i was playing a lot of basketball when i was 12-15 years old, until everyone in the team was at least one head bigger than me. anyway, i remember skating a pair of and1s made out of synthetic that skated pretty good. a lot of skateshoes were looking like basketball shoes back then anyway (es koston2, ...3)so i was not thinking it could be wrong.
skated an old pair of stan smiths to pieces when i was too broke to get real skateshoes. money problems were probably the main reasons for me when i picked a non skateshoe for skating. i skated some fila suede sneakers(decent), chuck taylors(not so pleasant for your feet imo), dr js(great and my favorite shape for a skate shoe), some dunks that i also got for really cheap(okay) and some indoor-soccer shoes i once bought for sports class. those were probably the best, i don't remember the brand, but they were probably adidas.