Perfect
Mizzou finished the month of December with a perfect record. Mizzou began the month with an OT win over UCF and ended on Saturday with a 75-61 win over Morehead State. Mizzou’s not played a tough non-conference schedule, but a win is a win is a win, 9 victories going into January looks good compared with the recent past. Now the real-tough test begins….SEC Conference play. Mizzou kicks off the season January 8 with a home game versus Tennessee. The “experts” claim SEC play is down from last year, that should indicates a few wins that should be losses and losses that should be wins.
Mizzou finished the month of December with a perfect record. Mizzou began the month with an OT win over UCF and ended on Saturday with a 75-61 win over Morehead State. Mizzou’s not played a tough non-conference schedule, but a win is a win is a win, 9 victories going into January looks good compared with the recent past. Now the real-tough test begins….SEC Conference play. Mizzou kicks off the season January 8 with a home game versus Tennessee. The “experts” claim SEC play is down from last year, that should indicates a few wins that should be losses and losses that should be wins.
Booed by the home crowd
To be fair I haven’t seen a great number of Andrew Wiggins NBA games. I did at the time he played at Kansas, this was the view of one of the shop barbers. I might add he’s a confirmed Jayhawk fan, Curtis said “Andrew Wiggins is playing to not get hurt.” He went on to explain Wiggins was headed for the NBA after his freshman season which proved to be correct. Arriving in the NBA winning Rookie of the Year I believed he was on his way to a stellar NBA career but a few bumps in the road have occurred in recent years.
To be fair I haven’t seen a great number of Andrew Wiggins NBA games. I did at the time he played at Kansas, this was the view of one of the shop barbers. I might add he’s a confirmed Jayhawk fan, Curtis said “Andrew Wiggins is playing to not get hurt.” He went on to explain Wiggins was headed for the NBA after his freshman season which proved to be correct. Arriving in the NBA winning Rookie of the Year I believed he was on his way to a stellar NBA career but a few bumps in the road have occurred in recent years.
Remember earlier former teammate Jimmy Butler
indicated he wanted a trade, he made several statements about management and
teammates. Butler mentioned two teammates,
Karl-Anthony Towns and Wiggins. I never
read any detail on Towns I did on Wiggins.
Butler questioned Wiggins dedication to the game and his work ethic. The booing occurred because he went 5-12 from
the free-throw line in an OT loss. His
numbers over the last five games have been up and down, one good game followed
by a bad game and then a good one. As I
said this is not intended to be an indictment of Wiggins play perhaps, he will
never reach super star status.
“Don’t slay the messenger”
I didn’t bother to look up the origin of the quote above. The explanation is simple however, sometimes we are in the position of delivering information or commentary offensive to an audience. That is the case, this is a Bleacher Report account I believe to be accurate. Through his first 29 games the numbers posted by Luka Doncic are on a par with LeBron James. No need of starting an argument, I didn’t say it and I’m pretty sure Bleacher Report didn’t either. Doncic is not the second coming of LeBron James however his rookie numbers look very good…. end of story.
I didn’t bother to look up the origin of the quote above. The explanation is simple however, sometimes we are in the position of delivering information or commentary offensive to an audience. That is the case, this is a Bleacher Report account I believe to be accurate. Through his first 29 games the numbers posted by Luka Doncic are on a par with LeBron James. No need of starting an argument, I didn’t say it and I’m pretty sure Bleacher Report didn’t either. Doncic is not the second coming of LeBron James however his rookie numbers look very good…. end of story.
The view from 30,000 feet
It’s likely unfair for me to choose one portion of a story to critique. Well that’s exactly what I’m going to do with the Brad Botkin article. He works for CBS Sports and decided to look at several NBA moves and non-moves over the last two years. One of the accounts focused on the Lakers and their failure to acquire Paul George. I cannot disagree with him in one instance, George is a talent and would have added greatly to the roster. The portion I took exception had to do with the possible acquisition of George.
It’s likely unfair for me to choose one portion of a story to critique. Well that’s exactly what I’m going to do with the Brad Botkin article. He works for CBS Sports and decided to look at several NBA moves and non-moves over the last two years. One of the accounts focused on the Lakers and their failure to acquire Paul George. I cannot disagree with him in one instance, George is a talent and would have added greatly to the roster. The portion I took exception had to do with the possible acquisition of George.
Botkin says, “The Lakers would have been forced to trade Brandon Ingram or Lonzo
Ball, neither will never be as GOOD
as George.” Currently neither player is at the same level
of George however Botkin makes the statement about two 21-year old
players. George will turn 29 before 2019
is over but should have at least 6-8 prime years remaining. As for Ingram and Ball if healthy and continuing
to develop should easily have 10-12 more years in the NBA. I believe Botkin is quite brave to state “neither Ingram or Ball will reach the skill
level of George.” With that closing statement mic drop.
