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Message: [QUOTE="husky429, post: 5268493, member: 6696"] Basketball in the park. Half-court. Make it take it. Call your own fouls. 3s are worth 2. 2s are worth 1. Inordinate amounts of trash talk. My brother and I went to the park with friends a lot. Starting at maybe age 12 after school and play with whoever was there. Who I really learned from was a group of guys that felt ANCIENT (probably 40) at the time. They'd all play together Sundays, Thursdays and Fridays At 5pm. Would switch to some church during the winter. They'd let the kids play with them and guard each other. When we were younger they'd just put us in the crappy runs that weren't very competitive. When I was in hs and college, I'd go and take it easy on them back. There were these two brothers and their father who was still playing at 60+. Brothers were D2 and D1 players, dad had played at the Air Force Academy in the Vietnam era. The dad would sit games with me and talk me through different actions, what someone should have done, how to communicate on defense. I'm guessing he saw how much more serious I was than other kids. I used to go to that park EVERY day all summer and take 500 3s. I would not miss a day and I would stay until it was pitch black and even if it was raining unless my mom came and got me. I'd go, shoot a couple hundred, play pick up for 2 hours and then shoot the rest. My parents couldn't afford AAU (and it wasn't so popular then) so I was just neurotic about become a shooter. [/QUOTE]