Amoral Victory
The Knicks lost last night but at least they still have their manhood.
"They won the game," New York guard Quentin Richardson said, "but I think a few of those guys know that they can't just say anything to us."
Actually Q, because the Celtics won the game, they can say just anything to you. What are you going to do? Start a fight? What an absolute idiot Richardson is. He's so focused on being a tough guy that he forgot that being tough doesn't mean anything and, many time, runs counter to what one needs to do in order to win. Now, basketball requires some toughness or else you'll end up like former Knick Channing Frye but I think it's tougher to not let things get personal and let your team's actual play do the talking than to want to come right back an enact some personal revenge (be it a first or a one-on-one move).
Q also somehow tries to pull seniority, sounding like the old guy on the playground who keeps getting run off the court and complains that people don't play right anymore.
"I come from a neighborhood where you can say what you want to say — until you do something, it really don't mean nothing. Some of those guys are woofing about, 'Get a ring.' You ain't been in the league long enough to talk like that to some people who's got as many years as we got over here. I don't got a lot of respect for that."
"Until you do something"? Something like win the NBA championship? And sorry Q but success trumps seniority. If someone has been in the league long enough to help your squad get a ring, they've been in the league long enough to brag about it. Especially to a guy who got paid, got fat, and basically wasted what could have been a promising career. A promising career which started with him showboating as a youngster on the win nothing Clippers with his patented head bang.
Of course, Scowling Wolf himself, Kendrick Perkins, looks just as dumb with his quote.
"They was doing all the trash-talking," he said. "They started everything that was going on. We really weren't talking noise. They started it."
They started it? What is Perk, 12? Even worse, I think it's a bit of bullshit because Perk has started emulating KG and is yapping all the time for no apparent reason. There was a hilarious moment in the Hawks game when Perk got fouled by Marvin Williams, starting talking shit, and Williams gave him this look like "Wait, why are you talking shit? It was a foul, get over it." That might be the worst part about Perk's quote. It actually makes Richardson's quote seem like it has a little merit because who wouldn't be annoyed with dopey Perk trying to talk smack.
