The New Standard for Geekdom

Wilbon's descent into curmugdeon-ness continues:

- On Kornheiser arguing for Phillip Rivers deserving a spot on the Pro Bowl roster given Rivers's TD-INT ratio: "You're beginning to sound like one of those stat geeks!"

- During "Role Play", Kornheiser played interim Oklahoma City Thunder head coach Scott Brooks. After talking about Durant as having had more double-doubles under Brooks than he did under Carlesimo, Wilbon responded that he should stop with the "gobbledygook".

Touchdown to interception ratio
Double-doubles

Geeky stats.

God help us all.

Well. . . that was "exciting."

At this point in time, I'm unsure of how many readers we have. Probably about two, including those of us who write for this blog. But for you imaginary readers too young to remember, the Dream Team was an awesome thing. I was just old enough then to appreciate the awesomeness of an all-MJ backcourt ripping through the rest of the world and staking dominant claim to playing the best basketball in the world.

Perhaps coincidently and perhaps not, as our international performance has waned so has my interest in the NBA. Where once I was a passionate Lakers fan (bandwagon, I admit), now the Association is just where my favorite college players go to die.

So I've barely been interested in this year's Redeem Team. This morning, I woke up and turned on the Rangers game (I think I'm safe from being a bandwagon fan here), unaware the re-air of the US's domination of China was going on. Suddenly, I flipped over and found LeBron James nuking the giant Chinese front court in a game that appeared to be roughly eleventy billion to negative three.

My thoughts on our Olympic basketball team then became something like this:




These guys seem to be ready to be together as a team ready to squash all comers. No one can expect '92 again, but maybe '96? Maybe? We haven't had the moments of comaraderie the old Dream Team did yet, but this could be something to be excited about and get behind again. Something this child of the 90s hasn't had in international basketball in a long time.


Of course, shortly after I was thinking about that, this whole brothel thing came up. . .


I guess that's comrarderie. Maybe.