[NSFW] Stupid & Random Thoughts

haha hilarious. She's got some DSL's. California style DSL's. Where'd you meet this broad. That's great.

 

Plastic surgery client lol.

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Went to my cousins place down in Riverside -- Downtown LA is so fucking rank. Definitely not a fan. Street level is dead and soul-less. Still love the hell out of Laguna Beach though.

 

You went to the wrong places. Its pretty vibrant if you know where. Its undergoing hipster revival

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I like Korea town.

 

Korean bbq here is awesome

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I only go there maybe once, maybe twice a year but I always try to make it to Koreatown. Oh, and all the old affluent neighborhoods. But to me, Laguna >>>

 

Its like 80 today.

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So I'm on a bit of an insomnia kick tonight and got to randomly thinking about height in basketball.

Most people agree that there's a real lack of quality big men in the game today. Being a child of the 90's, I grew up watching the greats like Olajuwon, Robinson, O'Neal, Ewing, Mourning, Mutombo, etc. It seems to me like it was only yesterday when taking a point guard first overall like AI was a controversy. Nowadays though, three of our last five #1 picks were point guards, and the lotteries are dominated by unproven big men doing their best Alonzo Mourning impressions, like Nerlens Noel.

I was just thinking that the lack of quality big men might have something to do with the shift in AAU philosophies on tall players. I don't know how many of you grew up playing on AAU travel teams, but I know that I was always type casted on my teams' rosters to play in the post. It didn't matter that I had good handles and a good jump shot,... I was a post player because I was tall. Something's happened along the way though, where guys who are 6'7" with a decent jumper are not being looked at as post players anymore but rather wing "prospects" and developed as such.

Just thinking out loud with no real point...

 

I blame and1 mix tapes.

 

hitting up a "networking" event. we'll see how this goes. trying to get a new job direction. we'll see whats' up

 

Marshall Henderson at Auburn this Saturday -

 

I don't usually use this word, but that guy is a gigantic ***got.

 

Haha, I actually loved it. That's the epitome of the passion of college basketball, manifesting on both Henderson's end and the fans' end.

I grew up not too far outside Ole Miss, and seeing people actually getting excited about Ole Miss basketball has been great. I know some guys who've played for Ole Miss, and it used to be a "no big deal" sort of thing. The guys who played at Ole Miss couldn't get scholarships to Memphis. Now that Ole Miss is #16 in the polls, and people are starting to get behind the program again, that kind of taunting is a good shot in the arm to the program.

(BTW - The best part is the security guard on the right that's just laughing about it while everyone else is freakin out...)

 

Man, now that I think back about it I can't remember 1 damn Ole Miss player that has ever made it to the NBA.

 

Yeah, Ole Miss's track record with developing pro level talent has been pretty pathetic given all of the talent in the area.

One of the more overlooked stories in collegiate recruiting, in my opinion, has always been the pitfalls of southeastern talent. The area's known for producing great football players, but they also have great basketball prospects. The problem is that most of the guys down here are misled and wind up succumbing to all of the stereotypical perils of once-hyped recruits (ie: Renardo Sidney). The difference between these guys and the players from other parts of the country though is strictly environmental. The collegiate programs in the area don't foster the right sort of atmospheres for the big time high school recruits. They're honestly better off leaving home and going to established NCAA programs, like Thad Young, Elliot Williams, Laurence Bowers, and Leslie McDonald did.

 

I can't stand players like him. If I was on the court with him, teammate or not, I'd probably knock him out.