Upon completion of the NCAA basketball tournament, including the painful to watch national championship game, I anxiously await your analysis. After crucifying Jimmer and poorly analyzing his abilities and potential based on what was his worst game of the season, I look forward to your take of the remaining stars of the tournament. To help speed up the roast, let's take a look at some of the facts.
Against Florida, Jimmer shot an extremely mediocre (for Jimmer) 11/29 (38%) from the field including 3/15 (20%) from 3-point range in scoring 32 points.
Compare and contrast this to Kemba Walker's championship performance. Kemba shot a blistering 5/19 (26%) from the field including and 0/4 (0%) from behind the arc while scoring 16. Oh, and he was rewarded for this performance by being named the most outstanding player of the tournament. I expect you to tell Kemba and UCONN fans that the next time they see him he will be the best player in the local "YMCA" league.
Shelvin Mack and Matt Howard, the undisputed leaders of the Butler squad, shot 4/15 (27%) and 1/13(8%) from the field while scoring 13 and 7 points respectively. I assume the entire Butler team should be placed in the category of "looking like pizza delivery guys."
These are the stars of the national championship? And you say that the "myth" of Jimmer is overblown? It looks to me that Jimmer on his worst day would embarrass either of these teams with their National Championship performance.
Jimmer isn't a myth, Jimmer is a Legend! And you, Rick Reilly, with your faulty analysis and bias opinions, just got Jimmered.
Love,
Dave
A Toast to your Roast
Elegantly put, and may I add, Dear Mr. Riley religion should have no place in your argument. I have noticed that this may be difficult for you to understand, seeing how after being told this following your first poorly written and uninformed article with slights of Jimmer “POY” and fans who connect themselves with a religious institution, you continued to make religious references such as “Others who are not going to heaven,” in your poor excuse for clarification to readers in your “Jimmer: Readers React” article (http://espn.go.com/blog/rick-reilly-go-fish/post/_/id/869/rick-reilly-mailbag).
For all those who have not seen the original article by Mr. Rick Riley, ESPN continues to post the article on the front page of its website. I am sure the article remains on the Front page due to fan reaction, not because it is well written. You can view it here http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/news/story?id=6257636.
Jake
I Toast your Roast
ReplyDeleteElegantly put, and may I add, Dear Mr. Riley religion should have no place in your argument. I have noticed that this may be difficult for you to understand, seeing how after being told this following your first poorly written and uninformed article with slights of Jimmer “POY” and fans who connect themselves with a religious institution, you continued to make religious references such as “Others who are not going to heaven,” in your poor excuse for clarification to readers in your “Jimmer: Readers React” article (http://espn.go.com/blog/rick-reilly-go-fish/post/_/id/869/rick-reilly-mailbag).
For all those who have not seen the original article by Mr. Rick Riley, ESPN continues to post the article on the front page of its website. I am sure the article remains on the Front page due to fan reaction, not because it is well written. You can view it here http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/news/story?id=6257636.
Jake
Sadly, bad publicity is still publicity. Welcome to the blogosphere Mr.Dave!
ReplyDeletegreat comparison of Jimmer to everyone else. It's easy to bag on Jimmer esp after a bad game. If a true sports writer fails to give a star player a look until he can kick him when he's down it seems to me the sports writer is looking for some shameless self publicity more than actually assessing the skill of a good ball player.
ReplyDeleteESPN commentary is unfortunately pathetic almost every time I watch it. They seem to pick their favorites due to popularity vs. performance.
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