morons kings fans disrespecting the suns

[Gee!]

That was a clean block. In order to be called a goal tending, the ball must be past the ark of the shot on the way down. In this case the ball had clearly just left B. Millers hands.

 

[Gee!]

LMAO @ Kings fans. They are a rare breed thats for sure. Just reading thru their board. One thing is for sure, they believe the world is against them and feed off each others paranoya.

The one person name IheartBrad cracks me up. How can you take a post from her as being serious?

 

[Chaplin]

I play a lot now, at least twice a week, and will probably move on to 3 times a week in the next month or so.

When I was in high school and college, a lot of people thought I was like Latrell Sprewell, believe it or not. Tall (compared to the players I played with), a little lanky, very fast. Now, I'm almost 30 years old, and I am still one of the most active players. Definitely the fastest. I play 5on5 games with people from work and some locals at a public park that has a pretty nice gym.

Right now, I'm more of a cross between Q and Shawn. I've got a lot of speed, I jump quicker than any of the other players, and I've even been able to post up guys.

I actually played today and had a rough time of it. But I'm like Q, I'm pretty streaky--when my shot is on, it's hard for me to miss. But if I'm off, I'm really off. Luckily, my best game today was pretty good--a LOT of cuts to the basket and really taking my man off the dribble. Seeing as my favorite all time NBA player is Kevin Johnson, I honed my first step. I tell ya, it's interesting being 6'1", one of the tallest guys out there, and blowing by the shorter younger guys. Helps boost the ego a bit.

 

[mribnik]

lol, I'd say I'm a defensive stopper. I play point guard who enjoys setting up his teammates but I make a fare share of rookie mistakes. I'm a very streaky shooter (when I'm on, no stopping me, but I'm off quite a lot), but a strong rebounder for my size. I'd say I'm like Q (streaky shooting, rebounding) but handle the point like LB (very quick up and down, going to the basket, but prone to rookie mistakes). I do look for my teammates first though, so perhaps I have a bit of Nash in me as well.

 

[Chaplin]

lol, I'd say I'm a defensive stopper. I play point guard who enjoys setting up his teammates but I make a fare share of rookie mistakes. I'm a very streaky shooter (when I'm on, no stopping me, but I'm off quite a lot), but a strong rebounder for my size. I'd say I'm like Q (streaky shooting, rebounding) but handle the point like LB (very quick up and down, going to the basket, but prone to rookie mistakes). I do look for my teammates first though, so perhaps I have a bit of Nash in me as well.

Yeah, I can definitely say that I spend more time working on offense than defense.

So together, we'd be the perfect player! LOL

 

[hcsilla]

I play a lot now, at least twice a week, and will probably move on to 3 times a week in the next month or so.

When I was in high school and college, a lot of people thought I was like Latrell Sprewell, believe it or not. Tall (compared to the players I played with), a little lanky, very fast. Now, I'm almost 30 years old, and I am still one of the most active players. Definitely the fastest. I play 5on5 games with people from work and some locals at a public park that has a pretty nice gym.

Right now, I'm more of a cross between Q and Shawn. I've got a lot of speed, I jump quicker than any of the other players, and I've even been able to post up guys.

I actually played today and had a rough time of it. But I'm like Q, I'm pretty streaky--when my shot is on, it's hard for me to miss. But if I'm off, I'm really off. Luckily, my best game today was pretty good--a LOT of cuts to the basket and really taking my man off the dribble. Seeing as my favorite all time NBA player is Kevin Johnson, I honed my first step. I tell ya, it's interesting being 6'1", one of the tallest guys out there, and blowing by the shorter younger guys. Helps boost the ego a bit.

That's great to read in this thread. Could you tell us more about you?

 

[Errntknght]

Doggone, I always thought I knew the rule on goaltending but after reading this thread I'm not sure. The statement of rule 11b. is vague but in normal English when you say 'within' an area or a volume you mean somewhere between totally inside and mostly inside. Look at it this way, the normal way to describe this general situation would be to say 'when the ball is in the cylinder' and to say 'when the ball is within the cylinder' denotes more containment so it seems unlikely what was meant was less containment - for that you'd say 'when any part of the ball is in the cylinder' or 'when the ball is touching the cylinder.'

My dictionary lists the first meaning of the prepostion 'within' as "in the inner part of".

I thought there was another part of this rule which restricts the defender from having any part of his hand or arm in the cylinder when he blocks a shot.


As far as who I resemble on the basketball court, that's easy - Shaq! (When he's at the FT line.)

I could never make the basketball team even in the little town where I lived so after I was cut I'd be the coach's assistant and I often got to coach the JV team on 'away' games, since the coach didn't want to miss varsity practice.
I thought plays were cool and I memorized them them all - and would use a few of them as the (player) coach of intramural and 'church' league teams. Now and then they even worked!

 

[Cheesebeef]

Hehe, that's pretty funny. Your dad is a bad-ass. Gotta love the McHale "arm-bar".

Bagdad. Yeah, I know Bagdad. We played up there in high school. Carpet floor and all. Talk about floor burns.

They loved to hate me up there. A few fans started throwing candy bars at me, and I just laughed at them and continued to beat them and their hick town down. My coach hated me for loving the attention, but got over it when we beat the crap out of them. The police escort out of town was nice, as well.

The Carpet Floor!!!! Sly - where did you go to high school and what year - we actually may have played against eachother at some point.

 

[Cheesebeef]

That's great to read in this thread. Could you tell us more about you?

I asked people in THIS THREAD who their game most resembles - Chap was simply answering - jeez.

 

[Ouchie-Z-Clown]

(this is just a little smack)

I get this image of cheese and ouchie playing ball at the rec. You know, they got the headband thing going on. Throw in some elbow and knee pads to prevent the floor burns.

They get put on different teams most of the time, because neither can hit a free throw. Lots of hyperactive hacking. And, lord help everyone if there's a close call...

Cheese- "No, that ball was in the cylinder! It should count as a legal bucket."

Ouchie- C'mon, Rule 13221-b says any ball entering the airspace of said opponent shall be ruled untouchable!"

Cheese- "Liar."

Ouchie- "Stupidhead."

Cheese- "I'm telling mom!"

Thanks for spicing things up around here, guys. BTW, I call for a ban on the word "cylinder". That's just not right.

you def got the hacking correct. our family is physical. but we have skill. cheese, when hot, is an amazing outside shooter. and while he may not be the best athlete in the world, his shot makes him lethal. he doesn't miss free throws.

i, on the other, have finally succumbed to injuries and fatness. i used to be a good athlete (dunking a volleyball @ 5'10 and 210 lbs ain't bad). i also used to have a streaky j out to 3 point land. but alas, a broken vertebrae, a five-time broken right ankle, and various other sundry injuries (two slip shoulders, a permanently cracked rib, etc.) have take a lot from my game. i still come up with a block a game and a driving layup that usually leaves people shaking their heads, but when my game is on now it's mostly in the passing category. i play in two leagues and a regular pickup game on sunday mornings. if i can get back into some semblance of shape (i'm at roughly 235 lbs right now) i'm sure i can be more effective again. i've got a nice post game when i'm not lazy and can d up dudes much bigger than me due to my strenght (and fatness).

my pop was, and, at 60+ still pretty much is on occasion, a great baller. all elbows and head fakes. even when i was in my prime i had difficult beating him b/c of his suddeness, and that was KNOWING the pump fake was coming. he and his buddies used to go down to the southside of chicago and he was often the only white dude they'd let play.

middle bro (he who never posts) is a cross between cheese and i. fairly good athlete (though looks kinda awkward) and streaky shooter.

we have a family rule - no brothers are allowed to cover each other. that mandate was handed down from mom. we get to competitive. oh, and if all 4 boys are playing, we are bound to have one serious (stitches) injury.

what y'all will find most amazing is that neither cheese nor i argue on the court often. there are far too many other things to get upset about. it's just a damn game. though i do get heated w/ refs in my two leagues - but most of 'em know me by now, so we usually end up laughing and jawing at the same time. it certainly didn't start out that way.

 

[frdbtr]

This entire 8 pages of posts is unbelievable to me. Shawn Marion said it perfectly in his interview. He said (in so many words) "There was no goaltend because the refs didn't call it" In all of the baskeball games that I participated in, if the ref didn't call it, it didn't happen. All of the boobing, whining, and crying from Sactown fans and players isn't going to change what the refs decided on the court. They can all justify the loss by saying that the refs screwed them but it doesn't change the L to a W in their win/loss record sheet. I can't believe that some of our fans are saying that we "got away" with one just because the refs didn't call it. Like I said in another post, Webber pushed Shawn Marion to the ground during that same play just after he passed the ball to Miller. If we called everything by the book then Webber should have been called for the offensive foul and Marion would get free throws at the other end and Millers basket would not count (goaltending notwithstanding).

 

[mribnik]

This entire 8 pages of posts is unbelievable to me. Shawn Marion said it perfectly in his interview. He said (in so many words) "There was no goaltend because the refs didn't call it" In all of the baskeball games that I participated in, if the ref didn't call it, it didn't happen. All of the boobing, whining, and crying from Sactown fans and players isn't going to change what the refs decided on the court. They can all justify the loss by saying that the refs screwed them but it doesn't change the L to a W in their win/loss record sheet. I can't believe that some of our fans are saying that we "got away" with one just because the refs didn't call it. Like I said in another post, Webber pushed Shawn Marion to the ground during that same play just after he passed the ball to Miller. If we called everything by the book then Webber should have been called for the offensive foul and Marion would get free throws at the other end and Millers basket would not count (goaltending notwithstanding).

 

[cardinal steve]

Look fact is they won in Sac town not even playing thier best, I mean Marion, Stoudamire, Q, Jim Jackson were all pretty quite really. Nash and JJ won this game for them. This should be a positive because if we are playing well....who knows what the score could have been. Marion had some good rebound #'s I beleive but to score 125 with starters not shooting that well to me is damn impressive. Think thats the first time we won there in like 4 years or something. Very good win, as far as the block....in real time it was close but not called so does not matter. For the record they played the block like 10 times on espn and was clean ball barely left his hand on the way up and was extinguished period....GOOD NO CALL....GAME OVER!!!

 

[arthurracoon]

bump...

 

[Qmiles23]

bump...

haha what a bunch of kings losers.. They are CRYING!!! LOL!

 

[Rats]

Okay - hijack time - what are other people like on the court and what player's style do you most emulate?

This is an absolutly freakin hilarious thread...I had no idea that you were a Baller Cheese....we shoud stop arguing and just settle things on the court when we disagree ..Now don't start laughing or anything...because you asked the question but in High School I was a 185 pound 6' pointguard. If by comparison I had to compare my game style to anyone then it would be John Stockton. We went to two state championship finals ( favored but lost both) my juinor and senior season. When I went on to college ball at Texas A&I I learned the cross over dribble from the starting point guard there and realized how good my first step really was. I did not get much playing time but managed to transfer to Southwest Texas State and get some minutes. Left the team to work and go to school and led our Intramural Team to the College championship. I have played in rec leagues and church leagues for nearly 10 years now. Just an average white guy on the court these days but make the occasional off the wall pass that have people scratching there head...can still shoot it like riding a bike but the legs do not do what I want them to much now....but damn the glory days were good ...And I bet that I could throw the football as far and with as much accuracy as Shaun King ha