The tough thing about basketball is unless you are competing against someone else on your playing level, it is hard to get better. No matter how many shots you shoot, and how much footwork you do, it is still not the same without that competition. How do I know if my “slippery eel†thank you Nick Horvath will work if I am practicing it against air? I can make a thousand by myself, but once I try it in a game I might have “Molten†written across my forehead…WOOSH!! That is the sound of that joke flying over half of my readers’ heads. Molten is the name of the ball used for international competition…c’mon people keep up. Trying to find that competition is not always easy. Most professional players are already playing somewhere. Colleges no longer have open gyms and are knee deep in their seasons already. I try to meet up with players I went to high school with and get a couple of games in a few times a month. Other than that I head over to a local college on Saturday mornings to play against a group of former professional basketball players who are now successful businessmen and doctors. I don’t know if I should feel confident since I am still trying to play, or diffident since these guys are all wildly successful. Either way the drought of consistent fall basketball puts a guy like me at an instant disadvantage even with all my hard work.
via Waiting For Godunk: The “Weighting” Game.
Kind of puts Iverson’s whole thing in perspective, doesn’t it? Practices are treated as so irrelevant in the NBA because of the schedule and attitude, but so many guys who aren’t in the league need it. It’s why the D-League’s so important. Even without getting toppermost of the toppermost talent on the floor, at least it gets development coaching and a competitive example.
By the way, if Owens keeps this up I’m going to start a PayPal donation fund to send him to IMG for a week. He wants practice, I’ll give him practice.
/would seriously, literally die at IMG.
//all hail Thorpe
