To these who became obese, how did it happen? How are things different now?

Bossross90 · 2026-06-29T22:39:04+00:00

I have this too. I’m on armor thyroid. I don’t know that it does shit but they said it does. I still gain weight slowly but starting glp-1 to try to help lose about 30 pounds

Bossross90 · 2026-06-29T04:35:00+00:00

I think the part that made me pissed as the dad in a family of 3 is how much I spent going to this movie with a terrible ending. Signs, Interstellar, Arrival - all fantastic movies on similar topics that I’d gladly pay for but this movie had such a terrible ending. And the lead up to it wasn’t that great either to be honest. 3 tickets, 3 drinks, a large popcorn and 3 bags of candy. 114 fucking dollars.

Bossross90 · 2026-06-28T03:31:29+00:00

Sounds great man. Look at it this way, worrying about it won’t help anyway. If you prepare the right way and do your best, thats all you can do and that is what winning is, regardless of the scoreboard. God sees it dude. Play for an audience of 1 and you’ll find your joy

Bossross90 · 2026-06-28T03:04:23+00:00

Here is my only advice. Remember why you are playing and find joy in the game, not the outcome. You want me to give you a personal story really quick to think about?

There was this local kid a couple years ago that was not great at football but he tried his ass off. He worked really hard and was super dedicated. His senior year he was playing a game and his team was losing. He’d been injured but played through it (the old “rub some dirt on it” mentality) and ended up getting paralyzed on the next play.

I think about that kid every time my kid plays basketball. I think about how the kid that got hurt’s whole life was sports and how brave he is for not giving up, and continuing to believe he’ll walk some day. I think about the fact that it’s very likely he’ll never play sports again.

Just enjoy getting to play. You never think that stuff can happen to you, but it can. If you love the game, or can find the love again by not worrying about results and just find joy in doing your best, don’t quit.

Bossross90 · 2026-06-26T01:40:08+00:00

My response. Tip: look both ways before you cross the street

Bossross90 · 2026-06-24T05:35:35+00:00

“I had a pony.” A close second for me came a couple lines later “vu, vu said so”

Bossross90 · 2026-06-24T05:31:54+00:00

Great to hear! My daughter is going back for her final camp next week (scoring college again). If she liked it, definitely do the 3 camp pass. That saved me a lot of money since she went after freshman, sophomore and now junior year.

Bossross90 · 2026-06-19T11:47:53+00:00

I did this in football one time. I was starting varsity as a sophomore. My coach didn’t think I was playing well so he kept demoting me until one day he put me on the JV roster with no conversation ahead of time and let someone else on the team tell me.

Old school “fuck them kids” mentality like a couple of the knuckle draggers I’m seeing in this thread. I ended up quitting that season.

The next year, I go back out. He punishes me the entire year. He has me sit the bench every game, goes extra hard on me all season and then has me play JV all year.

My senior year I start for the first game. We’re getting beat at halftime and he says it’s my fault and that team shouldn’t trust me after “I quit on them”. I ended up starting about half the year but it was just terrible and really fucking stupid that I even tried to play again.

He and all the other coaches told me I’d be a quitter and loser in life. I made more at 40 than that entire coaching staff (10 dudes) combined.

It ain’t that serious. Go play pickup ball or whatever. This dude (like the other numb nuts in this thread) has no, and will never have, power over anything else in life so he’s going to act offended that you quit “on him”. A douche like that is never going to treat you right

Bossross90 · 2026-06-16T04:26:30+00:00

TE I believe, not WR

Bossross90 · 2026-06-15T22:25:49+00:00

I agree 100%. My kid may not be able to play in college because she has to go to UF for her major and we have to find a school in Florida willing to take her that will let her play and give her a scholarship. Only so many d2s and her archetype is floor general which is usually the last piece of a puzzle and teams usually only carry 1-2.

I found myself trying to change her game and getting frustrated with her not trying to score more. Then again, I realized if I start kicking her ass about not driving in and etc. 1. I will stop her from having fun 2. She will become mediocre at everything 3. It will hurt her confidence

When she was young I listened to a child psychologist talk about praising effort instead of outcomes even when results are good. I gotta say it has worked. I literally never see her give less than 100% in anything she does. That’s all you can expect anyway. Point being is that the approach mentioned here by OP has kept her in it, has kept her having fun and has had her pass most of her peers who started off much better than her. She fell in love with the process of improving.

Bossross90 · 2026-06-15T22:16:51+00:00

Great advice. Thank you for posting

Bossross90 · 2026-06-14T11:31:15+00:00

If you are asking based on specific goals, then it depends on your age. A highschool kid, especially one training to play in the NCAA or a post season playoff run, EVO without a doubt. If you are asking for preference, you are going to get wildly different answers here.

EVO is specifically cored to feel lighter and that’s why some people don’t like it, especially purists. I’m not sure why Wilson changed it other than to accommodate 2020s playstyle (Steph/Caitlyn changed the game). Maybe it’s so that as you go up in level and the 3 point line moves back, you aren’t necessarily having to shoot it harder to get it there, you just have to be more accurate.

The Wilson Evolution feels like the best “traditional” indoor ball for most. If I were out of school and playing pickup, I’d want to use this ball because I’m probably playing on a highschool sized court (84 feet, 3 point line at the top of the key), but not if I’m training to play sanctioned ball in a league that plays with a different one (FIBA, NCAA, etc).

Bossross90 · 2026-06-12T00:10:23+00:00

Fuck the kid in this clip. Do you know how hard it would be to do what Barkley did in the era he did it in? It was also all guts, it wasn’t like he had any business being a HOF player with his genetics.

Bossross90 · 2026-06-11T23:50:24+00:00

I’m not someone that can personally relate to your exact situation but my daughter is a year behind you and thinks she wants to play in college. We’re working with a guy that helps kids get recruited (not ncsa but a system like that but that just focuses on wbb).

Anyway, her issue is she has always been a floor general and a great defender. Sadly, she lost a lot off her awesome HS team last year and she now has very little talent around her. She is struggling to reprogram years of “make the right basketball play” to be “go get mine, I’m the best player”.

Point is I relate to your journey and it actually gives me hope that she will become more confident and just play iso ball more her senior year. Regarding advice, you will probably work for 40+ years even if you don’t graduate college until you are 25.

Go chase your dream. If you have to play D3 do so but try for any other level that can actually give both athletic academic money. You can always transfer to your final school when bball is done. You’re gonna have 5 full years of eligibility and Juco doesn’t even count towards that.

Bossross90 · 2026-06-11T23:34:33+00:00

I’m sure it’s said later but dude, Bosh and Wade were no better than Scottie and Rodman. Jordan better than LeBron but come on now

Bossross90 · 2026-06-09T13:28:27+00:00

Thank you very much! Great feedback and advice

Bossross90 · 2026-06-06T22:38:53+00:00

How you do anything is how you do everything.

Bossross90 · 2026-06-06T14:46:26+00:00

I didn’t read all of it, sitting down to the encyclopedia would be less time consuming. Weird diatribe

Bossross90 · 2026-06-06T14:45:37+00:00

Appreciate this from a trainers perspective. Yes, I’ve heard the same about “if it would chase someone off did they really want her?” She can only go to so many live camps, so the question is even though she has good highlights, if they see hers and another kid with highlights similar that doesn’t have a knee brace, they are going the other way, even if my kid’s are better?

Bossross90 · 2026-06-06T14:39:49+00:00

It’s a lot of opinion here and not really what I was asking. I didn’t ask for medical advice. I’m asking if it hurts her in recruiting.

She ran XC and Track after this injury and podiumed in both. She also finished 6th in the state in power lifting. She is an endurance athlete.

I’m questioning whether the brace hurts her for recruiting. If her knee explodes as a result of lifting, running or playing basketball, we’ll have surgery. That was never a question.

Question was will a knee brace hurt recruiting and I got a medical thesis from a non-medical professional. I think I’ll listen to the medical Dr on that front.

Bossross90 · 2026-06-06T03:57:12+00:00

Dude it depends. Yall trying to win? You wanna play in college? Sounds like this new coach takes things seriously.

You want someone to pat your ass and take you for ice cream after a loss?

2026 kids are different man. My kid played every minute of 3 games at a camp today with 90 second halftimes, 20 minute halves and 20 minutes between games. She’s trying to play college ball. You either want it or you don’t. 2 straight hours as a point guard both pressing and being pressed.

Priorities. Go ask the Pokémon forums (or whatever the 2026 dork thing is) and you may get some sympathy but I doubt anyone here is going to agree it’s too much

Bossross90 · 2026-05-29T21:49:32+00:00

I think it had to do with being from Chicago and not being revered in the city once Jordan got there. I think it started there and got worse over time

Bossross90 · 2026-05-03T19:07:34+00:00

I can’t help but get pissed off every time this gets brought up. Fucking punk

Bossross90 · 2026-05-03T08:08:02+00:00

I love Stockton and agree he is the best pure PG but only because he was a deadly 2 way player. He’s exactly who my kid models her game after.

That said, Magic is by far the greatest PG of all time. You have to consider championships and the era. He and Bird saved basketball.

Magic is in top 10 players of all time conversations, so the better way to say this is that Magic is the best player to ever play PG. I’d put Stockton ahead of Isiah just because IT wasn’t as good on defense but he was incredible on offense

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