Why even bother having them play a game at all if the refs just wanna hand the Miami Heat the win?
Fuck this bullshit of a game. On to the next.
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Passion for sports, but where’s our passion for everything else in life?
(Photo by Steve Mitchell, USA TODAY Sports)
The above photo is from last night’s game at the…
The most intense NBA photo ever. At Heat-Bulls Game 2, a fan gives Joakim Noah the finger as he leaves the the court. Faces were made.
(Photo by Steve Mitchell, USA TODAY Sports)
Way to keep it classy, Miami Heat fans. If these were my parents I’d slap them upside the head. Imbeciles.
I understand that people can get emotional over sports, but this kind of garbage isn’t necessary. It’s one thing to boo and heckle. There’s no need to put your finger all up in someone’s face. Jeez.
Got 'Em Coach: The Unstoppable Bulls, and the Immovable Schedule
The writing was on the wall. When the NBA announced it’s 66-game schedule, it was quite clear some team’s season, some player’s year, would be lost. I put the following tweets on an Internet site called “twitter.”
I want to go on record saying this 66-game/120 day schedule is desperately…
I love Got ‘Em Coach.
What now for Bulls and Rose with Rose out of playoffs?
Sam Smith is one of my favorite sports writers and this blog entry of his from yesterday really got me emotional. It’s quite a lengthy read, but definitely worth your time. Below are a few excerpts from Smith’s post that really struck me.
But you felt sick and numb about the injury, especially for Rose and the Bulls and their fans. Someone who was so lively and vibrant and so full of basketball life is suddenly gone, a jump stop, a twist, a leap and a landing, perhaps nothing unusual for the canvass of basketball artistry we’ve come to love and enjoy and perhaps almost take for granted with this beautiful basketball prodigy.
That really would be the sad part: If we cannot witness and revel in that once again, the breathtaking drives and ingenious creativity of flight. The pure joy and love of play that we most see on the face of innocent youth. So many say they love the game. Derrick showed it.
…Rose’s injury and absence is bad for Chicago. But it is worse for basketball. Not only is this young man a prodigy, but he is a model of behavior, of commitment to the game and the basics of sports excellence. You like what you see watching him and you love what you hear.
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If you love basketball and you love the NBA playoffs, this is devastating. Sure, there’s the Bulls part, and, yes, they can compete better than they will be given credit for without Rose.
But if you care about the game, you want to see the best and you want to have your team beat the best. You don’t want to beat Miami without LeBron. No matter how you feel about the Heat, you still want to see LeBron. And Kobe and Durant and Rose. Rose was one of them, the MVP last season, arguably the league’s most popular player given recent reports of his jersey being the top seller, a truly special talent.
A brutal conclusion to yesterday’s playoff win, but this Bull’s squad has been a TEAM all year, and they’re not quitting. Perhaps they can do something special for themselves, for us, and for Derrick!
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MUST READ: Rose a casualty of NBA schedule
I wrote my stance on Derrick Rose’s injury, as well as this entire NBA season, last night and took some flack. It’s understandable. I’m just some guy with a computer and a tumblr account - I fully admit it. You have no real reason to trust me.
However, I encourage you to read this piece on Rose, by Chicagoan Michael Wilbon. I want the comparisons to be striking, but they’re likely just similar. Let’s play a brand new game I like to call “I Wrote/Wilbon Wrote.”
I wrote:
Multiple injuries in the same body hemisphere are generally tied to each other. For example, when you try to run, cut and stop with a bad ankle, you compensate with other parts of your body. In Rose’s case, he had bleeding in his groin. He wasn’t 100%. Without the medical evidence, I could never scientifically correlate the two, but I’d bet the farm Derrick Rose knowingly or unwittingly put undue pressure on other parts of his legs to compensate for his injury.
And here is one cold, hard fact: there is absolutely, postiviely, no chance this accelerated, 66-game NBA schedule helped Derrick Rose avoid injury, or recuperate from one.
Wilbon wrote:
I’ve talked with multiple trainers who work with NBA players. They say very few — if any — athletes in the NBA put the pressure on their joints and move their bodies with the torque Rose does. These opinions weren’t offered Saturday, in the wake of Rose tearing his ACL; they were offered in great detail weeks ago, when Rose was trying to come back from one injury, then the next, then the next. What’s that old song: “The leg bone’s connected to the hip bone … .” Well, it is. Everything is connected, and when Rose hurt his toe, it affected his hip, which affected his knee. And he never had the time, in this compressed season, to condition himself the way he had previously — the way he would have this season.
I wrote:
The assumption is Derrick Rose, with the help of advanced medicine and physical therapy, will come back at 100% from this devastating knee injury, but bodies don’t respond the same way. Just because some athletes have done it doesn’t mean they all will.
Wilbon wrote:
Players come back from ACL tears all the time now. Tony Allen tore his ACL and MCL and has come back strong. Chris Paul has overcome a serious knee injury suffered in 2010. Rose is a worker. He’ll come back. But how soon and how completely, only time will tell. Will he ever explode and finish at the rim like he did these first 3 1/2 years? God, there’s no guarantee he will.
I wrote:
The league crammed games into the season they had left, and increased the likelihood of serious injury to its players. Jeremy Lin, Derrick Rose, Ricky Rubio, Kevin Love, Kobe Bryant, among others - the list of NBA injuries is long and impressive.
Wilbon wrote:
One after another, players would go down. Players of significance, we’re talking. Al Horford, Brook Lopez, Eric Gordon, more recently Ray Allen. [Rip] Hamilton would say, “See, I told you. There’s nothing like this season.”
And don’t forget Dwight Howard. Orlando’s tumultuous season was ruined when Howard shut himself down. Let’s keep going — I wrote:
Other coaches compensated by resting players, so when you paid your hard earned paycheck to attend a game at your local arena, you were robbed of your opportunity to see you favorite player, or favorite team at full strength.
Wilbon wrote:
Injury avoidance or maintenance has been the key to the entire season. You think Gregg Popovich didn’t know what he was doing when he would simply sit certain players at certain times? Of course Pop knew.
This is the season we paid for, everyone. We gave the NBA money only to watch coaches sit players for fear of injury. We watched other players give 100% and grind themselves into the ground. We watched David Stern break up the legal business deal between two consenting parties which will have widespread, long term consequences on the futures of 4 franchises. It’s disgusting, and we’re all to blame. We allowed it when we voted with our cash.
I hope David Stern steps down this Summer. He should. I hope I’ve learned an important lesson about being a responsible consumer.
Read Wilbon’s full piece here. Read mine there.
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MUST READ: Rose a casualty of NBA schedule
I wrote my stance on Derrick Rose’s injury, as well as this entire NBA season, last night and took some flack. It’s understandable. I’m just some guy with a computer and a tumblr account - I fully admit it. You have no real reason to trust me.
However, I encourage you to read this piece on Rose, by Chicagoan Michael Wilbon. I want the comparisons to be striking, but they’re likely just similar. Let’s play a brand new game I like to call “I Wrote/Wilbon Wrote.”
I wrote:
Multiple injuries in the same body hemisphere are generally tied to each other. For example, when you try to run, cut and stop with a bad ankle, you compensate with other parts of your body. In Rose’s case, he had bleeding in his groin. He wasn’t 100%. Without the medical evidence, I could never scientifically correlate the two, but I’d bet the farm Derrick Rose knowingly or unwittingly put undue pressure on other parts of his legs to compensate for his injury.
And here is one cold, hard fact: there is absolutely, postiviely, no chance this accelerated, 66-game NBA schedule helped Derrick Rose avoid injury, or recuperate from one.
Wilbon wrote:
I’ve talked with multiple trainers who work with NBA players. They say very few — if any — athletes in the NBA put the pressure on their joints and move their bodies with the torque Rose does. These opinions weren’t offered Saturday, in the wake of Rose tearing his ACL; they were offered in great detail weeks ago, when Rose was trying to come back from one injury, then the next, then the next. What’s that old song: “The leg bone’s connected to the hip bone … .” Well, it is. Everything is connected, and when Rose hurt his toe, it affected his hip, which affected his knee. And he never had the time, in this compressed season, to condition himself the way he had previously — the way he would have this season.
I wrote:
The assumption is Derrick Rose, with the help of advanced medicine and physical therapy, will come back at 100% from this devastating knee injury, but bodies don’t respond the same way. Just because some athletes have done it doesn’t mean they all will.
Wilbon wrote:
Players come back from ACL tears all the time now. Tony Allen tore his ACL and MCL and has come back strong. Chris Paul has overcome a serious knee injury suffered in 2010. Rose is a worker. He’ll come back. But how soon and how completely, only time will tell. Will he ever explode and finish at the rim like he did these first 3 1/2 years? God, there’s no guarantee he will.
I wrote:
The league crammed games into the season they had left, and increased the likelihood of serious injury to its players. Jeremy Lin, Derrick Rose, Ricky Rubio, Kevin Love, Kobe Bryant, among others - the list of NBA injuries is long and impressive.
Wilbon wrote:
One after another, players would go down. Players of significance, we’re talking. Al Horford, Brook Lopez, Eric Gordon, more recently Ray Allen. [Rip] Hamilton would say, “See, I told you. There’s nothing like this season.”
And don’t forget Dwight Howard. Orlando’s tumultuous season was ruined when Howard shut himself down. Let’s keep going — I wrote:
Other coaches compensated by resting players, so when you paid your hard earned paycheck to attend a game at your local arena, you were robbed of your opportunity to see you favorite player, or favorite team at full strength.
Wilbon wrote:
Injury avoidance or maintenance has been the key to the entire season. You think Gregg Popovich didn’t know what he was doing when he would simply sit certain players at certain times? Of course Pop knew.
This is the season we paid for, everyone. We gave the NBA money only to watch coaches sit players for fear of injury. We watched other players give 100% and grind themselves into the ground. We watched David Stern break up the legal business deal between two consenting parties which will have widespread, long term consequences on the futures of 4 franchises. It’s disgusting, and we’re all to blame. We allowed it when we voted with our cash.
I hope David Stern steps down this Summer. He should. I hope I’ve learned an important lesson about being a responsible consumer.
