Things Players in Pickup Games Do That Annoy You

What are some things in pick up games that others do that annoy you. For me it is

Teammates who do not use a pick when you set one for them
Big man who get a rebound and just holds it and does not look up for an outlet
Players who drive to the basket shoot and call a foul after they shot the ball 3 seconds later
Teammates who yell shoot when you are open. Maybe I do not want to shoot because I am out of my range or I am looking for a better shot for me or a teammate
Good or Great Shooters who think just because they can shoot the ball that means they are some great basketball player. There is more to being great at basketball then shooting.

[QUOTE=GoSpursGo1984]What are some things in pick up games that others do that annoy you. For me it is

Teammates who do not use a pick when you set one for them
Big man who get a rebound and just holds it and does not look up for an outlet
[B]Players who drive to the basket shoot and call a foul after they shot the ball 3 seconds later[/B]
Teammates who yell shoot when you are open. Maybe I do not want to shoot because I am out of my range or I am looking for a better shot for me or a teammate
Good or Great Shooters who think just because they can shoot the ball that means they are some great basketball player. There is more to being great at basketball then shooting.[/QUOTE]

this. I always flip out when someone does this.

that and dudes who call offensive fouls.

We have one guy that always draws a charge when we play. We would tell him to **** off but he owns the only ball in the neighborhood.

I'm posting from Korea. People play ball here, but pickup is different.

1. No one wants to play full-court
2. Any sort of touching is a foul.
3. When they try to play no 2's rule (no 3's).
4. When one player or two players out of 8 suck. (4 on 4)
5. When one player or two players out of 8 don't try hard. (4 on 4)
6. When you win, and then don't retain the court (it's a Korean be nice let everyone play thing..not that bad).
7. When people get mad playing ball. It should be fun.
8. When people are smelly.
9. When people always wear completely wrong clothes, i.e jeans, or a full track suit in summer.

I play in England...

-Everyone runs 2-3 zone. Some german guys came to my gym last week and INSISTED on running a 3-2... I have no idea.
- You always inbound - you never check the ball.
- If you shoot from halfcourt when at least 2 of your players are behind mid-court, you get 1 point for shooting and 9 points if it goes in.
- Im jk about the last one.

2-3 zone in pickup is ridiculous in my American playing.
As for Korean ball, I think the everyone being nice court-change rule and the players in jeans/track suits is pretty funny.

[B]How about oc players throwing bows and shoulders who think their wildness is somehow 1.good/a skill 2.within the rules of basketball.[/B]

Oh yeah
Hate statpadders

tl;dr: OP can't make a jumper to save his life.

I hate those players who won't stop asking for the ball and keeps telling what people need to do during the game. I mean it is fine with me to follow what they are suggesting but if you keep turning the ball over or you can't drive for shit or shoot the ball then you better shut up and let someone else run the plays.

Guys who shoot 3's every time they get the ball.

Guys who don't play defense then leak (cherry pick).

Guys who call fouls (we play defender calls the foul) that do not impact the game i.e. foul called on a completed pass or on a drive when the handler gets by someone.

When somehow your tallest player can't seem to get a rebound from a guy who's WAY shorter than him. (5'6 out rebounds a 6'4 9 out of 10)

Boxing out and get accused for an elbow (when clearly, I never really did raised my elbow higher than my chest or at his head level). Almost got into a fight with him :facepalm

Players who don't pass to you when you're clearly wide open underneath the rim. Sometimes, taking over 5 seconds before doing so.

Players who [B]DON'T PASS AT ALL.[/B] :mad:

No defense, only offense players.

Players that just always yell a foul whenever he drives in hard even if everyone avoids contact with that guy.

Players who drive in to the lane and calls a foul the minute they're breathed on. Typically when their layup doesn't go in.

Players who you destroy when they're on the other team, and then for some reason when you're mixing the team up, they become your team mates, they're constantly telling you what to do...What is up with that?? As in, "you need to cut your guy off", "box out", "play better man"!!!

Team mates who tell you to shoot, damn man, I'll shoot when I'm going to shoot. I don't mean the odd time to encourage someone who doesn't take the open shot, I mean every time I get the ball, they're going shoot that!

I have to admit I am a no defence, cherry picker player....I often let my guy go by to the left and then try the reach around...:D :D

[QUOTE=TheReturn]tl;dr: OP can't make a jumper to save his life.[/QUOTE]

No I can just does not mean I want to take every shot.

-When a guy is yelling/complaining about everyone else's performance, while he's shooting 0/14 with 0 rebounds.

-When people care too much about winning a pickup game.

-When people constantly foul since nobody gets to shoot free throws in pickup games or constantly push off on screens and drives to the hoop.

-When people throw lazy passes when you're heavily covered
-When people call fouls because they get blocked or stripped and don't want to look stupid
-When people intentionally try to add points or subtract points from the other team thinking no one will notice.

People that call for touch fouls whilst elbowing you in the throat for a post up whilst on the other end full over the back foul when boxing out.

The bigger/heavy player thinking its okay to commit a offensive foul because they "overpower" the smaller guys.

on top of my head
-people who never ever pass.I played in my team that for 3 matches gave like 5 passes i mean wtf
-people that ask for offensive foul
-people that act mad,shout and cursed like you killed them just cause you make a strong physical contact foul.not something that you can get injured or dirty foul just strong.If you don t want defence to get physical then go play badminton
-people who never ever play defence ( even if they are good offensive players )
-old guys that think they are still 25 years old and talking trash but can t do anything.I love it when i play with trash talkers it gets me pumped up but they got to back up their talk
-people that try to do all that and1 mixtape but fail most of the times

I hate playing with the guys who have watched nothing but And1 Streetball so their whole mentality is to just do crossovers and other shit, usually while carrying, traveling or double dribbling.

I hate the guys who are really good at shooting so they think they can take EVERY shot they want to, even while being covered heavily by a defender.

The guys who start screaming and oohing and awing over a blocked shot or a basic dunk annoy me, too.

Quick list of other annoyances:
- Guys who try to coach their teammates in a ****ing pick-up game. Wtf? We're not playing organized b-ball. Gtfo here with that b.s.
- Guys who don't use screens or picks.
- Guys who try to call plays they learned in high school or wherever as though we've been practicing them & know the maneuvers perfectly, and then get pissed when the play doesn't get executed properly.
- Guys who don't pass.
- Guys who can't play defense at all, so they foul every chance they get.
- Guys who can't tell the difference between a reach & a clean a steal.

The guy that plays point guard just because he wants to have the ball all the time so he can take shots. He never passes and is usually of the African American demographic. He is also very vocal, takes(and misses) long two pointers often, and thinks hes way better than he actually is. teams with this guy also have a 80% chance of losing.

Well he only annoys me when hes on my team, I love playing against those guys.

[QUOTE=TonyMontana]The guy that plays point guard just because he wants to have the ball all the time so he can take shots. He never passes and is usually of the African American demographic. He is also very vocal, takes(and misses) long two pointers often, and thinks hes way better than he actually is. teams with this guy also have a 80% chance of losing.

Well he only annoys me when hes on my team, I love playing against those guys.[/QUOTE]


There are some guys that I play with that always want to play PG and can not handle any type of pressure. One guys always wants the in-bound but if the defense closes in he always picks the ball up. I usually try to pick him up at our foul line then take off and double the next pass away so he ends up standing with the ball on the wrong end of the court by himself lol

It's already been mentioned, but dudes who don't pass the rock...ESPECIALLY if they suck.

And guys who are TOO aggressive and don't really play the sport. Maybe they play football or something and think tackling you when you drive to the hoop is legal.

When you are behind the 3 point line without the ball and your man is guarding you close. I am not even near the basket why are you crowding me in a pickup game.

Players who you are guarding and getting physical so they start calling fouls more often and complaining that you are getting physical with them.

Ball hogs and lazy defenders. I don't pass the ball to these guys.

Having played my days on vars and many streetball games not using a pick is actually a good idea since the defender might see it coming and think you may use it. Just pretend your going to use it and hit em with the quick cross and just get to the rim.

When you give a nice no look pass(or regular pass) to your teammate under the rim and he misses a wide open lay up.

dudes that grab your shirt or jersey on defense,gtfo me.

dudes who basket hang.

dudes who only play defense only when their man has the ball.

dudes who are too lazy to go for the rebound.

dudes who instead of trying to grab the rebound, slap the sh1t out of the ball in a random direction.

Things that annoy me:

1. Dudes who lie and cheat about a foul call, out of bounds, or on the score....:mad:
2. Dudes who get mad if the call did not go their way. So now they are playing extra physical.

3. Dudes who takes 10 shots, makes only 3 of them. But the minute you take one (1) shot and miss, folks are yelling at you for missing....one shot; your only FG attempt the whole game.

4. The one dude that thinks he is Isiah Thomas, dribbling all over the place, ignoring screens and people flashing and cutting.

5. The dude who throws the ball to you at 100 mph and you are 2 feet from each other. Then he yells at you for dropping the ball. :facepalm

6. Players who don't yell when a screen is coming. But will yell at you for getting beat by your man.

People who try to cheat the score definitely pi$$ me off.

Also people who lie that their shot was from 3 when the whole time their feet were inside the arc. There is never any refs or unbiased 3rd party to confirm if it was a 3. They are adamant and of course you have to take their word for it.

From playing with french ppl:

They use soccer rules so they don't know that there is such thing as 3 second violations. They camp in the key and I call them out on it and they think I'm lying. They seriously don't believe there is such thing.

When they are close to the sidelines or baseline, their feet are outside but as long as the ball is still bounced inside it's not out. A soccer thing yet again. I call them out on it and they think I am cheating.

[QUOTE=TonyMontana]The guy that plays point guard just because he wants to have the ball all the time so he can take shots. He never passes and is usually of the African American demographic. He is also very vocal, takes(and misses) long two pointers often, and thinks hes way better than he actually is. teams with this guy also have a 80% chance of losing.

Well he only annoys me when hes on my team, I love playing against those guys.[/QUOTE]
> This, minus the demographic part cause they come in many different forms. They're always terrible though.

the dude that is really awkward, probably plays rugby or hockey or something, that looks like an injury waiting to happen everytime he plays.

I see these guys all the time at my gym, stepping peoples feet, stepping under dudes when they shoot, banging knee on knee with people all the time. smdh


Also that guy who gets the ball and for some reason goes to the corner and gets trapped every time. That shit bothers me so bad.

And the guy who always posts up but is completely useless. Turns it over if he passes and never makes a shot. Also will be standing in your way everytime you want to drive.

And lastly the guy whos getting beat everytime off the dribble but refuses to switch. "i got this, dont worry" is usually what he says. :lol

I hate it when someone on my team doesn't give hard fouls when the other team is gonna get an open layup.

when there's a super huge fat guy who literally just stands in the paint and you can't force him out because he's so damn fat. he'll be in the key for a good 8-10 seconds and you're not gonna call 3 seconds because that's lame to call in a pickup game but god damn, at least make an effort to play legit

players who don't play any defense

players who won't help on the screen. at least come out a LITTLE bit to give me some time to recover. or call out a switch

Have no idea why no one said this but people who play with NO SHIRT.
its so nasty i dont wanna play defence on that.

other then that though you can't expect people to constantly play good defence shit gets tiring.

[QUOTE=i cant dunk]Have no idea why no one said this but people who play with NO SHIRT.
its so nasty i dont wanna play defence on that.

other then that though you can't expect people to constantly play good defence shit gets tiring.[/QUOTE]

Yeah that too. Not sure why, I feel cooler with a light sleeveless shirt.

[QUOTE=Quizno]when there's a super huge fat guy who literally just stands in the paint and you can't force him out because he's so damn fat. he'll be in the key for a good 8-10 seconds and you're not gonna call 3 seconds because that's lame to call in a pickup game but god damn, at least make an effort to play legit
[/QUOTE]

This. Goddammit so much this.

- People who hard foul. Seriously its a fvcking pick up game I have other sports I play and cant risk hurting myself.
- Guys who don't pass
- Show-offy douchebags who shoot low %s but brag
- People who stand in the paint the whole time.
- Big men who don't set screens
- Big men who can't roll properly or always either slip the screen or pop out when they know they can't shoot.

I don't think I've ever played a pickup game in which someone other than myself set a screen.

I literally played with a team that did nothing but run and gun with 3 pointers, f*cking tiring and it's just boring :facepalm

When your player rebounds and puts back the ball for a score and your teammates yell at you for letting your man score but they are just standing under the rim watching the ball. I am supposed to rebound for the whole team?

When you are running back on defense for a fast break and none of your teammates are hustling back.

[QUOTE=GoSpursGo1984]When you are running back on defense for a fast break and none of your teammates are hustling back.[/QUOTE]That's a big one. Nothing squashes a fun chasedown block like watching another offensive player stumble upon the rebound for an easy score because none of your teammates chose to run back.

On the flip side, I am also frustrated by teammates who don't run the floor on [i]offense[/i]. I'm not a fan of snagging a defensive rebound and taking off downcourt with a purpose, only to realize none of my teammates are running with me.

Making easy shots harder.
[QUOTE=CarlosBoozer]I literally played with a team that did nothing but run and gun with 3 pointers, f*cking tiring and it's just boring :facepalm[/QUOTE]
And this is why I despise playing full court. Halfcourt is way better because it forces players to go up against set d.

[QUOTE=D-Wade316]And this is why I despise playing full court. Halfcourt is way better because it forces players to go up against set d.[/QUOTE]Ah, I am the complete opposite. Even with my full court pet peeves, running half court all the time vanquishes my soul. I can't live just playing half court all the time, for it's missing so many aspects of the game I love.

I need to get out and run. More times than not it tends to work out. If other people aren't willing to run, then I look like LeBron James. More likely, at least most of the players on the floor are willing to give an effort and it turns into a great and competitive way to exercise and have fun. But during those doldrums when there's either not enough people to run full or they're not willing to... a piece of me dies inside.