Things you learned from experience during a game

i learn to use my body to protect the ball and create space. and i learn to play physical even if the guy is heavier than me.

and i learn if i make a mistake on offense, i hustle all the way to keep my opponent from scoring.

another thing I've learned..

you gotta come at least 3 deep. its no fun playing with other dudes who know each other and are looking out for themselves and their homies.

3 deep or be prepared to be a role player no matter good you are.

this is just my opinion.

[QUOTE=GhostDeini32]another thing I've learned..

you gotta come at least 3 deep. its no fun playing with other dudes who know each other and are looking out for themselves and their homies.

3 deep or be prepared to be a role player no matter good you are.

this is just my opinion.[/QUOTE]


yeah it's hard to play with people they know each other and me and my teammates don't how each other play.

this thing i learn is pretty basic i guess but i learn that i must warm up first for dribbling and shooting before playing pick up games or else i shoot/dribble horrible.

definitely stretch. for a while.

and then warm-up. it is the only way to go.

any tips guys? like things to remember when playing pick up basketball?

^Make the extra effort. In pick up games, the people who are most dominant make the extra effort.

Today me and my friends got destroyed in a pick up game for 4v4 against 8th graders lol. One was a 6'0 guy who was like 150, another was a dirty playing black guy who was like 5'8(carrys/grabs people's shirts/pushes you in the air), another was another guy who was 5'7 who was really quick and good at finishing, and the final guy was just kind of useless lol. My team consisted of me 5'9(I'm 120), my buff friend who was like 135 lol, my friend who is a good shooter and is somehow the strongest out of everyone but is 5'7 and 105 pounds, and another guy who is 5'7 and penetrates really well yet makes it to easy for the other team to pack him.

We got destroyed in the first 2 games by the 6'0 guy, because somehow my friend who was good at penetrating was guarding him in the post so the 6'0 guy got like 6-7 points each of the games. Then I switched to him and he got 3 points and 2 points the next 2 games. The scores were like 11-5,11-8, 11-9, 11-9.

From this experience, I learned that playing basketball really is a battle. I had to freaking fight in the post to maintain my position. The black guy shoved me many times and even shoved me out when I was just pivoting. He stopped after I v-cutted him so hard that he flew 10 feet outside the court(he was guarding me for 2 games until the other team's post player started guarding me). I also learned that you have to JUST DO IT. I trained myself to making plays and finishing in traffic and freezing people to shoot outside. I ended up only using the freezing people to shoot outside. The buff guy on my team told me to make some sh*t happen yet I just depended on him to make the plays. I also learned that there will always be someone better than you that is even younger then you and doesn't train as hard as you due to athletic talent. This gives me motivation to train harder now.

Random Quote that isn't so random because it's used so much: Just do it-Nike

Edit: Another thing I learned. Screens kick a**. Seriously. I used them a couple of times during the games and they were highly effective at setting people up. One time, a guy just ran into me when I set one and he fell back like 5 feet saying "oh sh*t didn't see that screen".

[QUOTE=bobbyflay]^Make the extra effort. In pick up games, the people who are most dominant make the extra effort.

Today me and my friends got destroyed in a pick up game for 4v4 against 8th graders lol. One was a 6'0 guy who was like 150, another was a dirty playing black guy who was like 5'8(carrys/grabs people's shirts/pushes you in the air), another was another guy who was 5'7 who was really quick and good at finishing, and the final guy was just kind of useless lol. My team consisted of me 5'9(I'm 120), my buff friend who was like 135 lol, my friend who is a good shooter and is somehow the strongest out of everyone but is 5'7 and 105 pounds, and another guy who is 5'7 and penetrates really well yet makes it to easy for the other team to pack him.

We got destroyed in the first 2 games by the 6'0 guy, because somehow my friend who was good at penetrating was guarding him in the post so the 6'0 guy got like 6-7 points each of the games. Then I switched to him and he got 3 points and 2 points the next 2 games. The scores were like 11-5,11-8, 11-9, 11-9.

From this experience, I learned that playing basketball really is a battle. I had to freaking fight in the post to maintain my position. The black guy shoved me many times and even shoved me out when I was just pivoting. He stopped after I v-cutted him so hard that he flew 10 feet outside the court(he was guarding me for 2 games until the other team's post player started guarding me). I also learned that you have to JUST DO IT. I trained myself to making plays and finishing in traffic and freezing people to shoot outside. I ended up only using the freezing people to shoot outside. The buff guy on my team told me to make some sh*t happen yet I just depended on him to make the plays. I also learned that there will always be someone better than you that is even younger then you and doesn't train as hard as you due to athletic talent. This gives me motivation to train harder now.

Random Quote that isn't so random because it's used so much: Just do it-Nike

Edit: Another thing I learned. Screens kick a**. Seriously. I used them a couple of times during the games and they were highly effective at setting people up. One time, a guy just ran into me when I set one and he fell back like 5 feet saying "oh sh*t didn't see that screen".[/QUOTE]


man i realize this thing screens is great today we play 5v5 with me and my classmates vs another classmates and pick up basketball friends. even though the guy is heavier than me i set up a screen and the ball handler just past by in my screen to get out of the defender. and yeah i realize it too that basketball is a battle and a physical game.

[QUOTE=KokoWarzone]man i realize this thing screens is great today we play 5v5 with me and my classmates vs another classmates and pick up basketball friends. even though the guy is heavier than me i set up a screen and the ball handler just past by in my screen to get out of the defender. and yeah i realize it too that basketball is a battle and a physical game.[/QUOTE]

try setting screens off the ball. magic will happen.

[QUOTE=GhostDeini32]try setting screens off the ball. magic will happen.[/QUOTE]


from my interpretation off the ball screen is like a screen to free up the shooter like ray allen/rip hamiltion? is it like that?

[QUOTE=KokoWarzone]from my interpretation off the ball screen is like a screen to free up the shooter like ray allen/rip hamiltion? is it like that?[/QUOTE]
Can be for a shooter or even for slashers, can have a back door screen set for someone to curl into the paint and score there.. :cheers:

damit something wrong must have happened. I lost 3 inches of my vertical and my shooting form is somehow destroyed. It used to be one shooting form then it progressed to 2 shooting forms switching off and now it's like 5 shooting forms. It turns out that I forgot the GOLDEN rule of perfect practice makes perfect. I practiced around 2000 repetitions on the wrong shooting form and now I have to get it out of my system. I extremely don't know how I lost 3 inches of vertical. I run less than 2 miles a day and most of it is sprinting(playing basketball). I didn't weight train the past 2 scheduled days(friday and today due to complications..) of my training and I expected my vertical to remain the same or grow. Damit now I have to fix everything.

Now I'm inspired to be a college basketball player. I saw this guy play and he was like the perfect basketball player. He was around 6'2 and could play any position during the course of 5 games. Anything about his game is great. The two things that I could say are outstanding is his finishing(I usually don't care about watching pickups but then this guy made me sit down and it was like watching Power Rangers when I was 5 years old lol) and his defense(He was unstoppable..Even though he wasn't the best ball handler, he made everyone seem like they have no handles when he was guarding them. He blocked out the angles for them to dribble or even move). I found out that he was only a senior in high school. He looked old from wearing a sort of banner around his body to look so destructive.

The bad thing is that my high school is definitely not the way to go(ranked 1000 something in the United States, actually not even ranked..and I already see why from experience).

What are ways to get noticed to play in D1 college or something? I can think of joining my city's team or something and hopefully get noticed.

Refs are retarded.

i don't know why but i'm working hard at basketball. doing 2 ball dribbling and a chair/instead of a cone because we dont have cones. anyway what is the experience in league games? and what to remember?

how do i gain weight? seriously guys im 80+ pounds and frustrated that i can't gain weight. some people said *just wait for age
20+ and you gain weight* i don't like it i want to get the right weight for my age and don't want to wait.