Not true
I played with Raja Bell at the FIU gym a few times and I never even made my H.S. basketball team yet I didnt find him to be all that impressive at all.
That's because he's strictly a spot up guy.
In my experiences with playing against NBA players, it's the PG's that have you on some
shyt when you witness them live.
I've had 3 run in's with NBA players
Two pg's and one center.One of the PG's would be consider a "scrub" by NBA standards.The other PG was just old as shyt.And the center was considered a scrub when he played, plus he was kinda older.
One of the PG's was Jacque Vaughn.I played against him one summer at Balboa Park when I was living in San Diego back in '02.I was about 15-16 at the time.Balboa Park was known for having some of the best street ballers/pick up games in San Diego.
Needless to say, Jacque Vaughn came out there and dominated.Nobody could stay in front of him.His speed, strength, and court vision was
in person.I actually got to run on his squad one game.He hit me with some lovely passes out in transition.I felt like I was out there running the break with Magic
The other PG I ran into at that same park was this old dude named Michael Adams.He used to play for the Nuggets in the mid 80's.He wasn't necessarily a "scrub", but he was old as shyt.He wasn't that big.I actually had him by a few inches
Needless to say, he got out there and stomped a mud hole in nikkaz asses.His first step and his quickness had dudes on some
type shyt.He was getting to the hole at will and angling his lay ups high off the glass like a prime Allen Iverson.It was some circus shyt.It got to the point where half the dudes on my squad just said "fukk it"
and just started spectating instead trying to stop the bleeding.The ass bleeding because he was raping dudes out there.I felt extremely doubtful about my NBA potential after that.
The last dude I played against was ex Phoenix Suns scrub Center, Mark West.That was like in '05-'06.....I was out visiting some fam in Phoenix and me and my cousin decided to go ball at the LA fitness(muthafukkas didn't want to let me in, but my cousin had a membership and raised all types of hell to get me in) right down the street from his house.
When I spotted Mark West, I'm like "this old scrub ass nikka
"
Needless to say, when we got on the court with dude, we couldn't do nothing with him.
He might've been a "scrub" in the NBA, but at LA Fitness, his old ass was Shaq laced with the super soldier serum.He was drop stepping and hammering on muthafukkas.I don't even know why he was out there?
I just remember thinking "what would Olajuwon do?"