Freddy Adu Must Wait

Fa seems like a good magazine article. Compare the cultures of soccer, where no one seems to care whether they go to college or not, vs basketball, where we know we need to civilize the brutes. Because basketball is a ghetto sport. I have been trashed talked by an 8 year old, who then looked at me to confirm he had been doing it right, once, and vociferously voiced his obscene disapproval of my game the rest of my time. No one would put up with that shit for more than 10 seconds, trust me. Cause no 8 year old had game, and if you did as an 8 year old, you would keep your mouth shut against anyone who didn't start it.

That's just one aspect of the game that's changed. Perhaps the difficulty here is finding the exact right audience. A solid knowledge of basketball, or at least a related team sport is necessary. Otherwise, the interested reader will be pegged in on my analysis, without questioning my observations, just that mine are validated by close parallels in general society. However, these days, general society is so fragmented, and maybe so for a long long time, the power of television (shared communal experience, so be it entertainment) notwithstanding ( I decline to discuss the thought of war as I died and so will you! although we just witnessed it).

Yet, when my thoughts turn to music, great music is multiple musicians playing together. What shall we say about rap, which is a single person speaking over a soundtrack typically made (the lingo is produced, but the word is made, by any means necessary). Where does great basketball fall into the operating together mode? Detroit? Yes. New Jersey 2001, 2, 3? Yes. Or is that the level, the low level, we now accept? Or has the game been physicallized, athleticized, defensitized, or simply fouled to a lower level than previously thought acceptable?

And, if it's worse right outside the door, what will the future hold? And what of the Asians practicing soccer? complete cohension, to the point it's more practice than game? Or, intelligent to practice 8 hours for 1 hour of play? And how do the asians appear to the observer on the basketball court? Organized gaming?

This and more, anywhere, on the direction of my mind. Yours too, I presume, although I think the depth of analysis increases with age, and the care for the detail, never my strong point, wanes. If I am wrong here or there, so what - I just want to right on the grandest scale.

this one, I did not read and fix, the others mostly I have. And I wonder now how good this free server is, because my posts take very long to show up, now 20 minutes and counting.