The new face of the KUBE slogan
“This team is so unprepared. It is so poorly koached.”
Those were my exact thoughts after watching the end of the Vanderbilt-Northwestern game.
Then…
“Oh yeah, haha. Bryce Drew. Valpo.”
Suddenly the pool slogan was all making sense to me.
Ladies and gentlemen, welkome to another year of “Stupid People Doing Stupid Things” — a.k.a. The KUBE.
The irony here is of kourse that this was Vanderbilt versus Northwestern. These aren’t stupid people (well, not the student-athletes, at least). These are the smart kids.
So what the h-e-double-hockey-sticks was that “smart kid” doing when he fouled with the lead?!?! On purpose!!!
Homer says, “DOH!”
I know it’s so very P.C. right now to say how horrible we feel for him. How our hearts go out to him and our guts wrench for him. How it was so loud and chaotic. How there’s so much pressure. How some dumb koach from Valpo was pointing at the guy with the ball. How he’s just a kid and now he’ll never live that down.
Blah, blah, blah. Womp womp, womp wom, womp womp.
Sorry (not sorry), but that was a mind-numbingly bad mistake, even if your koach is from Valpo. What to do — more specifikally what NOT to do — in that situation is basketball end-game 101. Not even that. Certainly not at a skool like Vandy. You don’t even need to know basketball to know what not to do there. It’s just kommon sense.
Even my 2-year-old son knows…
I don’t feel even a little bit bad for him. The only thing I feel bad for is David’s otherwise perfekt bracket. C’MON, VANDY!
Plain and simple, that play was foul.
But that play was just the beginning. On their next possession, Vandy just runs some clock and pulls up for an NBA 3. Didn’t even pretend to run a play. Pssst! Hey Koach Drew, your team aktually is losing now. Might wanna, you know, draw something up — get a shot inside 30 feet.
And this is nit-picking, but the game’s final play was just as laughable. It was always going to be a Hail Mary, but the Vandy kids klearly had no idea what to do in that situation and again settled for a lazy, even-more-diffikult-than-it-should-have-been shot.
Sorry (not sorry) to the massive Valpo KUBE kontingent. I know we all (yes, myself inkluded) get the warm-and-fuzzies when we see your baby-faced alum and remember that epic highlight he produced. But while I may kid about the value of your degree as a cheap-shot way to poke fun at every other person referred to by the KUBE brand, the komments about that Krusader’s koaching (or lack-thereof) are no joke. And by that I mean it is a komplete joke.