EL BLOG ILUSORIO DE RUDY: Love’s Tweets of Passion

19.6.09

Love’s Tweets of Passion

It is a matter of no secrecy: Swirling emotions are all-important to the Spanish. Just witness the passion that courtiers like El Chacho and myself convey on the parquet!

And though Oregonians are noted for their mildness and passive-aggressive ways, I noted with pleasure that native son Kevin Love also yields to life's wild abandonments.

For instancing, here, Señor Amor states “basketball's an emotional game. Life's emotional, so I just acted on my emotions.” And what brazen and rash act of passion had the Minnesota Timberwolf initiated?

A tweet.

This week, Love's Twittering shattered the news of the firing of coach Kevin McHale. (This was in advancement of official team pronouncements to this effect.) What unrepentant recklessness! What a wanton, willy-nilly WASP!

With such floodgates of illogical feelings unleashed, it is only a matter of time before we see Kevin Love fleeing from the bulls in España... or Chicago!

Love/McHale foto from the Star Tribune,
bull runners from Notes from Spain.

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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.)