How to Practice Pickup Basketball Etiquette

Video Transcript

"You know, when you're learning to play ball, one thing that you really need to start doing to get better is playing pickup. Now, one way to do that is to practice perfect pickup etiquette. Hi, I'm Travis, and this is how to show, I'm just going to show you exactly how to practice that pickup etiquette. Alright, first of all what you want to do is you want to find a game, find a game that suits your skill level. Then, once you find that game, you want to make sure you put yourself in a position to get into the game next. So, a lot of times what you'll have is you'll have someone call, you'll call next, and say I got next game, simple as that. After you call next game, when the previous game is over, what they'll do is, the team that lost, the team that lost, you'll pick from that team that lost. You'll pick four players, if you're playing five on five, you'll pick four players from that losing team. Alright, and you'll start to play. What you need to also do, you need to understand most court, most games, pickup games go to eleven. After you go to that, gotten the score, you go to eleven, you can kind of figure out, you'll kind of be able to figure out how the game goes, and what the rules are. You need to kind of figure out what, understand what the rules are of that particular, that group that you're playing with, before you play, because sometimes rules vary. Another thing that you need to do is before you start any of this, before you start to play the game, you need to make sure you warm up and stretch, to make sure that you prevent all injuries. There you have it, practicing basic pickup etiquette."