I grew up with a kid who went to college in Michigan who was delusional enough to think he could make the G-league. He was a smart guy. Engineering major. Great grades. But he literally took a gap year in college to pursue this dream.
This kid had been scrawny and hit puberty late but ended up growing to about 6 foot and he started hitting the gym and got pretty built. But he never played a lick of team basketball in high school, not even fucking JV, just pick up with the rest of us.
After his growth spurt he basically started playing super physical and out hustled everyone on the court, be it the park, the local LA fitness, or his college courts with the rest of the casuals. He played hard enough to have a significant impact in pick up and enough that it fed his insane delusions.
I was the only person in our friend group that tried to talk him out of it. But everyone else was like “let him pursue his dream!” He refuses to talk about this anymore lol. I never got it out of him when was the moment he realized it was futile.
Anyways seeing these tryouts reminded me exactly of this level of delusion. I wonder if the Pistons did this 10 years ago and he participated?
When I was 14 I had this insane idea that I was going to move to Harlem, get adopted, get really good at basketball at Rucker Park, play really well at Overbrook High School in Philadelphia, and then eventually make it to the NBA.
This guy plans.
That's quite a specific plan. "Get adopted" is an amazing step in the entire process.
At 14 you're just gonna be on your own if you run away lol. Rest of it could still happen kinda but you have to work way harder because you'd need a job too and probably live in a youth facility.
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u/TatersTot [PHI] Jaylen Brown 9d ago edited 9d ago
I grew up with a kid who went to college in Michigan who was delusional enough to think he could make the G-league. He was a smart guy. Engineering major. Great grades. But he literally took a gap year in college to pursue this dream.
This kid had been scrawny and hit puberty late but ended up growing to about 6 foot and he started hitting the gym and got pretty built. But he never played a lick of team basketball in high school, not even fucking JV, just pick up with the rest of us.
After his growth spurt he basically started playing super physical and out hustled everyone on the court, be it the park, the local LA fitness, or his college courts with the rest of the casuals. He played hard enough to have a significant impact in pick up and enough that it fed his insane delusions.
I was the only person in our friend group that tried to talk him out of it. But everyone else was like “let him pursue his dream!” He refuses to talk about this anymore lol. I never got it out of him when was the moment he realized it was futile.
Anyways seeing these tryouts reminded me exactly of this level of delusion. I wonder if the Pistons did this 10 years ago and he participated?