Basketball Streetball Rules

[Mike E. Vegas]

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Being knocked down or hearing the slap is usually acceptable.

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This is the correct answer on how fouls are to be called.

[James282]

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Playing no "and 1s" is ridiculous and i've never heard of that...

Why do you play that way?


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wtf?

because if you don't then dudes can call fouls every possession with no downside. in the games i play if you lose you may have to wait 2 hrs to get back on the court. if its 11-11 one team can call fouls on every shot until they win.

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Then you tell them to shut the [censored] up and stop playing them. The people waiting will agree that they are being douchebag morons.
-James

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I don't understand why anyone would play winners out, whats the incentive for winning??? Seriously though if your rotation of games is quick win 4 straight games to 5 and you're pretty [censored] tired it's ot like we play to 5 then sit around talking about doing our nails. If anything this makes the games more tiring as one team is almost always fresh.

[SossMan]

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I don't understand why anyone would play winners out, whats the incentive for winning??? Seriously though if your rotation of games is quick win 4 straight games to 5 and you're pretty [censored] tired it's ot like we play to 5 then sit around talking about doing our nails. If anything this makes the games more tiring as one team is almost always fresh.

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winners outs means ball doesn't change posession after a made bucket. usually reserved for half court games.

[lapoker17]

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Then you tell them to shut the [censored] up and stop playing them. The people waiting will agree that they are being douchebag morons.
-James


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james - see this is the very reason there is no continuation - so you don't have to worry/argue about it. your logic seems off.

also, telling people to shut the [censored] up and then building concensus with those on the sidelines sounds like it would work well at the college gyms where most of you guys seem to have played your ball, but i didn't go to college and neither did any of the other guys at the park.

[James282]

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Then you tell them to shut the [censored] up and stop playing them. The people waiting will agree that they are being douchebag morons.
-James


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james - see this is the very reason there is no continuation - so you don't have to worry/argue about it. your logic seems off.

also, telling people to shut the [censored] up and then building concensus with those on the sidelines sounds like it would work well at the college gyms where most of you guys seem to have played your ball, but i didn't go to college and neither did any of the other guys at the park.

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Where I grew up, near Trenton in New Jersey - I played plenty of basketball in an area like you describe. I know that if some dick was calling foul after foul trying to prolong the game, he would just be called a pussy and his fouls wouldn't count. I can't ever remember anyone having the audacity to call more than 2 pussy fouls in one game, as a matter of fact, because if you got known for being a bitch you just wouldn't be allowed to play. In the area I grew up, the players policed themselves, with the only sensible strategy being offense calls the fouls. A foul shot was never shot once in the entire time I played in those pickup games - 5 years or so - unless we were playing 21.
-James

[lapoker17]

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A foul shot was never shot once in the entire time I played in those pickup games - 5 years or so - unless we were playing 21.


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hmmm, i don't even follow this. i've never seen a foul shot in a playground game either.

if there is continuation - meaning simply that the basket counts even if the shooter called the foul, then it leads to obvious problems. the more serious the foul, the more it affects the shot, and therefore the more likely it is to be called. conversely, the less serious the foul, the more likely the shot is to go in, therefore the shooter is afraid to call these softer fouls as his shot, if it goes, won't count. not having continuation simply encourages people not to call fouls unless they are near flagrant. this makes for a better game all around. i feel like you are arguing about something else.

[ColdCaller]

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I think who ever said no 3 seconds is [censored] joking, this is what makes street ball [censored]-riffic, it should be like normal ball just more contact but people shouldn't [censored] jam up the key because that makes the game slow and horrifically boring to watch and play.

3 seconds rule is what keeps basketball interesting imo it is key. I always adhere to this rule when playing streetball even though I know I don't have to.

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I agree with this - on the courts I played on, there was an unspoken code of ethics. No ghetto [censored] basketball by jamming the key and being retarded, but certainly no pansy foul calls. Typically if you commit the foul and you get it called on you, you know what you did and own up to it.

[James282]

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A foul shot was never shot once in the entire time I played in those pickup games - 5 years or so - unless we were playing 21.


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hmmm, i don't even follow this. i've never seen a foul shot in a playground game either.

if there is continuation - meaning simply that the basket counts even if the shooter called the foul, then it leads to obvious problems. the more serious the foul, the more it affects the shot, and therefore the more likely it is to be called. conversely, the less serious the foul, the more likely the shot is to go in, therefore the shooter is afraid to call these softer fouls as his shot, if it goes, won't count. not having continuation simply encourages people not to call fouls unless they are near flagrant. this makes for a better game all around. i feel like you are arguing about something else.

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Yeah, when you responded to my first point I was arguing something else. Nevermind.
-James

[goofyballer]

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A foul shot was never shot once in the entire time I played in those pickup games - 5 years or so - unless we were playing 21.


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hmmm, i don't even follow this. i've never seen a foul shot in a playground game either.

if there is continuation - meaning simply that the basket counts even if the shooter called the foul, then it leads to obvious problems. the more serious the foul, the more it affects the shot, and therefore the more likely it is to be called. conversely, the less serious the foul, the more likely the shot is to go in, therefore the shooter is afraid to call these softer fouls as his shot, if it goes, won't count. not having continuation simply encourages people not to call fouls unless they are near flagrant. this makes for a better game all around. i feel like you are arguing about something else.

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Wait, so everyone saying "and 1's" in this thread was talking about continuation?

In that case, whoever it was saying that continuation is a problem because people can just keep calling fouls on shots needs to play in a game where people don't call fouls unless they actually get [censored] fouled.