* The Princeton Offense was the same as the offense used in the film Hoosiers whenever the Hoosiers didn’t have star Jimmy Chitwood on the floor: pass-pass-pass until the shot clock was down to 2 seconds and then have the best free shooter take the shot. The point was to whittle the game clock down and slow the pace down so your team didn’t get run ragged by a leaping, jumping, hard-sprinting team with fast breaks.
Basically, the strategy is for teams with less athletic players who are disciplined enough to follow orders and not selfish. In other words, it’s a strategy for non-blacks who are tall and willing to work hard.
* Did you ever hear the story of what happened to Mullin as a rookie with the Warriors in ’85? He had a habit of working on his jumper 2-3 hrs. before a game. One of the black starters told him, “don’t do that anymore, man, it makes the rest of us look bad.” Naturally, the sportswriter who related the story didn’t mention a name. My money’s on Joe Barry Carroll.
* David Stern has retired. Another Jew, Adam Silver, has taken control.
Surprised?
Coincidence?
* Sports fans ARE crazy.
Everything else in America is fixed. Politics, college admittances, diet/nutrition scams, fake meritocracy everywhere, cartel prices across the board for everyday items, pseudo-science global warming, all government data, all Wall Street data etc. It’s all fudged.
But the sports fans still think the big games (hundreds of millions on the line) are real.
Wake up!
* I thought at the time that the NBA missed an opportunity with Lin. They should have encouraged the Knicks to keep him in New York and to build a team around him, ideally one that was more diverse than typical. One of the interesting things about the NBA in the 1980s was that it had a mostly white team in the Celtics; why not make the Knicks at least a mostly non-black team? Imagine if they had brought in the Israeli player along with Lin and maybe Kevin Love… that could have been a boon for the NBA. Heck, my mother started watching the Knicks during Linsanity. She hasn’t watched basketball since.
* The immigrant groups in Los Angeles who have the lowest rate of residential segregation from White Americans is Armenians and Persians. If you use the extremely broad definition of “Asian”, than I guess you could use them as examples of “Asians” who integrate well with Whites. Not many Persians and Armenians are moving to The San Gabriel Valley.
* Has anyone ever pointed out that the economics concept of “comparative advantage” applies to sports?
For example, let’s assume that blacks had the exact same natural pitching ability as whites, but have somewhat greater natural ability to steal bases and run down fly balls in the outfield. Then blacks would have an absolute advantage at playing the outfield, but whites would have a comparative advantage at pitching, because there would be less demand for their outfielding skills.
Or lets assume that blacks have the exact same natural ability as whites at playing baseball, but MUCH greater natural ability than whites, on average, at basketball and football. Whites would then have a comparative advantage for baseball, because their skills in other sports are less in demand.
In those cases, there would be no reason to expect baseball to have the same proportion of blacks as the general population, nor for pitching to have the same proportion of blacks as baseball on the whole.
* Let’s cut to the chase here: the love and passion for Everything is passed from father to son. Work habits, sports, attitudes, hobbies, it all comes from Dad, both good and bad. If he’s absent then the son has to scramble to figure out who he really is and what his calling in life should be. With Dad around it’s much easier on the boy. It’s also much easier for Mom to understand her son.
When I hear people making excuses for single motherhood I can only shake my head. Just today a man in his 60′s was telling me about his own father. That influence and relationship goes on forever.
