On a regular basis certain forms of Maafa Racism continue to pop up in front of me begging for attention. I mostly ignore them until I sense that this repetition of racism might not be noticed by those who need to still think Maafa Racism is intermittent, part-time, limited in scope and limited as to the number of participants in racist collectives. The impetus of this message is to let the Maafa Racist Spirit know that I see you. I see your shenanigans in terms of the continued re-whitewashing of NBA basketball team performance and calling out who's to blame and who's responsible as much as it would be for African coaches who are on a much shorter leash and narrower range of leeway.
As usual, playoff teams display despicable performance as if it's their first time playing the game. Their overall flaw is an overabundance of lack of good fundamentals.
This is easily evident with the Milwaukee Bucks, Toronto Raptors and Houston Rockets, yet not one of the talking head sports commentators is calling or questioning the coaching of those teams.
To me, the only way a team or a player repeatedly abandons good fundamentals is due to how they practice and due to the coaching philosophy of the entire staff. This was the main problem of the Cleveland Cavaliers when Lebron played for them. Were it not for the abandonment of good fundamentals, Cleveland could have won two to three more championships. I hate the way NBA teams play by repeatedly running ISOs and acting like they have no muscle memory as to good fundamentals. All the white coaches of the three teams mentioned above need to be fired but nobody's making it a public question as to how embarrassing it is to see professional sports players repeatedly display fundamentalist behavior of being fundamental-less. It seems to me the coaches are relying on the players to overcome average or below average coaching. Their reliance on individual player ability seems to get in the way of proper adjustments as to substitutions or recognizing when certain matchups aren't working or it just isn't that player's night. How can the same five players be the best group to start a game when each opponent has a different starting five? Coaches seem unable to put first things first, the good fundamentals. A lot of wasted team chemistry is the result which causes teams to underachieve embarrassingly. Now be certain to understand that a key reason Miami, Boston and the Lakers are achieving this year is due to individual players and a better grade on the curve of good fundamentals than their opponents. Even so, the abandonment of good fundamentals is always on obvious display by all NBA teams during the regular season and playoffs. It's as if the philosophy is to allow individual talent to be the driving factor of what the NBA is all about on the court. This does not remove responsibility from Front Office management to continuously monitor and evaluate coaches, be in communication and work on getting the personnel necessary to met all demands a team will face, especially in terms of injuries and opponent matchups. What is obvious to me regarding the losing playoff teams mentioned above is their lack of ball movement, player movement, stupid fouls, poor rebounding, lack of team offense and team defense, no wantingness (tenacity), players who can break people down off the dribble, missing layups and free throw percentages less than 75%. All of these teams have missing fundamental parts in the style of basketball played. Some lack three-point shooting, some midrange, some lack post play, some lack team defense and so on. This is all basic basketball. These flaws always expose the teams who are lackadaisical about good fundamentals. Too much reliance on numbers, statistics and basketball science and no reliance on having a feel for the game or for the human aspect. Oh yeah, Portland is included in the fundamental-less basketball mishaps above. There was one game where Carmelo Anthony was on fire and then he was taken out of the game and never caught back on fire that game. He should have been left in the game until his performance started to decline. It is fundamentally stupid to have five people on the court but the responsibilities are so narrowly assigned. It is equally a bad idea to have eight players on the bench and most of them rarely see any playing time when the game is still on the line. This is fundamental-less player development. I suggest that as soon as a team gets twenty points ahead, put in several bench players. Their energy should help prevent a team from relaxing and collapsing. This will also prevent bench players from developing the bad habit of coming into the game and firing three pointers. And by the way, Frank Vogel is not any kind of exceptional coach. He has been positioned to benefit from good players the way Phil Jackson and Pat Riley were. Due to Maafa Racism in the Lakers organization,they hired white Vogel over black Tyron Lue because Lue did not want to be a house nigger and was given restrictions that I'm certain were not placed on Vogel, even though Jason Kidd as assistant coach might make it seem so.
It doesn't take an exceptional coach, staff, front office, organization or players to win an NBA championship.. All it takes is the consistent application of good fundamentals. Truth is, nobody wants to see a bunch of star players dominate the game with good plays. This was proven with the distaste with how All-star games are played in recent times. Instead people want to see good fundamental basketball at a high consistent level that can only be enhanced by superstar play, but not superseded by superstar play. I would love to see Tyron Lue, Mark Jackson, Dwane Casey and Jeff Van Gundy as the coaching crew for a team. The NBA is littered with lopsided boring games. It's usually better to just wait for the highlights or only tune in during the second quarter and then check-in for the fourth quarter. To watch an entire NBA game is to usually be disappointed and witness a bunch of back and froth lapses of good fundamentals on and off the court by players, coaches and referees.
Fundamental-less behavior also applies to the ridiculousness of inconsistent rule application which has proven to be how societal rules in general are applied - more discretionary and subjective than automatic and objective. As mentioned elsewhere, some rules are plain stupid such as an offensive charge when the defense has established position, but allowing a defensive player who has established position outside the restricted area to be bumped into, backed down, bulldozed, knocked around and moved by an offensive player who has “posted up.” So you can't clear out a defensive player with your arm but you can bang into them with your butt, body and shoulders. But wait a minute, lowering the shoulder in some instances is not allowed. But wait, a player going to the basket and becoming airborne on a layup can clear space by initiating contact with the defender but a defender can't even brush up against a jump shooter. But wait, a player can't reach in on a offensive player with the ball and touch them, but an offensive player can throw their arms into an defensive player who has their arms out. All this goofiness has led to NBA players being allowed to get away with bad habits of traveling with the ball, double dribbling and palming the ball.
In The September 13th Nuggets-Clippers game, Jeff Van Gundy did mention the fact that there is a great deal of discrepancy and dichotomy of what's allowed in the NBA. Are there any good fundamental NBA teams? If watching a team play one game isn't good enough to reveal the truth of their habits, then just wait until one or more of their best players gets injured or fouls out. Does the team's fortunes turn for better or for worse? If the team is able to improve their performance, then that team had previously been held back by the logic associated with that star player. If that team declines in performance, then that team was built on star play rather than good fundamentals. Most of these fundamental flaws are indicative of the suboptimal theory context worldwide utamawazo that continues to maintain Maafa Racism at its highest level. Suboptimal theory does not get optimal performance out of anything or anyone. Why doesn't Tyron Lue, Dwane Casey and Mark Jackson have head coaching jobs? Already Mike D'Antoni is being promoted for another head coaching job when he did not get the best out of Houston. Tyron Lue won an NBA championship, D'Antoni has not and has had several teams to get it done but has not. He, like many coaches, rely on star players to make them look like good coaches. Give me a team/organization built on good fundamentals and It will win out more times over teams with more superstars or more dominant superstars. This has been proven many times. The best way to fight fire is not with fire, but rather with that which gives birth to fire – water. In other words, the best ways to overcome a superstar or superstars and “so-called great” coaches is to counter with a broad range of good fundamentals on and off the court.Thank God there are slogans on the back of jerseys.
NFL Addendum 09/14/20
Tom Brady and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers are being given leeway as to how soon they perform at a high level and win; however no such consideration is being given to Cam Newton and the New England Patriots. Same old racism narrative being spouted by sports media. What we are going to see is that Tom Brady's supposed individual greatness was due to team greatness and adherence to good fundamentals, sprinkled with some individual superstar play. Likewise, if the New England organization maintains the same level of fundamental adherence achieved during the Brady years, we should also expect Cam Newton and the Patriots to continue to be at the top of the league.Isn't genetic ability mostly plug and play and substituteable. We know this when it comes to many other roles, jobs and professions. Why not also in sports? It is that way in sports also. The main difference is the degree and mix of suboptimal and optimal logic being used.
