Yes they can.

Cripples can improve at basketball. After I wrote my last blog, I read over the notes I took from point guard college. I love PGC, I feel like I am cheating when I read the basketball tips they give, they are just so sick, yet so few people do what it says. However, I cant use those tips yet in my game, but they teach life lessons through basketball. From not comparing yourself to others, to not making excuses, to encouraging people, to learning from failures. "Success in life consists of moving from one failure to the next without losing enthusiasm."-Winston Churchill. When I fail, I need to move forward without becoming discouraged, that won't get me anywhere.
But besides life lessons, I remembered this thing PGC does called the 30 Day Challenge. What it is is you pick a certain skill and focus on it for 30 days straight. This lets you see the improvement by focusing on 1 thing, and 30 days is a doable goal that is still long enough to create a habit. And it is supposed to be 45 min max, so starting Wednesday, I am starting on a ballhandling 30 day challenge. I made up a 30 minute routine, and I think I can do it at the beginning of each bball practice while others warm up. I'm quite excited. I will finish on January 14.
Another reason for my excitement is the news I got at my doctors app yesterday. Dr. Kody says 1. I can walk now, 2. I can ride the bike now, 3. The ACL he put in was huge, which makes it stronger, 4. He used dissolvable screws so they just turn into bone eventually. So no tearing my acl again on the screw, although I dont understand why dissolvable screws arent standard... 5. I can wear my sports brace now again instead of that giant I was wearing. 6. I should be able to return to bball at 9 months post operation, which means I will be healthy by Bball season next year! This gets me extremely happy, although nervous because I need to work really hard. It's going to be interesting.
Then today I went to physical therapy, and my physical therapist says that I can drive my car, so whenever it gets back from the shop I will give it a go. Overall a very nice series of events.
So yesterday I was sitting in the guitar center in Spokane, jamming on a 7 string, and some old guy randomly came up to me and started talking to me about some book about some guitarist and some random tuning. I politely said I would check out the tuning, but it raises several questions. 1. The guy smelled horrible, so I wondered what exactly he had been smoking, I'm not good at recognizing scents. 2. Is he basically just telling me to rethink how I play because I suck? but I was playing a 7 string so the tuning didnt even apply, and 3. why do people awkwardly come up to me??? I know this happens to everyone a little, but I think it happens to me more than normal. I believe it runs in the family, because it happens to my dad too, we must look like good people to talk to apparently. Very weird.
I went to the Kamiakin Richland game yesterday, and it was pretty sweet. Case Rada has a pure jumper, its absurd. Kamiakin was obviously the better team, but Richland fought hard and almost came back. It was quite entertaining to watch, especially since I'd played probably 75% of the people on both teams.
I might have written more, but I have to head to Burbank for tonights game