Name: Geez I wonder...
Height: 6'5 or 6'6
Weight: 93kg
Age: 19
Location: Adelaide
Preferred Position: SF/PF
Playing Position: SF (until I get forced to play PF due to short people on team)
Experience: 8 or 9 years
Favourite NBA Player: Dirk Nowitzki, Oscar Robertson, Kevin Garnett
Realistic NBA Comparison (and why): Raef LaFrentz mixed with Danny Fortson. I'm a pretty good shooter and I prefer to stay outside despite usually being the tallest on the team, but I can also rebound and play really physical defense if I have to.
Strengths: Defensive strategy (i.e playing the passing lanes without making it obvious, knowing where to be) outside shooting, blocking shots (if i bother trying) running the court, passing (read weaknesses also)
Weaknesses: Shooting confidence. If I miss a couple of times I'm likely to stop shooting alltogether. Frustration with teammates, I get annoyed at things like being forced to play completely out of position because everyone else is useless and then being told off for not doing it well enough. Passing too, because sometimes I see the play too well and my teammates dont which can result in alot of passes thrown to no one.
Favourite move you can do: For some reason my body refuses to take open shots so I seem to wait until someone jumps at me like some sort of spider monkey before I shoot. Which is cool, because I hit the shot most the time. That, and outrunning people to block shots
Favourite move you've done once:
I was playing for a new team who hadn't seen me play, once again I was the tallest on the team but they wouldn't pass me the ball because I was standing outside the 3pt line. This went on for about 10 minutes before I managed to pick up a loose ball and hit a fadeaway 3 from about 2 meters outside the 3pt line on the buzzer. The first thing I heard was the team captain saying "Whoa, where have you been hiding?"
Favourite place to shoot: Three point line on an angle.
Biggest shot you've made: I hit a 3 once and got fouled, missed the free throw, grabbed the rebound and scored from in close while getting fouled again and making the freethrow for a 6 point play. I had 6 points in that game.
Best game you've played: I had to fill in once on a All-Girls under 14's team because they were missing 3 players against the Under 16's Mens team that was leading the comp and said I wasn't good enough for their team. This was a domestic competition and coaches put their Representative teams in to get ready for the big matches on the weekends. Anyways, 3 13 year old girls and me (14 years old) against a bunch of 16 year old rep players and I scored 38 points, we lost by 2.
Most satisfying moment: Winning every game in our Rep Under 16's season by 20 points + and the grand final by 25, also beating the worst team in the comp 178-11.
Most shameful moment: I shot 1-18 once, that was pretty bad. I was missing things from like 3 feet out.
Most regretted moment: Not getting the most out of playing with the Under 18's representative team when I was 12. That could've been a great learning experience but instead I spent most of my time hating the fact that training was so hard.
Most painful moment: Playing a high school game, the other team had a player who at 14 years old was playing under 19's for Australia. He scored 78 points in that game and despite the fact that I wasn't guarding him, one of his only misses came to my "physical defense"... i.e, his knee hitting me in the face when he went up for a layup
Basketball goals for the future: No idea, just to try and find a playing style I can stick with and a team that I like playing with.
I stole this from ONYX's list...
Single game ('career') highs: These are all estimates (apart from points, rebounds and blocks)
38 points (In that domestic game, 32 of those points were from offensive rebounds))
29 rebounds (In a rep game, that was a bit surreal really)
22 blocks (:lol: when I was 17 against an under 13's girls team)
13 assists (In a rep game, I was guarded too heavily to shoot. I didn't score in that game)
8 steals (In my first game back after 2 years, I did nothing else decent in the game)
I think that's about it... I figured I should clarify those career highs considering they look fake. I have a bad habit of excelling in one area and not doing too great in all the others randomly.