4/29 log
I got my foam roller and chalk in the mail today! Wooo. I now have 2342343243 more chalk than I need, lol. And I'm pretty sure the weight I'm lifting doesn't require chalk. But w/e.
So at the gym I used their crappy foam roller and did a decent warmup. Then went and played 3x3 bball (there were somehow other ppl at the gym who wanted to play!) for 1.5 hours. But, okay, no one was particularly good. Most were good shooters I guess. I didn't lose a game no matter what team I was on and at the end we were winning 11-0 and were up 18-0 before resetting.
I was getting > 50% of all available rebounds (it really felt like 80% but I'm going to assume that can't be correct) but on offense my best move was shooting a 15 footer (wtf?!) which just shouldn't be right. I think I've regressed offensively more and more due to shooting 2-3 times per game on my Rec team.
But it was soooo much more fun than whatever else I would have done, :grin:. Plus, it's kind of cool when the other team keeps rotating guys onto you and multiple people attempt to box you out (poorly but w/e).
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Originally Posted by Snipe
Yeah - so I'd HIGHLY suggest you take all shots falling away from the basket OUT OF YOUR GAME IMMEDIATELY!!! The fact is, even some of the worlds most elite athletes don't have the skill to hit them consistently. What percentage of shots in high level basketball are attempted, let along MADE falling away from the hoop???
Hmm, well my shots are all kinda junky near the hoop or I seem to get blocked. And many are a high degree of difficulty (which pisses ppl off when I play 1on1). But they're still hard to get off in traffic and it's not really like I want to shoot like that. I just don't know any better
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Idk what you're built like really, or how much contact you like, or how aggressive you are personality-wise (which makes a difference as to how much contact you're willing to create ime), but for a friend of mine who was stocky, short, and uncoordinated hoops wise (obv I'm NOT drawing any parallels - just relaying an anecdote) - I basically coached him to use his ass and weight to make up for his height. I made him play more with his back to the basket and instead of falling away, make a power dribble, bump the guy off of you, and turn and shoot with the newly found space.
Oh man, I wish you were in MN so you could give me pointers. I think you'd enjoy it. Let me put it this way, I probably lead my rec league in bruises, blood, and loose balls on the floor. Getting physical isn't my problem. My problem is on offense if I get physical and guys get physical back, then I have an even harder time doing anything! Lol, so I try to be sneaky physical. And on defense we play zone and I don't play center so, meh, usually not much to be physical about.
I'd LOVE to know how to get better at bumping, using my butt (it used to be bigger and stronger), and etc. I think I could be huge on the high post as it's within my range, I often have guards on me I can back down, and I'm better than average at passing out of it to shooters or cutters. But this doesn't work if ppl just get up in my grill and I don't know what to do.
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Same thing goes for the triple threat. If you're a legitimate threat to drive by and get to the rack, the defender has to respect your jab step giving you room to square up and knock down a jumper (this means that you need to practice triple threat, jab step, take one dribble either way and get to the hoop from the 3 point line. Sounds tough - but important).
Yeah, I have zero triple thread. I have a very predictable shot, it's not very quick release, I don't feel comfortable dribbling left, and the last time I went by my defender I bricked the layup b/c I was so surprised I had a layup available, lol.
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As for post moves, I love em. The little leg hook / drop step / spin / reverse lay up along the baseline is pretty unstoppable. The only problem with being good in the post is that most pickup players don't want to win. They might think they do, but they don't - or they're too dumb to know that their approaches aren't winning ones. They'd rather dribble into trouble and jack up jumpers with a hand in their face than dump the ball into the post for a sure bucket. They just want to score the ball, period. Post work is also ugly sometimes, which makes other players discount the bucket and more reluctant to dump it down low.
Nope. I win pickup basketball. I do as much as I can possibly think of to maximize my teams chances. I make no bad passes full court, I don't jack up shots almost to a fault, I set hard screens, etc. I'd love to have a bruising, ugly, methodical sneaky post game to eat up single coverage with. Of course, the guys jacking it up still might not give me the ball, but at least I'd get high % shots when they forget to,
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What's weird is my coworker is kinda like me just better and has an excellent, quick, post game that's just super simple and works really well for him. But he is awful at giving me help or pointers. He basically can only say "just let it flow, and go to the rim fast." Which doesn't help me at all.
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I realize this is a bit too much of my 'the world is completely ******ed' theory, so I'll stop - but I guess the cliffs are that you should work on triple threat if you're at all athletic and have quick feet, good eyes, can dribble, etc. imo.
Yeah, I dno if I can dribble or how athletic I am. But that sounds like a good idea since I'm not that tall and only weigh 170 atm.
Great advice! This log is really getting interesting imo,
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