Thursday, February 28, 2008

Digger Phelps critique

Great job, Diggs! You actually spoke during a highlight of a women's game. But you sucked on purpose.



When Stacy is talking to you, meet her question--sort of like you telling the players to meet the ball. You dragged ass. Yeah, you answered her question. Half-assed. Oh gee, you brought some credible information about Connecticut. Even a dumb ass could have said that Connecticut is going all the way. But you don't believe that. You are just throwing up a heave to shut critics up.



You are a researcher and when you do yresearch: you bring pros and cons to teams and how they utilize them against other team with pros and cons. Then you break it down the middle. At least that is how you do with the men's team. Instead, you gave flat answers without any "ball movement" involving your other hosts. You acted like George McGinnis in the 77 finals who didn't get others involved except when the game is close and use Rece as a bail out crutch like George did with Mike Dunleavy in tight situations.


Now that Bobby Knight is on your side, I think Bobby is less sexist than the media is given credit for women's basketball (yes, he is an admitted misogynist). I believe he is willing to critique "inbounds play" of Pat Summitt teams from the past and now the future. Bobby would talk about how the players would use steady pressure to get them to crack under pressure in the 80's and 90's. But with the progress of better players and athletes, Pat Summitt has to get after the inbounder a little more tenaciously. I believe he would use tapes and study them to prove his point. He does like basketball whether women or men play it. His wife is a former basketball coach.

Sunday, February 10, 2008

The Writers strike

I support the writer's strike that is going on or if its over by now. I know somebody involved in it. When I look at pictures of the strike and see the participants, I get concerned and bitter. Im looking at them and notice that they are mostly white. I'm not big into having minorities become writers or anything like that because you eventually have to please your white master. Look at rap and Hip-hop.

My only thing is for writers, be honest and responsible for writing bad scripts for Asian-Americans characters like me? We are always looked as animals or subordinates in every issue; like sex, violence, and values. Will this stop? I know this can stop but we don't have a big lobby. Yeah, I'm pro-Asia, that works? Whatever?

Yeah, you want 8 cents for every 19.95 DVD sold? I get that. How about every word or a lack of word where you make minorities feel small in stature. I know go get your own movie companies and distribution (Yeah, while you are at it, why don't you mention about piracy all Asians are notorious for ?) My point is, why should I feel sorry for you when you are just like your master or everybody's white master?

Saturday, February 9, 2008

American tennis

American men's tennis was pretty much done since 1961 . You had revival with Ashe, Connors, McEnore and then the Brat pack of Chang, Courier, Agassi, and Sampras. Then lesser players like Todd Martin and Mal Washington during the 1990's. I believe that was due to pros not being able to play Grand Slam events like Gonzales, Trabert, and McKay until 1968. Pros started playing their own events with Jack Kramer into the picture in 1947 when it was just him and Bobby Riggs then Pancho Gonzales and Pancho Segura. After awhile, it was Gonzales, Trabert, Hoad, Rosewall, Segura, and others.



Tennis is a tough sport to get into and really easy to get out of. The problem I see is the coaching in early elementary school levels. You have to send kids to academy's at an early ages. Who can afford that? Americans do play the sport with USTA, K-Swiss, and others with great numbers. Another factor is players on the otherside who can make you better; Winning is emphasized too much. So if I lose, I tend to want to quit then improve my game particularly if I have to play the same gloating opponent unlike in basketball and other team sports, you are one of many. So a player like a T.O or Dominique are actually tennis players who play a team sport because they never seem to vibe with teammates well because they were constantly working on their game for themselves and not how it would help their teammates like Dr. J was.



Everyone is looking at Donald Young, John Isner, and Robbie Ginepri. I thought the best one was the player from Virginia, Brian Vahaly. He went to my brother's high school. I thought he had the mental toughness and the competitiveness but the commitment of playing the pro-grind weak to weak really got to him it seemed particularly when he knew he couldn't be the best unlike in college. He wasn't content on being a top 10 or top 20 players. He was great academically so tennis was to pay for his graduate school.

I look at Roddick and Blake both good solid players but lack quickness to beat top players in tough situations. They are fast and powerful but they have to really get on top of their opponents to win those type of matches like Magic Johnson and his Lakers in the early 80's with his passing that destroyed teams early. However, teams figured if they could hang around, they can put doubt until Magic developed the outside shot and the baby hook to win games in tough situations in 1987 and 1988. They were in the Finals in 1989 and 1991. That is what you are seeing in Blake and Roddick do, getting better and better in their approach shots and volley. Will it be enough?