would you rule man to man out when you have 1 sub in a 40 min basketball game(you're the 6 man team)?

not completely, but maybe stick to some sort of zone?

[Edited on March 10, 2008 at 10:19 PM. Reason : other team has constant flow of subs. ]

3/10/2008 10:18:34 PM

matchup zone ?!

3/10/2008 10:19:12 PM

Unless you're playing with guys who know how to play zone defense, it would be a pretty dumb idea to use it.

3/10/2008 10:19:50 PM

well the guys i play with have team experience. its just that they stick to street ball man to man.

this is indoor "league" play.

the other team is out lasting us

[Edited on March 10, 2008 at 10:23 PM. Reason : ]

3/10/2008 10:22:38 PM

run some sendek circles until the shot clock gets under 5, then throw up a three. problem solved.

3/10/2008 10:26:08 PM

lol. funny thing is we were doing that. well the whole throwing up the 3 part.

3/10/2008 10:29:34 PM

A solid matchup zone is damn tough to beat. I love playing that kind of game, but the whole team needs to be in sync to pull that off.

Then again, I'm down with the old-man white guy game

3/11/2008 8:11:10 AM

how hard is it to pick up another player

3/11/2008 8:15:29 AM

well we have a good 8-9 players (i think).

yesterday was my first game, out of 2 or 3. and ive heard that each game we dont get but maybe 7 at the most.

one of the shmucks quit after halftime. he was a big man, would have done a good amount.

or not, if you're lazy enough to quit and get off the team. it sucked. we were pissed

3/11/2008 8:37:45 AM

He quit because he was hurt or had an emergency, or just like 'screw you guys, I'm going home'?

If the latter, what a faggot

3/11/2008 8:49:35 AM

pretty much "screw you guys" but he didnt go home. he sat there the whole second half.

i highly doubt he was injured. after the first half he was arguing with one of our players about being down low, blah blah, and he sat down, unlaced (Velcrod) his shoes and complained some more.

3/11/2008 9:16:47 AM

what league is this?

i mean i can play if you guys need help

3/11/2008 9:17:36 AM

Zone could work if you know how to play it.

3/11/2008 9:20:49 AM

I think your team woudl be best suited for the 1-3-1 zone.

3/11/2008 9:34:32 AM

its the league at the mosque off of western. and its not only for muslim folk, the other team had a few white guys.

ill talk to the team and see what our roster deal is. i honestly think we should have at least 8-10 commited players each game. of course things pop up, but from what i understand the past few games have been this way, only like 5-6 players show up.

^the team yesterday had about 3 big guys they would sub in, at most there would be 2 of them in at a time. we have maybe 2 big guys on our team.
i need to mention running zone.
we just dont have chemistry. kinda like the pack

[Edited on March 11, 2008 at 10:35 AM. Reason : ]

3/11/2008 10:34:06 AM

I remember a Muslim guy who was always at Carmichael playing pick up 3-4 years ago. Really tall, like 6'6", long beard, always wearing his turban. Dude sucked.

[Edited on March 11, 2008 at 1:36 PM. Reason : ]

3/11/2008 1:33:51 PM

oh dude I know that muslim guy

he would always role with a whole contingent of Meccans

the one shot fat dude who was balding is pretty good at 3s

3/11/2008 1:58:25 PM

Yeah, he was always with the Iraqi All-Stars. There were two or three lanky dudes who weren't terrible. I usually ended up guarding the fat dude. He was strong as shit but always played outside. He thought he was the greatest shooter ever.

3/11/2008 2:10:13 PM

Everyone who plays pickup thinks they are the greatest shooter ever. I mean, I know I am.

And it shouldn't be too hard to man up for 40 minutes and play the whole game for most people our age. Shit, I play with no whistles or stoppages for like 2 hours straight most nights. I imagine a 40 minute game with refs wouldn't be any kind of problem at all.

3/11/2008 2:23:14 PM

its different when you are playing pick up vs league play.

in my experiences playing pick up is being slack.

but league play you're actually playing for something, wins that count.

3/11/2008 2:29:14 PM

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"I remember a Muslim guy who was always at Carmichael playing pick up 3-4 years ago. Really tall, like 6'6", long beard, always wearing his turban. Dude sucked."

Son of a bitch always wore that shit on his arm that would cut you if you got close.

3/11/2008 2:32:04 PM

^^ eh, I play in a league and I'm the only real PG on my team so I play pretty much the entire game. At the end I always feel like I barely even played compared to when I'm done playing pickup at my gym...

3/11/2008 2:44:22 PM

I gotta find a league here in Charlotte

Lately I'm just doing pickup games at the park or the Y with the ricans

I need structured games because I cant do all the and 1 shit like they can

I'm mainly a shooter and driver but my dribbling is suspect as fuck

3/11/2008 3:06:55 PM

not sure I understand your teams philosophy at hoisting threes (at least in the 2nd half) if you are tired and being run ragged?

seems like your legs would be gone, leaving you w/ essentially wasted possessions

maybe play the "quasi-princeton game" w/ a heavy dose of 3s in the 1st half & hope they start playing more on the perimeter, and then starting hitting the cutters in the 2nd half to keep them off their game defensively and give you easier shots (though without decent team chemistry these cuts cut lead to issues)

3/11/2008 3:14:49 PM

lol motherfuckers dont have that complex strategy

3/11/2008 3:22:35 PM

haha, you don't have to have the real princeton, just wing guys on the perimenter cutting w/ a low post guy willing to drop a pick or 2 along the baseline & hit a guy when hes open

not open, then have the low post guy come up for a quick pick and roll

you guys practice it for an hr or so one night just to know the roles, then it should work well enough in a league game to be effective i'd think

3/11/2008 3:27:51 PM

i keep thinking 'damn, it would be hard to play with 6 people on your team against 10 people...that'd be a fuckton of people on a basketball court'

3/11/2008 6:38:22 PM

thanks for the info ndmetcal, unfortunately i wasnt there for the first half so i dont know how they played, probably the same as second half just with more energy

3/11/2008 8:04:56 PM

Quote :

"I remember a Muslim guy who was always at Carmichael playing pick up 3-4 years ago. Really tall, like 6'6", long beard, always wearing his turban. Dude sucked. "

hahaha, that would be me

and Im not Muslim, Im Sikh, and yes, I sucked pretty bad back in the day

and its 6'5, and I only wore my religious bracelet my freshman year, after that I would always take it off when playing, sorry kids

3/11/2008 9:47:00 PM

lol called out

3/11/2008 9:50:25 PM

like I give a fuck

3/11/2008 9:52:06 PM

lol, i had a feeling you guys were talking about ^^. but ive never seen him play so i cant say much

3/11/2008 10:06:56 PM

oh snap

3/11/2008 10:57:18 PM

Quote :

"^^ eh, I play in a league and I'm the only real PG on my team so I play pretty much the entire game. At the end I always feel like I barely even played compared to when I'm done playing pickup at my gym... "

its weird. played yesterday for nearly 3 hours. almost the entire time (of course with breaks here and there). but it didnt feel as tiring as the game the other day.
maybe the whole out door with a breeze helped. or maybe the fact that we didnt play against a team that had set routes and stuff.

good stuff

3/17/2008 9:24:26 AM