http://heardonmystoop.wordpress.com/2008/05/13/when-im-right-im-right/ It's ok, I'm a professional. Sun, 25 Oct 2009 20:12:28 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://heardonmystoop.wordpress.com/2008/05/13/when-im-right-im-right/#comment-130 drewricketts Wed, 14 May 2008 19:22:23 +0000 http://heardonmystoop.wordpress.com/?p=57#comment-130 Exactly. Sometimes people get so carried away with refuting hype about a player that they fail to realize this WHOLE shit is hype. It's entertainment. The Pistons have functional entertainment with their defense that becomes inflated by the hype just like anything else. Tayshaun Prince is not, even on his best day, able to guard an elite player. He tries hard and we commend him. But, his effort gets defeated just like anyone else's. Exactly. Sometimes people get so carried away with refuting hype about a player that they fail to realize this WHOLE shit is hype. It’s entertainment. The Pistons have functional entertainment with their defense that becomes inflated by the hype just like anything else. Tayshaun Prince is not, even on his best day, able to guard an elite player. He tries hard and we commend him. But, his effort gets defeated just like anyone else’s.

]]> http://heardonmystoop.wordpress.com/2008/05/13/when-im-right-im-right/#comment-129 Misanthrope Wed, 14 May 2008 19:06:23 +0000 http://heardonmystoop.wordpress.com/?p=57#comment-129 We've all played ball before. The lapse that occurs when everyone playing D expects everyone else to step up with the help, only happens at the end of a game for one of two reasons. Everybody on the team all of a sudden gets too tired to want to win for one single second more. Or, everybody feels too intimidated to be the hero themself. Everyone concedes to the other man as better at the same moment. He is the hero and you are not. That may be a dramatization of how the situation ever plays out in the moments of the game, but I know we all know quite well that the moment does occur in every sport from time to time. What may come with Lebron in the future is yet to be seen, but it can't diminsh the fact that for whatever reason, this was one of those times when a single guy was greater than group of other great competitors trying to impede his success as best they could. Whether the Pistons could have tired harder or not, whether they did, Lebron out-played there squad at the end of an important playoff game. A team that is arguably better and tougher at defense than it is at offensive. The only way you can lose with your best hand is to be out-played. Since when does Tashaun Prince quit? He doesn't he can just be beaten. Since when don't the Pistons play tough defense to finish out games? When they can't do anymore than they already have. When they get circles run around them. When they have to deal with something beyond there regular capabilty. We’ve all played ball before. The lapse that occurs when everyone playing D expects everyone else to step up with the help, only happens at the end of a game for one of two reasons. Everybody on the team all of a sudden gets too tired to want to win for one single second more. Or, everybody feels too intimidated to be the hero themself. Everyone concedes to the other man as better at the same moment. He is the hero and you are not. That may be a dramatization of how the situation ever plays out in the moments of the game, but I know we all know quite well that the moment does occur in every sport from time to time. What may come with Lebron in the future is yet to be seen, but it can’t diminsh the fact that for whatever reason, this was one of those times when a single guy was greater than group of other great competitors trying to impede his success as best they could. Whether the Pistons could have tired harder or not, whether they did, Lebron out-played there squad at the end of an important playoff game. A team that is arguably better and tougher at defense than it is at offensive. The only way you can lose with your best hand is to be out-played. Since when does Tashaun Prince quit? He doesn’t he can just be beaten. Since when don’t the Pistons play tough defense to finish out games? When they can’t do anymore than they already have. When they get circles run around them. When they have to deal with something beyond there regular capabilty.

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