Great write up as usual though. I’d be in the Savvy Veteran category….I’m 32 (Chris Andersen is a week older than me) so apparently Im “Old Head”

Part Yao Ming, Part Dirk, part Kevin Durant, Part Ryan Bowen, part Rodney White.

yes.

Rodney White.

I’m not proud of that one… haha.

That will allow the Magics and the Birds and the Michael Jordans to get back out on the court and revitalize their careers!

Lew Alcindor and jr smith. I’m like you nate I like to play in the low post but I can knock down the three and I have a sweet hook shot. Also I can pout on the bench and grab a few boards .

When I played as a practice dummy in college I was too small to be a big guy and too slow to be a little guy. I was on the team because I could jump, dunk and block shots on guys who were bigger than I am. In high school I always played center and there I was usually bigger than my opponent so I was quite effective. When I played in high school, there was no three point shot, that was only in the ABA, so I was essentially forbidden to take long shots. All my scoring was close in. Dunking was not allowed either but I managed to make some pretty nice plays off the lob pass. I always wanted my game to be a mix of Wilt, Kareem, Dr. J, David Thompson and Bill Walton. I could never make a hook shot like Kareem (or Byron Beck) but I had a deadly jump hook which I was strongly discouraged from using simply because back then it wasn’t orthodox: “That’s no way to shoot a hook shot!”. Nowdays it is considered part of the game.
These days my license plates have the wheelchair/disabled logo on them so you can tell I am well past washed up. You can also tell how long ago I played seriously by the references.

…when I was 20 years old and “only” 6’3", I could dunk a basketball simply by standing under the basket and jumping straight up. Now I’m over 6’5", am 34 years old, weigh about 215 pounds and have had ACL surgery…so not only are my days of competitive basketball over, but I can’t jump worth a shit. When I was younger and played regularly, I was often compared to Birdman or Marcus Camby. I was a solid shot blocker and rebounder, but could never shoot well. But unlike Camby I wouldn’t shoot anyway…

“Entropy!!! a thermodynamic quantity representing the amount of energy, if you are not moving forward you are moving back, move forward!!!”

Steve Hess, 5:49 AM Jul 29th

It depends on who I play with I say. If I play with people alot better than me, I’m more of an Arron Afflalo type.

Around the same level of talent I would say Joe Johnson.

I was an early bloomer, in 7th grade I was already at 5’9" and the starting center for my team. I don’t remember ever losing a tipoff or losing a rebound I was trying to get. I grew another inch in 8th grade and it was more or less the same story. In 9th grade everybody caught up to me over to summer. I was regulated to the 3, then the 2 after that where I topped out at 5’11…

I’d say my game is actually a mix of Chauncey (posting up for a guard) and JR (chucker)… Except I have a pretty good shot

balkman’s conditioning.
shaq’s girth.
boykins’ height.
dahntay’s shooting range.

but im the same age as melo, so im entering the prime of my playing days…..ill be lucky to survive a game of 11, halfcourt!

who wants me on their team!?

…..short. Not only am I short, I’m white too….so I’m doomed to play the sweaty midget with the yellow headband in the 80’s movie of life

without the crazy.

Good ball handling and generally decent D. Shoot me if I shoot the ball though. It’s painful to watch.

Great at passing. Can shoot from where ever.
I’m no defender though. :p

My handles have severely diminished so I’m not great at getting my own shot. i can penetrate when i have to but i’m not blowin past anybody anymore. but I’m good playing off the ball and playing catch and shoot. i also think I rebound and D up better than my height would indicate. people never expect much out of me by looking so I tend to always exceed expectations.

I always have to guard the guys in the 6-4 to 6-7 range and I’m only 6-1. I guess I have ape like arms or something…or maybe just a knack for blocking shots. That’s the Mutombo. The bowling ball side is because I can barrel into the lane rather easily for a quick layup. The JR side because I can drain like 5 from beyond the arc in the second and fourth game, and scoreless in the first and third.

Yup, a whole lotta awkward over here.

Swingers is soooo entirely overrated imo. I hear all my friends all the time talk about how every man in the world should be required to see that movie and how funny it is and blah blah blah. A movie that’s about ten times better than Swingers, made around the same time and with the same sort of moral that every man should be required to see, is Chasing Amy. That, is a brilliant movie.

As for my style of play. I try to take different strenghts and aspects of some of the best players today and in history and model my game after them although I think I mostly just would say I try and resemble Pistol Pete because I have pretty good ball handeling skills and court vision. I do like to post up and I’m fairly big (6’1, 200) so I can board pretty well when needed. But my strenght is definatly team ball and clutch shooting. A couple months ago we were playing a really heated pickup game and it was tied and straight pulled a D-Wade by picking this dude’s pocket then draining the three right after that for the game. It was a highlight of my pickup career for sure.

Not being the tallest guy under the hoop got me to start leaping and poking the ball to my teammates, works sometimes and other times it doesn’t do what you want. Damp seemed to make a career out of it in Dallas.

i am a very small dude, so of course im a point guard. i like to think of myself of a sort of floor general and real leader. If my teams needs to score, ill try score. If one of my teammates is on, i try give him the ball.

Have tons of potentiol in school and sports yet i get lazy stupid and cocky and tend to fuck things up in every category. Luckily I have one more chance up at CSU to redeem myself in which i will just like I expect JR to do this year with the Nuggets. We are in teh same situation. He is in a contract year, I’m on academic probation with one shot to get off.. we both lookin to get paid and we are both gonna do it (at least I will =) haha) I’m 20 by the way.

Now I’m closer to Wes Unseld.

I would say I am a mix of Andre Miller with the ball, Rip Hamilton without the ball, and JJ Barea on defense.

as a player i am fundamentally sound. as a person i am totally nuts. i used to work for arizona state univeresity. they hold a 3 on 3 basketball tournament to raise money for the fiesta bowl. my team played in the six foot and under division. our team did not have any jerseys. every team is allowed 4 players on each team. (one substitute for each team) we decided we would play without shirts. the name of our team? the 4 skins.

I would say I am a PF/C in most games I play at 6’5". I’m about 215, not built but solid. My favorite spot is just outside the low post where I can back smaller people down for easy layups.

I also block a lot of shots. Hence the picture and my name.