basketball health....?
918229
take a dip in the hot tub before you play. Just make sure your muscles are relaxed and not tense.
103913
basketball should be reflection of its player.  the argentinan singer doesn't have rap album coming out soon.  basketball has become to bland.  there aren't personalities in the league anymore.  the are a bunch of millionares worrying about their contracts and mistresses.  if you make 10 million dollars a year, what do you care about allstar weekend for.  keep enough fans happy so they will buy your 150 dollar shoes.  david stern is disconnected from his employees.  basketball is nothing how it use to be during the bird and magic era
813031
I would try to seek answers at a sports store, maybe a gym or basketball  instructor, good luck
928310
Well buddy, you have definitely over worked your muscle. That muscle will take a very long time to heal because you use it so much to walk. Calf raises do not give you hops'.  You need to strengthen your thighs and back legs for hops. You need to do jump ropes, plyometrics, run in sand or along the beach or even up steep hills, but not calf raises. You might be able to play Monday, but your game is going to be sluggish, because you cannot do anything. You cannot shoot because you have to use those muscles to get lift off the ground to shoot the ball. Ice you legs, then put heat on them. If you can try and not do any walking until Sunday afternoon, then go and shoot a few shots, just to get your rhythm back, then you might be okay. But if I were you, I would wait for about 5 days until I got back on the court. I don't know if this is your first game of the season or what but there are a lot more games left, I would rather be there for the regular season and the playoffs rather than the preseason. So take your time and get yourself together. Rest for now and know that calf raises, are not the thing to do get your hops right.\nGOD BLESS and good luck this year
823513
Don't focus on the game until you started stretching out for the game.  This will keep you calm.  Do something you enjoy outside of basketball...listen to music, read, etc...
626934
Wheelchair basketball?
740695
stattracker is down, the feed from the nba is bugging out....Y! will get it fixed...\n-nny
698130
as a freshman i totally understand where you are coming from, i've got swimming tryouts this week and we'll see what happens i guess. but back to you: okay sounds like you've just got nervous jitters. all that you need to do is practice. that and endurance running b/c i've never played basketball but i know enough to know that it's just one long game of suicide. just do some extra endurance training, train the way you've been training and just do your best because that's all that you can do. best of luck to you with basketball and i hope that you make the team!!
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Miami 95, Detroit 78\nHeat Overcome Wade’s Illness to Eliminate Pistons\nBox Score \n|\nHeat Home \n|\nPistons Home\n\n\nMIAMI, June 2 (Ticker) -- When Dwyane Wade came down with the flu, the Miami Heat had to be feeling a bit queasy. In the end, however, the Detroit Pistons were left feeling sick to their stomachs.\n\nThe Heat are headed to the NBA Finals for the first time in franchise history, overcoming Wade's untimely illness with a huge game from Shaquille O'Neal and hot shooting from Jason Williams in an affirming 95-78 victory over the Pistons.\n\nNBA TV highlights from\nPistons-Heat: Play\nPress Conference: Play\nThe second-seeded Heat won the series in six games and ended the two-year reign of the top-seeded Pistons as Eastern Conference champions. They play at Dallas or Phoenix on Tuesday.\n\n"To be at the point where we are now on our way to The Finals is truly amazing for this organization," Wade said. "As the saying goes with this team, they did what they do and we went out there and played team basketball at the right time of the year."\n\n"I only celebrate when it's really over," said O'Neal, who is headed to The Finals with his third team. "I'll celebrate a little bit, but like I told the guys, the job is not done."\n\nMiami avenged last year's disheartening loss, when it held the lead with less than two minutes to play in Game 7 at home but was denied by Detroit. Wade labored through that game with bruised ribs.\n\nA sickening case of deja vu swept over South Florida when Wade missed Friday's shootaround - and briefly was hospitalized - with a bad touch of the flu. He showed courage in starting and playing 37 minutes but was not himself.\n\n"At 3 a.m. is really when I woke up and I knew I wasn't going to go back to sleep," Wade said. "My wife was giving me tea and vapor rub and everything she could. I told her to call our trainer, probably 7 or 8 today, and that's when he told me I needed to get to the hospital. I stayed at the hospital until 3 p.m. They I went home and changed and came to the game."\n\n"I feel bad for him after what he had to go through in last year's playoffs," teammate Antoine Walker said. "He got hurt ... last year and to see him not at 100 percent was tough. We felt for him but we were very confident that we could pick up the slack and make it happen."\n\nWade didn't have to be 100 percent, not with O'Neal unleashing a "Shaq Attack" and Williams finally finding his shooting touch. The Heat took the lead for good in the first quarter and took off in the third period, when Wade finally got into the act.\n\nO'Neal scored 28 points on 12-of-14 shooting, grabbing 16 rebounds and blocking five shots.\n\n"Shaquille is Shaquille. We couldn't get him the ball enough," said Heat coach Pat Riley, also going to The Finals with his third different team. "We couldn't straight post him up, so we started doing a lot of things to move him a little bit on pick-and-rolls so he could get the ball."\n\n"I just told the guys that they can come to me. Whenever they need a bucket just come to me," O'Neal said. "For the first five or six minutes, I actually didn't touch the ball and I got a little worried, but everyone else was playing so well, I just became a role player - until they came to me."\n\nWilliams made his first 10 shots before missing his last two, finishing with 21 points.\n\n"I think you saw his game tonight," Riley said. "It was at the right time, there's no doubt."\n\n"I just wanted to come out and try to do what I always try to do - be aggressive and knock down open shots, and luckily they were falling for me tonight," said Williams, who was shooting 38 percent in the postseason.\n\nWade had 14 points and 10 assists. He began as a playmaker, missed the start of the
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my girlfriend has played ball almost all of her life. she said that the biggest thing you should work on is running. you run springts like crazy. and you are timed. most coaches give 10-20 seconds to run full court twice. even if you suck at shooting or anything else, if your fast, coach will at least use you to get the ball down the court. after that comes shooting and layups. you dont have to have perfect handling on the ball because they will prolly keep whateva pt guard they have. just make sure you are a good runner, and can shoot jump shots and layups
841201
Kristjan,  \n\nYou will not be seeing and injured list at Yahoo! Fantasy Basketball this season or likely any season in the future until the NBA goes through another rule change. \n\nPrior to the 2005-2006 season the NBA got rid of the Injured List in real life. Previously there were a number of conditions on injured list moves and restrictions on how long they had to be out etc. The NBA did away with all of that and instead increased the roster size of the teams. The theory being that if you had a couple of injured players you would still be able to put a competitive team out there due to the added men on the team. \n\nThe Yahoo! Fantasy Basketball structure is designed to mirror NBA rules in this manner, so before the last season Yahoo! also did away with the Injured List. Your league commissioner had the ability to adjust the number of bench spots available before the season started. I believe the default is three bench spots but your league commissioner could have set it higher to make up for the lack of an injured list. \n\nI appreciate the added level of difficulty this brings to the game, it is unfortunate to have to think about dropping a top player because he is injured, but take solace in the fact that all of your competitors have the same challenges.\n\nBest of luck.
891862
If you're on the basketball team, you're in great shape...first and foremost, do everything your coach tells you to do (and share with him your desire to play college ball), secondly, work your butt off in practice, and the weightroom, thirdly, treat every game like you are auditioning for scouts...what I mean here is you want to be showing your best stuff every time you have a game, and lastly, you need to develop a killer instinct in yourself, where you look at anyone else on the court and have a knowledge within yourself that you are better than that person.  Once you have achieved that kind of confidence in your game, you can be sure that you have the desire, attitude and skill to play at the college level or beyond...\n\nIn response to your email question to me (which I couldn't reply to because your profile doesn't allow email contact with you) here's my answer about how many hours you should spend:  \n\nWhen I was on the High School team (in the '80's...jeez I feel old), I would wake up an hour early every day before school and jog to the basketball court and do layup drills for an hour, left handed on one side and right handed on the other.  At lunch at my school there was open gym and there would be a lot of pickup games, so I would pack a sandwich for lunch and play pickup games.  Then after school there was an hour before practice, so I would spend that hour shooting free throws, and then our practices used to last for four hours...after practice I went to the library and did homework.  So all told, I was playing ball for about 7 hours a day, 5 days a week.  It all depends on how bad you want it...remember, every time you have a chance to work on your game and you don't do it...that's the time that your competition is practicing on their game and getting better.  Remember the 7 "P"'s, "Proper Prior Planning Prevents Piss Poor Performance"....Good Luck!!
1107875
I'm in the same position right now but i'm about ready, I've been doing interval sprints...thats were you sprint as far as you can then slow down till you catch your breath and your heart rate slows a little then repeat. Tons of jump shots, tons of lay-ups, and do plenty of ball handling drills. Also jumping lots of rope helps in getting your hops back. I've been doing this for about three months now while watching what I eat and I've dropped 22 lbs . I do alot of working out at the gym too but most of the running stuff you can just do at home.
1130809
I used to have the same problem as you. My varsity coach noticed that I lost energy while playing for a long time at the start of the season. Every practice I would have to do running drills that will get me into shape. I did a lot of side stepping drills, running suicides, and jumping rope. According to my coach, jumping rope increases your agility on the court. It helped me a lot. After awhile, you'll notice a change in your game play and energy as long as you keep up with your footwork drills.
1005656
Run. Alot. I run track and it helps immensely on the court. Just think, you run a couple miles everyday, then in a game, you run maybe, say, 1/4 mile. You'll be great. You'll beat your man up the floor everytime! And shoot alot too. Work on defensive drills as well as offensive. This may sound weird, but try taking tap dancing lessons. I know that sounds extremely odd but, the coaches recomd it because it makes for faster foot movement. Also, get in the gym alot, get a liftng plan going. Check it out. See if that works. Good Luck
662714
I think you guys should have lunch or hang out together in a team building activity outside softball.  I am serious..this will help build morale.  Maybe, hang out at a bar or watch an inspirational movie...like the a baseball movie..The Rookie or Bad News Bears. Also, set up a practice and work on your weaknesses.  I totally understand what you mean..except I was in a basketball team.  It is important to have fun...but when the losses pile up..its tough!  You just have to play your best and your teammates have to trust each other.  Good luck.
867774
I suggest that you keep Redd (who is out of his mind right now leading the league in scoring), Odom (who is a potential triple-double every night), Carter (who is ill right now but can really light up the scoreboard, especially now that Jefferson is out), and Marion (Who can do it all, MIN, PTS, 3 PTS Makes, REBS, ASTS, BLKS, STLS, etc.)\n\nAs for Gerald Wallace, you have what people refer to as a "poor man's Andre Kirilenko" and much like the aforementioned player, Gerald is also injury prone.  He as yet to miss any time, but with the emergence of rookie Adam Morrison and the potential return of center Primoz Brezec, the playing time of Wallace could decrease (hense, less stats).\n\nWhile in Zarundas Ilgauskas, you get a solid center that gives you at the minimum PTS, MIN, REBS (at 8 a game, I think), and BLKS.  On the negative side, he also has a history of injury problems but has seemed to avoid that the last couple of seasons.\n\nLastly, Boris Diaw.  This early into the season, Boris is a big dissapointment, especially when he told his coach that "if he were the coach, he would bench himself as well."  Diaw's fantasy numbers have dipped (he is currently averaging pedestrian numbers which are a far cry from last years 6 rebounds and 6 assists a game effort).  In all honesty, I don't see that improving unless an injury to a team mate forces him to step up and start again or his he regains the fitness that made him last year's most improved player.\n\nI feel that if you can trade Wallace for an established "C" then go for it.  Keep Diaw and Z.  \n\nHope this helps.