Gibson Siegrist
Jul 25, 2017 · 2 min read

Dear Try-hard, Ball hog and lazy Pick-up basketball players,

We are only playing for fun and not the NBA Finals. If the ball goes out on you say it was out on you. I like playing with you guys but you have to pass the ball sometimes. Last time I checked no one here is LeBron James. So please pass the ball so that we can all have some fun.

If you make a mistake just say it was your bad. You don’t need to make excuses to back up how good you are. Trust me, if you were any type of real talent you wouldn’t be here, right now, playing with us guys that just love to play ball. Please don’t dribble the ball the entire time either. No one wants to come to the rec center to watch some washed up athlete try to relive his dreams and show everyone that he should be in the league.

Nobody likes playing with a ball hog. We know you can dribble and shoot a little bit. So can we, otherwise we wouldn’t have came to play. And for god sakes please don’t try to dunk in between games. It takes up time and you only dunk once out of twenty tries. So save yourself the embarrassment and go get a drink of water and rest so you can actually play defense this game.

For you guys that don’t like to play defense, you do know if the other team out scores us we lose right? So don’t play only one side of the game.

I’m ranting and telling you these things because we just want to come out to the rec center and play some basketball the way it was suppose to be played. Not what you do in video games and see on T.V. So basically what I am trying to say is get over yourself and just love playing basketball like the rest of us.

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