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REG861 
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Baton Rouge
Member since Oct 2011
6810 posts
| re: Your worst pickup basketball stories (Posted on 12/28/12 at 9:05 pm to link)
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next someone's gonna come in here and tell us he was guarding these guys named, swear to god, Shithead (pronounced "shi-theed") and Orangejello
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Mung 
LSU Fan
Member since Aug 2007
2571 posts
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| re: Your worst pickup basketball stories (Posted on 12/28/12 at 9:28 pm to Circle K Beggar)
My team was playing in the intramural playoffs, and was winning...until Dennis Tracy and Jamie Brandon showed up right before halftime. fricking ringers.
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Tittle'sPants 
North Carolina St. Fan
Fifth Circuit
Member since Aug 2012
392 posts
| re: Your worst pickup basketball stories (Posted on 12/28/12 at 9:47 pm to Mung)
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Playing 5 on 5 at the Rec with some friends. Well one of my friends(he's a tall, big guy and let's just say bball wasn't his strongest sport) grabs the rebound and instead of passing the ball to the PG he decides he wanted to channel his inner Magic Johnson and lead the fast break. Before he got to half court he some how stepped on the ball while dribbling and face planted on the court. Both teams immediately stopped the game and started laughing. Good times.
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YMCA 
UTEP Fan
Member since May 2011
1518 posts
| re: Your worst pickup basketball stories (Posted on 12/28/12 at 9:58 pm to Circle K Beggar)
Playing around before a basketball pep rally in high school and we decided we would try the ole white guy jump off of someone's back and try to dunk it before anyone came in. If it went well we were going to do it during the pep rally. Well a buddy of mine starts at half court with me behind him. He runs and bounces it off the backboard and I follow up with the flush. The only problem was my hand got caught in the net, my feet flew up in the air and I landed on my head. When I finally woke up everyone was seared in the pep rally and I was on a backboard wearing a neck brace. Good times.
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cornstarch
LSU Fan
Oklahoma
Member since May 2010
1776 posts
| re: Your worst pickup basketball stories (Posted on 12/28/12 at 10:07 pm to YMCA)
We used to play on an outdoor court in our town - all kinds of people would show up but usually no problems ever occurred.
In between two full-court 5-on-5 games, a trashy white dude, his friend, and his girlfriend show up. He starts shooting on one end - right as the game is about to start, one of the guys says "hey, this is the full court, step off."
White trashy dude flatly refused. Other guy keeps telling him that we're about to play a game and he just won't leave. Then he starts to cop an attitude as others start to jump in to tell him to leave. He gets more angry, starts "bucking up" to everyone and trying to fight. One dude and him were on the brink on throwing punches and an older fella started to get in his face, too.
I step in and just say "Can you shoot down here when we're on the other side and step off when we come back down?" He just said, "Sure. All you had to do was ask."
I'm not intimidating at all, I just think he wanted someone to be polite. Twas crazy. A couple weeks later this same angry guy was playing in a full court game and tried to start about three fights and eventually left the court in a rage, slamming the gate door. Complete psycho.
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Rittdog
Member since Oct 2009
6085 posts
| re: Your worst pickup basketball stories (Posted on 12/28/12 at 10:13 pm to LSUTygerFan)
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heard that same story in a movie.
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luvdatigahs
LSU Fan
Alameda, CA
Member since Sep 2008
577 posts
| re: Your worst pickup basketball stories (Posted on 12/28/12 at 10:33 pm to Rittdog)
me and some friends thought we were pretty good at basketball and signed up for the LSU southern rec tournament and first round went up against what I can only assume was the Southern basketball team. I don't think we scored a point and they were constantly dunking on us.
Another time while playing at the park, this fat kid that looked like the kid from heavyweights decides to set a pick on me and procedes to elbow me right above the eye. Ended up with stitches and a nasty star right before my trip to vegas.
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Ba Ba Boooey
LSU Fan
NOLA
Member since May 2010
1831 posts
| re: Your worst pickup basketball stories (Posted on 12/29/12 at 9:00 am to link)
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next someone's gonna come in here and tell us he was guarding these guys named, swear to god, Shithead (pronounced "shi-theed") and Orangejello
Ok prick. I could give a shite if you believe me.
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BoardReader 
Arkansas Fan
Arkansas
Member since Dec 2007
1787 posts
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| re: Your worst pickup basketball stories (Posted on 12/29/12 at 11:40 am to Ba Ba Boooey)
Somehow got involved in a pickup game of 4-on-4, at the old HPER building/gym in Fayettville during a winter break.
Anyway, I was utterly and totally out of my league--4 of the guys in the game played at Arkansas,and another two could at least get rim-- I'm a short bastard that was lucky to be able to touch the darn net.
Since I'm clearly the worst player involved and really just a warm body to even out the numbers, I was put on the team with 3 ex-Hogs; I guess they thought I was enough of an impairment to level out the teams.
We start the game, and nobody on my team can hit a damn thing- the other guys on my team combine to miss about 10 shots in a row, before I pick up a scramble-type rebound and chuck it in from about 25 feet. The process repeats itself, almost identically the next time down the court. After hitting these two bull shite shots, my teammates start feeding me-- and for whatever reason, I was on fire. I hit something like 6 of my first 7 shots, all from 3 point range. One of my teammates starts calling me Jimmy Chitwood. We're storming back from the early crater the other team had put us in, when we couldn't hit a damned thing. We get it back to game point, whoever scores next wins-- they get me what I thought was an open look from 3-- and the ball was plucked from my hands at the top of my jump shot by ex-Hog Roger Crawford, was taken the other way and dunked to end the game.
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Kracka 
North Carolina Fan
Laffy Taffy
Member since Aug 2004
26988 posts
| re: Your worst pickup basketball stories (Posted on 12/29/12 at 11:48 am to Circle K Beggar)
When I was a member at Red's in Lafayette, I was playing pickup. Keep in mind red's has 3 small courts enough to fit a 4 v 4 game. Black guy on my team is basically being Kobe/AI. Passes to no one, takes every shot, and he sucks at that. Well one time we are on a fast break and I decide to check him, and when he was going in for the layup I pinned it on the backboard. After a brief argument, he quit. Not my best moment since the guy was on my team, but he had to be checked.
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DrunkTigerBaiter 
Duke Fan
LGD
Member since Nov 2009
4280 posts
| re: Your worst pickup basketball stories (Posted on 12/29/12 at 11:52 am to trillhog)
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i used to play pick up ball but these brat 14 year olds talked so much shite i had to quit b/c i'd be wanting to kick there ass, and i was scared they might gang up on me.
You just made that up
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maringer11
LSU Fan
Member since Jan 2012
973 posts
| re: Your worst pickup basketball stories (Posted on 12/29/12 at 11:53 am to Circle K Beggar)
Playing at south park in Denham in march and got dunked on by Tasmin Mitchell.
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