Saturday, August 14, 2010

105 points, say WHAT?

Look out Big East, here comes Corey Fisher. The guard from Villanova recently did his>best impersonation of Wilt Chamberlain at a summer league game by not only breaking the century mark but by doing so by five points, although when you score that much I suppose that's somewhat statistically insignificant but still... wow! According to The Hoop Doctors, he scored 105 out of the 138 points his team scored, which accounts for a cool 76% of his team's offensive production. Yes, when a team scores 138 points in a 40 minute game it probably means that defense was not the top priority for the opposition, but you still got to love Fisher's performance. A player has to be really darn good to be able to nail 23 three pointers on a "mere" 28 attempts (82%). Who in the world can do that in practice? Probably a few of those professional guys, who get paid to play ball. This is an amateur who did this during a game, which has to mean his legs and wrists were getting tired. Especially after he allegedly scored 72 of the points in the first half. This is the middle of the summer, not conference season. No way is he in that amazing of shape to not have to try really, really hard to score so much. Finally, if you were on the other team, would you let some one drop triple digits on you? I know I wouldn't, and I'm not a competitive basketball player (sometimes, not always). So Corey Fisher, congrats. That is one heck of a performance, simply amazing.

Saturday, August 7, 2010

The Reciprocal Relationship

Some relationships in life such as higher velocity -> higher momentum, lower resistance -> lower voltage used, and higher SAT scores -> higher chance of getting into college are called (directly) proportional relationships. Others such lower radius -> higher force are called inversely proportional relationships, or reciprocal ones. Well, we can now add another one of the type. When adrenaline goes up intelligence goes down. This one should be rightfully credit to U$C Fullback Stan Havili. Mr. Havili decided that such theory, which many Trojans might consider analogous to Einstein's theory of relativity, justifies breaking the cheekbone of a teammate in practice. Really Stanley, really? Just because emotions run high, doesn't mean breaking a bone in a teammates body is justified. There are plenty of other ways to be competitive without having to break a bones. You can trash talk, get in their faces with dumb jumping, or even to light shoving. I'm sure that there are many other ones you can do, but those three are the ones that come to mind. The bottom line is this, when emotions run high, don't break someone else's bones, especially of that someone happens to be the guy who come Saturdays will wear the same colors as you.

But hey, when the "school's" motto is FIGHT ON! can you really blame ole Stanley?