Shirts and Skins Poll

It appears that shirts and skins is not the favored method of dividing teams in the 21st century. Three ballers said shirts and skins is antiquated and insults the intelligence. Two said they preferred skins. No one, I guess, likes the division of teams by race or ethnic origin.

In fact, that's always really awkward when that happens. You're on the court with nine strangers. There's a black guy, a few Asians, maybe a latino. No one knows anyone else's names, so you're trying to explain who's guarding who. You point to the black guy and say, "you're guarding the guy in, uh, the purple shorts." So awkward. Then there are the times when you're the only X in a group of all Ys. This used to happen to V.T. all the time. He played with a group of Israelis for a while on West 6th Street. Everyone but V.T. spoke Hebrew. Then there's the park on 43rd street in Hyde Park in Austin. V.T. was the "white boy." Come to think of it, the Church is pretty damn white. It just dawned on V.T. after looking at those photos on the blog. Ok, now we're really getting off topic.

Pickup style: rocking the headband

For all the old-man-ball fashionistas out there: A Guide to Wearing Headbands

[via TrueHoop]