"You're a Triple Threat"
"You're a Triple Threat"
Oct 01, 2021
As a Shooter, the better your Shot gets, the More you want to show & Prove that it got better.
You gotta Show everybody that it got better.
You Have to Show the competition; that they aint ready.
neva gonna be Ready...
Eva
Them being ready, means you aint been at the range Long Enough.
Half Court Shots @ Harrowgate Park aka Carver. Chester Va. Photo Credit: Young OldHead
"Live By The Jump Shot; Die By The Jump Shot"
but I kept shooting...
The "Thought" never scared me because it still felt good...
To be able to Let that Thang go, and be ok with the Result.
Little did they know it was a strength.
What do you do when you don't want to miss??
I always assumed it was to: Take Your Highest Percentage Shot.
Being in Cali and not having the ability to hoop with my "Day 1 Hoopers" was fucked up.
I torched a LOT of bodies!!!
And my Homies didn't get to see it.
The Dudes that assisted w/ my Development, is the ones I always want to see the Growth. It means more.
& The Movie Plays out Better that way. My Way.
"You're a Triple Threat"
I was in Cali when dude said that to me. Camarillo to be exact.
When bro said it that, that Quote; that shit hit the back of my Brain and took a Seat in The Rafters. I didn't act surprised, but damn it felt like another trophy to hear that.
I wasn't even trying to be "that guy" that evening. I was just trying to hold my own and have a lil fun in the process.
When you Hoop in different Cities, you have an opportunity to be "The One".
Now...being the best player on the court never mattered to me. Being the Go-To, 1st option, all that... Never mattered to me.
Cause ima get mine.
(That's not a selfish mentality, just a fact I keep in the back of my mind, when I'm Hoopin and trying to make plays for others; and make plays for myself).
But them Days when everything is Lake Minnetonka...
Show Out. Put their Heart in the dirt. If you Pull, you better not miss... & if you happen to miss, you better be the 1st one to get the rebound.
Shoot that Bih like Kadeem Hardison running baseline, & you're Marlon goin Senseless...
..Then we goin to Sizzler.
If I have a shitty offensive game on a Pick-Up, I try to let the disappointment go because I normally don't fail too much defensively. When I do fail, I hold my head and man enough to apologize to my teammates for the opportunities where I didn't execute.
Even when you're Off, YOU can Still add additional Value.
Even without touching the ball.
but...
It still bothers me when my Shot doesn't fall...
...I'm not supposed to miss
Steph Curry's Under Armour Commercial.
Basketball Audition. Los Angeles, Ca. Photo Credit: allaccesslifestyle
The Homies are the ones I want to see the Growth.
I just want to Compete.
And show I run shit; too.
Dude called me a "Triple Threat" that day because I was holding the Range & getting everybody involved. Smacking shit; cookies from the bay, all that.
One of those L.O. type of games where you're running everything. From the 1 to tha 5.
kobe's smile in the pic above is a Smile that you rarely see from him while he's working. The years L.O. Played as a Laker, is when I developed a 2nd Fav Player.
I wasn't really missing much that day.
Still just a handful of days that I been @ that particular 24 Hour Fitness putting in work.
Having Performances like that day, and the compliments are what instills that confidence to pull-up a couple extra feet behind the Arc.
How they Gon know if you don't Pull it?
~ Trust The Shooter ~
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