EL BLOG ILUSORIO DE RUDY: Next Year, the Triples Competition

17.2.09

Next Year, the Triples Competition

With my current exhaustions, I realize the mental power that individual athletes who play sports. They have no mates to diffuse the attentions of the media. This makes Rafa Nadal the best Spanish sportsmen of all time, if not the best of ALL sportsmen.

(Sergio, you are not even running in this competition!)

A few dregs are in my mind regarding the slam dunk contest. As to the first, I think I deserved more dunk points from judges, but what pleases me most is that other players have stated the same thing (like Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook).

The American press has also opined in the same direction and everyone who crossed me in the street congratulated me and made support offers.

And now, I will give you a scoop: Yesterday, I submitted to the Commissars of Competition that if I have good field goal percentage rates next season I have a wish to participate in the Triple Point Contest!

Anuncio original (en español) aquí.

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Rudy's Hypothetical Rules of Basketball

1. In ten years, nobody will remember the details of score, assists, or rebounds. They will only remember who won them a chalupa.

2. Any shot worth shooting is worth shooting twice.

3. When not shooting on offense, you should be communicating, passing, and running. Also, yell “Foul!” repeatedly. Why? How can officials summon help if you yell “Good D!” or “Our opponents are superior!”?

4. If legitimately called for a foul, say, “A good call!” (Do this no more than once a game.)

5. When in possession of the ball, have a plan. Further, have a back-up plan, because the first plan won't work (unless you are Brandon Roy).

6. Use cover or concealment as much as possible. (Both Oden and Pryzbilla provide these in abundance.)

7. On defense, ignore words and direct your eyesight to the ball. (Opposing Cleveland, LeBron James told me he would pull up for a jumper. I advanced upon him. Then James drove baseline with great speed. Both of my ankles gave way!)

8. The faster you begin an opponent’s blow-out, the more shots everyone will get.

9. Be polite and professional to everyone you play against. Then destroy them, for they wish to defeat you.

10. Practice shooting in a dimly-lit practice area with someone shouting unflattering threats at you. (I found this useful in Europe, where partial power outages were not uncommon.)

11. You may feel sad about snapping another team’s back with a clinch alley-oop or a clutching 3-pointer. But sadness is preferred to losing. And the winning will then bring happiness. (In the case of defeating the Lakers, the happiness will be most pronounced.)

12. Purple is not my color. (It may not be anyone’s color.)