AntiUngvar
Masters Student
Posts: 530
Age: 69
Loc: New York City
Reg: 07-23-18
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11-06-18 12:34 PM - Post#264383
In response to penn nation
Yes, and what you and your fine UPenn colleague are writing about does dovetail quite nicely with the world of men's amateur basketball! Once upon time, there was a Jesuit Catholic university in our nation's capital coached by John Thompson, Sr.; and a bedrock principle for Coach Thompson, one that helped him win 600 games was the following: play a relentless full court pressure defense using a dozen or so long, athletic and aggressive AfricanAmerican kids who were never afraid to foul- in fact, those Georgetown teams may have "fouled" on every opponent possession between 1972 and 1999; but a lot of those "fouls" have never appeared in the record books as such. The truth is that people have to survive their everyday lives; and if you wanted to work regularly as a basketball official in the Big East Conference , you couldn't simply go on the court with a zeal for for calling all the fouls against John Thompson's defense. So, in my view, those Thompson teams often got through games with a a significant portion of fouls not being called against them. Similarly, this President looks at every pronouncement as another opportunity to get away with a lie. So he lies, lies and lies some more- just as the officials couldn't keep up with all of the Georgetown fouls, our media watchdogs can hardly keep up with all of POTUS's lies, and are made to look badly if they even attempt to do so. So a good part of the country probably still believes that Barack Obama was born in Kenya and that our President was once the valedictorian at Penn. When a foul was called against John Thompson, he'd act as though he were being picked on; and whenever this President's lie is challenged, you can only be certain that no apology will ever follow.
Foul, foul and foul some more; lie, lie, and lie again- interesting strategies, both (as much as I hate to admit it.)
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