Date: May 5th, 2006 3:35 AM Author: Coiffed Mental Disorder
Which proves my point, people would know instantly that you have no skill! Still, you could probably bang some groupie that same night post-game (unless nba players don't do this?)
instantly for me. i wouldn't be able to keep my dribble for more than a second, i'd never get a shot off, and on defense i wouldn't be able to keep up with anyone, even the fat, slow dudes.
Date: May 5th, 2006 3:21 AM Author: judgmental pale school cafeteria weed whacker
I'd probably just jack up 3's until they pull me out of the game.
Honestly, being a bench-warmer in the NBA would be pretty fucking tight, I mean you have to work your ass off and be the bitch in practice, but shit, you still make good money and have little pressure. Of course you might only last a few years, but you could save up some serious cash.
Date: May 5th, 2006 3:25 AM Author: judgmental pale school cafeteria weed whacker
Well I'd probably do what I do whenever I play a pickup game with non-asians -> pass the ball as soon as I get it and then camp near the basket and go for rebounds
In his tirade against players who were complaining too much about bad foul calls, David Stern said the average salary was 5 million in the NBA. Unlike those loser-baseball-fucks, they actually deserve it.
Date: May 5th, 2006 3:39 AM Author: Cerise splenetic affirmative action
it would be immediately apparent within a few seconds what a disgusting horrible weak link I was. I've played with a number of NBA caliber players, and, at that level guys that were four or five inches taller than me (and I'm 6'3") were the kind of fast the average high school team only sees out of its 5'2" scrappy little bastard that is only there because he moves so quick.
Anyone under 6'10" or so would be exposed instantly on defense where they wouldn't stand a shot of keeping up with their man and on offense when they would fail to even gain enough separation to receive a pass.
Date: May 5th, 2006 3:52 AM Author: Cerise splenetic affirmative action
Oh, fer sure once they discovered who you were. I guess I was getting ahead of myself and just pointing out that you couldn't even hide yourself, so to speak, in the situations where most xoxo'ers might assume they could squeak by for a minute or two: without the ball and without directly guarding the ball/being posted up.
Date: May 5th, 2006 5:30 AM Author: Bat-shit-crazy Maniacal Puppy Subject: GET PWN3D
I play basketball (well) on a regular basis, so part of me wants to say that I would hold my own for a few minutes... but the truth is that any of us would be iso'ed and PWN3D immediately. I once played 1-on-1 with a benchwarmer NBA player. I could do NOTHING to stop his shooting, and he hit just about everything, from distance. My defense was NOTHING to him. And I was trying very hard. Once in a while he decided to drive, and that was at will, and he PWN3D my ass.
Then I played 2-on-2 with Drexler. That was a trip. First off, the guy kicked the shit out of my friend and I , playing with his young DAUGHTER. The gliding was ridiculous. He would just jump and wait in the air for a few seconds until you were long gone, then lay it up. Crazy fuck. At one point he just showed me the ball. Just held it right in front of my face. I slapped at it. It didn't move an inch. So I just wound up and punched the shit out of it as hard as I could. IT DIDN'T MOVE. AT ALL. My shoulder was fucked up for a few days. Drexler laughed his ass off and then PWN3D me like no one ever has.
The moral of the story is that NBA players are really fucking good. Anyone on this board would get absolutely fucked. PERIOD.
Date: May 5th, 2006 9:52 AM Author: ocher new version temple
Great story.
I remember Kenny Smith joking about how people think they could make it in the L because they were beter than Steve Kerr--he was like, "Kerr would give you fifty."
I didn't believe this until I saw a bench backup center for a few years in phoenix (saw maybe thirty minutes a season on average) playing a tournament in Dallas for charity and when he was hard fouled and got angry, dropped something ridiculous--like 14 for 16 on the opposing team and they were double and triple teaming him.
The talent level at that stage is so high it's ridiculous.
Date: May 5th, 2006 6:05 AM Author: Buck-toothed Selfie
Compared to Earl Boykins, I'm an inch shorter and ~25 pounds lighter. Either they wouldn't acknowledge my existence, or I would instantly get blown into the next week.
Date: May 5th, 2006 12:35 PM Author: Metal business firm associate
I have the mass to slam myself into one of the opposite team's guards or small forwards, flagrant-foul them, scream at the ref until he gives me a technical, get myself ejected, and that would be that.
Date: May 5th, 2006 1:43 PM Author: soggy messiness trailer park
Realistic scenario:
NBA niggers are huge and very fast. The probability of them quickly stealing a dribble from me or anyone else here is exactly 100%. On defense, we would be totally exposed.
That said, on offense, I doubt anyone would bother to guard me since they'd get more benefit from double teaming someone else. I still wouldn't be able to take any shots down low since I'm sure the other players are quick enough to swat me from the weak side.
I could knock down wide open mid-range and outside shots easily, although I'd probably only shoot 20-40% due to all the pressure. If guarded, I doubt I could get a shot to the rim.
I played a little one on one against a guy who had played pro ball in Europe. When he decided to play defense I couldn't take 2 consecutive dribbles without losing the ball.
Date: May 5th, 2006 2:09 PM Author: Amethyst Stubborn Location
the credited response should be:
Take a middle outside slot on a 1-3-1 zone. Wait for Kobe to drive the lane and go up for a dunk. Run at him full speed and duck, taking out his legs and ending his career.
Go down in history as most loved and hated scrub of all time
Date: May 5th, 2006 2:27 PM Author: provocative opaque party of the first part theater
I've been upended landing on my face, neck, back, all sorts of shit.
its easy to get hurt, but its hard to cause someone a career ending injury without assaulting them well beyond what you would expact in a game (i.e hitting them with a sledgehammer).
Date: May 5th, 2006 2:17 PM Author: Crystalline mind-boggling hall
i'm not scared of those pussies. i'd walk up to the biggest nigger on the other team and punch him in the face as hard as i could. it would start a team brawl, and in the chaos i could slip away and rape 3, maybe 4 cheerleaders before anyone was the wiser. cuz that's how i roll.
Date: May 5th, 2006 3:43 PM Author: Amethyst Stubborn Location
there are easier ways of not going into the game.
for example when pat riley looks down the bench and calls your name as you jog past him to the scorers table just go "yo pat, your wifes a dirty cunt" you'll be on waivers before you can say habanera
While I agree that NBA players are 1000X better than even good basketball players, but the notion that you have to have super human strength to avoid being exposed as a fraud is absurd. Over the years, there have been plenty of older payers with shot-up knees, or overweight players who could hardly jump and get up the court who were still able to play in the league. They weren’t very good, but they remained in the league.
A guy in good shape with decent size (who knows how to play basketball) can run up on down the court and play back-off defense (give the guy the parameter shot) for a while before being exposed, as long as he doesn’t try anything on offense.
Date: May 5th, 2006 4:33 PM Author: indigo death wish fortuitous meteor
if you've ever been around professional athletes, and in their athletic setting, you would know that the difference is immediately conspicuous. maybe you could blend in as a right-fielder for a while -- but only until any ball that required mobility exposed you. the pace of basketball is so much faster, even with pretty good high school players, that even guys who play a lot of pick-up games, reliably say "nice look," and think they do a credible imitation of a point guard would be a massive liability among real players. the basic flow of an NBA game is comparable to running into an NFL line, facing a major league pitcher, or attempting to just blend in on an NHL line shift. they are so much faster, bigger, stronger, more skilled, and more experienced that you not only couldn't keep up, but most people would get physically pummeled. the idea that something like taking a jump shot or playing "back-off defense" would be anything like what you're accoustomed to is absurd -- unless of course you are either unusually big, skilled, or both.
Date: May 5th, 2006 5:18 PM Author: soggy messiness trailer park
This is pretty credited, but NBA players aren't as strong as you make them out to be. I remember the announcers making a huge deal about Kevin Willis benching 420, and he was a total fucking beast. I doubt the guards are really any stronger than the average man who is in pretty good shape. The real gap is in speed and reflexes. They would pwn us with their lightning hands and there isn't anything we could do about it.
No, they're strong as hell. There's a difference between brute weightlifting strength and being able to overpower your opponent using strength, agility, and leverage. Basketball players have more of the latter, because the game doesn't really lend itself to huge muscle mass (you have to be very quick, and more muscle adds more weight, which ostensibly slows you down). In other words, NBA players are stronger than all of us, because basketball play doesn't rely as heavily on muscle as it relies on other intangibles. Football is different, because brute strength is actually required for some positions, and more pure muscle strength and mass is much more important than it is in basketball.
Date: May 5th, 2006 4:44 PM Author: Vibrant love of her life chapel
I'm 6'6" and 230, and in college I often played pickup with some of our varsity starters, including one guy who got drafted by the Cavs. I could hold my own, especially on defense.
That was all a lie, within 8 seconds of game time their worst player would be picking goo from between his sneaker treads that used to be my tubby ass.
Growing up, Spud Webb was a member of the same country club my family was. He lived out on the golf course, and had a pretty nice outdoor basketball court. He would always host parties in the summer time and various NBA players would come... One year, for whatever reason the guys who won the Dallas Hoop-it-Up tourney were at his house... they played against Spudd and NBA no names. It wasn't even close... Spud's team DESTROYED these three dudes. It was ugly.
Date: May 5th, 2006 6:33 PM Author: Hot khaki hell
When i was in like 10th, 11th grade I went to basketball camp, the ages of the camp were like 5th to 11th grade. So one day the guy who runs the camp tell us he has a special guest, and the special guest happens to be Ron Artest. This is while he is at St. Johns and not really known as crazy yet. After a boring 15-20 minute speech from Arest, the guy who runs the camp tells us that Artest has agreed to play the entire camp 1 on 1. He gets the ball first and first one to score wins.
Artest doesn't take it easy on anyone, even against like the 5-th graders he is taking it in and dunking it and yelling as he does it. Finally as Artest starts to mix in more jumpers he misses one and a camper finally gets the ball. The kid tries to shoot an immediate 3 and gets rejected. I was about the 50th or so person to go. I played the "lay off" defense you guys were talking about hoping to get him to shoot a jumper. He pulls up, shoots right inside the (college) 3pt line and misses and I get the ball. My only real move is a hard drive to the left, so i drive it hard to the left and maybe i deluded myself into thinking i had a step, but I pull a ball fake and he jumps in the air, and as i go to shoot it he recovers and blocks the ball almost to like halfcourt. He ends up recovering the ball and dunking it on me.
He played the entire camp, which was at least 100 kids, and didn't lose to anyone. The whole thing took hours.
Date: April 15th, 2007 5:16 AM Author: Territorial Diverse Degenerate Subject: excluding the post below, this thread is TTT
Date: May 5th, 2006 2:17 PM
Author: Red Means Go (I'm Red Means Go and I approve of this post)
i'm not scared of those pussies. i'd walk up to the biggest nigger on the other team and punch him in the face as hard as i could. it would start a team brawl, and in the chaos i could slip away and rape 3, maybe 4 cheerleaders before anyone was the wiser. cuz that's how i roll.