Ewe blabs and blabs and blabs…about having the dreaded Dinwiddie Disease and other things.
One thing I did learn was that in addition to not having one ounce of athletic ability, being white, and having no vertical, and only being able to dribble right handed, I couldn’t play in the NBA because about 43 times last night I heard things being said that would have made me swing at someone. These guys talk MAJOR trash on the floor, and the great part is that most of the times I’ve seen it the guy on the receiving end usually doesn’t respond much, if at all, and just plays the game, schooling the guy who feels like he needs to talk to make his game better.
...1) KGs first quarter Technical. I heard EVERY word of his exchange with the ref. It’s nice to know that they share the same problems some players do with MLB umpires. He was giving a technical because he said the F word, period. He did NOT call the ref a name, he was ######## about a non-call and said “C’mon, what the F am I supposed to do” and got the T. Now I watch both Pierce, and I think Allen, talking to this ref and he shoots back to Paul this little tidbit. “I can’t let him talk to me that way.”
What? Dude, your an NBA official, not the stinking Pope. Not one person in the arena paid 1 cent of their ticket to see you, ref the game and shut your pie hole. These guys are playing for a world championship, they are as amped up as you expect the best players in the world to be, they are grown men, there’s going to be some PG-13 language, and you are giving a T to a guy for dropping an F bomb? Stupid.
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Seems like that should apply in the NBA too.
It worked for this guy!
Unfair. He could never dribble.
Edit: I will say, though, that he was strong as an ox and could box out O.K. and fill his lane. Sixth option on offense, though.
I remember when Michael Jordan once said that he would only refer to him as "Will Vanderbilt" because he wasn't good enough to be named after a Big 10 school.
It is possible to be a teammate in the cage and a royal jerk outside of it. Not that MJ ever mastered that one.
If you can get distracted at the line with trash talk, you'll never even make it to the NBA.
If it didn't sometimes work, they wouldn't try it.
Before I go hit Google, I'm going to say this was some big white stiff from the Alcindor-era Bucks? Now I'll go check ...
(It helps that I was a big fan of that Bucks team. Pretty much the only non-ABA squad I ever had any use for as a kid, & of course the only ones I ever had any use for after that were the 4 old ABA franchises & certain ABA-flavored NBA teams, like the Sixers with Doc, Caldwell Jones, Bobby Jones, Moses, etc.)
WTF? Now, that I'll have to look up ...
Huh. Wonder what big white stiff on that team I was thinking of? Probably Dick Cunningham from the previous season. (I see John Block was big, & I'm pretty sure he was white, but I recall him as being, if not exactly another Nureyev, at least functionally mobile.)
Maybe it's just me, but a black guy named "Dinwiddie" has a pretty clear path to the Reggie Cleveland Hall of Fame.
Till I checked the Web, I absolutely didn't recall that Wally Jones -- one of my very favorite NBA players of the era -- was a '71-'72 Buck.
I liked when he went Nation he changed his name--to Wali Jones.
Ummm ... he played on the worst team in NBA history with the man whose name just may be the most unfortunate complete sentence in the annals of sports -- Manny Leaks? (Who I hadn't realized ever played in the NBA -- I knew him as an ABA guy, I think from the Chapparals.)
Anyway, interesting roster. One of those guys was another NBA favorite of mine as a kid, Leroy Ellis, who I think might've be an original Trailblazer. Another, Bob Rule, scored like a madman for the Sonics his (& the franchise's?) first year or two in the league but then went totally south, though whether it was from injuries or drugs or whatever, I have no idea.
Too, I'm thinking John Q Trapp might've been an original Rocket, & Donnie May might've been a charter member of the Buffalo Braves. Dale Schleuter might've been a first-generation Blazer as well. Dennis Awtrey & Mel Counts were, ummm, big & white. Kevin Loughrey turned into a pretty good ABA (& maybe NBA?) coach. Can't remember if Bill Bridges made the HOF, but he was a pretty able rebounder, & started out in the ABL. Tom Van Arsdale wasn't Dick Van Arsdale, but he looked & played like him.
And of course Mad Dog Carter was a pretty darned good ballplayer. Hal Greer had been, but I'm sure he was verrrrry close to retirement at that point. (Didn't he hold the record for consecutive games played, or something?) Fred Boyd wasn't bad.
I'll be -- obviously, I had no idea. I'd've guessed Fred Carter.
When did the NBA do away with the at-least-one player-per-team requirement? After the merger, maybe?
He tore an achilles tendon, and never really recovered from the injury. Rule's rookie season was the SuperSonics' first season.
My favorite Basketball Player is Baskerville Holmes.
Anyway, speaking of the NBA, I see that Tim Donaghy's attorneys have apparently filed paperwork supposedly detailing a conspiracy by a couple of officials back in '02-'03 (I think it was) to extend the Kings-Laker series to 7 games via various non-calls & phantom calls, at the behest of league higher-ups.
Wouldn't surprise me in the least if it's true -- basically, almost anyone who's ever watched NBA refs ignore flagrant fouls & any number of other violations by superstars, ignore game clocks, etc. has probably at least entertained the suspicion that the league is as crooked as a dog's hind leg. Sad to say, I started regarding the sport as little more valid than wrestling, boxing or even pro football years & years ago.
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