Talk:Streetball

message: This is pisspoor stuff here. Streetball is bigger than And1, but And1 has done alot for it. There are tons of independent And1 tour-esque groups out there and someone oughta do this page right.
:I'm going to move all the AND1 stuff into the stub at AND1 Mixtape Tour, which should make it easier to merge "streetball" and "street basketball" (clearly these refer to the same phenomenon?) Garrepi 18:56, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Streetball doesn't mean And1 

message: Just posting a remembrance, as it is 2 years since the legend of ball Antoine "Flash" Howard died of a brain tumour. There was surely never a quicker baller, and never will be another like him. "Flash", always in the memory. Check out his page or mine to post your condolences. Millm0w 11:29, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Flash Remembrance 

message: I just made a page for the Ball4Real tour, which consists of the players who defected from AND1.--Section8pidgeon 09:50, 11 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Created Ball4Real page 

message: check out the page i created on one of streetball's greats, the pharmacist. a mc donalds is so goodMillm0w 12:35, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Jamar Davies]] 

message: Since 12/19/1991 the sports equipment company ADIDAS is owner of the brand streetball (at least in Germany), which gives them control over the use of the word in Germany and maybe over this article, too (Link to the abstract of trademark No. 2010980: http://register.dpma.de/DPMAregister/marke/register/2113018/2010980/DE). In the article it is not worked out, when "street basketball" was called streetball the first time by intension and when this expression became common use. The game itself is probably as old as basketball, but what is about the expression streetball? The external links in the article don't give the idea, that the common use of the word streetball is older than the trademark is. To me streetball sounds like a typical German pseudo-anglizism for a vapoware, which is pushed into an unexploited market to get the control over it by controlling the keyword. In Germany this is the well working strategy for ADIDAS. So it would be important for the wikipedia article, if the expression streetball was used for informal baskeball appointments before 12/19/1991. When did a boy say the first time: "Mom, I'm out for streetball this afternoon" instead of using the word basketball? CBa--80.137.89.84 (talk) 13:12, 20 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Streetball as a trademark 

message: Seriously, for anyone reading this article who doesn't know what certain phrases mean, this article is often incomprehensible. For instance, the first sentence of the first section reads: "While the rules of Streetball are generally completely non-existent, Streetball places a higher emphasis on taking it to the paint and cramming it home". What is "taking it to the paint and cramming it home"? This needs to be made clear so that people can actually read this article. This is an encyclopedia after all. 82.32.185.56 (talk) 03:38, 15 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Accessibility 

message: Entertainers Basketball Classic ?
--Hydao (talk) 00:35, 11 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Entertainers Basketball Classic 

message: I have read the "Game structure" section and I have no idea what the "dead end" limit does or is. The examples given don't demonstrate in any way how its application changes the standard "win by 2" rule. A better explanation is needed. 212.178.242.129 (talk) 12:41, 15 July 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: The only thing I've ever heard of that's close to a dead-end is an absolute upper limit on the scoring.  So, if we said the game was to 7, win by 2, cap at 9, that would mean that 7-3, 7-5, 8-6, and 9-8 would all be final scores, whereas 7-6 and 8-7 would not.  The examples given in this section don't follow that rule, but I'm not sure whether that's because someone has a different rule in mind, or they just misspoke. BrianTung (talk) 23:16, 25 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Dead End" rule 

message: I think some of the text is too restrictive.  There are certainly games where there's continuation (but no free throws): You call foul and you still make the shot, you count the bucket.  There are certainly games where "and 1" is used to call a foul, not as trash.  I wouldn't call these not streetball just because the rules or usage is a little different.  We should be careful about saying such-and-such never happens, or never means this; streetball is played everywhere and usage varies. BrianTung (talk) 23:19, 25 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fouls 

message: In the section on pickup play, I edited it because it was obscure. It now says "To participate in most streetball games around the world, one simply goes to an outdoor court where people are playing, indicates a wish to participate, and from all the players who were at the court before one has played, two players acting as "captains" will get to pick their team out of the players available and play a game". (italics indicate the part I altered). Before it said "where one will get to pick put their team". It starts out saying "one" goes to the court seeking to play, and then "one" "picks out their team", which made it sound like you select the team you want to play on and join in. But from the context it is obviously talking about a person acting as captain choosing a team. So which "one" is which? And there needs to be TWO captains, unless there is "one" who selects both teams. If the first, then it isn't "one" picking out a team, its two people picking out teams. If it's the first it needs to explain it better. If it's the second, it ought to explain it as well. Who is "captain", and how to they get to be captain? Are players only selected at the start of each match? What if the numbers are odd?
Anyway, I bring this here because I honestly don't know anything about basketball, and I only added what I did because that was what it seemed to be saying. But I'm not at all sure, because it's not clear. If it is to be written from the perspective of "one who wants to play", it should say "one who wants to play can go to any court, where he or she will be selected by one of the two team captains at the start of each match" (or whatever). If it is to be written from the perspective of the captain(s) it ought to say "pickup ball is played when a group of people assemble at the court. Two captains are chosen in one way or another, and each one takes turns selecting players until each team is complete". I can't really think of any good reason to call the captain "one" unless we want to speak to the reader under the assumption that he or she is going to be the captain, and numerical odds alone make this unlikely.
64.223.159.36 (talk) 07:57, 28 March 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pick up play