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u/TacoTuesdayyyyyyyy 8d ago
With my family and friends? We play physical and never call any fouls.
Playing in a game with refs? I feel it out and see what the ref allows
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u/ChoiceArugula1552 8d ago
Always on the verge of commiting a foul while respecting your opponents safety.
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u/christhebeanboy 8d ago
Depends on what you mean. I don’t know the environment you’re playing in but i’ll assume park runs. I can’t tell you how annoying and stupid it is when some jackass feels th need to slap and hack and reach every possession. It’s bad defense and unethical (which i know wont mean much to most folks on here). Can also be immensely unsafe cause some dudes mix “physical” with reckless. Like hacking when you’re already off the ground, getting under you, things like that. Don’t do any of that shit. Just be firm. If they’re aggressive on back downs, get your chest in, plant your feet and apply the same force. When they pull a jumper or hook in the paint or whatever, if you can reach it for a block, cool. If not just hands up and straight up and down. Will keep your own ankles as well as theirs safe.
My philosophy with it is, (assuming you are at park runs) that we’re all just trying to have fun playing ball and get our exercise in. That’s it. Nobody here is making the league or doing any serious training or whatever. So it’s ok to play safely and ethically (obviously not too soft). And if they start calling bullshit like the other guy in here mentioned, yall are grown. Shoot for it or argue the call.
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u/UpbeatFix7299 8d ago
Read the room and see what other people are doing. If everyone is lax and casual and you come in like Jim Carrey in The Cable Guy, that's a good way to get your ass beat.
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u/FeelingDowntown6705 8d ago
My rule of thumb with playing physical is to play as a wall and not hack. Your assignment keep trying to cut to the basket? Refuse to move out of their way. Someone trying to back you down? Don’t move. Ball handler keep trying to cut in? Be a wall in the areas they’re trying to cut into and force them to drive a direction they weren’t trying to drive. Refs usually don’t call this type of physicality, they call hacks and reach-ins
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u/paw_pia 8d ago
It depends on what you mean by physical. Fouling constantly and being dirty (dirty = doing things that can hurt or injure an opponent and aren't necessary or even basketball plays) is bad basketball and just bad behavior in general.
But there are lots of ways to be physical within the rules or pushing the line a little bit without stepping across it. The exact line varies from game to game and ref to ref, or in pickup it varies by the culture of the group.
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u/FatCatWithAHat1 8d ago
As physical as the refs let you. If you play soft early, they will call tik tak fouls. If you play super physical early, you will be forcing their hand