Re: The Kedick school comment and Walker

[Kestas <kkv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 04:19 AM 2/1/2003 -0500, you wrote:

Pete, you are absolutely right in so many ways....

As for yet another historic loss, I think it's the lethal combination of 
dumb coaching, several players' having bad games, and, most importantly, 
lack of self-respect by the players. I simply can not understand how they 
can go out there and meekly accept this flogging. I mean, the Pistons can't 
be beating us by 60 without the cooperation of our players. It's just not 
possible. Even if you can't score at all, you could still stop the other 
team from running up 60 points on you, if you had any pride at all. If I 
were out there in this situation, bodies would be flying. They are just 
wusses, that's all. This would never have happened last year. The Baker 
Syndrome has infected most of the team, yet another wonderful side effect 
of the worst trade ever.
The only on who would not give up was Paul Pierce.  He tried to ignite his 
teammates, but to no avail. That's partly why he got himself tossed, he 
just couldn't stand being there.

I think the fans were justified in turning on their team and cheering the 
Pistons. This is completely unacceptable.


> Book smarts does not equal basketball smarts. It's really that simple.
>
>  If a guy say didn't learn to read..or has dyslexia. He could be a real 
> screw
> up and school..and still be a great basketball player.  Screwing up in school
> doesn't mean your necessarily too "dumb "to be good at school..your
> backaround and parents count for quite alot.
>
> But forgetting the idea that he might be "dumb"..because he didn't go to Div.
> I school. Lets assume your right and that Kedrick could never be a good
> student.
> Your still making the assumption that being good at school really translates
> to the basketball court. I couldn't disagree more. And that's just crap.
>
> The best basketball players like Larry Bird or Magic Johnson have an almost
> music like way of playing the game. The quick thinking you see on the court
> doesn't translate to "book smarts", IMHO. Some of the smartest people I ever
> played with made dumb passes and so forth..
>
> Why? because they don't know hoops..and they don't have the kind of abilities
> needed to be "smart" players. There are different kinds of intelligence..and
> an I.Q. test doesn't measure all of them.
>
> Some smart players are good in school..some aren't. I have seen Magic Johnson
> talk show..he doesn't strike me as a genius. But he is a genius ball player.
>
> You don't have to know how to read or do Calc. do throw a perfect bounce pass
> or
> time yourself for rebound, or even grasp a play from the X and O's.
>
> Besides, Kedrick problem isn't that he is clueless..its that he can't hit a
> damn jumpshot. That has nothing to do with book smarts, and luckily for Celts
> fans that a problem that can generally be corrected.
>
> I should also mention that LB had alot of physical gifts as well...
>
> He wasn't just "outsmarting" his "less intelligent" mostly black opponents.
> Thats just crap spouted by ignorant commentators. He was basically
> ambidextrous and was said has great periphal vision. People also tend to
> ignore the fact he also had phenomenal coordination, agility, and timing for
> a man his size. There is more to "athletic ability" then the vertical leap
> and the forty yard dash. It's a complete package. I think K. Brown is every
> bit the leaper Jordan was.. That doesn't mean he is the athlete that even
> Paul Pierce is.
>
> As a side note
> Its a shame OB didnt stick Walter and Kedrick on those hot perimiter players
> early in the game. The little troika of Shammond, Delk, and Bremer just can't
> stop them..
> And you can't expect PP to play defense, rebound, handle the ball, score most
> of the points and chase Rip Hamilton around. <g>
>
> Oh yeah ...Sundov is such a bricklaying ball hog in garbage time.
> I hate that.