My SLVJ is v. modest, maybe 25-27" max in ideal conditions. I wouldn't trust it (game time) tbh. But i get you, it's a bit quicker for game time speed, best left for naturally athletic people not weight trained ones like me.
Watching the recent manu ginobili retirement video NBA put up on youtube and one of the scenes has coach pop saying something like 'keep shooting. follow thru, keep shooting. be brave and aggressive' and i think that's the kind of mindset i need to dunk in games. Im so scared of contact, when i shouldnt be, cue walter white 'i am the danger' .. i was guarding someone today and i gently swiped at the ball while he drove full steam into the middle but he said i pushed him! i was back peddling and playing it soft to avoid fouling. If i was actually being physical .. i think it would be a different matter altogether.
i got to tell you guys, baskertball was amazing. I felt so strong and powerful .. i wore the vest for 90% of the time, i only took it off for the last game to 11, cos one dude got injured and i'd got cold and i just thought that's enough training for today, lemme have some fun. I was doing SVJ dunks with the vest on like it was nothing, the rim doesn't even give that much and i was hitting it hard enough to pull it down. The vest makes it impossible to take jumpers, but i can still do jump hooks and stuff. So i dont mind not shooting. Got some massive blocks, even with the vest on.
it got really heated and competitive cos one guy was playing very aggressive defence on me. ive got bruises on both of my arms, one of them is swollen and ive got popped blood vessels on the other arm. Thing is i was wearing a vest, i have been cutting pretty hard for 9 days (1 meal a day) and im low carbing and glyocogen depleted. but htis motherfucker was something else. i posted him up and he fouled me everytime, i didnt call it, just kept playing thru it all. he was calling ticky tacky fouls (not on me but others). afterwards we sat down and hd a chat, turns out he played pro ball .. motherfucker is 40 years old and still dunking (he's a personal trainer or something so in really good shape). he made that session intense af. I do think if he was guarding me like this in a proper game he'd have long fouled out. But it's got me down .. the guy went like 90% on 3pt shots .. (these islander team i watched on monday said something like 'i hate the way they (another team) play, it's just faggot shooting' - and i can so relate to that. it's boring when you're playing against a team just putting up shitton of jumpers. i called him out eventually said are you afraid to come into the paint (cos i was protecting it) and he was just pulling up for jumpers off screens. weak mans. But fair enough, that's the game i get it. im not quick enough to play him close on the perimeter cos he'll burn me and there was no rim protection with me out. Did eventually get one of the guards to d him up and that took him off the game. Because he'd have to score over me in inside. So he was now settling for runnign jumpers. But guards are not that bright, they dont know how to guide a player into a trap with a rim protector .. so he was still getting layups on these guys and im like wtf bro, just bring him towards me so we can trap him and i'll block his ass ha ha. He was really good, easily one of the better players ive played against skill wise. I do wonder how i'd fare in better conditions.
