Just because I think that this was an overreaction on bummy's part doesn't mean i know nothing about the history of the game. Lots of batters react with passion to not hitting a homerun, missing their pitch, or driving in that RBI, and lots of pitchers don't take offense. You're making such a rash assessment though, based on a disagreement of opinion. The context gave me a healthier perspective on the significance of long-standing sport/fandom rivalries. ![]() My first dorm-mate practically forced it onto my first semester reading list. There’s a lot of great history tied up in the Tobacco Road rivalry. □Īlso, give this book a read-through sometime. I’d also encourage you to get your passport updated and visit the People’s Republic of Carrboro just a bit further down Franklin Street as you’ll never find a more spectacular assortment of delightfully strange people in our entire state. I hope you have the opportunity to interact with some more pleasant, down-to-earth Chapel Hill students/residents in the future-perhaps in a less raucous, competitive context. We may vary by degrees from individual to individual, but the potential is always there. We’re capable of heinous, selfish, harmful acts as well. And there’s a reason you never wear Carolina colors when tailgating at Carter-Finley unless you’re traveling in a large group. I’ve also seen the Cameron crazies wildly celebrate the blood coming from the face of Tyler Hansbrough. It’s certainly happened at UNC-I recall discussing our disappointment with the cheers over Zion’s injury with a few old friends. Perhaps the culture has changed though there were definitely students, alumni, and fans in my day that took an ultimately inconsequential basketball rivalry much too far-well beyond the bounds of human decency and considerate behavior. I’m generally not a huge fan of sporting events for the mob mentality alone. In addition to the main players, like Nash and Coach D'Antoni, the book also goes into details about the personalities, styles, and characteristics of a lot of the role-players and assistant coaches, too, like Shawn Marion, Boris Diaw, James Jones, Raja Bell, Tim Thomas, and Alvin Gentry. For context, if you didn't get a chance to follow the team, while Nash ran the offense, Amare was the second-most important player on the team, as he was an offensive juggernaut, their main scorer, and one of the NBA's star young big men at the time. The season the author chose to follow was especially interesting because it was the year where Amare basically sat out the entire season. I'm not much of a book reader, but this one was captivating, especially as an NBA junkie who grew up watching the SSOL Suns. It's possibly my favorite book of all-time. There is actually a great book about the team, called Seven Seconds or Less: My Season on the Bench with the Runnin' and Gunnin' Phoenix Suns. The way I remember it is that he announced his comeback pretty soon after 9/11, almost like it was a response to the eventĭead wrong about the SSOL Suns being potentially uninteresting. I want to say it was a 9/11 victims charity but I'm not 100% on that. ![]() Lots of isos, particularly by Jordan.Īnother thing: He took the veterans exception to play as a Wizard, which was only like $1 million a year, and he donated his salary for those two years to charity. It was a tough era to watch basketball if you were a fan of offense. The efficiency isn't great, particularly that first year, but the entire league was not very efficient at that time. His second season his percentages are up across the board and, most impressively, he played all 82 games as he was turning 40 years old averaging 37 minutes a game. ![]() Because of this, his stats don't really look very good in comparison to the rest of his career. He was such a maniac about playing that he refused to let it rest until he just couldn't play anymore. Reading the book on those years illuminated the fact that Jordan's knee had severe tendinitis basically his entire first season as a Wizard, due to being older and training heavily out of nowhere (he announced his comeback very late in the offseason prior), and had to be drained multiple times. His Washington years get made fun of but he was pretty damn good.
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