‘Will Trump Follow the Belichick-Brady Playbook to Make America Great Again?’

This is the best explanation I’ve read for how the Patriots won and the Falcons lost.

Highlights from the thread at Steve Sailer:

* Here’s the real HBD question: How come New England always seems to succeed with short, white wide receivers?

How good is Brady that he makes these guys look like all-pros? Or is it Belichick just that good at creating offensive schemes? Or both?

I always route for the team with the most white guys, so I’d suspect that I’ll be cheering for the Patriots, though I don’t know that for sure.

* The Superbowl is the one time of year when we get commercials that aren’t explicitly anti white male. Too many people are watching and analyzing them, rather than just consuming. If anyone noticed the pattern in the commercials they might start noticing things.

* We’ve already had the first cultmarx, huddled massses piece of propaganda from Coca-Cola before the coin toss. Someday no one will realize that American women once didn’t wear hijabs.

* Highly politicized commercials for #Superbowl put the rootless cosmopolitan ideal of America front & center. Whites are depicted as minority.

* Actually there are loads of people on the left who endlessly analyze the demographics and implications of commercials and raise a fuss if they’re insufficiently anti-white male. The only difference is the right-wing is starting to do it now too.

ANOTHER THREAD:

* That game was eerily reminiscent of the election.

* Belichek is good at appraising undervalued talent. Interestingly, these players seem to disproportionately be white.

There’s a perception that black players have more raw athleticism, but whites are better team players. I wonder what Belichek would have to say on this issue.

* Stats:

N.E., Atl.

1st downs 37, 17

total yards 546, 344

time of possession 40:31, 23:27

3rd down conversions. 7/14, 1/8

The wonder is the game was as close as it was.

* He’s not the greatest natural talent, but he’s among the most disciplined QBs of all time, which coupled with one of the greatest coaches has made him one of the greatest QBs of all time.

ANOTHER THREAD:

* With one possible exception, Belichick never has the most talented team on the Super Bowl field. He essentially fired his most talented defensive player mid season this year because the guy kept going rogue. He is the master of putting his talent into situations where the player’s talent can play and his limitations will not be exposed. Thus opportunity arises for white players as well as second tier black talent. We hear “Do your job” over and over again.

* Should we expect to see the following headline in the NYT anytime soon: “Unleashing the Power of Whiteness: Will Trump Follow the Belichick-Brady Playbook to Make America Great Again?”

* Bill Belichick has been playing Moneyball for years, and much more successfully than Billy Beane.

Belichick has no problem signing flashy black receivers- he made great use of Randy Moss, after all . But he has a big problem with overspending on any player not named Tom Brady. He’d rather have one highly paid stud QB surrounded by 47 well paid, smart, functional players than 12 highly paid superstars surrounded by 35 minimum wage losers.

That means Belichick will take 3 good, undervalued white receivers in the fourth round rather than one All-SEC receiver in the first round. More bang for his buck.

What may be going on with the white receivers is a phenomenon I first saw articulated by Keith Norris, a trainer out of Texas. He played college football and while fast, wasn’t the absolutely fastest guy on the field. His experience was that the ridiculously fast guys, the very top end elite sprinters, had two things that worked against them in football. First, was that they have a tendency to be injury prone. The second is that they don’t seem to have as much endurance as the guys on the next level. They will absolutely beat you on a limited number of sprints but oftentimes they fade and their speed drops off due to fatigue. What Norris noted from experience is that there are some players who are really fast, though not necessarily the fastest in a single sprint, who can maintain that speed all afternoon. They seem to make the best football players.

To put it into real numbers the three white receivers for the Patriots all run in the 4.5 range in the 40 which is fast but not the ridiculous numbers some of the defensive backs put up in the combines. Alford, for Atlanta, was listed as a 4.39 with a 40” vertical. What we may have seen in the 4th quarter is that by the end of the game the Patriots receivers were actually the fastest guys on the field. It certainly looked that way. Belichick may not look at it this way, he may simply see that they can get open and catch the ball when it’s thrown to them.

* It’s very similar to how Gregg Popovich pointedly avoids loading his roster with American ghetto blacks. Most of his players were in a different environment in their formative years, many of them overseas. The terrible basketball habits of American blacks are something we sports fans can’t talk about. Everybody in the media now raves about Gregg’s methods, but virtually nobody tries to emulate them.

* It’s also a–mild–rebuke to the notion that “women and minorities” are “underrepresented” in for example Silicon Valley tech, because of discrimination. Sure, there may be–no doubt is–some bias based on (true) stereotypes. This case suggests that’s possible–at least if the bias is toward blacks. But it also suggests that even in a very limited market (32 firms), *someone* will take advantage. Some firm in Silicon Valley would be snapping up all these un\under-employed genius women programmers … if they in fact existed. In fact, by analogy some woman run firm, should be sort of waving the welcome mat, and filling their skilled tech positions with these underappreciated women.

* Belichick fielded a SB team a few years back that had 10 white starters on offense. Belichick finds players that fit the Patriots system and discards with impunity any players that don’t or won’t play his way. Jamie Collins and Chandler Jones were All-Pro level defensive players that were traded this year pre and mid season. Amendola, Edelman and Hogan will go across the middle of the field, just yards from the line of scrimmage, and Brady hits them with a low fading pass that gains a first down and minimizes the hits they take. Hogan played two years in Buffalo and his Patriot playoff stats are better than his career stats with the Bills. Belichick and his staff don’t seem to overthink the game, unlike Jon Gruden who analyzes every play like it was a quadratic equation. Rex Ryan, the recently fired, and deservedly so, coach of the Bills, had 29 assistant coaches on his staff. I personally think Belichick gets close to the SB with Brady, Offensive Coordinator Josh Mc Daniels, Defensive Coordinator Matt Patricia and the rosters of most NFL teams.

* One of the unique things about football as a sport — and which makes it the most interesting for me — is its inherent complexity. It deploys 11 men on each side in every play, and bad play by any of them can be a disaster. It has many more moving parts, and each part has to “do his job” precisely for the team to succeed on any given play. Sports IQ plays a bigger role in football than in any other sport.

As critical as speed may be, higher Sports IQ can easily become the winning factor.

I think Belichick understands this, and chooses his players accordingly.

* I have always suspected that Roger Goodell actually did Brady a big favor by suspending him for the first four games of this season. This no doubt gave Brady legs in the brutal NFL season, especially considering his age. One thing that seems to be a consistent sign of an aging quarterback is that they play less well toward the end of the season than at the beginning.

In general, one thing that seems surprising to me is that more substitution isn’t done in football. Obviously, the Atlanta defense at the end of the game wasn’t playing at the level it did at the beginning of the game. Why don’t teams routinely swap players in and out?

* Jester, in December when the Bills played the Browns, Cleveland’s starting QB was Robert Griffin the III, who sadly is a shadow of his former self. The Buffalo News printed an interview with the Bills corner back, Nickell Robey-Coleman and I will quote his take on RG III. “He wasn’t just a regular African-American Quarterback, I felt like when he came into the league, he had the mental capacity as a Tom Brady type guy, when you hear him talk, he’s so articulate, he’s very intelligent…” Nickell, whose name rhymes with Michelle, is black, so this is an interesting perspective. Buffalo News, Sports section, Dec.17,2016.

* A couple of years ago on Inside the NFL, Jason Whitlock caused an uproar when he pointed out that the Patriots specifically look for players who grew up with a male in the home. Their rationale was that such players respond better to having older men yell at them and tell them what to do all day. Obviously this meant a disproportionate number of black players would be excluded. The male role models didn’t have to be fathers, but stepfathers, uncles, older brothers, coaches who would fill a similar role. I guess they still do this. I’d like to see them draft Christian McCaffrey.

* Pats have ridiculous schemes requiring adjustments at the line and after the snap depending on the positions and actions of every player on the line and the backers. You have to be highly intelligent to play slot/wideout/offensive lineman on the Pats because every defensive look is different and you have to pick it up and when he goes to where you should be, you better BE THERE, or else. Top that off with every opponent requires extensive film study and you come to the final reason Blacks don’t succeed in complicated themes: hard work. Failure to pick up the system has led to the cutting and awarding of a sandwich and a road map to many a Black wide receiver at the Pats.. They just don’t seem to have the smarts to play McDaniel’s system. I suspect Michael Floyd, picked up from Az. a few weeks back is a case in point. Percy Harvin from Indy came to camp, took one look at the playbook, retired. Ocho-Sucko, was another one. No good. Many Blaxx have passed through, they mostly don’t have it. And rest assured, when Belichick uses Blacks, they are high-football-IQ that at least grasp fundamentals.

The Pats and Brady and the White receivers are playing Chess, the Falcons with their Black receivers were playing checkers, the Falcon’s schemes a bit more complicated than high school offense, but just barely. Matt Ryan is stuck with them, HE could do better, but his receivers, Black all, will never.

* Green Bay is often the second whitest team in the NFL. They have had great success as well and won a Super Bowl with a half white team in 2011. Shame they did not meet New England in the SB this year.

But the league is getting blacker as formerly white positions like QB and O-line become “caste” (meaning most coaches, owners and fans believe only blacks should play these positions because they are supposedly better athletes).

Example? The LA Raiders had exactly 5 whites and 47 blacks on their roster this year. Even their punter was black. Of the whites, 3 were QBs and 1 was a kicker. They had exactly 1 white starter (QB). Their white coach, Jack Del Rio, did something similar at Jacksonville a few years earlier.

Did you see any worried articles on this? No?

I played a bit and the black players lobby the coaches to play “they boys” at QB and other positions even if a white athlete is better. Sometimes far better. White athletes are the same as whites everywhere. They know it and see it but keep their heads down. Better not to make trouble and hope for the best.

And no coach or owner will ever get anything but plaudits from fans – including most white fans – for starting an almost entirely black team.

* We Raider fans know how many penalties we incurred too. This year, we survived them; usually, we don’t.

GM Reggie McKenzie has made every effort to hire “good citizens” and many of them are very involved Christians, like him.

* Makes me wonder how high Randy Moss’ “football IQ” is. I can’t say he’s an idiot in regular life, but he does lack impulse control, which correlates with low-IQ. He often showed poor impulse control on the field, as well, but he also blew the game wide open and was one of top 5 best wide receivers ever to play. That couldn’t have been all natural talent.

Moss made it in the Belichik system, for a while at least. Is that because Brady, Belichik, and the coordinator Moss-ified their playbook, or did he catch on to that notoriously complex system? If so, how can there be such a wide apparent gap between football IQ and regular IQ?

* Generally speaking, defenses tire quicker than offenses. The Patriots controlled time of possession. As bad as they looked on the scoreboard in the first half, they had plenty of long drives that wore on the Falcons’ gastank.

* It should be noted that Lady G was political. She started singing God Bless America. Then she went into This Land is Your land. Old former lefties know that this land was a rebuttal to the God bless song. After jumping off the roof, at some point she sang Born this way.
This song is her excuse for the gay lifestyle.
She was very subtle. You had to know the symbolism to understand her.

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LAT: How Trump’s policies and rhetoric are forging alliances between U.S. Jews and Muslims

In the West, Jews and Muslims have always been a part of the Coalition of the Fringe (along with blacks, latinos, homosexuals, and other angry minority groups) against the white Christian core. Jews don’t have much in common with other members of the Fringe aside from fear of a white Christian core discriminating against them. Jews in daily life don’t tend to have deep interactions with blacks and Muslims and latinos (the IQ gap is enormous) but in politics, they have common interests.

Los Angeles Times reports:

Jewish and Muslim activists in the United States are forging alliances like never before in reaction to the president’s rhetoric and action toward Muslim immigrants.

Many Jewish organizations have interpreted Trump’s executive order banning entry by citizens of seven predominantly Muslim countries as a call to arms. Jewish delegations turned out en masse for a 10,000-strong demonstration Sunday night in New York. (“Granddaughter of Holocaust survivors standing with refugees, Muslims immigrants,” read one sign.)

Almost every day in New York this last week there was an interfaith conference or prayer service — involving Christian groups as well as Muslims and Jews — devoted to the current crisis over predominantly Muslim immigrants and refugees.

“We have common interests,” said Al Hadj Talib Abdur-Rashid, the imam of the Mosque of Islamic Brotherhood in Harlem. He was one of several Muslim leaders who appeared at a rally in Brooklyn in November after a playground was defaced with pro-Trump graffiti and swastikas. “The same kind of people who bomb synagogues [also] bomb black churches and now mosques.”

A Muslim-Jewish Advisory Council, made up of business and cultural leaders of both communities, both Democrats and Republicans, was formed days before the election and convened for its first regular meeting Wednesday in Washington to push the government for a coordinated response to hate crimes, up sharply against both Muslims and Jews.

The week after the election, Jonathan Greenblatt, chief executive of the Anti-Defamation League, raised eyebrows when he declared at a meeting in New York that if Trump imposed a Muslim registry, “this proud Jew will register as Muslim’’ — a dramatic statement for the head of an organization founded to fight anti-Semitism and protect Jewish identity.

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The Taming Of The Daily Shoah

Background on the Mike Enoch doxxing.

Comments on the recent episode with Greg Johnson:

* …the Shoah has become tamer since the doxxing. Doxxing can be a force for good when it countervails the self-defeating extremism that anonymity on the internet tends to breed.

The old-school fans of the Shoah are going to listen to it even if it does become a little less extreme. But by coming a little less extreme, the Shoah opens up to a broader, more normie audience.

* How can you talk that long about The Wire without mentioning the Jewish defense attorney Maury Levy? He is a brilliant stereotype and the only real winner in the whole show. He profits off the drug trade and helps keep it going while assuming none of the risk.

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Torah Talk: Beshalach (Exodus 13:17–17:16)

This week’s Torah portion is Beshalach (Exodus 13:17–17:16). Listen.

* Recap: Joseph designs a plan where the world has to turn over its gold to Egypt survive a long famine, and now with all the world’s gold in Egypt, the Jews get it and take it out of Egypt.

* Were the Jews freedom fighters or terrorists? Tweet:

Modern Hindus retrospectively cast 1857 as “war of independence”.Their ancestors in 1857 prayed for British victory over “freedom fighters.”

Every people wants self-determination, even if others can rule over them more efficiently and provide them with more stuff.

* God unleashes plagues on Egypt. Egyptians sees the Jews as a plague. Different peoples have different interests.

* The traditional reading of the Book of Exodus is that the Exodus the event represents life, Egypt represents death.

Egypt represents slavery, the Exodus represents freedom.

Egypt is bad, Israel is good.

The Pharoah is bad, Moses is good.

The Egyptian gods are false, only God is God.

To get an alternative perspective, to get an Alt Right perspective, put yourself in the position of groups competing with the Hebrews, such as the Egyptians.

* What are the chief contributions to the world from Egypt in the past 3,000 years? About 3,500 years ago, Egypt ruled. It was the mightiest empire in the world.

* The Exodus is the central event in Judaism. If the Exodus did not happen, then what is Judaism?

* If the Exodus is the one example of God interening in history, then what? It’s a ridiculous question because there is no empirical way of judging when God intervenes in history.

* Different groups have different traits. Jews tend to be emotional, like other Middle Eastern people, and so they complain more. Jews aren’t often criminally violent, but they do tend to be verbally violent and this “You’re killing me” complaints in the parasha are quintessentially Jewish.

* According to a midrash, only a fifth of the Jews left Egypt. The rest were not ready for the new way of life and died during the plague of darkness.

* According to the Artscroll, when “the wicked are punished, God is glorified.” More liberal Jews are less likely to say such things and to rejoice in the destruction of the wicked.

* Rejoicing over the death of your enemies is normal, natural and healthy. When the Jews saw the Egyptians drowned, they rejoiced. “Israel saw the great hand that HaShem inflicted upon Egypt, and the people revered HaShem, and they had faith in HaShem and in Moses, His servant.” (Ex. 14:31)

Life is often zero sum. Different groups have different interests and we are all competing for survival in a Darwinian world. If the Egyptians had caught up with the Jews, it would have been very bad for the Jews. The Egyptian army drowning, on the other hand, was good for the Jews.

* Ex. 17:16. “…Hashem maintains a war against Amalek, from generation to generation.”

Amalekites are the descendants of Esau.

Artscroll: “[Amalek] attacked Israel because of their ancestor’s [Esau] ancient, implacable hatred of Jacob; they would have continued the attack even if the Jews had retreated toward Egypt.”

All forms of life have a group evolutionary strategy. Jews have one, Arabs have one, Africans have one, Chinese one. It is rare that a member of a group can see his group’s evolutionary strategy.

Every life form has a strong reaction against anything that threatens its survival. Groups normally need cohesion to survive. Threats to group cohesion, such as multiculturalism, should be expected to produce violent responses.

* Goy: “I want to ask about “conversion” and the persuasion that seems to come (to the Jews in this part) *only* when they see physical evidence of god’s intervening on their behalf and ask you more about your conversion, and miracles.”

Do these questions mean anything in a context of Jewish religion? –or is the question of “believing” not important at all?

* What White Supremacists Taught A Torah Scholar About Identity

* Carl Schmitt: The Concept of the Political

* The Ordeal of Civility: Freud, Marx, Lévi-Strauss and the Jewish Struggle with Modernity (1974)

* The WASP Question by Andrew Fraser.

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NYT: ‘The Misunderstood Genius of Russell Westbrook Following the departure of his superstar teammate, Russell Westbrook was left to lead the Oklahoma City Thunder all by himself. That’s when something special happened.’

If Russell Westbrook is a “genius”, I’m not sure what kind of genius. His genius certainly does not consist of winning. Most casual fans of the NBA clearly understand that but apparently this writer does not.

Because they were underdogs, I rooted for the Thunder for years and more often than not, in the biggest games, it looked to me like Russell Westbrook with his reckless ball management, unwillingness to pass, and wretched shot selection (career FG % is 43.5, Alan Iverson, another black ball hog, is 42.5), did as much to harm his team’s chances as to advance them.

Steve Sailer writes: “On the downside, both Westbrook and Harden are on track to break George McGinnis’s seemingly unbreakable ABA record for most turnovers.”

Comments at Steve Sailer:

* Unfortunately all of their efforts will be fore not. Come finals time, both those players will be at home, like the rest of us, watching the finals. You could combine the rosters of both the Rockets and Thunder and they still wouldn’t be competitive against the Warriors. One man wrecking crews in the NBA, whilst entertaining, don’t win titles.

* Westbrook and Harden are great players, but their freak output owes a great debt to the distortion effect of recent rule and style changes in the NBA.

Not being able to put your hand on a guard on the perimeter has made pick and roll virtually unguardable. That in turn has motivated teams to completely overhaul style to take advantage, putting 3 3-point shooters on the floor at all times to pull defenders out of the paint and then run endless pick and rolls with the star and a big man.

The simple action produces a big volume of points and assists for the star guard and then on the other end, they are playing with so many lightweight 3-point specialists, there are a huge number of rebounds available.

I think it’s lame. Half the starting point guards in the league are “stars” under this system. You’ve got a 5’9 guy in Isaiah Thomas who can’t defend a lick putting up 30ppg and getting MVP buzz.

The stylistic diversity of the late 2000s is gone. A bunch of teams playing the exact same way, putting ball-hog scoring guards at the center of a 3-point shooting offense.

* I watch very little NBA, but I did watch Cleveland’s run to the Championship last year. One stat that they don’t list is YARDS PER CARRY! I frequently watched as a drive to the bucket included 3 giant steps, and occasionally four. But, what the hay, scoring drives the viewership numbers.

* Westbrook is great, but he has what some call the choke gene. He panics in big games. (Harden by contrast has the clutch gene). Westbrook’s end game blundering pretty much gave the Western Conference finals to Golden State. I doubt he’ll change.

* …it’s amazing how left the league has gotten the last few years. Probably was inevitable in a league that’s 80% black. And the whites who want to be involved with such a black dominated sport tend to become hyper SJWs (see Steve Kerr’s Twitter feed). Football remains relatively neutral politically due to the coaches and quarterbacks, along with the fan base. And it’s not just celebrating Black History Month and opposing the Muslim ban, the NBA was one of the most enthusiastic bullies pushing for tranny bathrooms. There’s a lesson there: if any institution is overwhelmingly non-white, it’s going far left not just on racial issues but everything. Same for the country.

* NBA’s tack left has a lot more to do with its massive ABC/ESPN deal and its commissioners than the athletes.

David Stern and Adam Silver both liberal NY Jews catering to the liberal media establishment and often chastising their own athletes – e.g., Kobe Bryant and Rajon Rondo getting major penalties for anti-gay slurs.

The black athletes push the NBA left on BLM, but the rest is all NY liberals using sports media as a wedge into flyover country.

* Westbrook makes only 43% of his shots and only 31% of his 3-point attempts. He wants to dominate possession of the ball. If he’s making his shots he’s pretty much unstoppable, but if he’s not he can take the whole team out of the game. By contrast, Larry Bird was the master of the “touch pass”; move the ball to the next player as quickly as possible. Westbrook does not contribute to a winning team nearly as much as his headline stats would suggest. Bird took a team that only won 29 games in the season before he arrived and led it to more than 60 wins–without Robert Parish or Kevin McHale present. Without Kevin Durant, Westbrook has no serious chance of being on a team in the conference finals.

* The NBA refs are also now more likely to call blocking fouls against the defender than charging fouls on the dribbler in order to make the games more exciting. If a defender steps into the path of a would be Michael Jordan who is still twenty feet away and running at the basket, he might be whistled on the claim that he hadn’t “taken a defensive position” no matter how long he had been standing there.

* Stuff like taking away the all-star game from Charlotte over the transgender bathroom law is using the popularity of sports in red states as a wedge to insert blue state power and influence.

It’s not a coincidence that one of the NFL’s most consistingly white teams — the New England Patrios — is also the winningiest.

Dawkins on hoops in black and white

Charley Rosen / Special to FOXSports.com

3 days ago Darryl Dawkins has never worried about being politically correct. Ever since he made headlines in 1975 when he became the first schoolboy to be drafted into the NBA (Philadelphia — fifth pick overall), Dawkins was never shy about speaking his mind.

According to Dawkins, the outcome of the upcoming Olympic basketball tournament hinges on a subject no one else dares to fully address — the racial components that define basketball as we know it. “The game is the same,” says Dawkins. “The object is for the good guys to score and to keep the bad guys from scoring. But there’s a big difference between black basketball and white basketball.”

Darryl Dawkins isn’t afraid to sound off on the “big difference between black basketball and white basketball.”

Growing up poor (but happy) near Orlando, Fla., Dawkins learned the former before he learned the latter. “Black basketball is much more individualistic,” he says. “With so many other opportunities closed to young black kids, the basketball court in the playground or the schoolyard is one of the few places where they can assert themselves in a positive way. So if somebody makes you look bad with a shake-and-bake move, then you’ve got to come right back at him with something better, something more stylish. And if someone fouls you hard, you’ve got to foul him even harder. It’s all about honor, pride, and establishing yourself as a man.”

Once the black game moves indoors and becomes more organized, the pressure to establish bona fides increases. “Now you’re talking about high school hoops,” says Dawkins. “So if you’re not scoring beaucoup points, if your picture isn’t in the papers, if you don’t have a trophy, then you ain’t the man and you ain’t nothing. Being second-best is just as bad as being last. And if a teammate hits nine shots in a row, the black attitude is, ‘Screw him. Now it’s my turn to get it on.'”

If young black players usually cherish untrammeled creativity, white hooplings mostly value more team-oriented concepts. “White basketball means passing the hell out of the ball,” says Dawkins. “White guys are more willing to do something when somebody else has the ball — setting picks, boxing out, cutting just to clear a space for a teammate, making the pass that leads to an assist pass. In white basketball, there’s a more of a sense of discipline, of running set plays and only taking wide open shots. If a guy gets hot, he’ll get the ball until he cools off.”

Why is white basketball so structured and team-oriented?

“Because the white culture places more of a premium on winning,” Dawkins believes, “and less on self-indulgent preening and chest-beating. That’s because there are so many other situations in the white culture where a young kid can express himself.”

As the twig is bent, so grows the tree. When Dawkins and the Sixers squared off against the Portland Trail Blazers for the NBA championship in 1977, Philadelphia’s most dynamic players were Julius Erving, George McGinnis, World B. Free, and Dawkins.

“They beat us in six games,” Dawkins recalls, “and the series marked the most blatant example of the racial difference in NBA game plans. We were much more flamboyant than Portland, and certainly more talented. We had more individual moves, more off-balance shots, more fancy passes, more dunks, and more entertaining stuff. But everybody wanted to shoot and be a star (including me), and nobody was willing to do the behind-the-scenes dirty work.”

Meanwhile, the white players at the core of Portland’s eventual success were Dave Twardzik, Bobby Gross, Larry Steele and Bill Walton. Dawkins notes that “Even the black guys like Lionel Hollins, Mo Lucas, Johnny Davis, Lloyd Neal played disciplined, unselfish white basketball. Credit their coach, Jack Ramsay, for getting everybody on the same page.”

As much as Dawkins respected Portland’s game plan, however, he was never crazy about Walton. “The guy was a good player who could really pass and had a nice jump hook,” Dawkins opines. “What made Walton so effective was that he was surrounded by talented players who wanted to win and weren’t concerned with being stars. Personally, I think that Walton was, and still is, full of baloney. Back then, he had this mountain-man image, he smoked lots of pot, and I don’t think he bathed regularly. And the league let him play with a red bandana tied around his head. To say nothing of his involvement with Patty Hearst.

“If a black player ever tried any of that kind of stuff he would’ve been banished from the NBA in a heartbeat. Yet in spite of all the messed up things Walton did as a player, now that he’s a TV announcer all he does is tear down everybody else. The guy still ticks me off.”

During his 15-year tenure in the NBA, Dawkins’ signature move was bulldozing to the basket and smashing the Plexiglas backboard to smithereens. He was brash, outlandish, funny, and irresistible. He called himself “Chocolate Thunder,” claimed to be from the planet Lovetron, and devised names for his more awesome dunks — among the most noteworthy were In Your Face Disgrace, Cover Yo Damn Head, Sexophonic Turbo Delight, and his classic If You Ain’t Groovin’ Best Get Movin’-Chocolate Thunder Flyin’-Robinzine Cryin’-Teeth Shakin’-Glass Breakin’-Rump Roastin’-Bun Toastin’-Glass Still Flyin’ Wham-Bam-I-Am Jam!

For the past four years, the 6-foot-11, 285-pound Dawkins has been coaching the Pennsylvania Valley Dawgs in the summertime United States Basketball League. In so doing, he’s won two championships (2002 and 2004) and distinguished himself as a superior motivator and big man coach, as well as the kind of on- and off-court teacher who can help transform wild young hooplings into mature gamers. As a by-product of his own maturation, Dawkins can also see the pluses and minuses of both black and white basketball.

“The black game by itself,” he says, “is too chaotic and much too selfish. No one player is good enough to beat five opponents on a consistent basis. The black style also creates animosities among the players because everybody ends up arguing about who’s shooting too much and who’s not shooting enough.”

But the white game also has its drawbacks: “It can get too predictable and even too cautious because guys can be afraid to take risks and make mistakes.”

Dawkins believes that the best NBA teams combine the best of both. “In basketball and in civilian life,” Dawkins says, “freedom without structure winds up being chaotic and destructive. Only when it operates within a system can freedom create something worthwhile.”

And, according to Dawkins, this is the most difficult task at hand for Larry Brown. “Only Tim Duncan and Carlos Boozer are willing to play white basketball. All the other guys on Team USA really want to go off on their own.

“Unless Brown can bleach some of the selfish funk from their game, they’ll be lucky to win the bronze.”

Charley Rosen, former CBA coach, author of 12 books about hoops, the next one being A PIVOTAL SEASON — HOW THE 1971-72 LA LAKERS CHANGED THE NBA, is a frequent contributor to FOXSports.com.

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