Posted on 05/27/2022 11:41:55 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Worthy spoke with the “Stoney & Jansen Show” on 97.1 The Ticket and voiced is frustrations with modern professional basketball, saying the “rush” of players spending less time in college is hurting the sport at the next level.
“I mean, Kareem had four years with John Wooden, Michael Jordan and I had three years with Dean Smith, Isiah [Thomas] had some years with Bobby Knight,” Worthy explained.
“So you learned the fundamentals,” Worthy said. “Not only that, you learned how to live. You learned how to balance your freaking checkbook in college, there’s a lot of things. When you don’t get that, guys are coming to the NBA who are not fundamentally sound. All they do is practice threes, lift weights, get tattoos, tweet and go on social media. That’s it.”
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All they seem to really know how to do these days is shoot hoops and shag ho’s.
They need to return to the days of bouncing the ball, passing the ball and tossing the ball like grown men
I recall a discussion back in the mid 90s in which someone commented on how they recently read an interview with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar in which he said even by that time, not many in the NBA really knew how to play basketball compared to what it used to be. The slam dunking and other flashy nonsense probably contributed a great deal to that situation (and probably still does).
Did you mean to say 10th grade?
This can be applied to a lot of pro sports players.
Those old players probably had Fathers too. Thanks to the groups pretending to care about Blacks, that’s all a thing of the past.
I learned how to do it in high school. I learned the lessons of not doing it in college. Lol.
If I remember correctly, James Worthy was arrested in Houston for seeking an intimate relationship with a hooker, Oops, I mean lady of the night.
Is that the kind of fundamental maturity of which he speaks? ;-)
Lol!
Also, shag hoops and shoot ho’s.
I learned how to balance a checkbook when I was 14 going on 15. At 16 the folks would leave signed blank checks at the house for me to use paying the farm bills. I would write a check and that checkbook had darned well better be balanced by supper time.
By 17 I was handling all the money for the farm. My parents would check it every so often and Woe Be Upon my young butt if one penny was unaccounted for.
To Hell with that. Remembering now, in second grade each pupil opened a real savings account.. learned how it works.
Found my passbook a few years ago. Balance was about $5.00. Unable to redeem, though.
Shouldn't be a college course, moron.
“...You learned how to balance your freaking checkbook in college, there’s a lot of things. ...”
Yup, stuff that was taught in the first year of high school back when we had real school boards, real schools and non-woke teachers who had real intelligence and non-dyed hair.
NBA players - Fundamentals and Maturity?? Yep, none of the players have any. But the true idiots are those who would pay to watch these dipshits hang from hoops......
I write a check a month. I learned how to balance a checkbook when I was a kid. I had good parents.
“All they do is practice threes, lift weights, get tattoos, tweet and go on social media. That’s it.”
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