<p>how good are the bball players in the competitive intramural league? as in how are they compared to the players at sunset rec?</p>
<p>Which league? A league is really good, B league is still very good, and even C league has some really good players. I never won a championship in IM basketball (I played B and C leagues), but got down to the final 4 and 8 teams, and our teams had to be pretty stacked to get it to there. But those are just the top teams, there's some guys that'll sign up a really good team for C league just to get less competition. The run of the mill C league team isn't that good, they'll usually have one or two good players and a bunch of scrubs. Regardless, it's almost always better than the competition at Sunset.</p>
<p>i thought it was just divided into just competitive and noncompetitive leagues?</p>
<p>Actually, going through the site, since I haven't played since last year, it looks like they did change the divisions. Regardless, it will be competitive and better than the competition at Sunset.</p>
<p>I am going to be a freshman and I am very excited to play IM basketball. I had the choice of playing Division 2 basketball at a university or going to UCLA and not playing. Hopefully I can find other people that would like to play in A with me; if not, B sounds like fun too.</p>
<p>Would A be about as competitive as high school varsity basketball?</p>
<p>I dunno about the quality being as good as varsity ball, because there's no coaching, and frankly the officiating sucks, but there are some good players. On some of the teams I played on, we could run out a lineup full of guys who played varsity in HS, or have like 2 or 3 former HS varsity players and the rest of us played sports in club or HS and spend way too much time at Wooden.</p>
<p>First, I think weak B league (and OK A teams) would be the level of HS varsity. Play A if you were the star of your varsity. Some C teams, as McGizzle said, are actually playing at the B level, but they play in C so they beat up on the weaker teams.</p>
<p>I'm just going to say a handful of players in C can dunk (though you can't dunk in a game, or you receive a T). At the B and C level, it's just about if you're physical, play with good team chemistry and players have good fundamentals.</p>
<p>There are teams with only one or even not any athletic players, and can still win games.</p>
<p>Really make sure your team has size, and people who will box out. Guys in Sunset are lazy and don't crash the board. But even good teams in C will play physical and punish you if you don't box out.</p>
<p>Also, make sure your team is at least 7 deep, or a committed team. My team had to play 5 vs. 4 once and we lost by 40. :rolleyes:</p>
<p>If anyone's making a team and needs an extra player let me know. I really want to join an IM team. </p>
<p>I'm 6'0 and play some decent ball..</p>
<p>Ya, it really is pretty physical. Our big guys would always complain they got beat up a lot inside. I'd say more than anything you need some big guys who can grab boards. We got by pretty much just on that every year, I never really played on a team with great offense but we'd get decently far in the playoffs until we ran into a team just as big and athletic but with more skills. I'm only about 5-8 so when I got fouled I went flying and they called it, but usually nothing gets called.</p>
<p>I wish I still had time to play IM ball, I have to settle for the occasional morning in Wooden now.</p>