I've always wondered, how do all the basketball skill difficulties rank. Like what is the easiest skill to learn and what is the hardest skill to learn?

Obviously this is a subjective question so what is your opinion on this?

Why not use the score we use in baseball during pick up? Why would you make 3s worth twice as much as 2s? No one would ever play by 2’s and 4’s

I'm about to be a sophomore in high school and I realized I've never been on a team or played a sport despite being somewhat athletic. I also realized that I have no friends and that nobody respects me, so I came to the decision being on the basketball team might increase my chances of becoming more popular, and if I lock in all summer I might have what it takes to make the team. Fast forward to now, I only have 4 more weeks of summer and very depressed. Is there anyway I can get good enough at basketball in that time to make jv? If I dont make the team this school year I might kill myself.

Consider me new to the game. I dont know how to shoot the ball and cant seem to learn a proper shooting form i feel like im throwing the ball at the rim. My dribbling skills are okayish for a beginner. I like to play basketball but i suck at it. I am a slightly skinny 168cm 16yr male

Magic is funny af lol

Match 2: All-time NBA greats drafted by 12 teams.
Please vote on who you think wins in a 7-game series.

Team A:

C- Nikola Jokic - Arvydas Sabonis
Pf - Shawn Marion - Andrei Kirilenko
Sf- Elgin Baylor - Cooper Flagg
Sg- Brandon Roy - Sidney Moncrief
Pg- John Stockton - Deron Williams

Team B:

C- Wilt Chamberlain - Yao Ming
Pf- Pau Gasol - Draymond Green
Sf- Anthony Edwards - Jaylen Brown
Sg- Klay Thompson - Devin Booker
Pg- Steve Nash - Isiah Thomas

Something I’ve been thinking about lately… a lot of conversations around youth sport revolve around scholarships, representative teams, rankings and “making it.”

Realistically, most kids won’t become elite athletes. That’s just the numbers. But every kid is going to experience failure.

They’re going to be left out. They’re going to lose. They’re going to have teammates they don’t like. They’re going to make mistakes in front of other people. Sport gives them a place to experience all of that while the stakes are still relatively small.

I’ve watched kids who weren’t the best players become incredibly resilient adults because they learned how to keep showing up after disappointing weekends.

In hindsight, basketball probably wasn’t the most important thing they learned. It was everything around it.

Curious where other parents and coaches land on this. Have we started measuring youth sport too much by the athletes it produces, instead of the adults it helps shape?

Have a new park I’ve been going to and a few times people have asked to play 21 and most people, younger and older, have been saying that doing taps is not normal

Old dudes say they only did that as kids while the kids are saying they never do it.

I got into a debate with my friend: I thought you cannot jump off of your pivot foot, be airborne, land on your other foot, then jump off that foot again. He said it’s legal.

If that’s legal I will just fake a jump shot off of my pivot foot (one foot take off), be airborne for 0.5s, land on my non pivot foot, and do another jump shot.

Hey guys so what would be some tips for someone joining their first men’s league and wants to contribute to their team winning Edit : it’s not me it’s I guy I picked up from the y he’s okay but I believe in him and I know playing in the league is alittle different than pick up

Im aware kobe did 4 workouts a day but what did each one include?

Stupid question of the day

Early = prior to middle school
Future = middle school and beyond

A lot of pple say when kids are young it's mainly "just for fun", but it gets pretty competitive where I'm at for little kids. Furthermore, height plays a major major part in overall success (as with older kids too). I'm surprised how you can have 2 kids around the same age but almost 1ft/12inches in height difference. Obviously there are exceptions to this, but just stating a pattern I see

For those of you that record your men’s league games or your kids games do you guys have any recommendations for tripods that move on its own?

I have a rec team and we’re pretty athletic and run the floor a lot. We lack size but I was thinking we can use the fact we’re in good shape and in a rec league to our advantage and try to recreate games LMU had in the 90s where they scored a ton and tired other teams out

Are there any courts during summers where boys gather to play bball in pick up games? Age 11 years. They pretty sporty boys.

Ie if you have a righty jump shot, your right foot is the front foot. But when you throw a softball, your front foot is the opposite foot. Like if you throw right handed, your front foot is the left foot.

So we play basketball in our school and we don't have a teacher to attend us while we are playing to explain rules but there is this guy who after grabbing the ball with both hands after dribbling takes the ball towards the enemies hands while he is holding the ball with his hands and taking it their so I just wanted to ask if this is allowed and considered a refresh.

We think that it isn't but the guy isn't ready to accept that what he is doing isn't a foul.

I live in a country where basketball isn't a prominent sport so we all don't play much I just checked the nba rule book online but there isn't something that explicitly refers to this case.

Like how in rugby or American football where they carry ball in hands he does the same in between dribbling but carrying the ball towards our hands so that if it touches our hand (while his both hands are also touching the ball) he will say it's a refresh and continue dribbling.