Good points:
- Good ballhandling skills. Can dribble with both hands, through the legs, around the back pretty easily.
- Pretty good at penetrating and getting a shot off. While not blinding fast or able to jump amazingly high, very good at controlling the ball and finding the basket.
- Fair amount in the offensive repertoire: scoops, lay-ins, reverse lay-ins, hook shots.
- Good ability to jump far. Can't jump all that high, but there's hang-time. This allows for some pretty decent & sometimes creative finishes near the basket.
- Knows the game well-where teammates will be/should be. How to run an offense. Positioning. How to shoot for percentage (e.g. close to the basket).
- Good passer.
- Very accurrate on mid-range jumpers.
Challenges:
- For someone this size, surprisingly not all that fast. More specifically, not all that quick, in a first step or reacting to anothers' first step. In terms of the game you like to play (slashing to the basket), this is a major boner.
- Not able to jump all that high. Definitely a hinderance in getting shot off. Would venture to say that with more speed & a better vertical, you'd be very difficult to stop. Of course, I guess who couldn't say that?
- Love of attacking the basket can lead to getting into the lane without any idea of what to do, which leads to getting in trouble and getting blocked a decent amount.
- Flying directly in the face of the infamous "perfect form" comment, jump-shot shooting form is far from it. Jump-shot, most of the time, is a bent-arm sort of flick of the wrist that doesn't look quite right.
- Effort vs. return equation historically way off balance. Much too much needless energy expended in futile actions as a result of some kooky notion it is the "honorable" way to play. Would behoove you to give up the outside shot more often, let the crazy bounces go out of bounds, and not race off after fast breaks on the 15% chance the guy will miss the layup. You probably won't get the rebound, anyway.
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Dan you forgot to mention in your strengths section how good you are at adapting to any court anywhere and at any time. You are also the king of night basketball. Do you remember your bachelor party? You were plastered so maybe not. You made a ton of shots in the dark. All hale!
You always claim I can adapt to any court, any time. I think it just seems like that in relationship to you, who is locked in to only being able to play at a single court, at a single time (that one court up in Fridley that one time when you kicked ass).
I can't & won't play on a rain-slicked court, nor one of ice.
I do remember that bachelor party night. The number of crazy shots I was hitting while drunk was really amazing to a level that far exceeds the number of times it has actually ended up getting talked about since. And you think my game was on for my bachelor party, you should have seen me the night of my wedding: BOO-YAH!
Maybe you should play all of your games drunk off your ass? You could be a draft pick for the NBA.
No, that would be if I played all my games high on weed.
I have no recollection of playing basketball at Dan's batchelor party, or at best an extremely vague one.
Even at your height, I think you could play a sort of power forward amongst our ilk and do just fine. You have taken on the mantle of point guard but I don't think that should be an inevitable thing - I think you would do well to work in and around the basket as a power forward, exploiting your sterngth, willingness to make contact and assortment of shots.
I would describe your shot as a sort of 'squirt' involving both hands almost equally.
But hey - it works.
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