JKool

He had a good game, and he deserves praise just for that. I don\'t see why we would only praise a player who always has good games. I think I understand your sentiment, who wants to get their hopes up only to have them dashed, right?

For the record, and this not directed at anyone in particular, but this was my chance to ask: why do people say things like \"he is consistently inconsistent\"? What does that mean? Consistency implies that there is some feature that is carried over several iterations, and I\'m not sure that inconsistency is a unique feature. It is hard for me to see that inconsistency is the sort of thing that can be predicted. Maybe this is just a pet peeve of mine, and I\'m being annoying.

One other thing: throughout our playing careers, we\'ve all heard the expression \"carrying the ball like a loaf of bread\". Where the heck does that come from? It doesn\'t seem to me to be very much like how I carry a loaf of bread. Maybe it simply means we don\'t really care if we drop a loaf of bread, and thus we don\'t really carry it very carefully? Maybe that was the obvious answer, and I should stop writing in a stream of consciousness.

"... I was beating them with my eyes the whole game..." - Aaron Brooks