EL BLOG ILUSORIO DE RUDY: Eyeballing Is Not Believing

19.5.09

Eyeballing Is Not Believing

The off-seasonings provides time to relax and take up new hobbies. As stated, playing bumper-pool with Fernando Alonso is a new pastime of mine. I have also begun playing hockey! For full frontal disclosure, it is merely air hockey, but the pucks we play with are made from gold, so the stakes are high.

With opportunities to check media sources, I discovered this audio interview with Greg Oden. It seems Greg is currently somewhere in the bowels of the United States. Interested parties will hear the following at 8:10 of the interview:

Radio Personage: Eyeballing guys for athleticism…your FIRST glimpse of Rudy Fernandez, did you think, “Eh, this guy can’t be that athletic” and then all of the sudden he turned out to be pretty darned athletic?

Greg (laughs at the ludicrous query): He is, actually, um—

Radio Personage: You can eyeball him, and I think you would probably believe that initially…

Greg: …he’s definitely one of those wiry-looking guys that you wouldn’t expect something like that out of.

Pre-eminent among my questions is this: Why is this radio personage rubbing his eyeballs on me so mistakenly? Plainly, he cannot recognize 185 pounds of coiled Spanish steel when he sees it!

Rudy from RudyFans,
Oden from the Oregonian.

2 comments:

AnonymousMay 20, 2009 at 10:10 AM
My girlfriend sure can't stop eyeballing you.
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AnonymousMay 20, 2009 at 4:22 PM
Rudy-
Le adoramos! Vuelves a Portland rapido, por favor!
How's my spanish? Understandable, I hope. :D
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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.)