And what question is that exactly? I’ll tell you what question. Why in the world would any player who can shoot three pointers with moderate success be such a shitty foul shooter?
OK let’s stop right there and ignore Shaquille O’Neal for a second. Even though I still think it’s bullshit, we’ll let guys with abnormally huge hands and strength be stricken from this conversation (even though O’Neal is a total loser for not ever having learned to shoot a freethrow underhanded). At least these guys have somewhat of an excuse.
But a guy who has decent form and even attempts a fair amount of three pointers not to mention having a decent jumpshot not hitting foul shots is completely unacceptable.
That’s why I’m calling out the following players: Fellas you’re guilty of completely not giving a shit about making foul shots:
Jason Richardson – 28 3′s made – 64% from the line
Daniel Gibson – 23 3′s made – 50% from the line
Jared Dudley – 23 3′s made – 67% from the line
Ron Artest – 19 3′s made – 51% from the line
Mickael Pietrus – 163′s made – 56% from the line
Can someone please explain this to me? I’ve seen all five of these players play and not one of them has bad form on their shot. How in the world can you get up to the free throw line and choke like this???
You’re being PAID to play basketball guys. I mean just care a little bit. For Christ’s sake realize that if you were 80% free throw shooters (which is the minimum you should be if you’re taking that many 3′s) that you’d all average 1-4 more points a game (depending on attempts). Hello? You’d make even MORE money!
Is it pressure? Is it that you’re thinking about boobies? What the hell is it? It HAS to be mental. There’s just no way any guy with a decent regular jump shot should be this bad at the line.
I’d be willing to bet my life that I could shoot at least 75% from the line as a designated free throw shooter in the NBA. These guys suck.
For just $10, this Shawn Kemp Collector’s Plate can be yours. Someone put this up on eBay, and I’m guessing only the biggest Sonics and/or Shawn Kemp fan would be interested. Kemp is a sad story – he went from one of the best power forwards in the NBA – and one of the most athletic guys I’ve ever seen – to a cocaine-abusing, illegitimate kid-making animal that ate himself out of the league. I prefer to remember the old Shawn Kemp, but not enough that I’m willing to dish out $10 for this plate. If the plate had a picture of him grabbing his nuts after dunking in the Olympics, then maybe I’d reconsider. That was one of the proudest moments I’ve had of being an American.
Anyone with a good childhood saw the football classic, Little Giants. Therefore, you should have no problem naming the otherwise illegal play of The Annexation of Puerto Rico as the best trick play of all-time. Bethel College (random school in Kansas), however, makes the play made famous by Little Giants look like a simple hand off.
Hopefully the coach was able to get home okay. I imagine he’d have a hard time walking with stones as big as his.
[via MySportsRumors]
Remember that chick that Steve Phillips was banging on the side, leading to his being fired from ESPN? Of course you do. Well, it turns out she’s got a Facebook page because, let’s be honest, who doesn’t? I mean, who wouldn’t want a place where people you hardly know can become your “friends” and then look at pictures of you and write whatever they want about you on your page? Who wouldn’t want a situation where a co-worker refuses to talk to you anymore because you denied his friend request? Who wouldn’t want to tell the world that you just took a corn shit or that your stupid baby is hungry? That’s Facebook, and if you’re going to have a page, you should probably only accept friend requests from people you know, Ms. Hundley.
Or, you know, just not have a Facebook page and get on with your life.
I’m not quite sure how to put this delicately but I’ll try. One of the biggest joke jobs in pro sports is the NBA Coach. I say joke because unfortunately most of their jobs fall on the players. Don’t get me wrong, great coaches exist but one has to either have the player personnel to make a team great or that coach has to have the ability to mentally get these guys together to perform day in and day out.
I just think at the NBA level much of it depends on the players and whether or not they care. Which is why I love Phil Jackson. Plenty of people will say “oh, he had the best players! it’s bullshit!” No. Jackson has an uncanny ability to make even the best players with the biggest egos work together. THAT’s coaching because at the NBA level all these players are good enough to win. It’s just that many don’t give a shit.
Other good coaching in the NBA comes when a real shitty team can go .500 because they worked their asses off in which the coach does deserve some credit.
We can talk about this for hours but my point is that there aren’t many NBA coaches that I would consider to be too great at their jobs. But that doesn’t mean I don’t respect these guys. In fact, most of them are funny.
And here are 8 entertaining examples
Baltimore Ravens Wedding from Casey Carter on Vimeo.
There are so many things wrong with this video. First off, let me say that I don’t necessarily think that a wedding has to be like a fairy tale. But there should be a level of class and dignity associated with it. The wedding party wearing football jerseys is the opposite of that. The barking doesn’t help either. Anyone over 50 at this wedding must have been horrified.
As I was watching this video, I was thinking how unsettling it was that a professional football team would mean so much to this couple. It’s a bunch of guys who are paid to play football for your city, most of them without any real connection to the city for which they play and especially without any connection to the couple. And yet, here are the jerseys of the Ravens on full display and totally overshadowing the wedding itself. I can’t believe the wife agreed to go along with this; she’s clearly a submissive woman who is going to tolerate years of degradation and abuse during the two – maximum three – rocky years that this marriage will last.
And as if I wasn’t disgusted enough, as if this entire stunt was arranged just to lower my opinion of our society even more (I believe it was), the groom comes out wearing the jersey of a murderer and dances like a jackass. I’m guessing the bride’s father must be so proud.
I don’t care if this was the couple’s special day for them to enjoy in their own way. This isn’t cute or fun. It reeks and I hate it.
This, in my opinion, was the first big game between two ranked opponents of the season. Did it live up to the hype? Eh, not really.
There was the Tar Heels’ big early lead that dwindled to two points in the final minute, something that can happen even to a fourth-ranked team early in the season.
The big early lead, which last for pretty much the entire game until the end. Besides giving credence to the idea that basketball is only important in the last few minutes, this game failed to live up to my expectations. For whatever reason, I thought Ohio State would be a bit more competitive going into the game, but they couldn’t hit shots and UNC simply had their way with them.
Of course, they came back within two points, but it really just seemed like North Carolina was letting them hang around for the sake of dramatic sports television. Mission not really accomplished, fellas.
But hey! There’s still the championship game to be played between UNC and Syracuse. Maybe that game will matter for more than just the final two minutes.
[via ESPN]
In: NBA
OK it’s been eight years and this thing has droned on and on and on. During that time Jayson Williams has been a free man and now he’s expected to plead guilty….
After nearly eight years of denials, court hearings and legal manuvering, Andrea Adams hopes today is the day she will finally hear former NBA star Jayson Williams take responsibility for killing her brother.
Williams is expected to appear in a Somerville courtroom this afternoon to admit his role in the death of Costas “Gus” Christofi, the limo driver who died of a shot gun blast to his chest in the basketball player’s Alexandria Township mansion.
The former New Jersey Nets center is expected to plead guilty in a deal that could get him out of prison in 18 months, sources close to the case said.
Under the proposed agreement, Williams will plead guilty to an aggravated assault charge that will give him a sentence of up to three years in prison. He will serve 18 months before becoming eligible for parole
And check this out….”I don’t think Jayson will be able to move on with his life normally because, at the end of the day, because of this tragic accident, a life was taken,” said longtime friend Akhtar Farzaie from Somerville.
Really? Um, it looks like Williams has been living just fine for the past 8 years dipshit. You think he’d have been denying the murder this entire time if he didn’t want to live well? If this thing actually did sit with him in the way that you’re portraying he’d have been in jail eight years ago and for a hell of a lot longer than 18 months.
What the hell is going on here? Plaxico Burress shoots his own foot and will be in jail for longer than Jayson Williams who KILLED a person. Accident or not is this a friggin joke?
Honestly I have nothing left in me for today. I think I’m gonna go shoot someone by accident and hide out in my apartment for the next 8 years waiting until I can get a plea bargain for minimal jail time.
[Via Star Ledger]
