2011 March Madness| Final Four

     Pratlaw states:  VCU, UCONN and BUTLER have the most senior line-ups.

     VCU:  Why did VCU lose so many regular season games?  Nothing against their coach and my bet is he will be a great one, but he is young and the simple answer is they were over-coached.  Cinderella in the tournament, from this window it figures their coach told them 'let's have fun' and he has let them play in the tournament so far.  It also figures, however that Coach Smart will hear footsteps and over coach them again ... but they have a veteran team  ... but then they are also living on the 3 ... so I will take Butler at the last shot.  If Coach Smart checks his ego at the door VCU could win the whole show:  They are long and I want Skeen to be drafted by the Hawks!  Hear me Rick Sund?
     BUTLER:  disciplined and they were in the final game last year - enough said
     UCONN: Big East winner and Kemba Walker - the favorite to win no question
     KENTUCKY:  Well coached but young and all over the place - the long shot.

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Training: Strength; Stamina; Balance; Rhythm; Control

  Pratlaw states: Any skill position at the next level should  Become An Acrobat meaning become skilled at the art of acrobatics.  Some martial arts would come in handy as well.  Query how many linebackers and safeties would want to try to clock a receiver who was skilled at making someone hitting them so violently injury was probable instead wind up with cracked ribs or the wind knocked out of them?  Turn the worm and learn how to acrobatically and|or martial arts-wise turn energy forced upon you back on itself.

Catching The Ball Across the Middle

Pratlaw states: The Colts Austin Collie had a promising career doing what Dallas Clark, Tony Gonzalez, Hines Ward continue to do.  Catching the ball crossing the middle.  From this naive window the thought continues to arise:  When will these guys learn some acrobatics and MMA and I don't know ... maybe ball up and put some knees in the face mask of someone bringing the wood to them?  For that matter when will a Quarterback being hit scrunch up and kick-flip one of these balls to the walls pass rushers ten feet in the air.  The answer of course is when one of them goes to circus school and learns something about acrobatics.  Ha!

Michael Vick's Redemption

 Pratlaw states:  Passion is myopic and nonsensical to the voyeur who has not experienced something kindred to the passion at issue.  Competitive passion is a must in any competitive endeavor but what differences are there between football, basketball, golf, baseball passion.  Or are they all the same requirements?  I do not think they are the same.  Football involves focus on winning the game, ferocity, calculation of angle, the very things needed to successfully hunt prey.  Basketball is more choreographed, individual and requires quicker feet, balance, restraint, movement.  Golf requires inner calm, repetitive practice, a passion to compete against an internal model created solely by the competitor.  Baseball renders the participant powerless yet mandates an inner competition like golf and repetitive practice.  The further a participant goes into any sport the more the requirement that they know everything there is to know about the game in addition to the natural elements required to physically succeed.  Anyone who has seen Michael Vick's transformation this year knows what this essay is about.  In order to succeed beyond natural ability the mind must be joined in the passion play.  Are you faster?  Are you bigger?  Are you quicker? None of the foregoing matters unless and until the brain gets in the game.  Hats off to Michael Vick.

PRATLAW states:  It is wierd how poor sports reporting is today, Magic, Magic, Magic ... every now and then Kareem is remembered (LOL ~ just one of the all-time greats), never James Worthy who was unstoppable, never "handled" and never, ever, the forgotten Michael Cooper who's off season work on his three pointer was the difference when the Lakers finally toppled the Celtics off the throne.