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September 2009
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"The Understanding of Movement in Space"
I’ve been meaning for a while to discuss the deep connections between art and basketball (sports in general, if you will). Till I better organize my thoughts, I’ll leave you with this Werner Herzog quote I came across on FreeDarko:
La Soufrière is a good example of one of your many films where athleticism, or at least enduring very harsh and inhospitable conditions, was essential to...
Epic Exercises in Comeback-ness
Remember this? It was awesome.
August 2009
5 posts
You Want to Fight? Fight With Me, One-to-One,...
(Props if you recognized the song in the title.)
As I discuss topics related to bygone days, one of the things I’m trying to avoid is lamenting on how much better everything used to be. Nothing causes a conversation to devolve into utter lack of substantiality, and me to cringe, much as a statement like, “Oh, X used to be so much better back in the day, now it just sucks”...
Forget About Brendan Haywood
Forgive the long block quotes (and the foray into recent news), but I found this great page from David Foster Wallace’s collection of essays and arguments, “A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again”. This excerpt is from the essay entitled, “tennis player Michael Joyce’s professional artistry as a paradigm of certain stuff about choice, freedom, limitation,...
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Hell Hath No Fury Like a 2-Hand Sprewell Dunk
This will be a visual post in the form of a storyboard narrative (video and photo):
It’s easy to forget how many good (but not great) swingmen were in the league in the mid-to-late 90’s. This man was a beast in his own right, getting a handful of honors,
while putting up some really impressive numbers for a few seasons:
Of course, the only numbers anyone remembers him for...
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Michael Jordan as Messianic Force
Because I like the tagline, I’m going to use this series to explore the coming-out parties of players or teams, early explosive efforts of young individuals that just had you convinced you were seeing The Next Big Thing.
I’ll start out with this gem I came across on FreeDarko:
This grainy footage of his ninth game, the first time he really exploded as a pro, is quite possibly the...
The Dichotomy of Jason Williams or, How We Choose...
Recent rumors of a possible Jason Williams comeback to the D’Antoni-led Knicks have made me reminisce about the career he had, or rather, could have had.
It’s hard to forget how he burst onto the scene in 1998 with the Sacramento Kings, as the 7th pick in the draft after getting kicked out of the University of Florida for repeated drug use. His was a brash, unadulterated style of play...
July 2009
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Introduction: revisited
Alright, I figured I’ve let this languish for as long as necessary; it’s time to get down to The Meat of Things. I love basketball; I love writing; seems like this is the appropriate venue to wax poetic about both. Rereading my earlier introduction piece, I can’t help but change gears as to what I’m going to write about. I’m going to step away from solely analyzing...
Shaolin Shadowboxing, and the Wu Tang sword...
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January 2009
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Let's Get It On
Much has been made of the fact that basketball is a sport where an individual can have a disproportionate impact on his team and the overall game, especially compared to sports like baseball and football, where success depends more on a synergistic functioning of different components (for example, disparate offensive and defensive units). However, it is impossible to deny the ability of a certain...