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« Thursday « August 26, 2004
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The haters can't handle the truth
(ESPN.com: Page 2)
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Whitlock: "I must've missed the memo -- the memo that went out to the red-blooded American sports public and explains exactly when it became OK to throw patriotism out the window and openly root against a U.S. Olympic team."I'll tell you when it became "alright" to openly root against a U.S. Olympic team: when all the players on the squad kicked a hip-hop and/or thug-life, tattooed-up-the-ass, hardcore street ball vibe, and rich ones at that. Right, thurr! "Middle America" as opposed to "Urban America" -- since we like talking in "code words," especially in an election year -- just can't get with that, I mean, come on, it's hard enough to act like you can tolerate these people, but they're millionaires too. And hell, if that team fails, with those players, even though from a basketball standpoint they really aren't the right team for this kind of tournament, well, hell, it was just a bunch of n*ggers anyway. Am I missing something? Lay the failures of the nation at the feet of a basketball team that practiced together for 10 days, but heap the praises of the country on an ice hockey team that got lucky 20 years ago.
Hey, look, I trashed this team, too, but only on hoops merits: we still don't have a bona-fide outside shooter, in a tourney that favors that kind of skill. Furthermore, the international game, with its wider lane, its allowance for zone defenses, and its hair-trigger foul calls makes the game more of a pass-pass-pass-pass-shoot game, like Princeton plays in college, so NBA ballers, used more to one-on-one and two-man ball -- by design of a league of Middle American owners who realize they can exploit that kind of game for more profit than so-called fundamental ball -- are at a loss, but what can you do: at least these guys agreed to play. Shaq, Kobe, T-Mac, Kidd -- our true best -- they all stayed home, remember.
Other criticisms go much deeper, but cower from stating the obvious.
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