Life of the mind, USA, 2018: An empty basketball court and a fan who argues that if it still worked…
Life of the mind, USA, 2018: An empty basketball court and a fan who argues that if it still worked…
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February 28th, 2018 at 10:25AM
I honestly think that’s a pretty shitty rendering of what the fan said. The fan was speaking off the cuff and colloquially, and I hardly thik it’s fair to parse their intent as saying “if it were still effective on the court I’d support it.”
Punch up, not down, UD. You are at your best when you are seaking truth to power. You are at your worst when you use your platform to bully. Taking an off the cuff fan’s interview comment as an assertion that they really want the screaming if it leade to wins — when in fact they clearly say they were tired of the “sideline antics” is piss poor.
There are plenty of arguments to be made against hiring Eustachy in the first place. There are plenty of ways to interrogate the changing culture of coaching. There are plenty of ways to be critical of this kind of bullying, raging behavior. There is no need to try to warp and parse an interview comment that does not mean what you say it means in order to make a cheap point that you could actually make honestly. That sort of intellectual dishonesty does not pass muster in scholarship, it does not pass muster in teaching, it does not pass muster in journalsm, and it should not pass muster in commentary.