By now, you've probably heard all about Zach Randolph's
latest bastardization of basketball. (For further reading, go to
ClipperBlog or see Bill Simmons'
A dumbfounding night in the 'Dumbleavy Era'.) It boggles the mind and bends the imagination. So what's the deal? Is Randolph selfish, stupid, or just a hopelessly overconfident
SWAC?
Or...could it be that we're looking at this whole situation the wrong way? Maybe Z-Bo perceives the world in a way we can't comprehend. Perhaps Zach got caught in an Intrinsic Field Subtractor -- ala
Dr. Manhatten from
The Watchmen -- and became a kind of a quantum NBA player, and his corresponding inability to perceive time in a linear fashion has caused him to grow increasingly distant from his team, the league and humanity in general. And that kind of cold and remorseless indifference would certainly explain
his bizarre shot selection...
Labels: bizarre shot selection, gratuitous comic book references, Mike Dunleavy Sr., The Watchmen, Zach Randolph
btw: the link to the SWAC needs to be altered.
--GCII
"I don't even know what he's doing Leo"
God I miss Chuck...
If you actually watched some games, you'd see he has sweet playmaking ability, like the 1:40 mark of this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlTDb-PtDDM
(if no one gets the sarcasm in this post...)
Good. I have three things:
1) Do you think Odom got off the bench because of the ruckus, or because of the munchies? I think there was a guy in the stands with a big hot dog, right behind Blanka. I bet Odom didn't even know there was something going on.
2) Henry Abbot said, "Kurt from Forum Blue and Gold e-mails: 'Ariza is now a regular starter because Luke Walton went to Phil and said Ariza needs to start." Ahh... Luke Walton is who we thought he was (and, apparently, he is who HE thought he was, too).
3) During the melee, I heard Lord Mamba mutter, "Dance, puppets!" Then, he laughed that laugh that turns your eyeballs inside out. Come to think of it, I didn't really HEAR him, I FELT his words inside my mind. Damn.
p.s. captcha: "dines" (as in, "Kobe dines on the souls of his teammates").
on a side note my word verification is "barbosaw" ...creepy
Kobe's record without big balls dance: 2-0
0:40
"I had the ball" ::shrug::