Re: Another opinion on the big issues of the day

[Jim Metz <JBMetzEA@AOL.com>]

on 8/5/01 5:43 PM, bird at birdwl@earthlink.net wrote:

I'm still waiting for someone to say that Mosio was a bust because he was
a lazy Carribean who probably smoked cannabis.  (Kidding, kidding.)

(The Celtic "Tird",
 Celticus "tirdius")
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    I feet the possibility of pot smoking, with Moiso, has to be considered.
I don't care where he came from, there are plenty of kids from Scarsdale or
Shaker Heights or wherever, that smoke (or drink) their way through college
and early adulthood. While I don't have evidence to support Charles Oakley's
claim of high %'s of NBA players who do smoke, I presume, it's no less than
the rest of the post adolescent population and probably around 25-30%.
   Having watched Jerome play, it seems his aggressiveness and enthusiasm
are very sporadic. He also had a surliness that Baskball.com reported in
their "Rumors" page on August 4th.:
" With Jerome Moiso they get a promising young forward, who has struggled in
Boston after reports of a horrid work ethic and a belligerent attitude
towards Rick Pitino that carried over to Jim O'Brien. The Celtics warned
Moiso to come to summer camp in the best shape of his life and be ready to
play or he'd be dealt, and what ya know...he got dealt. They say the move
was financially motivated, but that's not what those close to the team say."
  Are these signs of drug use? My experience says possibly. Lethargy and
hostility to authority figures, may be attitudes common enough in young
people, they may, or may not, lead one to such use, or they may be
developed, or enhanced by same, but I see them as being related enough, to
at least raise the issue, when a player, like Oakley, says that over 50% of
the players in the league smoke.

-JB-
                   
Unchain My Heart!