I'm sorry but I have to disagree.  Sure practice helps...no one said anything about practice being insufficient.  As for WARMUPS, I as well as many other athletes believe that if you do not have your skills at that point,  a twenty minute warmup is not going to do you much good.  Some athletes like to listen to music to loosen up.  Others like to shoot around for part of their time and save the rest of their energy for the game.  And I'm sure there are those that feel the need to take every possible shot that time allows.  As for acting like "badas***," that is up for interpretation.  How can you or any other person act like you are in the mind of a player enough to state that that person does or does not love the game?  Unless you are God I do not belive you have that right...

Are you really sure that it was Schlemm's "too cool for school warm-up" that caused him to have a "mediocre" game?  If it really bothers you or whoever else the simple solution is to...not watch.

Simply mentioning how you played or would have played is just as condesending.  I did not mean that by being old someone's opinion did not matter...what i meant was that claiming that certain players act in a pompous way and then stating how you would have done things is just as condesending.  That has nothing to do with age...

Quote from: robberki on January 25, 2007, 10:20:15 AM
A slightly different subject, I am getting pretty sick of some of the big men in this conference acting like they are "too cool for school" during warmups. I don't remember Kasten, Moo, Wiertel, or heck, even me, behaving that way. The attitude on some of these guys in shocking. Loaf around during warm ups, jack up 3's from 5 feet behind the line with that slow, "I'm never going to shoot like this in the real game but everyone wants to know how much of a stud I am so I'll do it while I have a captive audience" motion, go over to the webcast table and check out stats, clown around in the layup line, try to block other players layups and then have a big laugh about it,  and it's always the big men. What's the deal there?

I think it is unfair to rip apart the "big guys" for how they warmup...after all they are warmups and everybody has a different routine for how they get into a rhythm or set for a game.  And if they aren't shooting all nonchalantly when it actually counts--which in case you forgot, is during the actual game--why do you care?  Not quite sure what you meant about "clowning around," because I don't quite see that...I mean God forbid if these guys are actually having fun while they are playing the sport they love.  It is supposed to be fun, isn't it.  Don't be bitter because your time to shine is over.  Simply mentioning how you played or would have played is just as condesending.  One last thing--"too cool for school?"  Really?  Don't date yourself--no one says things like that anymore...