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Is Vick's problem that he is 'all alone and feeling blue"?
7 years 6 months ago #17089
by HawkErrant
"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime." - Mark Twain "Innocents Abroad"
I read someone's thoughts about this on another board a few days ago, and after some cogitation on the subject I raise the question here.
As I understand it, Vick's inner circle last year included Josh Jackson, homeboy Dwight Colby and Carlton Bragg, all gone this year. (Man, I so wish Dwight had stayed -- 12 ppg, 8 rpg, 2 bpg in 28 mpg for WKU this year, and he would have seen at least that much playing time this year with KU -- but that's another thread another time under "What if...?".)
Apparently this year his main wingman (or perhaps it was the other way around?) was Billy Preston, and Billy left in early January, about the same time Vick's play hit the pits.
Now you can argue that it's also the dtime KU stopped playing non-conference teams and started Big 12 play, and that is true, of course. However, the thing we are all noting and commenting on is not just his lack of effectiveness but his lack of effort, the apparent lack of willingness to even try to do something while on the court.
II this feeling of being left behind is a major source of his laissez-faire play... well, I think it seems a rather childish attitude to have, especially for a 21 year old with aspirations to play in the dog-eat-dog world of pro sports. If it he's going to make it in the NBA he's got to be tougher than that, stop feeling sorry for himself and jump in the saddle and RIDE!
If accurate, this makes his transferring or leaving to play pro early, even if overseas or to the G league (the old D league, why the name change, may be a legal thing, I don't know...), seem more and more likely.
Thoughts?
As I understand it, Vick's inner circle last year included Josh Jackson, homeboy Dwight Colby and Carlton Bragg, all gone this year. (Man, I so wish Dwight had stayed -- 12 ppg, 8 rpg, 2 bpg in 28 mpg for WKU this year, and he would have seen at least that much playing time this year with KU -- but that's another thread another time under "What if...?".)
Apparently this year his main wingman (or perhaps it was the other way around?) was Billy Preston, and Billy left in early January, about the same time Vick's play hit the pits.
Now you can argue that it's also the dtime KU stopped playing non-conference teams and started Big 12 play, and that is true, of course. However, the thing we are all noting and commenting on is not just his lack of effectiveness but his lack of effort, the apparent lack of willingness to even try to do something while on the court.
II this feeling of being left behind is a major source of his laissez-faire play... well, I think it seems a rather childish attitude to have, especially for a 21 year old with aspirations to play in the dog-eat-dog world of pro sports. If it he's going to make it in the NBA he's got to be tougher than that, stop feeling sorry for himself and jump in the saddle and RIDE!
If accurate, this makes his transferring or leaving to play pro early, even if overseas or to the G league (the old D league, why the name change, may be a legal thing, I don't know...), seem more and more likely.
Thoughts?
"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime." - Mark Twain "Innocents Abroad"
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