Tuesday, December 9, 2008

Listening to ESPN verbally fellate Stephen Curry for two hours is marbles

Congratulations, Davidson, you barely beat a mediocre Big East team that had its two best players sitting on the bench. My sour grapes aside, the two hour flashback to last year's NCAA tournament in which every move Stephen Curry makes is exalted as the greatest in the history of history was a little more than I could handle this early in the season. Every dribble he took was declared brilliant and every play that he had nothing to do with was nonetheless attributed to his greatness. At one commercial break, they even showed a slow-mo clip of him missing a layup - not to underscore some missed opportunity, but simply because it was the last time he had touched the ball. And when they weren't talking about Stephen Curry, they were filming the stands to show his NBA father, Dell, wondering giddily what he might be thinking and feeling.

Serves me right for watching basketball before the New Year.

No comments: