Rule Designed to Unfairly and Specifically Target 'Sheed Pays Off Early
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It took all of one game for the sanctimonious NBA discipline machine to make an example out of Rasheed Wallace in enacting this new "no whiners allowed" rule.
If you didn't hear, 'Sheed was T'd up twice, and thereby ejected, in this his very first game under the new policy.
For obvious reasons, I despise this rule--foremost because bitching-and-moaning is an indispensable part of basketball. Complaining to the officials has a strategic role that enriches the level of play in basketball, not to mention its necessary role in allowing angry human being players to blow off steam.
Watching players chew out the refs is highly entertaining, as well as cathartic for those of us feeling the players' frustation second-hand. In its place, us viewers are left with forced submission to terrible calls and lots of super-exciting tech freethrows.
The shame of it all is that fans--and even more so, teammates and coaches--will be robbed of on-court minutes from some really excellent players. And for what? Some bulldink lesson in manners and professionalism? A couple decibels in an official's ear? A long-standing conspiracy against 'Sheed?
Somewhere (I'd guess a cemetery) Al McGuire is spinning in his grave.
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4 comments:
If it specifically targets 'Sheed, why include Iverson?
I don't know, other than that he likes to complain also, and it's a sweet picture. I didn't mean that the rule is literally for 'Sheed and 'Sheed alone.
specific spi-'si-fik
(adj.)- Definition #2: restricted to a particular individual, situation, relation, or effect.
Petty comments aside, I agree, it is a sweet picture.
After watching the first two Bulls games, this rule will drive me insane. I'm normally not one for these outlandish thoughts, but I have a feeling Mr. Stern's family controlled a plantation at some point and he yearns to have that same control.
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