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Or have been in the past? What is your level of involvement now?

In the past year, I've gone from 240 to 197 (although back to 207 now, mainly due to the holidays) in the past year or so, and it's primarily due to playing a great deal of basketball. In addition, I'm currently an assistant for a high school girls team. I guess what I'm asking is, "Do any of you still play?" Any good basketball or basketball-related stories out there?

I'm talking basketball so much right now because I've given up on Bob Stoops winning a January bowl game ever again.

the_ouskull

i still go shoot the rock maybe once or twice every two weeks at the CU student rec center. i can still stroke it and i'm still a pathetic leaper. those facets of my game are still pretty much intact.

i posted this story at OUInsider a while ago. you have to remember it was more than 15 years ago when not too many freshmen in HS could dunk the ball in a game situation. it's an all-right story, i won't edit it since i'm lazy.

when i played JV at Norman High we had a JV game at Guthrie, against their JV. they had a freshman kid who could really play and could throw it down. normally, he was avg. about 15 points for their varsity but since varsity didn't have a game that night (midweek) he shows up for the JV game. we were pretty good--with a nucleus of players from my Norman West freshman team that won a lot of games. so, we pull away even though the Guthrie kid scores about 25, but he's all they've got. so, a couple minutes left and we're up 12 or something. standing around during a TO, we figure we want to see if this kid can really dunk it. so, our next possession our PG straight telegraphs a pass to the kid playing the wing in their zone or something and he takes it the length of the floor and JAMS it. our whole bench goes nuts--high-fiving and whatnot.

COach was not real pleased. we ran a lot at practice the next day. good times.

I've set foot on a court just once in the last several years and that was Christmas eve.

Had Tim Duncan's nuts in my face once during a tournament during HS in NC. Mount Zion also beat us by nearly a bill that night with their scrubs playing most of the second half (122-31)

Any game I had is long gone. Used to play in college every day. Could pass and rebound a little, not much else. Once I started playing hockey though, my basektball days were pretty much done. Now, in a good year, I'll play hoops once, a 3-on-3 grudge match at an annual reunion of college friends.

Sun- You from North Carolina or just had a tournament there? Mt. Zion is in the home town but I don't think it existed when I lived there.

the_ouskull wrote:Or have been in the past? What is your level of involvement now?

In the past year, I've gone from 240 to 197 (although back to 207 now, mainly due to the holidays) in the past year or so, and it's primarily due to playing a great deal of basketball. In addition, I'm currently an assistant for a high school girls team. I guess what I'm asking is, "Do any of you still play?" Any good basketball or basketball-related stories out there?

I'm talking basketball so much right now because I've given up on Bob Stoops winning a January bowl game ever again.

the_ouskull

Not sure exactly what age group you fall into, but if you play fullcourt there are many stories similar to Pistol Pete out there....Know your limits....

I'm terrible at the game so I'm actually doing the world a service by not being involved and just watching it on TV. Baseball is probably the only sport I can coach/manage even though I wasn't that good at it.

Re: Seer

34 at the end of this month, and I'm in fairly good cardio shape. Also, I've never been married, and I have no kids, so I'm a "young" 34, assuming that the years of partying and skirt-chasing haven't aged me too awfully badly. I can still play 3 days a week easily, for usually a good hour and a half up and down a day. 4 days and I start to tighten up quite a bit. I feel like, at least knees-wise, I'll be able to play into my late 30's, and be able to go out and shoot around and sh*t until my early 40's.

...unless you mean ticker-wise, in which case, I probably SHOULD look into things, but I'm not exactly a really high risk group. I don't eat terribly well, but I get my vitamins. I've never been a smoker, per se, and I haven't been a hard drinker for a number of years now, and do it at all anymore unless I'm in the OKC-area. I'm only slightly overweight, now, I was at a bad weight for a long time. (6'0", 205-210ish isn't too bad considering I'm active. 6'0", 240 was plain dumb.)

the_ouskull

the_ouskull wrote:Re: Seer

34 at the end of this month, and I'm in fairly good cardio shape.

I could still go at 34.......but I quit playing for good at 38. Just couldn't make it happen anymore. I couldn't jump and frankly people just got a lot better than me. And I noticed that change start after 35 and progressed until I finally "retired". Cardio wasn't my problem, I was and still am a runner who can log a not insignificant number of miles. I had some cartilage pulled out of my knee when I was 18 and again at 37, so that didn't help matters. My knee hurt like a mother after I played. I loved to play and couldn't get enough, and I miss that. But it's funny it just seemed natural to quit. I used to be able to dunk but the other day at my kids practice I jumped up and was only able to graze the rim with my fingertips on about the sixth try. It's just sad.

Enjoy the game while you can. At 34 your time is winding down!

Mustang wrote:Any game I had is long gone. Used to play in college every day. Could pass and rebound a little, not much else. Once I started playing hockey though, my basektball days were pretty much done. Now, in a good year, I'll play hoops once, a 3-on-3 grudge match at an annual reunion of college friends.

Sun- You from North Carolina or just had a tournament there? Mt. Zion is in the home town but I don't think it existed when I lived there.

I'm not really "from" any one place. My father was a Psy Ops Officer in the army for most of my childhood and we got bounced from one posting to another until I was in High school.

To answer the question though I lived in NC for my first two years of HS. I didn't realize your were from the Cacalac? Lived just south of Fayetnam on the Hoke County line and was part of the 71st wrestling dynasty in the late 90s. Also was on the team that got creamed by Independence for one of their state titles...

the_ouskull wrote:I'm talking basketball so much right now because I've given up on Bob Stoops winning a January bowl game ever again.

the_ouskull

Nebraska fans once upon a time said that about Dr. Tom... then he won 3 national titles.

SunCoastSooner wrote:

the_ouskull wrote:I'm talking basketball so much right now because I've given up on Bob Stoops winning a January bowl game ever again.

the_ouskull

Nebraska fans once upon a time said that about Dr. Tom... then he won 3 national titles.

Dr. Tom got a little lucky when Switzer and later McCartney retired. but, the 95 bugeater team was as dominant as any i've seen.

I think I maybe shot 5 times in the last 3 years.

Cant get a game together anymore with friends. Friends getting married, Having Kids, Moving Away, dying, ect.

I dont really want to go find a pick up game with strangers, considering I am rusty and slowing down with age.

SunCoastSooner wrote:

Mustang wrote:Any game I had is long gone. Used to play in college every day. Could pass and rebound a little, not much else. Once I started playing hockey though, my basektball days were pretty much done. Now, in a good year, I'll play hoops once, a 3-on-3 grudge match at an annual reunion of college friends.

Sun- You from North Carolina or just had a tournament there? Mt. Zion is in the home town but I don't think it existed when I lived there.

I'm not really "from" any one place. My father was a Psy Ops Officer in the army for most of my childhood and we got bounced from one posting to another until I was in High school.

To answer the question though I lived in NC for my first two years of HS. I didn't realize your were from the Cacalac? Lived just south of Fayetnam on the Hoke County line and was part of the 71st wrestling dynasty in the late 90s. Also was on the team that got creamed by Independence for one of their state titles...

71st wrestling dynasty? Wahoo McDaniel? Please elaborate. I moved from the Bull City in '84 so anything after that I'm a little fuzzy on. Our basketball team (Jordan) won state title in '83 (uh, I was not a contributor). The moons and stars aligned and we had three top notch players. One went to Carolina, one to Clemson, and one to UNC-W.

Mustang wrote:

SunCoastSooner wrote:

Mustang wrote:Any game I had is long gone. Used to play in college every day. Could pass and rebound a little, not much else. Once I started playing hockey though, my basektball days were pretty much done. Now, in a good year, I'll play hoops once, a 3-on-3 grudge match at an annual reunion of college friends.

Sun- You from North Carolina or just had a tournament there? Mt. Zion is in the home town but I don't think it existed when I lived there.

I'm not really "from" any one place. My father was a Psy Ops Officer in the army for most of my childhood and we got bounced from one posting to another until I was in High school.

To answer the question though I lived in NC for my first two years of HS. I didn't realize your were from the Cacalac? Lived just south of Fayetnam on the Hoke County line and was part of the 71st wrestling dynasty in the late 90s. Also was on the team that got creamed by Independence for one of their state titles...

71st wrestling dynasty? Wahoo McDaniel? Please elaborate. I moved from the Bull City in '84 so anything after that I'm a little fuzzy on. Our basketball team (Jordan) won state title in '83 (uh, I was not a contributor). The moons and stars aligned and we had three top notch players. One went to Carolina, one to Clemson, and one to UNC-W.

Sorry state title in Football. I only played basketball the first three months I was there while I was at a private school that didn't have wrestling...

71st won 4 state wrestling titles in the late 90s. Then Fayettnam built a new high school, the community needed it but it hurt Douglas Byrd and 71st hard. Those two high schools dominated evry sport worth a damn until Jack Britt was built.

Played intramurals in high school and college, but was never terribly good. But I was the first kid on my street to have a basketball hoop, so I cut my teeth playing with older kids. That taught me a quick release (lest I have the word "Spalding" permanently tattooed across my forehead), and I was a pretty decent shooter, the one thing I could do reasonably well.

These days, way too old/slow/bad knees and ankles for a pickup game. But lately my kid has gotten into basketball, so I play with him once in awhile, and actually managed to dust off the rust and (after awhile) showed him that dad could still knock down a few 3's.

Haven't picked up a basketball in a few months. Back in my much younger days growing up at home, my place was the site of many a two-on-two tournaments. It was a short, narrow driveway so anything more than four people on the court at once was too much. We used to play in the dead of winter with degrees in the teens. It took about an hour for a small group of us to shovel the driveway, and then chip the ice away so we could play. The court was dubbed the "****** Ice-O-Rena." The asterisks spell out my last name. Those were good times.

In the summer/spring I do some shooting around, and get in on the occasional 3-on-3 pick-up game but that's about it. In the winter the recs are way too full, and I'm not interested in running 5s these days.

I definitely like to bomb the 3s, and have a pretty decent post up game. My weakness is still driving and penetrating with my left hand.

MgoBlue-LightSpecial wrote:penetrating with my left hand.

although to mgo's credit, he was always pretty deece at holding his own against the 'hood kids. except for this one bitch who used to dominate him using his patented shaq-like busting him in the stomach with his ass until he got close enough to the rim to put up a limp-wristed hook shot which always went in.

i swear that was when he'd get the most pissed. and i feel you, dawg. jerry was never that good to pwn you in every one-on-one game you played against him.

To this day that motherfucker owned the ugliest shot I've ever seen, but it just went in the damn basket every single time.

the_ouskull wrote:Re: Seer

34 at the end of this month, and I'm in fairly good cardio shape. Also, I've never been married, and I have no kids, so I'm a "young" 34, assuming that the years of partying and skirt-chasing haven't aged me too awfully badly. I can still play 3 days a week easily, for usually a good hour and a half up and down a day. 4 days and I start to tighten up quite a bit. I feel like, at least knees-wise, I'll be able to play into my late 30's, and be able to go out and shoot around and sh*t until my early 40's.

...unless you mean ticker-wise, in which case, I probably SHOULD look into things, but I'm not exactly a really high risk group. I don't eat terribly well, but I get my vitamins. I've never been a smoker, per se, and I haven't been a hard drinker for a number of years now, and do it at all anymore unless I'm in the OKC-area. I'm only slightly overweight, now, I was at a bad weight for a long time. (6'0", 205-210ish isn't too bad considering I'm active. 6'0", 240 was plain dumb.)

the_ouskull

Did skull say he wasn't a smoker?