What Player Do You Model Your Pick-Up Game After?

[Brandon-Clyde]

Current Wilt Chamberlain

[ItsThatEasy]

Side bar: I think this plays into how we feel about players to a degree.

I can almost always walk into a gym decide to emulate Kobe for a few games (fade aways, contested J's, etc)

LeBron though? I can count on one hand how many times I've walked onto a court and been the biggest, fastest and strongest guy.

[Mirjalovic]

Hisashi Mitsui and Sakuragi Hanamichi.

i always yell "king of rebound" whenever i grab the rebounds

[JayClips92]

Javaris Crittenton because I'm a shooter!

[paperboymafia]

Stopped playing a long time ago but I guess it would have been closest to someone like Kevin Love/Ryan Anderson with the occasional flashy pass. But quite a bit shorter obviously.

[Gus McCrae]

Channing Frye... I'm looking for minimal contact inside and more than happy to float on the perimeter. I do Muay Thai and tell my friends in pickup basketball you're more likely to get injured than martial arts. Black eyes, sprained ankles , teeth knocked out I ain't bout that life.

To add, I have a good friend who tore his Achilles in a work tournament a few years ago and two seperate guys at my office in crutches this month alone lol.

[deadfeather]

Ron Artest / Dellavadova / Bruce Bowen / OJ Simpson.

[RasheedTupac]

Prime Andre Miller lol


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[Gus McCrae]

Ron Artest / Dellavadova / Bruce Bowen / OJ Simpson.

My worst nightmare!

[Fortune55]

When I'm playing pick up I am the 5'7 Asian Jason Williams on the court. Fancy accurate passes and pulling up for 3s on the break. But when I play in my league against people who are way more talented than me I have to play like I'm Gary Payton. I'm a huge huge huge purist that defense and making the right play comes first. So when I get to play pick up games that don't matter much I like to let loose and show off a little.

[Hawk Eye]

Great thread. Where are all the shooters at? Still waiting for that Steph Curry post.

Any who,

Offense:

If you could picture a shorter (I'm 5"8-5"9) and even less athletic Reddick or Korver (sad but true) that would be me. I could shoot the lights out if you left me wide open--contested i could still shoot above average but not nearly as well. I played ball at the highschool level and was used in the same way as JJ & KK.

-Constantly coming off of screens and pin downs
-Catch and shoot 3's only (no off the dribble pull ups)
- Lots of curls
- Never put the ball on the floor (although Reddick can do that now and Korver as well to a lesser extent)


I wasn't a volume 3 point shooter either like a Curry or Klay. I was perfectly content with these types of 3 point stat lines

1/3
2/5
3/7
4/9

*Don't think I ever took more than 9 three point attempts in a game when I played.

The only other way I ever scored was from back door cuts for layups and free throws lol

Defense:

A lot like Thabeet...completely non-existent on the court and in the league

[Bick]

Kyle Singler. Not good at anything but I still play

[young_frogger]

Damian Lillard. I was going to say Steph Curry but he's so good now that I that would've sounded like some serious Hubris. I shoot a lot of 3's, love shooting off screens or off the dribble, and hit shots at a very good clip for streetball standards. I like to make plays for others but it comes secondary to scoring, and will also happily play off the ball if there's another good ball handler on the team.

If I had to pick a player from any era, I would probably say Agent Zero.

[young_frogger]

Side bar: I think this plays into how we feel about players to a degree.

I can almost always walk into a gym decide to emulate Kobe for a few games (fade aways, contested J's, etc)

LeBron though? I can count on one hand how many times I've walked onto a court and been the biggest, fastest and strongest guy.

Whatup fellow trojan.

That's true, there are some games where the competition is weak that I can be Steph Curry. But I've played in some games full of great athletes and players which forced me to change my game into J.J Reddick. Either way though, I will be letting it fly from deep.

[yellowknifer]

I love to shoot the 3pt sky hook whenever screwing around. Maybe 20% or something... perhaps could have upped that with actual practice.

Also, despite being 5'8 I love to take bigger guys in the paint. I usually score with footwork. Sometimes I wish I was like a ft taller because I wasn't really meant to play PG.

So Kareem in a small mans body. I can play point, but I don't love playing point (in an actual game).

[boomershadow]

I would say my game and physical characteristics sort of mimic Stan Van Gundy.

[76ciology]

I want to be like Curry but I'm actually more like Jimmer Fredette.

[sunskerr]

I guess Gordon Hayward at 6'2" in shoes, being capable both on ball or off it. I already had the silly looking upright and high dribble ingrained in me as a kid from having watched Steve Nash as a Suns fan forever.

[TaylorMonkey]

A 6'2" Andrew Bogut.

Which is of somewhat limited utility.

[jpengland]

I'm a 2/3 with a streakily good three point shot and I will always defend big men, or play on the back of a zone despite being vastly undersized.. My game is mostly hustle and hard work, I'm a beast crashing the offensive boards and have a limited handle (enough to occasionally run back up point) but next to no athleticism. Basically, very difficult to define! I also get T'd up almost every game!

Probably a little Draymond Green without the passing ability or athleticism or a Dennis Rodman lite with a three point shot and a better handle.