Tonight is our second Late Night of the summer! After youth, we'll are going to watch a movie and have ice cream! Its gonna be great, can't wait to see everyone there!
Why harsh criticism has value:
1) Sometimes it sparks a change in approach.
2) When the harsh critic praises, you know it’s real.
If everything is good, nothing is good. Look for real evaluation, not constant validation.
Then the wins hit different.
I appreciate Calipari's friends wanting to see him do well, but the whole "he wasn't treated well" at Kentucky is insane. He set the market rate for basketball coaches. Kentucky mainstreamed him at exactly the moment he was becoming untouchable for many. And at the same moment his friends are getting sentimental he's still lobbing bombs at BBN; it was never about the fans, it's about me and the players. SEC championship or not, whether Pope succeeds or not, it was time.
That technical foul on Mo Dioubate is the worst technical foul that I've EVER seen.
EVER.
Doug Shows should never be allowed to officiate another game after that. Horrendous.
I remember my father who is retired LAPD telling me a story how reporters and journalists in LA kept questioning the split second decision making officers were making in high stress and violent situations...where the actual perpetrator was the one that got shot.
So the LAPD invited them to go through a shooting simulator...and watched as the same arrogant journalists proceeded to shoot unarmed civilians every time someone made a quick movement.
The instructor then asked them to imagine how much more difficult it would be in an environment where they could actually be killed, and maybe keep that in mind when reporting.
They of course did not...because why would they? They had a narrative to protect, and truth and context was not only unimportant, but entirely unuseful to them.
The Group of 5 should have a manageable path to get a team into the Playoff when that team is good enough.
But it should not be automatic and in no circumstance should two teams ever get in based on a technicality the committee was too stupid to see coming.