours to get good at it, but at the same time, I'm not gonna sit here and say I don't have an abnormal aptitude for it. I've tutored, and I know full well that there are people that just aren't good at it. I've gotten them good enough to pass, and if they wanted to work on it full time, I could probably even get them good enough to go through a college curriculum, but they're never gonna be great.

My buddy who went to Catholic, I've known him since we were 6. We started playing together on a travel team at that age and our parents had to tell the coaches we were 8. And even then, the kid could just make shots. His father could to. It's just the way it was. And again, I'd never say he didn't put in the work. He blew his knee out his Junior year of college I think it was, and he busted his ass to get back out there, so it's not like he wasn't a worker. But the point is there was no amount of work I could do to be able to shoot like that. Even when I have it going, it just seems like my ball doesn't even hit the net the same way his does, if that makes sense.

And what's weird is that I'm sure there are plenty of guys who see me shoot and think the same thing. So it's all relative to a degree.

I have a friend playing in China now. He's a nearly 7 footer. He's a little younger than me, but I used to play with him a lot, we worked out together. He was lazy as hell, but incredibly gifted. 7 feet, lefty, incredibly soft hands, great touch, even a natural shooter. But he was so lazy. Now I don't want to lay it all at his feet, he's got some limitations. His body doesn't really have a lot of pop in it. But he could easily be an NBA big if he wanted to, but he'd rather be big fish in small pond, and I for one don't blame him.
But the point is we had a coach who used to work us out who used to say "there's two ways to be good at anything in life. First, you can be lucky and just have been born that way. Or you can bury your head into it and make yourself that way. But there's only one way to be Great ... and that's to have both of those first parts." I still believe that.

[plowking]

I love the fact I'm able to play point guard now. All throughout my basketball life growing up I was forced to play small forward or power forward in organized ball, when clearly my biggest asset was passing and defending.
I love the feeling of throwing a nice pass to someone and seeing them finish it, particularly fooling the defense with your pass.

[step_back]

Thanks for the posts Thorpe they were a great read, living across the pond I have always wondered what my basketball career could have been like if I grew up in the states. I'm not your prototype basketball player by any means (5'8/5'9) however sport has always come easy to me. I have played a total of 4 sports at the national level ( swimming, Soccer, roller hockey and basketball)

[pete's montreux]

What can I say? Answered my question and them some.

I saw a kid walking down the street the other day with a backpack dribbling a ball. I was slammed with memories of when I was 19, walking down the street to the court with my backpack full of shit and dribbling a ball. I said to myself, damn, now I really have to get back into shape and start playing again.

Plus, It's also a great stress relief. My body deals with stress in the most annoying way possible and I need to maintain it. Basketball was always a good relief for me back in the day.

[Kebab Stall]

Thanks for the posts Thorpe they were a great read, living across the pond I have always wondered what my basketball career could have been like if I grew up in the states. I'm not your prototype basketball player by any means (5'8/5'9) however sport has always come easy to me. I have played a total of 4 sports at the national level ( swimming, Soccer, roller hockey and basketball)
You played national level basketball? How old are you?

I played under 18 national league from '06-'08 (north west region), but I never made the transition to our 18+ team, because I went to uni and couldn't get to training. I would have loved to played though. I'm still only 19 and only been out of basketball for a year, but I'm currently trying to get back into training to play again.

[step_back]

You played national level basketball? How old are you?

I played under 18 national league from '06-'08 (north west region), but I never made the transition to our 18+ team, because I went to uni and couldn't get to training. I would have loved to played though. I'm still only 19 and only been out of basketball for a year, but I'm currently trying to get back into training to play again.

I'm 23, I played under 18 ball for south east region, had a serious injury 2 months into playing for the mens team. Tore my Patella tendon which took the best part of 3 years to heal :facepalm .

I'm going to get back into playing this season, my health is back now although i'm not in basketball shape.


P.S 19 is still young enough to get somewhere with ball, try to get into AMW summer camp next year that will help you with exposure and most importantly your game.

[bada bing]

I'm 23, I played under 18 ball for south east region, had a serious injury 2 months into playing for the mens team. Tore my Patella tendon which took the best part of 3 years to heal :facepalm .

I'm going to get back into playing this season, my health is back now although i'm not in basketball shape.


P.S 19 is still young enough to get somewhere with ball, try to get into AMW summer camp next year that will help you with exposure and most importantly your game.

need your name so we can look u up.

[step_back]

need your name so we can look u up.


This is English basketball mate :lol not american

[Kebab Stall]

I'm 23, I played under 18 ball for south east region, had a serious injury 2 months into playing for the mens team. Tore my Patella tendon which took the best part of 3 years to heal :facepalm .

I'm going to get back into playing this season, my health is back now although i'm not in basketball shape.


P.S 19 is still young enough to get somewhere with ball, try to get into AMW summer camp next year that will help you with exposure and most importantly your game.
That sucks dude.

Thankfully I'm still young and I'm hoping to get back into it as soon as I can, instead of putting it off and then getting to a point where it might be too late.

[Kebab Stall]

The closest thing we have to finding anything of us as players, is EnglandBasketball.co.uk. They have all the scores and results on there including a couple years past. But no names, only team names.

[rufuspaul]

Wow, I started this thread just to post some funny pics but Thorpe elevated it to a whole new level.:bowdown:

[step_back]

The closest thing we have to finding anything of us as players, is EnglandBasketball.co.uk. They have all the scores and results on there including a couple years past. But no names, only team names.


I'm pretty sure some of the clubs listed are not even around anymore, or have changed names/ areas.

Most people I played with went on to play some BUSA ball for uni but apart from that unless you as an individual give basketball your undivided attention it is easy to drop out of the sport. Just not enough funding and places to play. Me and my mates used to rent out an indoor court once a week just so we could get in some extra practice during the winter.

I want to play national league at least by the next year providing I stay healthy.

[Kebab Stall]

I'm pretty sure some of the clubs listed are not even around anymore, or have changed names/ areas.

Most people I played with went on to play some BUSA ball for uni but apart from that unless you as an individual give basketball your undivided attention it is easy to drop out of the sport. Just not enough funding and places to play. Me and my mates used to rent out an indoor court once a week just so we could get in some extra practice during the winter.

I want to play national league at least by the next year providing I stay healthy.
I'm hoping I can play national league next year aswell. I was going to play for my Uni this past year, but I got too involved with partying and the training was a good 30 minutes away on the bus, f*ck that. I've now dropped out of uni and planning on taking this next year and trying again in 2011. Hopefully I can join the uni team then.

[-playmaker-]

lol @ handsome man in the ish group photo


http://i599.photobucket.com/albums/tt73/_primetime_pics/handsomeman_1.jpg


http://i599.photobucket.com/albums/tt73/_primetime_pics/handsomeman_2.jpg

[-playmaker-]

no one should have to post a pic if they don't want, I never will again...

but, based on past convos I imagine

Thorpe : similiar to Bruce Willis with tats...only because I think I remember him describing himslef that way

Jizzo : big and not so pretty, and that only because I think when i was drunk once I accused him of being ugly (or something) and he replied with "I am not ugly, but I am not pretty either"...and I think he said he was like 250 lbs...so I kinda picture a big dude that "isn't pretty"...lol

IL : the only thing I recall him saying in chatzy is that he was losing hair...so I just picture a generic guy with a high hair line...

Kizzle is black, if he isn't I would be shocked...he has talked too much about his different hair styles, corn rows and such...if that is a gimmick then WOW....lol. I have no idea what to picture with him either though...

[vapid]

I picture Jizzo to be similar to Ced, mostly because in the beginning they were both white guys who've traveled around Asia and I often confused the two.

[Thorpesaurous]

no one should have to post a pic if they don't want, I never will again...

but, based on past convos I imagine

Thorpe : similiar to Bruce Willis with tats...only because I think I remember him describing himslef that way

Jizzo : big and not so pretty, and that only because I think when i was drunk once I accused him of being ugly (or something) and he replied with "I am not ugly, but I am not pretty either"...and I think he said he was like 250 lbs...so I kinda picture a big dude that "isn't pretty"...lol

IL : the only thing I recall him saying in chatzy is that he was losing hair...so I just picture a generic guy with a high hair line...

Kizzle is black, if he isn't I would be shocked...he has talked too much about his different hair styles, corn rows and such...if that is a gimmick then WOW....lol. I have no idea what to picture with him either though...


Well, I have Bruce Willis' hairline, which I may have mentioned before. But if someone were gonna play me in a movie, a game I play all the time with new friends, it'd probably be Woody Harrellson, and since I shaved my head, the Zombieland Woody sorta works.

[Thorpesaurous]

What can I say? Answered my question and them some.

I saw a kid walking down the street the other day with a backpack dribbling a ball. I was slammed with memories of when I was 19, walking down the street to the court with my backpack full of shit and dribbling a ball. I said to myself, damn, now I really have to get back into shape and start playing again.

Plus, It's also a great stress relief. My body deals with stress in the most annoying way possible and I need to maintain it. Basketball was always a good relief for me back in the day.


I've been walking my dog lately, and seeing the kids hooping on my old court gives me a lot of the same feeling.

And like you, basketball has always been an ideal stress relief for me. Some of the worst moments of my life I've responded by myself on a dark basketball court. I've posted this before, but I remember the night my mother told me she'd been diagnosed with cancer, I went out to an old hidden hoop in a wooded park not far from me and shot for about three hours. It's always been something that I've been just good enough at to not get frustrated by, yet just hard enough for me to not bore me, and force me to stay focused. And at it's best, it's incredibly pretty.

[pete's montreux]

I've been walking my dog lately, and seeing the kids hooping on my old court gives me a lot of the same feeling.

And like you, basketball has always been an ideal stress relief for me. Some of the worst moments of my life I've responded by myself on a dark basketball court. I've posted this before, but I remember the night my mother told me she'd been diagnosed with cancer, I went out to an old hidden hoop in a wooded park not far from me and shot for about three hours. It's always been something that I've been just good enough at to not get frustrated by, yet just hard enough for me to not bore me, and force me to stay focused. And at it's best, it's incredibly pretty.

I've been like that since I started to play, which was really late in life. 19 is late for a sport, IMO. Before that I was the hot-headed teen who would punch holes in walls and wooden fences and shit like that. After playing for so long, I'd grab a ball at 2am, walk to the nearest park and shoot free throws.

It's really an out-of-world experience. The setting is like a movie. Cool summer night, all you can hear is the dribbling of your ball and the odd sound of a car driving past in the distance. The air is fresh and it feels cool on your face. There's on streetlight barely illuminating the basket.

I think about playing ball back then now, before I had the bad break-up with my girl and the rough stretch I had for a while there after, that I just wish I could go back to 19 when I would do that. Just me at the free throw line, no sounds, no iPod. Just me, the ball, and the hoop. Every release and every swish would relieve whatever stress or pressure I was experiencing. It's truly an enlightening feeling for me.

That's what I miss the most. Not really the competition, but what it did for me in other departments of my life. Now I just read ISH. Someone put a bullet in my head. :oldlol:

[step_back]

I'm hoping I can play national league next year aswell. I was going to play for my Uni this past year, but I got too involved with partying and the training was a good 30 minutes away on the bus, f*ck that. I've now dropped out of uni and planning on taking this next year and trying again in 2011. Hopefully I can join the uni team then.

when I played national ball it was a 3 hour round trip 3/4 days a week! was such a bore:lol I used to pass the time by reading Slam magazine front to back several times over. I remember asking my mum if we could move house so I could be near my training ground :oldlol:

One really interesting thing you said was about how you have been partying the past year, I have also been doing that the past year and it amazes me how much Basketball has been on my mind the whole time, it literally is like a disease! I would often find myself thinking about it when I was at a bar or club.
I am moving back up to london in a few weeks, I realised just how much I miss competing and how I would rather be working on my jumpshot then out at clubs. Seems bizarre cos everyone else my age just wants to get pissed.

P.S sorry Rufuspaul for hijacking your thread, I would have started a new one but it's rather cosy in here :cheers:

[Se]

Thanks for sharing your basketball experiences with us Thorpe. It's good to hear a poster open up.

I see a lot of parallels in a lot of ISH posters' basketball experiences. A lot of guys that got injured, seem to post here.

I feel frustrated to the point of not playing basketball. I have felt that way for the last 2 years, at least. I've stated in threads before, at the age of 21, I could reverse dunk, do basic 360's and felt comfortable flying into the lane. I was the best defensive player on every team I ever played for, and I had a height advantage against almost every point guard I played against. I was never a good shooter, hell, I was never an average shooter. As a kid I convinced myself I was going to be an NBA player. I had pictures lined all around my bedroom walls of Jordan, Johnson, Bird, Stockton, Penny and later on Pierce, Payton etc.

I practised every morning for 2 hours before school, and played every night from about 4pm through 10 or 11pm and I never developed a reliable jump shot. I really feel if I had've gotten a jumper, been a more coachable player, and never had serious knee injuries, that I would have been a NZ player at the Olympics at least.

The most frustrating part of my injury was the fact that the injury occurred because of muscle imbalance. Too much working out of the quads, and not enough work on the hamstrings and glutes.

Now I don't want to play because I get scored on by scrubs. It's depressing. Still trying to find another sport, I've become obsessed with swimming, cycling and kayaking. I'm training for the Coast to Coast for 2012. If I'm still on ISH, I'll upload some pics of my training and the event.

Here's the website for the Coast to Coast for anyone interested:
http://www.coasttocoast.co.nz/

[step_back]

[QUOTE=Se

[Kebab Stall]

when I played national ball it was a 3 hour round trip 3/4 days a week! was such a bore:lol I used to pass the time by reading Slam magazine front to back several times over. I remember asking my mum if we could move house so I could be near my training ground :oldlol:

One really interesting thing you said was about how you have been partying the past year, I have also been doing that the past year and it amazes me how much Basketball has been on my mind the whole time, it literally is like a disease! I would often find myself thinking about it when I was at a bar or club.
I am moving back up to london in a few weeks, I realised just how much I miss competing and how I would rather be working on my jumpshot then out at clubs. Seems bizarre cos everyone else my age just wants to get pissed.

P.S sorry Rufuspaul for hijacking your thread, I would have started a new one but it's rather cosy in here :cheers:
3 hours? F*cking hell. When I was playing national league, the training was only about 10 minutes in the car. But when I got to uni, in order to train it was 30 mins on the bus, which to me is a long time, but I'm used to having everything within walking distance.

It did suck for games though, because we usually had to travel atleast 40 minutes. The furthest we had to go was 3 hours up north to Barrow. That kind of traveling, with three 6ft+ guys in the back of car is f*cking ridiculous.

My first semester at uni, I was partying maybe 4 times a week atleast, for about 4 months or so. I blew all my money on drinking, but I got it out of my system or burnt myself out, which ever you want to view it. I then met my gf at the start of the second semester, in January. So, I sort of lost interest in going out and getting piss drunk, I still did for a couple of months (I probably haven't been out properly since maybe end of March or April). I started to eat healthier and started to just get healthier in general. Now all I want to do is just get back into playing basketball.

[Thorpesaurous]

[QUOTE=Se

[Fallguy20]

man... I knew there were ballers with stories around here on ISH, but nothing like these.

[rufuspaul]

man... I knew there were ballers with stories around here on ISH, but nothing like these.

Tell me about it. I need to change the title of the thread.