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Old 06-27-2008, 08:24 AM
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Default When did you start playing basketball?

jus wanted to see what y`all had to say.i started to play jus after my 12th birthday and im 16.5 now(i grew up in England so thats probably why it took me so long to discover bball).when i started to play i was 5foot! and a matchstick now im 5'8.5 (still pretty skinny though).
back then i would shoot 3`s and made a surprising amount(but i used to use sling shot method!)but now using a more technically sound shooting technique, 3`s are more difficult?,but midrange is my thing now.

basketball is my life now and i jus wish i discovered it at a younger age.
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Old 06-27-2008, 09:06 AM
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Default Re: When did you start playing basketball?

is started playing seriously in grade 6, which was when i was also 12. thing is, i greatly improved in those three years. just gotta improve vert, and get bulked then ill be an all round player.
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Old 06-27-2008, 09:07 AM
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Default Re: When did you start playing basketball?

i started on my 14th birthday wen i was 5'6 im now 17 years and 2 months old and 6'2, like you i live in england so it took a long time to hear about basketball and even longer to find a club.. but its all going well now even tho its the offseason
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Old 06-27-2008, 09:18 AM
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Default Re: When did you start playing basketball?

i started when i was about 11 i wish i would have started earlier i would be so much better now but i used to play football before that
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Old 06-27-2008, 09:21 AM
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Default Re: When did you start playing basketball?

everybody else i know seems to have started at a younger age.. ive only been playin 3 years, got a gud work ethic though.. so ive made up for all the lost time
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Old 06-27-2008, 09:41 AM
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Default Re: When did you start playing basketball?

I started playing at 11 years old, got rejected by my school team (I only played 1 months then), so trained hard during holidays, started becoming really good this year. Always thinking and learning about basketball. Plays a Jason Kidd style. So point is work hard and we can make it.
Going to appeal to my school's basketball team in a few months.
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Old 06-27-2008, 10:02 AM
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when i was 12. See i was horrbile back then. I was more of a all around sports person. Since basketball was my weakst sport i played i wanted to become ok at it. Now i am a BEAST at it. I trained my ass off day in day out school day, not just holliday. I went from rarely hitting a lay-up to a kobe bryant scoring type, Gilbert arenas 3pt, Ben Wallace at blocking. These are my stats now

FT: 92%
Mid Range: 82 %
3pt Line: 29-36% depends

btw the i am learning everyday fixing my game, if i wanna be the best to ever step onto an NBA court or even touch a ball you gatto do what it takes. BTW i dont just go out and shoot around like what most ppl do. I do my reasearch prctice moves drill after drill after drill. My motto "you gotta earn your shower"
BTW my goal is to dunk a softball by the end of summer and MAKE 100,000 shots at the MIMIMUM!!. So far i have 4,110 made. I plan on getting a HELL of A ALOT more today. See yall in a lilttle bit...

ALso i ppl say i am way beyond my years i am like a lebron james being ahead of his years. I have sooooo much work ethic. School year i try to play 2-3 hours a day GAME SPEED. Summer days i practice ALL day, not all day but over 6-7 hours. Ppl say when i get to high school next year as a freshman i will most likely make the varsity to or at the least FOR NOW JV Basketball and i have been improving at such an unexplanible rate some ppl say.. I will be a BEAST next year. All it takes is work ethic time devotion and knowldge and you on the road to success.

BTW i am not trying to bragg but i am just saying the truth
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Old 06-27-2008, 10:54 AM
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i strted playin ball at age 15 a couple of months before my 16th birthday now im 17, i also live in England although im not from here (Africa ) i used to play football alot untill at skool were had P.E i scored a 3pointer before tha wistle winning the game, since then i jus bin practicin b-ball i really wished i strted earlier
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Old 06-27-2008, 12:43 PM
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Default Re: When did you start playing basketball?

wow all of you guys started at an old age I started when I was 3 or 4 and now im 16 going in to my junior year of high school and gettin scouted by D1 schools
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Old 06-27-2008, 12:54 PM
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Default Re: When did you start playing basketball?

got interested in grade 4. never really started until grade 6 though. always was better than everyone else.
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