http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0L04f4W9WSE
When you are 5-foot-5, you have to figure out ingenious ways to score. Shooting from far away is a good trick and so is training yourself to release shots at weird angles in order to take advantage of tiny windows of opportunity. Basically, you’ve got to do everything you can to mitigate the disadvantage that comes along with always being the smallest guy on the court.
But sometimes, even with all those tricks in the bag, plans get foiled and you have to rely on something that you don’t usually rely on — your height, all 65 inches of it. For instance, when Tim Duncan switched on to Earl Boykins, he found a way to maximize his mini-size (rhymes for days, son) and fell the lumbering giant. From the Associated Press:
“It wasn’t over Tim, it was around Tim,” Boykins said.
Suck it, Randy Newman. Sometimes being short is awesome. Like, for instance, when one of the greatest defensive players of his generation catches you on a switch and you have no choice but to calmly duck under his arm and flip home a 10-foot finger roll. That is one of the times.
Other times, not so much. But right then, most definitely. A taller man would have been decapitated.
More pumps than a Robert Palmer video.
Bad defense by Tim: if you doesn’t need to jump to block that shot, why leave your feet for all those pump fakes? Maybe instincts I guess.
Good one, RMJ=H
that was a TRAVELLING violation!!!
Boykins’ left foot was his pivot and it moved before he let the ball go!
I don’t care if he’s 5ft5, RULES need to be enforced!
It bothers me that Earl Boykins, Tim Duncan, and “Suck it, Randy Newman” were all used in this post.
wow…he made Duncan look like a fool
That was Jeff Hornacek-esque!