At what point did you realize you weren't going to the league?

[semtex]

I had zero confidence as a teen b

 

[MooseMouthMthafuga]

Yup. That one by the movie theater. You ever take that field trip on the boat going out to sea? It was part of the Scripps Aquarium trip if I remember. And yes, the low level SD females crush most other state' stop notchers

I never got to do the boat trip, but I have so many fond memories of that place, it's crazy.

I remember we even went to this place called "Old Town" and it was dope because it felt like being on the set of a western movie.You got to experience what life was like back in the 1800's.

So much shyt to do out there.

 

[Music Fiend]

For football it was when I realized I had this crazy paranoia with getting hurt. Like I couldn't bring my best out because anything too risky I just knew that'd be it for me. It wasn't about taking a hit, I loved the contact, But I think I realized how much more athletic others were naturally so when I'd put the moves on a corner My lack of agility would leave me exposed to get ate especially when all they threw were post route to the inside. A man can only take getting blasted by a d1 safety up the middle everyday in practice for so long.

For basketball it was immediately when i switched from football to bball. I could shoot lights out, but didn't have a good enough left hand to be a guard. I'd murder all these catswho had been starting for 2 years already at open gym. But when it came to learning plays, i was stuck in the football mindset of running plays how they were designed. Never could catch on to the high speed improv on the courts.

Coach would call a play and I'd go and set the pick in practice that we practiced all week then roll out to the corner of the 3, and my coach would be like when I'd run it in game. Dude would be azll like You gotta be ready cut to the basket.... I'd just sit there like . then i'd cut next time and he'd be like clear the lane! da fuq!

 

[Bledswole]

Far as basketball goes IMO:

When you younger and you dream about making it they tell you,you cant do it because the ones who make it got a gift.

Now for nikkas like Lebron,Jordan,Magic,etc yea them nikkas was gon make it whether they put in alot of work or not they had a gift how much work they put in was gon be the difference between them being an ok player and being an alltime great.

But when you get older and you bump into the Average to good NBA players in a rec league or summer game you look and see they not head and shoulders better than you they may be a little faster,quicker game a lil more polished but thats when you realize the thing that sets alot of nikkas from being in the league and being a teacher is how hard you work dead ass.

 

[brick james]

Far as basketball goes IMO:

When you younger and you dream about making it they tell you,you cant do it because the ones who make it got a gift.

Now for nikkas like Lebron,Jordan,Magic,etc yea them nikkas was gon make it whether they put in alot of work or not they had a gift how much work they put in was gon be the difference between them being an ok player and being an alltime great.

But when you get older and you bump into the Average to good NBA players in a rec league or summer game you look and see they not head and shoulders better than you they may be a little faster,quicker game a lil more polished but thats when you realize the thing that sets alot of nikkas from being in the league and being a teacher is how hard you work dead ass.

Or just taller...

one of my boys had a jumper better than most of the league, solid handles, high ass bball IQ but dude was like 5'7... got a scholarship to a d1 school and ended up becoming an engineer dude is the secret weapon in pick up games pulling up from 30 feet out

 

[Inferno]

When Jodie Meeks undercut me in a HS game and I blew out my knee

 

[STEVE]

this is why i took up skateboarding at age 12 and then just became a musician at 15 LOL

 

[Bender Rodriguez]

7th grade.

I couldn't wait to get to Jr high. All summer I had dreams of being on the basketball team, starting, p*ssy falling on my lap from all over the place because I'd be the star of the team. Worked on my signature for all the autographs I'd be signing, and even bought a little black book for good measure for all the numbers I'd be getting and dates I'd be going on.

First night of tryouts.........my nikka.....they was working nikkas out like dogs! Like dogs! They didn't know the kid was a playground legend. I never done a suicide in my life. 11 years old and way out of shape for that shyt. Running laps around the gym. Exhausted as fukk. I never played organized ball, just pickup games, 1 on 1s, and 21. Tired as fukk, confidence fading, already thinking of excuses to tell people why I won't be going to the second night of tryouts. I'm clanking 5 foot jumpers, fukking up on simple bounce passes, missing layups. Making the team? I'd be happy to make it out of the gym without a wheelchair. Forget about the NBA. Man, my legs were so sore I didn't even need an excuse to not go to the second night of tryouts, my legs wouldn't let me.

Used that little black book I bought for recording homework assignments

Same story for me. It happened in Middle School. I never played organized ball in my life, just pickup games on playgrounds. I thought I could easily transition my playground game, since I didn't just watch, I studied the NBA. I was just str8 outclassed by damn near everybody at tryouts. Fortunately for you, you figured it out on the 1st night. My dumbass thought I could re-group myself and do better on the 2nd and 3rd nights. I thought if I tried hard enough I could at least make the injured reserve list. Boy was I wrong. Those try-outs took my innocence. I lost all my child-like optimism that day.

This was me too sadly. I never did organized sports as a kid cause my parents were afraid id get hurt cause i got a prosthetic leg or hurt another kid and they get sued :fpbert: but i balled it up at parks and with kids from the apartment complex everyday. I wasnt tall, but i was built big enough not to be pushed around.
So it was 8th grade year, I went to all cac school and i always played ball after school and be balling it up on them. I was drilling them 3's and laying up like it was nothing, i couldnt cross over but i could make due with the other moves i got.

the first try-out was 3 hours long, by the first 15 minutes, i was like these muthafukkas are trying to kill me theres no way they do this all time. fukking suicides, i was dying at half court. every other drill, i was dead last on some shyt. by the time we actually got to some 5 on 5 games, i was sooo fukking tired, i didnt even run or try. I was like i need some assistance, a wheelchair shyt, something! That night i took off my leg and i lounged the fukk out and was so sore the next day, my moms was like :uhhuh: and called in, cause there was no way i was making it to school cause i was so damn sore. After that, i didnt even try, football or basketball in high school or, cause i stopped growing in middle school and all the white boys grew like 2 feet on me.

 

[Numpsay]

Come from a basketball family but football was my heart. Had I been granted 3-4 more inches I'd probably be in discussion of best CB in the game. Running a quick hitch was the only chance anyone ever had at catching a pass on me. Even when I workout with these HS and College kids, I make them respect this old mans ability.

 

[Majestyx]

thread is
for me, its when i played against fukkin Earl Boykins midget ass. nikka was prolly the best hooper in a 50 mile radius. midget dude grabing nikkas jumpers out of mid air, weting shyt from the highschool halfcourt, and being STRONG AS fukk!!!!!!!!!!!!

this was when he was in college. i wnt a head and 'd my lazy ass earl boykins is a god damn monster

 

[AlbertPullhoez]

When I failed calculus 6 straight times and kept getting kicked off the team my junior year of HS

 

[Shogun]

as soon as I was aware that there there were people out there who were paid to play sports.

 

[Michael's Black Son]

This thread got me feeling some type of way

 

[onelastdeath]

I remember, I think I was 16. And from age 12-16, ball was life for me. but as a hobby. then I went to his Nike Tournament and saw how good some of these nikkas were. And you learn that theres a difference between bustin ass at YMCA, or at The Park, than bustin ass at these tournaments. I knew then. 14 year olds dunkin and shyt.

 

[RiffRaff]

I thought I was Mario Balotelli before Balo when I played soccer in middle school. I played in the city league and I was good. My dad coached me the couple years prior. We went undefeated two straight years and I had the most goals in the league the year prior. So this new season we have these twins straight imported from South America itself. And from practice I knew these kids were good from being on the same team, but my ego didn't allow me to register just how good these guys were. So halfway through the season we are undefeated and I believe the goal spread between the twins and me were fairly evenly spread. The team we were facing didn't have enough players to play so the twins volunteered to play on their team
It started raining as if an omen to let me know what was about to happen to my soccer dreams, down the drain . To make a long story short them nikkas dominated us, by themselves. It was like 6-0. They made me, a bonafide scorer look like a U.S. vs. Germany matchup. Completely outmatched in every sense of the word. And they made it seem so effortlessly is what killed me. I couldn't do anything them to stop them either. I was only 12 at the time, but something in my head clicked that made me realize I really wasn't shyt That was our only loss that season, and my first in over two years, but the way them nikkas made me look like a bytch messed with mr something serious . I never played competitive soccer again and switched to football for the rest of my adolescence.