Ya, there are 2 hockey game 7's tonight, and we all have massive rooting interests in full effect, but I stumbled on a basketball story this morning that I can't believe is not getting more play amongst the frustrated Mavericks fans and both local and national media.
It turns out that Josh Howard fairly openly admits to smoking dope - never during the season, of course (or so he says). Now I don't give a crap what any adult does in their personal life, but I found it astounding that Howard would be this candid:
"What can I say? If you can do it and it's not affecting your everyday life, why stop? If I'm able to do it, but not while I play basketball, it lets you know I can quit whenever."
If you've ever had a friend who was a daily user of the cheeba, you've heard that line before.
Howard has been a maddeningly inconsistent player this season - a player who routinely bolts out of the gate and scores 15 points in the first quarter, then impossibly finishes the game with 18 points (he scores 20 points a game for the season, but only averages 4 PPG in the fourth quarter). He makes 2 or 3 completely bone-headed plays every game where he either dribbles around until the shot clock is on his back or he loses his man on defense. These are the actions of someone who lacks concentration, or who is trying to remember where the nearest Taco Bell is.
After the Mavs went AWOL in the second half of game 1 against the Hornets, armed with this information on Howard, you would really expect more over-the-top, moralistic attacks from some fans and holier-than-thou scribes. So far, nothing. Screamin' A could have a field day with this one. "NOW WE KNOW WHY THE MAVERICKS ARE THE PLAYOFF DOGS THAT THEY ARE! THEY'RE ALL RIDIN' HIGH ON CUBAN'S PLANE BLAZING IT UP LIKE METHOD AND RED! THIS IS AN OUTRAGE!!!"
4 comments:
What a choker! He scores only 20% of his points in 25% of the game?!? Shameful! Next thing you know he'll be leaving Jet Terry hangin' on a high-five. Choker!
Also: didn't Josh used to live down the street from you before he signed his contract extension?
Yeah, what a penistarian!
What do facts have to do with anything? Sheesh, don't be so picky. I just included it because when you watch him play, it seems like he doesn't ever score in the second half.
i think he still lives in that same place. I used to always see Devin Harris' car there, which may explain why Josh played so badly right after Devin got traded...
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