Review: truer to the game
4 December 2013
EXP. #1 Before I even begin to clarify what is widely-known by everyone on planet Earth besides Bill Russell and Randy Horick, I must ask, if you reading this has ever watched a women’s basketball game? Doesn’t count when you pass a game on T.V. when channel surfing or going to a game because a relative/friend asked you to. No, I mean from tip off to the final whistle out of pure entertainment.... Of course you haven’t because rarely anyone does! If you have I hope you feel unique because you belong the 1% of the population that does. Now riddle me how the best WNBA player even compares to the 10th best player in the NBA? They are shorter, smaller (as in mass), not as athletic, not as strong, nor as fast. This whole fundamentally more sound claim is ridiculous. The men playing at the collegiate and professional level aren’t just giant men bouncing a ball. These men are trained just as well, if not just as much as the women. Bill Russell is apparently a fan of the way the women play. Saying, “they are truer to the game” or in laments terms they are slower, not as strong and not as good as the men basketball players. I’m not only skeptical about Bill Russell’s well-being now but I also question his basketball IQ.I think we are definitely a product of our environment, at least to a certain extent. We start out a product of our genes. After that, our environment provides food for growth, events for experience, parents to guide, and opportunities for decisions. Some of that we have control over and some of that we do not. Some of our actions are gene based like fight or flight. Whereas, mannerism is an adopted characteristic. There truly is a balance of both nature and nurture. When you hear examples of identical twins that were separated at birth, but have similarities such as the same names of their children, wife, and same occupation whether it’s a coincidence or not, you kind of have to respect a certain element of nature. On the other
EXP. #1 Before I even begin to clarify what is widely-known by everyone on planet Earth besides Bill Russell and Randy Horick, I must ask, if you reading this has ever watched a women’s basketball game? Doesn’t count when you pass a game on T.V. when channel surfing or going to a game because a relative/friend asked you to. No, I mean from tip off to the final whistle out of pure entertainment.... Of course you haven’t because rarely anyone does! If you have I hope you feel unique because you belong the 1% of the population that does. Now riddle me how the best WNBA player even compares to the 10th best player in the NBA? They are shorter, smaller (as in mass), not as athletic, not as strong, nor as fast. This whole fundamentally more sound claim is ridiculous. The men playing at the collegiate and professional level aren’t just giant men bouncing a ball. These men are trained just as well, if not just as much as the women. Bill Russell is apparently a fan of the way the women play. Saying, “they are truer to the game” or in laments terms they are slower, not as strong and not as good as the men basketball players. I’m not only skeptical about Bill Russell’s well-being now but I also question his basketball IQ.I think we are definitely a product of our environment, at least to a certain extent. We start out a product of our genes. After that, our environment provides food for growth, events for experience, parents to guide, and opportunities for decisions. Some of that we have control over and some of that we do not. Some of our actions are gene based like fight or flight. Whereas, mannerism is an adopted characteristic. There truly is a balance of both nature and nurture. When you hear examples of identical twins that were separated at birth, but have similarities such as the same names of their children, wife, and same occupation whether it’s a coincidence or not, you kind of have to respect a certain element of nature. On the other