Basketball/Streetball terms used in your area?
Where ever you hoop at, their is always different terms for different types of moves or plays. What are the terms used in your area and name the area you play at?
[B]Houston / Mission-Fort Bend[/B]
- Eat: When you shoot a jumper right in the opponents face.
- Wet: A jumper from anywhere on the court.
- Cookies: To steal the ball from the opponent; (only a straight up steals, no playing the passing lanes).
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[B]Middle New Jersey[/B]
Saucy: Hit a jumper in someones eye.
Eat it: To get fouled hard and get up without showing any signs of pain.
I think cookies is used everywhere.
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northwest houston.
wet or panties: all net.
brick: miss
etc etc
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Change = to get the ball back after you make it.
money = when it goes in
ugly = an unorthodox form or any shot thats not normal
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scrubstitution - when a scrub on the court needs to be replaced or subbed out.
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Texas State Rec Center
WOLF = when someone is sneaking up behind to steal the ball, you yell this to warn your teammate.. or when your teammate is dribbling on a fastbreak thru a crowd and theres someone behind him he might not know about, you yell this.
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[B]Van Nuys, Cali[/B]
Wet - When a shoot goes in perfectly, a swoosh in other words.
Clank - Same as a brick, off the rim.
Facial - Hitting it with someone in your face.
Pack - When you block someone nasty.
All Day - Not missing the whole game.
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Man, forgot about another we use.:D
[B]Houston / Mission-Fort Bend[/B]
-Nut Up: When the opponent blows an easy shot because of the intimidation factor. Also, when the opponent is constantly messing up (bad passes, turn overs, bad shot selection) because of the competition.
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At my school's rec center we play to 30 by 2s and 3s. I dont know when or how that started ,but its been that way since Ive been here (this is my 6th year)
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man when we play up at the college, them ****** play to 11 1s and 2s. **** is terrible because some games will literally last like 3 minutes
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Yea I been to places like that too.. but thats usually for gyms that only got 1 court. My school has 4 (1 usually for volleyball though) so its never like that.
I like 15 by 1s and 2s. Win by two.. thats my style.
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yeah, they have like 5-6 courts at the UH rec.
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some dude named AJ that apparently plays at UT came by our gym the other day. he shoots lights out. I didnt get to play against him, but I wish I could have. white cloud plays at our gym every summer too. I wanna go at him too.
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cherry picking if you run off when ur on the defense end hoping the other team miss and u get a long pass for easy lay up
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[B]Houston / Mission-Fort Bend[/B]
Get It: Basically whenever you get someone with a nice move, you or someone else yells "Get It."