loosely edited transcript from 12:42 pm on saturday september 10th, 2022 at memorial stadium:
4th gen bear (waving at me, he sits 3 rows down on the 50 yard line in around the 25th row): hey shocky, get over here, there's somebody i want you to meet, joel brown
shocky (fist bumping): what up, joel, ima shocky, your my favorite player, you gotta lotta energy except when you dribble with you head down to nowhere
joel: well, thanks i guess
shocky: so what's your gpa?
joel: pretty good, i'm going to graduate from the haas business school
shocky : me too, glad your not a dumb azz, are you working on your crooked azz shooting?
4th gen bear is kinda shaking his head, how did this conversation go so far off the rails he's wondering
shocky: hey randy should hook you up with his friend who is the shooting whisperer, don't be fooled by the fact that he's a girl's high school basketball coach at pinewood high school, he knows his stuff
joel: well actually coach fox has been working with me on my stroke this summer, this is my first real summer staying in berkeley
shocky: show me
joel demonstrates the new stroker for the shockster with an imaginary basketball, his elbow is perpendicular to the basket kinda like pure shooters j-mat and the bird, there's no more of that protruding chicken elbow that has marred his stroke in past seasons
shocky (getting excited): dude, that stroke is a 1000% better, your the only +1 athlete on the team, there's literally no reason you can't attack the baket this season knowing you can knock down the free throws when you get hacked by defenders that are gonna be a step too late to your blur game...what's gonna be your free throw percentage this season?
joel (with a big azz smile): thanks, hope to shoot in the high 80s this season...think in the past i kinda let the mental part of shooting bother me too much plus maybe i wasn't in as good as shape and my legs let me down particularly late in games
shocky (nodding his head): yeah your shot has been way too flat during your time in berkeley, do you know where your shots miss, are you familiar with splatter charts?
joel: no
shocky: splatter charts are used in the nba by scouts and player development coaches to determine where shots are missed, are they left or right which is a huge red flag or are they missed long or short?
joel (deep in thought): last season most of my misses were usually short
shocky: right and that's because your shots had too low of a flat trajectory because of the chicken wing stroke and also because you weren't driving with your legs fluidly thru the stroke...dude, your good to go now, can't wait to see you ball out this season
joel: thanks, really looking forward to playing with our improved talent this season, playing with devin askew is gonna be really fun
shocky: well, that's good to hear, i got high hopes for you joel, do you speak canadian?
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4th gen bear (waving at me, he sits 3 rows down on the 50 yard line in around the 25th row): hey shocky, get over here, there's somebody i want you to meet, joel brown
shocky (fist bumping): what up, joel, ima shocky, your my favorite player, you gotta lotta energy except when you dribble with you head down to nowhere
joel: well, thanks i guess
shocky: so what's your gpa?
joel: pretty good, i'm going to graduate from the haas business school
shocky : me too, glad your not a dumb azz, are you working on your crooked azz shooting?
4th gen bear is kinda shaking his head, how did this conversation go so far off the rails he's wondering
shocky: hey randy should hook you up with his friend who is the shooting whisperer, don't be fooled by the fact that he's a girl's high school basketball coach at pinewood high school, he knows his stuff
joel: well actually coach fox has been working with me on my stroke this summer, this is my first real summer staying in berkeley
shocky: show me
joel demonstrates the new stroker for the shockster with an imaginary basketball, his elbow is perpendicular to the basket kinda like pure shooters j-mat and the bird, there's no more of that protruding chicken elbow that has marred his stroke in past seasons
shocky (getting excited): dude, that stroke is a 1000% better, your the only +1 athlete on the team, there's literally no reason you can't attack the baket this season knowing you can knock down the free throws when you get hacked by defenders that are gonna be a step too late to your blur game...what's gonna be your free throw percentage this season?
joel (with a big azz smile): thanks, hope to shoot in the high 80s this season...think in the past i kinda let the mental part of shooting bother me too much plus maybe i wasn't in as good as shape and my legs let me down particularly late in games
shocky (nodding his head): yeah your shot has been way too flat during your time in berkeley, do you know where your shots miss, are you familiar with splatter charts?
joel: no
shocky: splatter charts are used in the nba by scouts and player development coaches to determine where shots are missed, are they left or right which is a huge red flag or are they missed long or short?
joel (deep in thought): last season most of my misses were usually short
shocky: right and that's because your shots had too low of a flat trajectory because of the chicken wing stroke and also because you weren't driving with your legs fluidly thru the stroke...dude, your good to go now, can't wait to see you ball out this season
joel: thanks, really looking forward to playing with our improved talent this season, playing with devin askew is gonna be really fun
shocky: well, that's good to hear, i got high hopes for you joel, do you speak canadian?
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