Andrew Harrison When Asked About Kaminsky
This article didn't exist when I posted that comment, so like I said "we will see"
Dude....just stop.
Or, maybe KY's youth has just been served...after being shown by WISCY. One and done has more implications than lack of experience/maturity on the court. Sort of the "you take the good with the bad mantra" that KY has avoided most of this season despite building its program on primarily one and done freshman superstars.
He should be more ashamed of walking off the court early. I bet he didn't leave early last year when he beat Wisconsin.
I think he meant no disrespect by it and it wasnt an isolated use of the term by him. I think us ilder dudes need to understand that the way we perceive the word is not how the younger generation uses it.
Instead of being aghast that he used he term, maybe we all should call everyone it and that way it loses its epithetical meaning.
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Then fuck you, nigga. Yeah that's gonna work well.
He meant no disrespect? He prefaced the N word with "Fuck that." He could have said Fuck that dude, guy, caucasian, whatever, it doesn't matter, it's disrespectful. It's amazing the lengths people in this thread have gone to justify Harrison's actions.
Regardless of what race the 2 people involved are, saying "fuck that (anything)" in a post game press conference is classless, disrespectful, and should be scrutinized and punished. We all claim to want to live in a color-blind society without racism. If that's the case, there's simply no way saying "fuck that nigga" in a public forum is acceptable.
An alternate interpetation, rather than talking about Kaminsky, is maybe he was talking to/about the reporter. His whole comment was "Fuck that n*....oh my god", like maybe Kaminsky is the last person he wants to answer a question about (which is immature, but that's not out of play here). The "oh my god" is the part that indicates it to me, like he's exasparated at having to answer a question.
Have no idea, and my guess is he was talking about Kaminsky, but I think it's a possibility.
has to tap dance around the idea of racism cause people feel like they have to walk on eggshells about the whole matter.
This isn't even a race issue. The only people making it racist are ill-informed white people, who are bringing up some fabled double standard if Kaminsky were to say the N word, which isn't even equal to what Harrison said.
If Harrison said Fuck that Hick/Honky/Cracker/Pollack, and the media didn't say anything, then there would be a double standard.
The only thing Harrison is guilty of is saying "fuck that guy" during a press conference. It was a classless thing to say and he should know better.
The fact that people don't understand this simple concept is an indictment on America's shitty education system regarding our "melting pot."
This is an excellent comment and I wish it wasn't getting negged.
The only people who have to tap dance around the idea of racism are racist people. If you do borderline racist things all the time you're probably racist. The vast majority of people think the race card gets pulled way too easily and everyone is too PC. I'm in the opposite camp and think that masses have come to believe a person is only racist if they tar and feather a black person and hang them in a tree. For example, those Oklahoma frat kids "apology" letter where they apologized for "making a mistake," but adamantly claimed they weren't racist. If getting caught gleefully chanting about hanging black people in trees doesn't make you look in the mirror and come to terms with the fact you are racist, then I think it's time to come down more harshly on racism.
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The Germans have for decades tried to crushed nascent Nazism, yet in 2015 it is seeing a subtle rise popularity. It's a disease that can't be crushed by repressive measures. It needs to be dealt with at a personal and small group level and go from there. It also requires people from both groups to minimize their prejudices
The only way to squlech this type of thinking is for people from different to interact and to encourage empathy. Once you start to empathize with someone, start to see them as someone who has problems like you, you then can begin to relate.
The biggest division among black and whites is this very problem. They can't relate because they are: a)segregated and b) ignorant of the other's experiences.
Academia tries to bridge these differences, but they are as likely to worsen the problem than to make it better because they live in bubbles that separates them from the rest of society.
Flopping, moving screens, etc. are a part of basketball. It's the referees' job to call Kaminsky for the moving screens, not call the flops, etc.
That's like saying it's unsportsmanlike for a defensive back to try to sell an interception, for a centerfielder to hold up a ball that he trapped like he caught it on the fly, and so on.
Both of your examples are unsportsmanlike behavior, IMO. You either make the interception or don't...winning by fooling the ref is a hollow victory.
you mean like slapping a player in the face during the course of a game, like not shaking the other teams' hands at the end of it, like disparaging the opponents in the after game presser, etc.?
I agree with the sentiment, but not your examples. Catching a ball isn't illegal, but setting a moving pick is (and flopping should be). I would say it is more like an offensive lineman putting his hands up for the ref after dragging a defender down by the jersey. Or a punter/kicker falling down after barely being touched on a kick so he can try to draw a penalty.
Every team has players like that, and it's not like UK plays some pure form of basketball above bitching, flopping, etc. Wiscy has played a great style of ball this year. It might be the outlier, but this year isn't the problem.
Except when it's our flopper. Then it's ok. I'll bet you didn't bitch about it when Jordan Morgan did it.
Such a pleasantly hateable program.
Listen, knowing not to mutter something in front of super-sensitive mics during a press conference is an elective at UK, so you can't blame him for not knowing it yet.
I don't really have a problem with what he said; it clearly was said in the heat of the moment and probably isn't worse than about 90% of the stuff said during a game. But the fact he didn't have enough of an internal censor to halt himself from saying it that loud is why he should get a little heat for this.
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At the bookstore when the t shirt comes out!
And I guess no one remembers the Fab Five being just as bad after we lost. Chris Webber had a flat out tantrum.
If a black kid using the n-word towards a white person is news to you OR if a kid being salty after a loss is news to you, then you probably should refrain from being in public.
Neither is right or appropriate, but neither is alarming either.
Watch any NFL or NBA game and you'll hear the same word used towards people of all races...with both good and bad intention. This isn't the first time a mic has picked up the word and it won't be the last.
Go in enough locker rooms after heartbreaking losses and you'll see them beat to shit. This isn't the first time or the last.
Again, it's not right...but don't sit up here like "oh my God!" This is awful! This is alarming! Quick, someone get the President's opinion. Let's make this the hot topic for the week!
No. It's not that. It was a pissed off kid doing something stupid. I guarantee there were a bunch of other pissed off kids doing stupid shit after losses in this tournament, just wasn't on camera.
However you felt about the word before or after this, Andrew fucking Harrison's act wasn't going to change your opinion. Moving on.
all i read was blah blah blah. blah ba blah blah blah...
love you,
jdon
After UK’s post-game actions last night, does this mean Jay Bilas can stop trumpeting their players as “everything that’s right with college basketball?”
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So, unless I am missing something here, the object lesson seems to be that if you want to see an awkward, bumbling even offhandedly offensive presser in Division I basketball, you need to beat Kentucky and then talk to someone who was being a poor sport on the court during the game. If you just want awkward and bumbling, you need to hire the dude who was at Coastal Carolina (David Bennett?) who fascinated the sports world with the parable of the Cats In The House.
Enjoy that bus ride back to Lexington.
This is why, after a loss, only the losing coach should meet with the press.