I think I may be ready for D1 in a year or two because of my insane jumpshot and slowly improving athletic ability... i routinely destroy this 6'6 shooting guard who's a damn junior in HS (averaging about 32ppg on varsity, and i think his championship game is today) who plays for York Prep. I mean we have LITERALLLLLY played 1-on-1 about FIFTY (50) times and I have beat him. He's getting a shit loaod of D1 looks because he's young, tall, and has a HELL of a 3 point shot. He's just skinny and lanky right. But out of all the times we've played, I've beat him...
every.single.time.
EXCEPT For the very last time we played, in which i lost by two points. Like I mean my record against his is probably 62-1, NO EXAGGERATION. And I mean that I have literally WRECKED this kid like 16-4 and 11-1 and 21-6 everyyyy singllleee timeeeeeeeeeeeee we play because NO MATTER WHAT HE DOES he just cannot stop my jumpshot...
I'm a freshman in college right now at fordham university, but i swear i think i can make the team. I'm doing a 5 year program anyway so I have another 4 years left...
omg man.... i just regained a lot of my motivation for basketball..... i need to re-name my log to "Dreyth's Journey to Division I Basketball."
i swear i think i can make that team because they're mid-major and kinda suck anyway, and i'm 6'1 but my jumpshot has insane potential (i remember being like 15 and hitting dozens of 3's in a row in game with LITERALLY fingers touching my face)... i just need to be like that every single day, and not just on my "on fire" days.
I never woulda thought I'd be so motivated to play basketball again like this. I can't forget that I'm on a mission and basketball is my life.......
haha glad you are re-motivated to play ball man.. it'll have you jumping even higher too, you'll be in much better shape.
as for making a team, i echo what stuck said, you'll want to really get in alot of full-court work instead of just 1-1's etc, league ball would be the most beneficial, if you could find a league playing 1-2games per week that'd be your best bet right now, on top of some daily training but nothing overboard like i see these people doing in 24 hour fitness.. "4 hour basketball practice sessions while moving like snails".. quality over quantity.
Thanks Adarq!
I am really really motivated by your words. I will bookmark this thread and read it over and over again when motivation is low and when life is shits on me hard.
awesome man glad it hit home with you.. i approach VJ initially from the standpoint that "it is hard and it shits on you".. i never expect gains to be easy at this point, i'm well passed the newbie stage.. so even a 1 inch gain in vert to me is monumental, i need around 8-9 more inches to hit my goal, so each of those is going to be very hard to come by..
injuries and setbacks happen, it sucks, but they always happen at some point in performance improvement training, it's pretty much inevitable.. once we get to the intermediate/advanced stages, we're constantly pushing our limits, that stuff comes with some risk but the awards far outweight the risks, we just have to try and minimize those risks as much as possible and stay healthy, really be smart about training, listen to our bodies, try not to do anything stupid etc.
but ya it's very hard to achieve "what we want to achieve", if it were ANY LESS hard, more people would be doing it.. instead, hardly anyone makes real gains.. after the newbie gains, hardly anyone progresses and most people just become content with a 5 inch gain etc.
peace man
