Yes the Caste Media is coming up with new excuses for Black athletes. After the ridiculous claims that all the good black heavyweights are in the nba or nfl now there isanother gem from espn columnist Bill Simmons.
[url]http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/0609 27[/url]
here's the passage in question
Q: You know that friend everyone has in college who gets embarrassingly drunk every time you go out, then declares he'll never do it again ... and then does? USA Basketball is that drunk friend.
--Josh, Baton Rouge, La.
SG: Sorry, I'm not getting wound up about FIBA anymore. The rules are too different from the NBA's. It's like sending USA baseball players to a tournament with two-foot-high mounds, neck-to-ankles strike zones and outfield walls 500 feet from home plate. You can't expect a team of randomly assembled All-Stars to come together in three weeks and succeed in a format in which they're the only ones unfamiliar with the rules. It's stupid. Any kind of basketball that makes Jose Calderon more valuable than LeBron James or Dwyane Wade is, by any calculation, idiotic. We should send the AND1 All-Stars to the 2008 Olympics in protest.
A truly ridiculous statement. Consider the differences
There's no defensive 3 in the key there. Yes, it makes it harder for slashers, but it should also make interior defense for the USA easier, with their hypeddominant rebounders to shut teams down inside.
You can touch the ball on the rim. That's to USA's advantage, they're supposedlymore athletic.
The key is a different shape though.
What else am I missing for rules?
No black worshippers like Simmons just wont give white players credit. Its beyond his comprehension that spain or greece just might be better teams with great players.
I suppose i shouldnt be surprised this is coming from a guy who wrote last year that Steve Nash is MVP because of he is white. This year he was campaigning for Kobe while continualy insulting Nash with particular reference to his hair style which Simmons seems to find hilarious.
[url]http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/0609 27[/url]
here's the passage in question
Q: You know that friend everyone has in college who gets embarrassingly drunk every time you go out, then declares he'll never do it again ... and then does? USA Basketball is that drunk friend.
--Josh, Baton Rouge, La.
SG: Sorry, I'm not getting wound up about FIBA anymore. The rules are too different from the NBA's. It's like sending USA baseball players to a tournament with two-foot-high mounds, neck-to-ankles strike zones and outfield walls 500 feet from home plate. You can't expect a team of randomly assembled All-Stars to come together in three weeks and succeed in a format in which they're the only ones unfamiliar with the rules. It's stupid. Any kind of basketball that makes Jose Calderon more valuable than LeBron James or Dwyane Wade is, by any calculation, idiotic. We should send the AND1 All-Stars to the 2008 Olympics in protest.
A truly ridiculous statement. Consider the differences
There's no defensive 3 in the key there. Yes, it makes it harder for slashers, but it should also make interior defense for the USA easier, with their hypeddominant rebounders to shut teams down inside.
You can touch the ball on the rim. That's to USA's advantage, they're supposedlymore athletic.
The key is a different shape though.
What else am I missing for rules?
No black worshippers like Simmons just wont give white players credit. Its beyond his comprehension that spain or greece just might be better teams with great players.
I suppose i shouldnt be surprised this is coming from a guy who wrote last year that Steve Nash is MVP because of he is white. This year he was campaigning for Kobe while continualy insulting Nash with particular reference to his hair style which Simmons seems to find hilarious.
