We are told how classy Redick is, how wonderful he is and it is non-stop
How is that his fault? I agree that Dick Vitale needs to take a step back and examine his nauseating adoration, but it's not like that's a product of the J.J. Reddcik lobbying and P.R. firm. He likes what he sees. And even so, why is it undeserved? Aside from Adam Morrison, who is playing better basketball? 39 minutes, 12-22 from the floor, 6-6 on free throw attempts, 35 points (the second highest scoring night in the history of the Dean SMith center). And this is coming during one of the most anticipated and pressure filled games of the year.
While Redick yelling "Fuck You...Fuck You...Fuck You" over and over again at Georgia Tech's Ismail Muhamaad to his ‘swept under the rug’ bought with the wacky weed you'd think that when God took his first shit, JJ popped out.
What's your point. So this college basketball player can't use curse words. He can't talk smack? The guy takes a verbal and physical beating every single game. He's got a target on his back. Every single team's best defensive player thinks he can get the best of him. So he gets in somone's face once in a while. Chris Paul cold cocked a guy during a game. Washington stomped a guy in the face on the sideline. Are J.J. Reddick's horrific curse words as bad as these things? Come on. And I also love how smoking dope is perfectly acceptable to everyone and their mother on DU...until now. Pot is God's gift and all shall smoke it...except J.J. Please. So do you convict everyone of crimes that they've never been tried for?
Then last year we had ESPN rolling out seemingly each hour a "news show" about how "bad" it has been for Redick on rival campuses and how everyone was being so mean and offensive to him. This is promoted as if HE IS the first to ever have to endure such madness from a bunch of college kids at a rival school. What an absolutely load of shit to paint JJ as a victim when other less coddled walked the path before him without the accomplices known as ESPN to “champion his cause.”
It has nothing to do with whether or not other players have gone through the same treatment in the past. What ESPN and many other news outlets have lauded is his ability to DEAL with it. He does take a verbal lashing every single time he steps on the court. There are more Duke haters than their are grains of sand on the beach. EVERYONE wants to yell something at that kid. (If you think otherwise then you've got a brain cloud). But that doesn't stop him from dropping 41 on a Texas squad that many considered superior. Other players have certainly had to endure being screamed at by opposing fans, but not all of them endure it like J.J. Reddick does. Sure, some do, but very few.
Basically, the reason I hate him is because he has been turned into a demigod of proportions that he can’t hope to attain. Redick is a fine basketball player and one of the greatest pure shooters I have ever seen in ACC basketball history (Dennis Scott of GT, Rodney Monroe of NC State, and Mark Price of Georgia Tech were the best I ever saw), but he’s just a normal guy with normal problems. He is no better than any other kid from any other school. He doesn’t work any harder and doesn’t have to endure any more hardships than any other player at any other school. The difference is, “the other player” doesn’t have a media mouthpiece with his lips permanently attached to Redicks ass.
So, in other words, you hate him because of what other people have made him out to be? That's about as irrational an argument as I can think of. You would say the same thing about Adam Morrison right? He doesn't work harder than anyone else....He doesn't have to deal with the media....he doesn't endure any more struggles than the rest of his team right? This is BS. There are reasons that certain players are better than others, and in J.J. Reddick's case, it isn't because he's blessed with blazing speed, ridiculous athletic talent, height, handles....NOTHING. This kid is just an average kid with a tiny 6'3" frame that has transformed his game over a period of 4 years. Where he was once JUST a 3point shooter. Now, there isn't a hole in his college game. And you claim that everyone is equal.....then why do Reddick and Morrison continue to drop 35-40 point monsters on EVERYONE, while noone esle seems to be able to?
Redick’s “victim” status was appalling considering he is the most coddled player in the entire ACC by the officials. One set of officials have already been sent packing for one game for screwing up in favor of Duke. I have watched game after game turn on a crucial call. While I watch nearly every opponent of Duke have to battle foul trouble while Duke’s version of hand-checking is basically ignored, excuse me if I don’t shed any tears for Redick.
Typical response from Duke haters. It's the easiest way to get around the fact that even though their favorite squad plays without error for the full 40 minutes, they still come up 5 points short in the end. It's such malarky. Without something that I can SEE which shows that this is true, I'll file it with the theories that the NFL officials know who's going to win the super bowl before the season starts and they figure the officiating around that desired result. It's conspiracy. And it's bullshit.
As for the officials that got suspended.....that didn't have anything to do with Reddick. First, that wasn't THAT bad of a call. It was, most definitely a flagrant foul. He horse collared Sheldon Williams and threw him to the ground. But I get it, numerous trips to the final four, a handfull of championships and a ridiculous string of ACC tournament wins is the product of an underground officiating superconspiracy orchestrated to insure Duke's prominance. Did people say this shit about John Wooden's teams when they won all the time? It's hyperbole and it's uninformed. They go to the line alot because they always have good interior basketball players and because they run a motion offense against undermanned, lazy zone defenses. You know, there's also a camp of people who believe that Duke doesn't get calls. Both sides are stretching.
If anyone should be bitching it is rival schools and their players who don’t have an entire media apparatus promoting propaganda defending them at every turn while trying to dupe us basketball fans into thinking Redick is “just better” than everyone else.
Sorry if I don't follow. So J.J. Reddick didn't actually score 35 last night. He ISN'T actually going to set ACC and DUke scoring and 3-point shooting records? His entire college career is actually just a sham perpetuated by Duke-loving media outlets? Wow, us basketball fans sure are gullable? :sarcasm: So, let me gets your argument right here....Reddick isn't as good a basketball player BECAUSE the media likes to remind me that he is? Let me propose this....maybe Reddick gets media attention because, (GASP!!) HE KEEPS DROPPING 35 POINT GAMES...on ranked opponents no less. I'll take the latter.
Duke has produced some awesome players and class people…David Henderson, Shane Battier, and Grant Hill come to mind, but they have also produced their share of high class pricks like Redick and Laetner. There is my answer.
Duke has produced some fantastic basketball players........and J.J. Reddick will break every single one of their scoring records. And if doing so makes him an "high class prick", then I guess it does.
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