5 NY - 3 years ago
If you're looking to play during the weekdays come at 5:15 - 5:30 for the first game. I've been living here for a month and it's mostly the same people that come every day so understand that it's a community you're walking into. Leave your ego when you enter the park because it's a complete different style of basketball that's played here.
There are many fouls called so get used to that, it'll be hard to get into the flow of the game at times because the number of fouls called but you get used to it. On defense they play a 2 - 3 zone, no man to man defense. The court is slick so although fast breaks are still fast, in half court sets there are a ton of passing to get the best shot, sometimes 5 too many. The majority of the points are scored on fast breaks so get used to hustling on every rebound.
Basketball is a universal language so have fun playing, laughing and smiling with the locals through the mutual understanding of the sport.
