How have your handles not improved at all in 6 months if you’re training hard and practicing all the time? Your video from September has you looking the exact same as the one from today. Not to mention, in that video you missed a simple lay up after the guy holding the camera told you to go quick. You have zero hustle in your videos which leads me to believe you train with the same if not less drive. Reality will hit you super fucking hard in a year and a half brother. Once you’re 18, that’s it. NO ONE will care about you or your well being. It’s up to you to survive at that point.
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Then stop asking people for their fucking opinions and show people what you can accomplish. Those videos are piss dude. You suck point blank. Stop asking people to kiss your ass, and give them a reason to.
Throw everyone a bone. Take some coaching.
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Why?
I realize 17 year olds can lack perspective, so let me help you take stock of who is advising you in this thread.
Multiple college athletes
A lawyer and SuperJew who probably gives the best advice on the site
A couple of nationally competitive strongmen
A brilliant and handsome dive bar bouncer/Project Manager
A PhD biostatistician who played college football
Many of us are old enough to be your dad and I’ll just throw it out there that we can all squat way more than you too.
You’re getting a very consistent message from all of the adults you’ve engaged with, from your parents to your coaches to the strangers you’ve hit up on the internet.
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No love for a Sr. Business Analyst former Marine!
Uh
I need to start a thread about my feelz after this diss.
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I didn’t think there was such a thing as “Former Marine”, but I’m glad to hear you’ve joined the BA ranks. I’ve been up to my neck in job offers lately!
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Ya, I mean, I’m still doing the exact same thing, lol… It’s FP&A. My boss expects to promote me to business manager in a year or two, which is sweeeet.
I donno, man. I guess, according to the new Commandant there isn’t… I guess I’m a Marine that isn’t on active or reserve duty anymore. Really rolls off the tongue…
OP, I do sorta empathize with you. I started playing baseball when I was four and played through HS. It was the single most important activity in my life for 14 years. All I wanted to do was play baseball. I wanted to be a white Roberto Alomar (I even used “his” glove).
I ended up joining the Marine Corps straight out of HS so I didn’t try to play college ball (pretty convinced I could play D3 at least).
Anyway, the thought of being a pro ball player or even D1 baseball is the thought a child has. Once you reach a certain maturity level, you realize for 99.9999999999999% of us, it’s just a fantasy. Ya, it stings when you realize it. I still get a little knot in my chest when I pass a ball field, but playing baseball, no matter how enticing that is, would never have happened for me. Not D1 baseball. Not pro baseball and I was pretty good.
Honestly, you just need to grow up. Until then, you’re going to continue to struggle with this. No amount of logical/rationale talking is going to help you.
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Maybe this whole thing has nothing much to do (really) with basketball & much more to do with you trying to send a big old: F You to your parents & the rest of the world!
Contrarianism can be a powerful fuel, you just need to make sure you are using it to fuel the right kind of vehicle.
Just a thought.
So true… although, I still in play in a semi-competitive way.
My career ended due to losing eyesight, later found out it was cure-able, and a hamstring that didn’t want to heal. If I had known 4 years later, at 23, my hammy would be healed and my eyes would be fixed, I wouldn’t have gotten fat and depressed. At 25, I seriously considered trying out for the Giants, but I was married, had a great job and didn’t feel like it was fair to my wife to make $500/month and not see her for 8 months a year.
A forever, ‘what if’.
Op, don’t take my what if as something to apply to your life. I actually had talent.
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I think one of the most frustrating things to this entire thread is this:
Most of us do empathize with OP, at least to some degree. At 10 years old, I definitely wanted to play in the NFL and had the “maybe someday” thought. At 12 years old, probably about the same. By 15, the writing should have been on the wall but I still had a glimmer of hope that maybe I wasn’t done growing and would still get a little taller and faster. Hell, even by 18, when I was playing on a Division 3 college team and not a Division 1 team, I still don’t think I had totally accepted that the NFL dream was 100% dead.
We do get it, much better than he thinks, and even those of us that are offering more constructive feedback are getting met with this stuff:
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Ya. It’s a cute outlook when you’re 12. Not so much when you’re damn near a man.
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“Everybody else can”
I know a lot of high school athletes who wish that was true. The fact is everybody hits their peak, and not everybody has the ability to play college sports.
The funny part is there is nothing wrong with not playing pro. I have friends who never played college ball and continue to play in their adult lives. They’re under no delusion about their talent though and love watching people who play at the elite level.
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It’s not even like that, I don’t hate on people, I’m just compelled to have something to prove
You could have been our extra point kicker a couple of years ago. They did have open tryouts for that, didn’t they?
I wanted to wrestle in the Olympics. If it weren’t for Cary Kolat…
jk/ There were half a dozen guys in my weight class that finished their high school careers at 120+/1,2 or 3,/1. The only people that they ever lost a match to was each other, and even then it was only once or twice.
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Man, I just play softball now… I could barely run last year due to how tight my damn hamstrings are. It’s pitiful, lol…
I just hope one of my boys plays baseball (or something) and gets the same kind of enjoyment out it like I did.
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I think I’m delusional too now.
However, delusion is only a matter of perspective. It’s not like I’m saying absolutely bizarre stuff here. It’s just that it’s contrary to what you all accept as truth so you want to burn it down and say I’m crazy.
However, there are realities we both share:
- I suck ass at basketball. Went 9/13 on those free throws in the video. Piss poor.
- I’m ridiculously unathletic. Shitty coordination, looseness, and force development
- I have a lot of personality issues to fix.
- The chances of playing pro is slim to none.
- Although I may be capable, the work required to get from where I am now to where I want to be is nearly insurmountable given my current position.
I can either:
- Give up now and devote my energy elsewhere
Or
- Try with an extremely high chance of failure.
If you ever get the itch… here’s your local league affiliate. I can’t remember how old you are but there is a 25+ and 35+ league.