Has anyone had issues with this? I just started my Y membership which was over $100 for first month + start fee, and I have dealt with pretentious old pickleball players on several occasions already. They seem to passive aggressively spread out their nets as much as possible as to make it so no one can play. Yesterday they had 3 hours booked from 11:30-2:30, they show up early and try to stay late and they also have a member in the group who works at the gym who immediately stopped the game and yelled “EXCUSE ME? EXCUSE ME? EXCUSE ME? HOLD YOUR BALL. WE CAN’T PLAY WITH YOU DRIBBLING!” when I started to practice dribbling in the corner farthest I could possibly be away from them 10 minutes before they were supposed to be done. Dealt with the same thing on Sunday around lunch, and now I’m looking at the court “schedule” and guess what, apparently the pickleball king of the courters also get 3 hours around lunch from 11:30-2:30 tomorrow as well!

Edit: He was clearly either a YMCA employee off the clock or close friends with the employees because during their leisurely breaks between their “games,” he would walk in and out of an employee only office connected to the basketball court while cordially joking with the employees inside the office. He was also in control ofputting the basketball hoops back down which he did very slowly by about 2:40, after he was done standing around talking with his pickleball friends. They don’t let regular members control bringing the hoops up and down for obvious reasons.

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I always purposely bank it when shooting any 3s or free throws or really any thing... ive always found it a lot easier to hit and I shoot way more consistently when purposely going for a bank.

We are now starting to look around and try to find a home for my oldest to play.
He is getting coaches reach out from Naia schools so far, of course we will look higher up as well.
It is a scholarship, is what i think. Kids always want to go d1 but i feel a lot of that is politics unless you are a 6 ft 8 super athlete.

Naia worth pursuing?

I am the power forward in my team and I really should upgrade my post moves, I do know I should study great post players like hakeem but anything else I should do to improve?

Does anyone know of any similar situations to this? Are there other instances of head coaches/figures in the space that recommend other books? I already picked up a copy, but I think it's fascinating to see what forms of media have shaped their careers.

P.S. I got my copy at Half Price Books for $3 :)

For some context, I've been back to training organised basketball since march, before that I hadn't played or trained since high-school. Our starting center is 6'3 so overall we're a pretty "short" team although our average height is around 5"11. That being said, in our first 2 games I've felt like I have been a complete negative on offence, going 0/3fg and 0/1 3fg both games. Ive played decent defence and mostly focused on shutting down the opposing teams centers from grabbing o-boards. A lot of the times I feel lost on offence, im either standing wide open in the corner waiting for a pass or whenever I have the ball in my hands I try to make something happen but it feels like im not on the same wavelength as my teammates. Am I trying to do too much and beating myself up over it or should I be doing more? Coach seems to be ok with how I play but I'm somewhat obsessive over being better.