“I Keep It Local” Streetball Squad The Latest / Apr 22, 2008 / 10:00 am

By Bounce

There are some foolish dunks on people about 3 minutes in, then a hilarious match between Handles and And 1’s Circus at the end.

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8 Responses to ““I Keep It Local” Streetball Squad”

1. April 22nd, 2008 at 11:24 am

   g says:

   tell handles to go @ fridge (circus) under the whistle and see what happens…. man fridge would feed that dude straight work. people get the street ball confused. its not all about (illegal) tricks,antics and crowd hyping/entertaining. somewhere along the line it comes down to winning.

2. April 22nd, 2008 at 11:45 am

   dante the badger says:

   clownball. somewhere, rafer alston is shaking his head (and not because he has to watch from the sidelines while deron williams gets NASTY)

3. April 22nd, 2008 at 12:07 pm

   Handlez says:

   Agree with yall 100%. That’s why half of our tape is filled with jumpers, hard nose defense, tournament play, and legit crosses. Circus is a much better 1 on 1 player than me, hands down right now. I was booked for that game to entertain the kids. I had 15 in that game and just 1 trick, and since that got a big reaction it made the cut on the tape. I’m actually much more of a fundamental player, but games like these I will pull out some showy shit when the crowd starts yawning. I definitely appreciate comments like that though, good to hear from some REAL streetball fans.

4. April 22nd, 2008 at 3:08 pm

   g says:

   good pickup handlez. at the end of the day a nice crossover is cool, but getting a w is why you play the game. i remember we were in philly a few years ago and hot sauce threw the ball off of Junie’s head while June was checking him. that actually made the footage clip for one of the and 1 joints (cant remember what volume it was). funny thing is they neglected to show what happened after hot sauce did that. June wanted to punch him in the face,but we stopped him. so instead June stretched out on him real thorough like. deep 3’s,even hit him with the hezzy and a cross,put him on skates for a few ticks. he hit him for about 11 points straight. the crowd kept tellin’ sauce to go out on him,no screens/pics, just man to man,but after the hezzy gave him a seizure, he didnt want to come out. too bad that didnt make the footage clip.

5. April 22nd, 2008 at 7:07 pm

   Bobbito Garcia a.k.a. Kool Bob Love says:

   i’ll attest to king handlez ability to play straight up and illegal status. him and i went at it for 3-4 hours out in vancouver two separate times while i was there doing the nba street ea commentary. great kid, quick as a 45 rpm b-boy break, with solid dribble to jumper transition on the stop of a two pence canadian coin. don’t get it twisted–you can watch a fantastic nba battle, but espn won’t show the pick and roll if they got 5 plays where cats get flushed on. all teh streetball dvds are just the same. no one is gonna buy an entertainment disc to watch jumpers. that’s why they are edited in that manner. and that’s why we cover them at bounce. it’s a part of the game, frown on it or not.

   what i do frown on is that off the forehead dribble nonsense. that’s not trickery, just straight foolishness. i’ve never condoned that action, even told ea sports that they should delete that function out the video game. it’s disrespectful. cats get mad enough and want to fight me for trying to cook and bake them with extra ajax. why would i want to humiliate them by throwing the ball off their face? i don’t know whoever invented that, but i’d love to see it done away with. it just ain’t cool.

6. April 23rd, 2008 at 12:28 pm

   Sean Couch says:

   The value of skill is measured in different ways. Kids who play the wild-style with a physical confrontation with the ball know there are ramifications. It’s like slapping a kid in the face with your hand, straight diss, no place for that.

   The complex that develops with kids who play wildstyle and emphasize tricks is when their on the whistle skills are questioned. Those questions are being answered on the streets of NY at all the tournaments in the city. Ball 4 Real and AND 1 have come up against the streets best and
   you see cats like AO get busy and others like the Professor struggle.

   It answers itself if its deemed important to that player that gets killed one day on the playground. A real player comes back, pulls his socks up and tries again. I watched my man Bobbito Garcia get better and better as a 40 year-old player on the playground. He started playing with me out in Dyckman back in 2002 and Ken Stevens dissed him and called him the “writer.” He didn’t play particularly well but he didn’t MAKE AN EXCUSE.

   He does his thing on the streets now and has respect as a straight up baller whether he gets baked or not. As for myself, straight up when I played, no one wanted me to guard them full court, ask someone and they will tell you
   I was one of the best on the ball defenders and open court
   on the run fast break finishers in the city in the 80’s and early 90’s. So when we talk we talk playground, we are official on both sides of the street game.

7. April 23rd, 2008 at 1:08 pm

   Bobbito Garcia a.k.a. Kool Bob Love says:

   shiggety sean-

   you’re absolutely right. i cringed that summer season up at dyckman in ‘03 when i ran with you and the greer brothers. i had never felt so humiliated on a court during a game in my life. ken stevens straight baked me, questioning my place on the roster. i kept coming though. it was a learning experience. and it made me stronger.

   in ‘05, i went up against headache in the quarterfinals of the last man standing 1 on 1 battle at msg. ken wrote an email to me the next day saying, ‘you still got it!’ cuz i fought headache to the end in a classic battle. and finally getting recognition from mr. stevens as a ballplayer felt invigorating. i’ve saved his letter even til today. dudes on the mic have a lot of power to affect a player’s performance, maybe more so than they ever imagine. only the strong survive, and that’s what makes dyckman park one of the hardest places to play in the world. ask cuttino mobley or anti-freeze. dudes just don’t come in there with what they’ve done at other parks or leagues. you gotta prove to that inwood crowd that you deserve to be there right then and now, every time. it’s very particular to that area. you and kareem abdul jabbar set the standard pretty high i guess, huh?!!!

8. April 23rd, 2008 at 1:41 pm

   Sean Couch says:

   bob:

   I’ve done my thing on the playground, I consider Dyckman Park the litmus test. You get put in the fire and if you come out your pure it means something. I know there are alot of folk from harlem and brooklyn who don’t feel that but it’s how I remain loyal to my neighborhood. To have my name mentioned in the same line with Kareem is a honor. I cherish my NBA opportunity and the moment my name was announced in the Garden back in ‘88.

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