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Re: PICKUP BASKETBALL THREAD
« Reply #400 on: July 21, 2011, 06:56:38 AM »
oh, and for google, try "pickup basketball in fresno". check out Y's, local HS's, maybe the fres-YES rec commission.

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Re: PICKUP BASKETBALL THREAD
« Reply #401 on: July 21, 2011, 07:29:00 AM »
oh, and for google, try "pickup basketball in fresno".

ok, then yes, i've tried google.  it didn't help.


are you moving to berkeley?  i'll drive up and we can pak a cal game.  crabbe is gonna be good.
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Re: PICKUP BASKETBALL THREAD
« Reply #402 on: July 21, 2011, 08:02:44 AM »

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Re: PICKUP BASKETBALL THREAD
« Reply #403 on: July 21, 2011, 08:09:07 AM »
yeah, i saw that.  but there's no one indicating when people play where, or who plays or anything.
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Re: PICKUP BASKETBALL THREAD
« Reply #404 on: July 21, 2011, 08:17:27 AM »
yeah, i saw that.  but there's no one indicating when people play where, or who plays or anything.

well, when I click on my link I don't see it, but clicking from google says there's an outdoor court w/ games saturday and sunday mornings at 8, and one that says the fresno st. rec sucks. I'd just drive by that park and see what the games look like.

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Re: PICKUP BASKETBALL THREAD
« Reply #405 on: July 21, 2011, 08:29:40 AM »
I'd just drive by that park and see what the games look like.

i guess that's what i'll be reduced to.
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Re: PICKUP BASKETBALL THREAD
« Reply #406 on: July 21, 2011, 08:34:15 AM »
fresno, geez.  that place sucks.  :lol:


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Re: PICKUP BASKETBALL THREAD
« Reply #407 on: July 21, 2011, 08:40:03 AM »
I'd just drive by that park and see what the games look like.

i guess that's what i'll be reduced to.

glad I could help.

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Re: PICKUP BASKETBALL THREAD
« Reply #408 on: July 21, 2011, 01:06:28 PM »
fresno, geez.  that place sucks.  :lol:

Can confirm.

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Re: PICKUP BASKETBALL THREAD
« Reply #409 on: July 21, 2011, 01:52:49 PM »
fresno, geez.  that place sucks.  :lol:

Can confirm.

no wonder you hate california.

stockton, fresno, modesto.  :lol:  that's not california, that's hell.


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Re: PICKUP BASKETBALL THREAD
« Reply #410 on: July 21, 2011, 02:06:22 PM »
fresno, geez.  that place sucks.  :lol:

Can confirm.

no wonder you hate california.

stockton, fresno, modesto.  :lol:  that's not california, that's hell.

You forgot Bakersfield and Rancho Cucamonga.

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Re: PICKUP BASKETBALL THREAD
« Reply #411 on: July 21, 2011, 02:47:30 PM »
terrible places.


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Re: PICKUP BASKETBALL THREAD
« Reply #412 on: July 21, 2011, 03:16:39 PM »
well, i've been told that california is like paradise.

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Re: PICKUP BASKETBALL THREAD
« Reply #413 on: July 21, 2011, 03:46:48 PM »
fresno seems nice.
"a garden city man wondered in april if the theologians had not made a mistake in locating the garden of eden in asia rather than in the arkansas river valley."

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Re: PICKUP BASKETBALL THREAD
« Reply #414 on: July 21, 2011, 03:55:29 PM »
fresno seems nice.

Has Fresno swallowed up Sanger yet?

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Re: PICKUP BASKETBALL THREAD
« Reply #415 on: July 21, 2011, 05:04:14 PM »
Has Fresno swallowed up Sanger yet?

dunno.  will it alter your opinion?
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Re: PICKUP BASKETBALL THREAD
« Reply #416 on: July 21, 2011, 05:06:11 PM »
I am certain that I am the best pick up ball player here.

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Re: PICKUP BASKETBALL THREAD
« Reply #417 on: July 21, 2011, 05:06:28 PM »
that is where all the fruit and vegetables in the entire country are grown iirc.  i bet you can just walk out there and pluck grapes from the vine and eat as many as you want....daydream from Grapes of Wrath style.  

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Re: PICKUP BASKETBALL THREAD
« Reply #418 on: July 22, 2011, 03:34:56 PM »
Has Fresno swallowed up Sanger yet?

dunno.  will it alter your opinion?

Basically it will tell you the last time I was there.

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Re: PICKUP BASKETBALL THREAD
« Reply #419 on: November 21, 2011, 02:45:25 PM »
so, I moved and found a new early morning pickup game. Hardcore regulars everyday. Overall the quality of play is pretty good, but the court is tiny and doesn't have a 3 point line near the baseline and even straightaway 3's only count as 1. Since pretty much all I can do is bomb 3's, it makes me about as half as valuable as I would be on a real court. :blank:

They're also the type guys who LOVE, I mean LOVE backdoor cuts. You know how at some pickup games someone will make a nice move off the dribble and everyone will be like "OOOOOH, DAAAAAAAMMMMMNNNNN" even if he misses the layup?

Yeah, these guys do the same thing for a backdoor cut that ends in a missed layup. :jerk:

Today guarded a guy who got pissed when I didn't let him push me around in the block. He just stood in the lane trying to push me out. For like 10 seconds. What an bad person.

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Re: PICKUP BASKETBALL THREAD
« Reply #420 on: November 21, 2011, 02:47:17 PM »
michigancat....oakland streetball legend in the making  :thumbs:

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Re: PICKUP BASKETBALL THREAD
« Reply #421 on: November 21, 2011, 02:50:48 PM »
michigancat....oakland streetball legend in the making  :thumbs:

I've heard there's a park nearby where the Warriors will play pickup. may go and :alleyoop:

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Re: PICKUP BASKETBALL THREAD
« Reply #422 on: November 21, 2011, 02:51:29 PM »
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Re: PICKUP BASKETBALL THREAD
« Reply #423 on: November 21, 2011, 03:04:30 PM »
I started playing in a city league recently after not playing basketball for almost 2 years. My brain is all like "hey do this sick move and spin around this guy to the hoop just like you used to" but my legs are all like "no".

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Re: PICKUP BASKETBALL THREAD
« Reply #424 on: November 21, 2011, 03:34:24 PM »
I started playing in a city league recently after not playing basketball for almost 2 years. My brain is all like "hey do this sick move and spin around this guy to the hoop just like you used to" but my legs are all like "no".
this is how ACLs are torn  :nono: