With a large group of players that are "emerging" it's become painfully obvious that self awareness is paramount. If every player has the green light then some sort of therapeutic reality needs to be diagnosed in order to keep them grounded. My simple observations with regard to self awareness (because I have none)- Dame: thinks he's better than he is (not by much) CJ: thinks he's better than he is (more than Dame but not by a lot) Aminu: thinks he's better than he is (more than Dame and CJ combined...i'm mad at him) Vonleh: is better than he thinks he is (patience required x100...please give him this) Meyers: is better than he thinks he is (it's getting close, tho) Plums: knows exactly who he is Harkless: is better than he thinks he is (is very insecure but talented...he walks a tight rope every night) Davis: knows exactly who he is Hendo: knows exactly who he is (struggling on new team...will come full circle....showing signs) Crabbe: knows exactly who he is The rest have not played enough for me to bestow my professional opinion upon.
I think that's pretty spot-on. My only quibbles would be: Vonleh is not better than he thinks he is, but he COULD be better than he thinks he is. Plumlee could be better than he currently is, but by being used better in a better system. But yes, he knows who he is.
I just realized SHIT and THIS is one of those homa......syna........ you know, when you can make multiple words with the same letters!
That would be an 'anagram', not to be confused with a 'palindrome' which is a word spelled the same backwards as forwards such as "wow" or "dad".
Good breakdown and I agree with you 100% about Aminu. I would say Henderson is a little on the "Thinks he is better than he is" side. I am not sure if CJ is closer to the Aminu realm, or he just tries to hard or makes too many poor decisions....
HCP: is better than he thinks he is (is very insecure but talented...he walks a tight rope every night) jlprk: knows exactly who he is, except when he can't find his driver's license.
Let me do last years team. Rolo, weirder than he thinks he is (hard to do) Nic bigger pussy than he thinks he is. Wes.... not as indestructible as he thinks he is Dame ...same as this year LMA lucky he's almost seven feet tall or he'd be working at WalMart. That's what makes him the least self aware player we've had in decades. You think he'd get a job with an interview required? What can you bring to our company moving forward?? Well, you know I'm a self starter you know and ummmm, you know I want to work here you know. I want to you know retire as the best salesman you know that you've ever had you know. Do I get the you know, job?
