Tuesday, May 15, 2007

What Dirk Will Never Do.













I don't believe I've said a word about the NBA playoffs or the Mavs at all this year. But this FANTASTIC Suns/Spurs series and especially last nights game necessitates that something be said.
You can run the Nash/Dirk argument into the ground all you want. Talk about defensive liabilities. Talk about them having to separate to come into their own. Talk about MVP's. Whatever. But the bottom line is this:
You will NEVER, EVER see Dirk play with a sliver of the heart that Steve Nash runs the court with at all times.
You will NEVER, EVER see Dirk respond to a hard foul by manning up and getting in a guys face.
Last night when Bobby Horry hip-checked Nash into the scorers table and the wheels came off, it reminded me of that moment in Rocky, when he pops Apollo for the first time in round one and the music kind of starts...
Yeah, so to use a gross cliche, Steve Nash is Rocky.
Dirk, however, is Jackie Styles.

















Jackie Stiles played her collegiate ball in the same town I was in during college. She apparently broke the all-time NCAA woman's basketball career scoring record. She was real good. But she was also, a girl.
Thus, Dirk is Jackie Stiles. Real good. But a girl on the court. Except for the jump shot. Dirk has a real one and I've still yet to ever see a female basketball player take an actual jumpshot.
Enjoy your trophy kiddo. Maybe you can play dress up with it while your buddy wins himself a title.

10 comments:

Sean said...

If you worked for MS-NBC you'd be fired.

I don't like basketball even a little, but this Steve Nash character makes the espn highlight reel worthwhile. He's like Jordan (in the sense that it seems as if he is playing on a completely different level than 95% of the other guys out there); except, of course, he's a skinny white dude.

Anyway, back to baseball...

Anonymous said...

SHOCKED!! I figured you would bad mouth my little white friend just like you did last year. I like it when small honkies don't get intimidated by the giants and umm, well, beat them at their own game.

jeremy

Bonnie aka Truffles said...

Nash looks like a monkey in that photo.

chelcg said...

hey.. is it still legal to use the word honkies?

travis said...

This one really made me laugh. AND, I totally agree. Dirk needs to grow a pair.

travis said...

Sean, I plead with you, let's not return back to baseball.

Shane said...

i guess you were wrong - dirk is not going to watch his buddy win a title - or even play the Jazz for that matter - i guess the spurs win it this year - unless King James can stop them

Anonymous said...

honkie, honkie, honkie, cracker, cracker, cracker....i can say it cause i'm pasty white...isn't that how it works??

jk

Jiff Divingboard said...

Also, in the last game of the Spurs/Suns series... that third quarter... Stevie "Teenwolf in mid-transformation" Nash STEPPED UP and started MAKING THINGS HAPPEN. He got them from 20 out to within 7. Again, a rather Non-Dirk in the Playoffs accomplishment.

Jiff Divingboard said...

I mean the 4th quarter.