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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski
kids out of this city play their entire school careers playing with no white kids, and against few. it seems to me they carry the bias that white kids, and black suburban kids, are soft. in a way they're right. Detroit kids are tougher (not more skilled, rougher harder meaner), although the suburban kids can play to that level, they are playing tougher since they're on a court with city kids- the city kids are playing ball the way they play all the time. they walk onto courts knowing as much.
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-2. [outable]I grew up in Indiana (in an area that was not a suburb of anything)...where basketball is religion. Every time I played against or with "hard" city kids (white or black), they always called ticky-tack fouls whenever they missed a shot. It was the opposite of tough.
We called fouls on ourselves. No ticky-tack BS. Contact was normal. It wasn't a foul unless you absolutely hacked someone. Same thing happened at college - people would call shit that never would have been called in my hometown.
Maybe Indiana is just different that way.
