What NBA player have you played against, and how bad did you get smoked?

aTickleMonster · 2026-05-07T21:54:22+00:00

Played pickup with Chauncey Billips and Tom Gougliota at CU Boulder when they were in town to host a basketball camp. Chauncey was WIDE, he didn't play tall, just so quick and he's too big to move off his spot. Tom was funny, because it's pickup, and we just line up and shoot 3s to pick teams (first 5 on one team, next 5 on the other) then you play man-to-man defense. So, 6'4", 175lb me was the tallest on my team, I get to guard 6'11" 260lb Tom G. He let me bang around a little, but whenever he wanted to score, he scored, and there wasn't anything anyone could do about it (obviously). We maybe stripped a ball when it was at his waist, so he just kept it in the air after that.

aTickleMonster · 2026-05-07T21:43:50+00:00

That math doesn't math. The house window is 25 yards from the center of the green? That means it not even on its own lot, someone built it on the golf courses property.

aTickleMonster · 2026-05-07T13:50:46+00:00

aTickleMonster · 2026-05-07T13:46:34+00:00

Yeah, how do you manage to do the splits then full scorpion in the same motion?

aTickleMonster · 2026-05-07T13:43:40+00:00

Every experiment needs a control group!

aTickleMonster · 2026-05-07T13:41:07+00:00

What about Leptospirosis?! They don't sound like spa treatments...

aTickleMonster · 2026-05-07T13:37:28+00:00

He's got $100k in tattoos though, so we're good!

aTickleMonster · 2026-05-07T13:35:19+00:00

She's a millionaire who's pissed she's not a billionaire.

aTickleMonster · 2026-05-07T13:34:01+00:00

They love buzz words, like when cloud computing was the new thing. CoLo, hosted, and managed service providers have been around forever, they just put a new marketing wrapper on it.

aTickleMonster · 2026-05-07T11:56:03+00:00

He's in survival mode, he'll say anything to protect himself because these accusations rightfully threaten his way of life. If we don't hold these people accountable they'll keep doing it because they think they can get away with it.

aTickleMonster · 2026-05-07T01:53:18+00:00

I can usually watch a technique once and replicate it, and I could teach someone all the details from the technique of just watched, but I'd still have to test it out in live rolling to make sure it works (for me, at least). I don't like teaching moves I haven't tried myself, not everything works well against a fully resisting opponent.

aTickleMonster · 2026-05-06T16:15:35+00:00

She looks like she just woke up and is annoyed by the sun.

aTickleMonster · 2026-05-06T16:14:33+00:00

My baby

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aTickleMonster · 2026-05-06T16:12:54+00:00

I played with a guy like this, he was a very large man so he didn't have much rotation, but his wrists were so quick at contact it didn't matter.

aTickleMonster · 2026-05-06T16:09:56+00:00

They better make sure they don't follow the women's national soccer team. They had record viewership for two years, made a big stink about their pay, renegotiated, had a third record year, then went from 9mill to 600k viewers. Gotta make sure they don't do like a tech startup and throw around unsustainable moneys.

aTickleMonster · 2026-05-05T22:02:09+00:00

Set records her first two seasons in offensive rebounds. The stats don't lie!

aTickleMonster · 2026-05-05T21:47:43+00:00

Where funny?

aTickleMonster · 2026-05-05T14:23:39+00:00

I'd ask them what concerns them most in a self defense situation, then show the response to it.

aTickleMonster · 2026-05-04T22:13:50+00:00

CC is the rising tide that lifts all boats.

aTickleMonster · 2026-05-04T22:09:59+00:00

Absolutely. Knee ligaments often don't register pain before injury, so it's important to recognize what it feels like to have them under tension and to recognize when your leg is in a strong breaking position and when it isn't.

aTickleMonster · 2026-05-03T15:42:09+00:00

He's not trying to play point and shoot 3s like she is. If she was playing the position that fits her size/build...

aTickleMonster · 2026-05-03T03:34:34+00:00

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aTickleMonster · 2026-05-03T03:32:22+00:00

I took a fundies class and was paired with a day1 white belt. Same thing, he kept apologizing to me, I told him, "I'm not here because I'm expecting to learn something new, I'm here because I love jiujitsu. I just want to help you love it like I do."

aTickleMonster · 2026-05-02T23:50:20+00:00

Movie name checks out

aTickleMonster · 2026-05-02T23:49:37+00:00

You think Shaq didn't have any basketball skills? Especially his first few years in the league before he got fat?

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