how frustrated do you get playing with a shoot-first point guard?

Question

feel free to share a bad experience you've had with one. unless you have no problems playing with shoot-first PG, then please share some advice on how to play well with one.

BQ if you are a shoot-first PG, what is your deal? what on earth are you trying to accomplish by setting up your own shots before even looking at your teammates? all your doing is throwing you're whole team's offense out of sync.

Answer 1

Well since I'm usually the PG I don't really run into that problem all too much :D



But ya just in general, ball-hoggers are frustating to play with. It depends on the player. I've played with guys who sucked azz and they thought they were Kobe, keep jackin up shots. After a few bricks, the rest of the teammates can usually catch on and not pass it to that guy or tell him what's up. Even if someone's making shots occasionally, just the fact that they take stupid or forced shots is annoying. Ya so advice would be to pass it to other guys so he gets the point. Good thing about basketball is that the ball is there to be taken, so even you got a ball-hogger there's ways to get the ball with rebounds, steals, etc. The best gameplay to me is when you have like 2 or 3 GOOD passers / good court vision players...the ball is jumpin' in that case.



Playing vs ball-hoggers is fun. You just double team him and leave your man wide open half the time and he's too busy trying to get his own shot instead of passing so it's usually bad possessions.



Nate Robinson is like the NBA version of what you're talking about. Dude is like the shortest in the NBA and he jacks up shots like he's MJ.

Answer 2

while i play a lotta basketball, i've never played in an organized league where players are designated positions and teams and such.



but playing in pickup games, i've come across my share of those guys that bring the ball up only to shoot it right away much like a shoot-first point guard.



it's honestly 50/50 for me. it is, at times, frustrating to run down the court on offense only to run back right away on defense because the guy bringing the ball up shoots as soon as he can at the top of the key and misses.

but at the same time, my playing style has always been about just filling up the stats with at least 2 in each. kinda like a role player.

i don't care about being the "best on the team" so long as my team won. sometimes i am, sometimes i'm not, but a win is what matters most.



that said, there's been a handful of times where i've stopped the guy from doing what he does.

the simplest way is to be the guy throwing in the inbound pass. the SF-PG will obviously want the ball so what do you do? give it to a different guy.

Answer 3

Not frustrated at all, they'll miss, more than they hit, so you can get the rebound, AND put-back, double-stats same action.

Answer 4

Oh, PG I thought it was Kobe.





Hope this helps.