cliff notes: apparently i almost got into a fight because i suck at basketball

lately whenever i go to the gym, i've been doing a mix of basketball, jogging (1-5 miles), arm workouts, and hitting/kicking the bags. so i get to the gym last night and see that there are hardly any people playing basketball. this is a pretty rare sight. i decide to join in.

i know how serious some people are about pickup basketball, so i always put out the "i'm not good" disclaimer just to give them a heads up. even though by my own calculations i'm about 15-20 pounds overweight, i'm still pretty athletic. if i'm uncontested and if i don't dribble, i can dunk about 15% of the time...i'm just pretty terrible at basketball because i lack the fundamentals - namely: dribbling, shot accuracy, and ball/body control.

anyway, i'm playing 3v3 and one of my teammates will not stop laughing at how bad i am. the other guy is getting pissed because he thinks the laugher and i are just f*n around and not taking the game seriously. but i was actually playing pretty well IMO. the laugher would pass me the ball and say "DRIVE!" i would try to take it to the hole and the defender would just cut me off. since i don't have any dribbling skills, most of the time i would lose the ball or put up a brick. the laugher would laugh and i would laugh too since he was such a goofy mf*er.

the other team was f*n with me too. the guy i was guarding had his back to me, put the ball between his legs, pretended to throw up a backwards granny shot and then dribbled around me and almost dunked it. i was totally faked out by the shot and the laugher thought it was the most hilarious thing ever.
so our 3rd teammate was quiet the whole time until we ended up losing by 1. then he went off...mostly on me. i guess he thought that i was sandbagging or just f*n around in general. i could not believe he was pissed at me since the laugher was the one causing all the commotion. i was just bad at basketball. is that a crime?? the guy started cussing us out, kinda got in my face doing the whole "hand motioning like a mouth" saying all we did was "talk, talk, talk" and then proceeded to storm out.

i said "that was like the best game i've ever played" and everyone laughed and the guy got even more mad when leaving. i then left the court to finish my workout.

so now i'm punching/kicking the bag and the laugher comes up to me and was saying how everyone was pissed at me since i was obviously better than how i played in the game. i'm like "WTF?? i really am that bad" i haven't played basketball since i was like 10.

he said the 3rd teammate was very close to going off on me. after seeing how hard i was striking the bag he said "now i see why you didn't back down when the guy was yelling at you."

but it shouldn't have even come close to getting physical. why do people get so pissed when playing basketball? i thought it was a gym...you know? where people go to work out and build up their skills/muscles. no one there is pro.

PEOPLE...just relax and have a good time. i'm not looking to kick your ass just because you get mad that i suck at basketball.

Anyone who gets pissed off in a pick-up basketball game

a) sucks at basketball
b) has never played real basketball
c) is a "bitch" in general

guy trying to get over his HS days when he probably sat on the bench and retrieved water for anybody on the court.

i HATE pickup basketball games...i'd like to kill half the people who play/run them.

There's a moron on my hockey team that acts like that, and he sucks! Like JRoth said it's usually the horrible ones who act this way.

the guy was actually a decent player. and he seemed cool up until we lost the last game. in the two games prior to that one, he had been on the opposing teams and was basically coaching his younger, inexperienced teammates (who still had more experience than me).

he had no comment on my play until the laugher just would not stop laughing about how i was playing. i swear...the laugher was the reason the 3rd teammate got pissed. i just happened to be closer at the time of the blow up.

maybe u should try beach volleyball

generally, noone is looking to kick ass in this sport

every time I see "serious business!" I lol. every freaking time.

ps. you should have challanged him to some online video game hoops. then he would respect your skillz

i play pickuop basketball almost everyday. i too like to give the disclaimer that im not that good. i cant rebound or finish too well but i can dribble pretty good and i canhit threes. my D is terrible due to the fact im slow fat and cant jump blaha blah blah. im like a fat pg /pf type. LOL.

Some people take things too seriously. i woulda told that guy to go ef himself. obv i play hard and all that and dont like to lose. i can pretty much hang in any avg gym basketball pick up game. which i like to play for fun and to also get a workout in since i dont really do much else. Put me in a league w refs and time clock and all that and im lost.

tell that asshat if he wants to play so serious go join a league. its a fkn gym for christ sake. he should be happy that he got enough players to even play the game.

true story!

funny thing about it was the guy asked me if i trained for boxing. i said i took one month's worth of MMA classes but stopped when i took a night class. his eyes widened and he said "do you get to do ankle locks?!?!?!"

i thought that was kinda random