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Thank you all for your input! And yes, shakran, your post is as relevant as everyone else's. Seige, I don't have any trouble keeping up in a game of basketball. I'm actually very fast. I'm 250 lbs, but I can run faster than my track-team friends (I was never on track team before, but I've ran with them in certain incidents before, and I was always faster than them). Granted, they have more stamina and hence endurance than I do, but stamina and endurance isn't a primary problem of mine when it comes to basketball. When I play, I play for 4-6 hours straight. My main problem is quickness and coordination. I can do a nasty crossover, but against experienced players, it's pretty much useless because I'm not very quick at all. I'm taller than a lot of people I play with, but I still have trouble in the post because I'm not always able to get the ball above my head quick enough. Too many times it's either smacked out of my hands as I'm bringing it up, or they're able to get that hand in my face as I'm shooting.
That's another thing I need to work on: quick shooting. My outside shot is competetive, but again, not quick at all. That leaves me only shooting when I'm way open. If I'm tightly guarded, I'm usually not quick enough to get an effective shot off before the defense reacts. Usually when I hit shots like that, like I said I'm usually really open, or just taller than my defender. I've played against And1's "50" before, and let me tell you: shooting over him was a chore. And it was mainly because of his height and my lack of quickness. He was dunking all over me, and I only hit three three-pointers in the entire game. That was it, and it was only because I caught him slipping. If he was on the ball like he should've been, he would've had three more easy blocks.
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