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Anyone who grew up in the early '90s watching Bulls-Blazers on NBC and playing Bulls-Blazers on Genesis will feel this loss. A bygone era, when big men could be lovable oafs.
zach randolph came about 12 years too late.
I actually met Kevin Duckworth once at a Raza barbeque in Michigan, of all places. Apparently, his wife was Mexican. Needless to say, he was enormous. And gracious.
As a player, he was definitely more skilled than your average big, lovable oaf. Unfortunately, he had Ralph Sampson's disease -- the undying need to face up and shoot 16-footers when he could post up and average 20+ pts/game. Such is the life of a seven-footer with touch.
Is Patrick Ewing's disease when you spot up from 20 feet? Or did Ewing simply have an acute case of Sampsonitis?Originally Posted by bao
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Does Mehmet Okur have a terminal case of Ralph Sampson's disease, or has a mutated into into an entirely new, more aggressive affliction?
Pat Ewing doesn't work because he averaged 20+ (even 25+) pts/game, and did play with his back to the basket occassionally. Okur doesn't count because he couldn't score more points with his back to the basket.
Ralph Sampson's disease is for 7-footers who can dominate in the post, but have a tendency to drift. All of the European 7-footers don't really count because they're never really taught how to play in the post. Its a new breed. Yao Ming, on the other hand, may have a little Sampsonitis.
By the way, still no word on what Duckworth died of ... is it possible that Sampson's disease is fatal? Will they bury him sixteen feet from his headstone?
That made me laugh. I love humor at inappropriate times.
You mean when Oakley was injured or something? I don't remember a lot of back-to-the-basket in the last decade of his career.
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In his (albeit brief) prime, Ewing was unstoppable in the post. His game was as ugly as his face, but it was effective.
for example:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxnB9OA3-gA
How fitting that 80% of that clip is Ewing on his back wincing.
Yeah, even into the mid-1990s, he shot that turnaround jumper out of the post all the time. In fact, Jordan's legendary rejection of Ewing (1993?) came when Ewing was shooting that. It was pretty effective.
Ewing's a pretty strange player. He was hands down the best defensive player I've ever seen in college, and went on to become a good defensive center, but a very good offensive center.
What the eff?
If you're going to just give that shit away, why not give it to Coach K?Jason Kidd gives gold medal to Vegas casino
1:39 PM Tue, Aug 26, 2008
Don't worry. This isn't a case of Jason Kidd paying off a Charles Barkley-sized gambling debt. He's just fulfilling a promise to Elaine Wynn of Wynn Casino fame.
"Last summer, we stayed at the Wynn for (what seemed like) a lifetime, close to three weeks," Kidd told the Las Vegas Review-Journal. "We met at a banquet, we got to talking, and she really understands the game.
"I told her I'd make a deal with her, that if we won the gold medal, I'd give it to her. She thought I was kidding. But I told her I had one already, and the way they treated us at the Wynn, it was the least I could do."
i saw that too. maybe they'll put it on display or something? or it's something they can make money off of?
or maybe customer service at the wynn is just that good. ever think of that?
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Well I think by giving the players preferential treatment the Wynn people stand to benefit more than the players do. It's good publicity and it makes the Wynn look like THE hotel (not to be confused with THEhotel, of course.)
Casino people aren't known for their sincerity. Of course they treated a group of millionaire celebrities nicely -- what else would you expect??
... and I wonder what they had to do to impress the newly single Jason Kidd. I think I can make a few guesses.
I'm not sure they benefit from Jason Kidd saying three weeks at the Wynn felt like an eternity, though.
The whole thing has a creepy, Indecent Proposal vibe to it.
I've never felt this strongly about a woman that I haven't pushed to the ground or struck in the face, Kidd added.
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That's not appropriate talk for a 16 year old...
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