ramtour420 wrote:I'd love to come out and play. Now that college is over, i can do any day but Saturdays(working). Evil, where is this court that has lights on untill 11?

it's in queens. i def don't want to flood it with people because sometimes it's tough to get a game there. so if cats wanna get together and play, maybe we should just exchange emails. i'm gonna go hit up astoria park right now. it's beautiful out!

kam77 wrote:We all a bunch of nate robinsons anyway. Do we have anyone taller than 6'3"?

6'2" here, shortest in a family of four boys, but always played the 2 and 3 spots. Not a really a banger.

Allanfan20 wrote:

kam77 wrote:We all a bunch of nate robinsons anyway. Do we have anyone taller than 6'3"?

lol, you met me at the last get together dude. You know perfectly well I'm 6'4".

I didn't catch your wingspan though.

iSergio wrote:I haven't played ball in years. Bet I'm David Lee on D and Jared Jeffries on O aka not very good. : /

i still remember the thread posted after we had the last UK ball get together on the upper West Side courts... people were making NBA player comparisons to UK players, it was pretty funny... anyone got a link to that thread?

I did play on Saturday though. A bunch of big athletic guys showed up to the courts with their five guys already gunning for a game. We had just been playing 21 with a few kids from the neighborhood. They didn't wanna shoot for teams. To make 5, my team had to field a couple kids from the local jewish athletic league, Adam and Avi. These kids looked scared to be on the court with real men. They wouldn't pass it either. It was a nightmare. We lost the first two games 16-11 and 16-8.

The other team has their cheering section going, they got this younger guy on their team that thinks "streetball" = "license to foul at all times" (ahem ActionJackson) and when called on it them and their silly crowd calls us whiners and crybabies. Fine.

Game 3 soon come. Avi and Adam sit out and we pick up some decent dudes. We come out and blitz them 16-8. We beat their asses bad. We were up 11-3 at one point and I'm barking back at them. They were talking before, but now they're all quiet. Suddenly the man i'm guarding responds who has about 4 inches and 40 lbs on me says, "Man we beat y'all the first two games", to which i responded "You beat the JV". More smak talk ensued. I got the typical, "you guys suck" comment even though we were winning, so i challenge my guy to score on me... first time, i strip him, the ball goes into the backcourt. While he jogs back for it casually, i run up scoop up the ball and go in for a layup. Next time down the court, he tries the same weak crossover dribble i already saw, so I strip it again, then turn to the crowd along the baseline and hold my finger up to my mouth. "Shhhh...". Crowd goes NUTS. They start turning on their own guys. Man it was sweet.