UNSPORTSMANLIKE CONDUCT
  • Blog
  • About
  • Contact
  • Privacy Policy
UNSPORTSMANLIKE CONDUCT
Two Minutes, Well Worth It

Derrick Rose Is Hoping The Knicks Get To The Playoffs...So He Can START Shooting Threes

3/3/2017

0 Comments

 
Picture
FTW-  “I’m trying to put pieces of my game together,” the Knicks point guard said Thursday, via Newsday. “You see I’m not shooting threes yet, but hopefully, [I’ll] start shooting them in the playoffs. It’s going to take a lot of sacrifice and dedication to get there, but I’m just adding pieces of my game throughout the season.”

The Knicks are four-games out of the No. 8 seed in the Eastern Conference — with three teams separating them from the Pistons. But a player is allowed to have confidence in his team, so that’s not the silliest part of this quote by any means.

But Derrick Rose shoots 22.8% on 3-pointers this season. He’s basically avoided the shot because he’s so bad at it. For his career, he’s at 29.9%. He has never in his career made a third of his 3-pointers for a year, the amount that would equate to shooting 50% on 2-pointers.

---

That's it. I have figured it out. I have been racking my brain trying to think of what it is that makes me truly appreciate Derrick Rose for the mindless anomaly that he is, and I finally pinpointed it. It's his ability to say absolutely outlandish shit with a completely straight face. If a player from any other team that was 5th in line for the 8th seed started talking about waiting until the playoffs to start  working on a skill as basic as shooting from distance I would assume they were fucking around. If any other 22% 3-point shooter said that all they needed to bump up their average from behind the arc was higher stakes then I would swear they were trolling the media. 

Not Derrick Rose though. Not the guy that called a dysfunctional franchise a "superteam" on multiple occasions. Not the guy that no-showed a professional basketball game without telling anyone like he was hoping that his head coach would just forgot to take attendance. Not the guy that sat in front of a lawyer and honestly said that he didn't know what the word "consent" meant during a deposition for his rape charge. 

He's either an evil genius with the most unflappable poker face of all time, or he has such a lack of self awareness that he makes Swaggy P. seem grounded by comparison. Since no one would every intentionally sound so stupid so often without at least flashing a quick smirk to let their audience in on the joke, I absolutely have to believe it's the latter and the latter is way more hilarious in a "we are laughing at you, not with you" sort of way.
0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Categories

    All
    Dumbest-of-the-stupid
    Footy Fisticuffs Etc
    Hardball
    Hoops
    Jersey's Team
    Pigskin
    Pop Cultured
    Puck
    Scarlet-knights
    Who Dat Nation

    Archives

    January 2020
    December 2019
    November 2019
    October 2019
    August 2019
    July 2019
    June 2019
    May 2019
    April 2019
    March 2019
    February 2019
    January 2019
    December 2018
    November 2018
    October 2018
    September 2018
    August 2018
    July 2018
    June 2018
    May 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018
    December 2017
    November 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    August 2017
    July 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    October 2016
    September 2016
    August 2016
    July 2016
    June 2016
    May 2016
    April 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016
    January 2016
    December 2015
    November 2015
    October 2015
    September 2015
    August 2015
    July 2015
    June 2015
    May 2015
    April 2015
    March 2015
    February 2015
    January 2015
    December 2014
    November 2014
    October 2014
    September 2014

    RSS Feed

Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.
  • Blog
  • About
  • Contact
  • Privacy Policy