One more thing about the post I had yesterday about playing the post in the NBA. No, I guess I don’t mind the contact personally; it’s been a part of the game for so long that I simply accept it and play on unless it is blatant or when the contact coule easily lead to an injury. Heck when we play pickup the games are not as rough simply because we call our own and have the offense call when they think they get fouled.
I am not getting on my “high horse” about how rough it is in the lane. It is; if the fans were to watch what goes on away from the ball instead of watching the ball itself they’d see the same thing I do — mass mayhem in the pits. What burns me up is not the contact, but the discrepancy between play in the post area and play away from the basket. It seems that if you breathe too hard on the player away from the basket you get tagged with a foul but in the pits anything short of pulling out a hand-axe is acceptable, unless the player getting hit is shooting.
Why is it that a post defender can put a forearm in the offensive player’s back and then wedge him out with hip bumps and knees to the hamstrings? Why is it that the same tactic is a foul when a point guard has the ball outside the three point line? I guess these are questions that are similar to the eternal paradox: “How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop?” No one knows because no one lasts long enough to get to the center without biting.
May 14, 2003
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