Bo Knows (The REAL reason there's only 3 brothers playin' at Wisconsin)

"Oh! So you gone try to call me out bruh?"

Winston Churchill once said, “The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.” Ismail Haniyeh, a senior political leader of Hamas, gave it to us like this, “Some people think that the truth can be hidden with a little cover-up and decoration. But as time goes by, what is true is revealed, and what is fake fades away.” Then the big homie, Galileo, hit boyz in the dome with, “All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.”

Well playas…all you’ve gotta do is sit in the cut and wait for a boy to tell you who he is and given the right circumstance he’ll tell you everything you wanna know. For years I’ve been askin’ the question, “Why aren’t there any brothers playin’ basketball at Wisconsin?” Either Bo Ryan is doin’ it on purpose or the climate inside that basketball program is not very invitin’ to young cats where they feel comfortable enough being there. Either way it’s a problem! Why? Because it’s impossible in the year 2015 to have a state school’s basketball program with only 3 brothers! Impossible!!

On Monday night ole Bo, in his anger in losin’ to Duke, spit out what I’ve been thinkin’ about him for at least the past 5 or 6 years. In the post-game presser he said and I quote playa, “All the seniors that I’ve had – hard to say that word. But every player that’s played through the program, OK, we don’t rent- a-player. You know what I mean? Try to take a fifth year guy. That’s OK. If other people do that, that’s OK. I like trying to build from within.”

Let’s keep it real or all the way 100, whichever comes 1^st! First of all, the dun was takin’ a shot at Coach K and any other coach in America for purposely recruitin’ the best players available. The best players available are normally black about 70 to 80 percent of the time. This isn’t my opinion pimpin’ these are the facts. If 80 to 85 percent of the McDonald’s All-Americans are black then the facts speak for themselves playa. Look around the country and see who's on the floor. Black players! But not at Wisconsin!

So again, how are you runnin’ a successful Division 1 basketball program in 2015 at a state school and only have 3 black players? I'm not sayin' that they should be startin'! I'm just sayin' there should at least be more than 3 on the freakin' team! Every time I see Wisconsin take the floor I think that I’m watchin’ the movie “Glory Road” when Kentucky showed up with an all-white startin’ line-up and Texas Western walked into the joint with 5 brothers for the first time in NCAA history. Keep in mind that that was in 1966 bruh!

Again, what’s goin’ on inside of that program where they can be a winner every year and brothers aren’t goin’ up there to play? Don’t tell me that there aren’t enough brothers to go around because EVERYBODY has brothers on the floor. There are 9 brothers playin’ at Harvard in the freakin’ Ivy League!!!! So don’t tell me that they can’t qualify to get in because it’s a darn state school! There are 5 brothers playin’ at Northwestern which is the Ivy League of the freakin’ Big Ten!!!!

So when ole Bo stuck his foot in his mouth he didn’t realize that a real cat had been waitin’ on him to say what I was thinkin’ for years! It’s easy to build a program from within if you're purposely aren't recruitin’ the best talent available to you playa. Wisconsin has become an elite program over the past few years so why don’t they have elite players tryin’ to kick in the door to play there? Are they bein’ invited or are they bein’ shut out? I'm not sayin' that Kaminsky and Dekker aren't elite because they are and they both will be drafted. However, what other good Division 1 program in America has only 3 black players?

It's the same freakin' question that boyz asked when you look up and see 125 FBS programs and we've had only 4 or 5 black coaches at times! It's a legitimate question. It's an even better question because if you keep winnin' you keep gettin' access to better players! So how is it that you only have 3 black players on your roster if 85 percent of the best players out here are black?

Stop actin' like the freakin' green elephant isn't butt naked standin' in the corner smokin' a square. Everybody, black and white, can see it and have made a mental note of it durin' the games. But I'm the only one that was bold enough to ask the freakin' question!

On some real talk, Wisconsin is only 79 miles from Milwaukee and only 146 miles from Chicago and those places are littered with talent that, oh yeah, happens to be black! Bo went to the Chi (Lisle) and got Frank Kaminsky but I bet he didn’t even holler at a boy on the south or west sides of town. And if he did he wasn’t as invitin’! How do I know? Because if a kids are bein’ heavily recruited to play for a program that constantly wins they’re goin’! Boyz want to play for championship programs and Wisconsin has been to two straight Final Four’s! So Again, what’s goin’ on at Wisconsin?

The only brother in the startin’ line up after Jackson was injured, Nigel Hayes, felt the NEED to prove to people how intelligent he was. Durin’ the post-game press conference’s he used words that had absolutely nothin’ to do with the line of questionin’ just to let boyz know that he was worthy of bein’ there! Why did he feel the need to do that and why didn’t anybody in the Wisconsin athletic program tell him that he was makin’ a fool of himself? Because they wanted to prove to the country the same thing. “See we’ve got one and he’s smart.”

When people use words to prove their intelligence they’re embarrassin’ themselves in front of intelligent people. Rule No.1 in the art of communication is to speak to your audience at the level that the dumbest person in the room can understand. That’s why all patient education material disseminated to physicians’ offices is written at a 5^th grade level.

Intelligent people understand their audience and they don’t have to prove that they are intelligent. So why did Nigel do that after every game playa? Because the environment dictated it. Tell me I’m crazy if you want to but I know that there should be more than 3 brothers playin’ at an elite program like Wisconsin that is a state school when elite academic private schools like Harvard, Northwestern and freakin’ Butler have more black players than they do! Stop it! So I’ll ask the question again playas, “What’s REALLY goin’ on at Wisconsin? Nobody has ever thought to asked the question because he's winnin'. However, when you get mad after losin' the national championship and tell the world how you really feel, real cats wanna know how you REALLY feel. Stop me when I start lyin’!

Playas Thesaurus:


1) Dun: noun – the person in question, dude, guy, etc.
2) Pimpin’: noun – the person that I’m passionately tryin’ to get my point across to.
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Pookie (How Calipari gets blasted for the 'One & Done' but Coach K gets a pass)

"Can you believe this dawg? With freshmen?"

George Bernard Shaw, the Irish playwright, once said, “Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” John F. Kennedy gave it to us like this, “Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.” Then Nikos Kazantzakis, the Greek writer and philosopher, pulled the ultimate playa card when he said, “Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality.”

Well playas…it looks like ole Mike Krzyzewski has finally figured out how to change with the times. Over the years ole boy has tried his best to fight the reality of the “One-and-Done” but since he couldn’t change the new reality of college basketball he simply changed the eyes which saw his reality. On Monday night his Duke Blue Devils won its 5^th National Championship in a 68-63 win over Wisconsin with three freshmen holdin’ it down.

Let’s keep it real or all the way 100, whichever comes 1^st! Coach K was that dun several years ago that was resistant to bringin’ boyz in that were only gonna be in school for a year. He finally hollered at Kyrie Irving and realized that havin’ a ridiculous talent around for only a year wasn’t as bad as he thought that it would be. Even though Kyrie only played a few games his only year at Duke he made a huge impact on Coach K’s outlook. Then he went up the south side of Chicago and swooped up a dun named Jabari Parker and got addicted.

It was like ole boy was on that Frank Lucas “Blue Magic” and could no longer help himself. So this year he ran out and got three freshmen, Jahlil Okakor, Justise Winslow and Tyus Jones, that took him to the promise land that not only allowed him to look over but they were able to secure the land. Now he’s gone on that stuff like Pookie in New Jack City bruh!

Oh he’s never comin’ back now! Coach K will be runnin’ around the ghetto from now on lookin’ for the “One-and-Done” cat to bring back to Durham to make it easier for him to win championships. Ole boy will be posted up on the south side of the Chi like a dope fein foamin’ at the mouth askin’ boyz can I borrow your VCR.

"Tyus thanks for at least givin' me a year bruh! Now hold me!"

 For years cats from the hood hated Duke not because they were a good program that won all of the time but because they wouldn’t come anywhere near the hood and recruit its players. Now two years in a row ole Mike has come down to where the homies hang out and swooped boyz up that have been qualified for years to play at Duke both academically and athletically. Kids just wanted a fair shot to prove to the world that they could play at Duke.

Now the hood has forgiven Coach K for bein’ a sucka for so many years and bypassin’ them for only the suburban kids. The hood just wanted the opportunity that the rest of the world got. Sure, not very many kids from the ghetto will qualify both academically and athletically that will want to go Duke every year. However, for those that do qualify across this country they just want a shot. It’s like the chick that doesn’t necessarily want to go out with you but she still wants to be asked.

Its basketball for cryin’ out loud, you only have to recruit 3 or 4 cats a year. At least offer a kid from the ghetto every year and we’re cool playboy. Thanks Coach K for understandin’ that the “One-and-Done” isn’t a cancer to your program but an asset to it.

When programs win national titles the enrollment goes up the followin’ semester by at least 30 percent bruh! The bread that is channeled to the school is ridiculous. The marketin’ and promotion of the University goes through the roof and think about all of the paraphernalia that will be sold with the school’s name on it over the next six months. It’s NUTS!!!

So for all of the idiots that think the “One-and-Done” is a waste of time then you’ve got issues with countin’ and jealousy. A) If you could count you would see all of the bread and attention that these kids are bringin’ to your university for hangin’ out for one year before they go off to make a guaranteed $10 million over the next 3 years. B) You’re jealous that you had or have to stay in school for the full 4 or 5 years to complete your degree before someone offers you a job makin’ .5 percent of what they were offered. I get it playa, jealousy is a beast and many times it’ll jump out of you before you realize it. It’s just not fair that a boy can make that type of bread at 18 and you can’t. I get it but the hatin’ will kill you bruh! Shake it off.

I’m not really trippin’ off of the duns that can’t count and the clowns that are full of jealousy. I’m just happy that Coach K is finally givin’ boyz from the hood a chance to play at Duke.

By the way, it’s mighty funny that Calipari gets blasted so much for havin’ “One-and-Done’s” on his roster but nobody has said a word about Coach K doin’ the same thing lately. I’m just sayin’ and stop me when I start lyin’!

Playas Thesausus:
1) Dun: noun – the person in question, dude, guy, etc.
2) Frank Lucas: noun - a notorious drug dealer of pure heroine called “Blue Magic” that he pushed in Harlem in the 1960’s and early ‘70’s.
3) Pookie: noun – the character played by Chris Rock as a dope fein in the movie “New Jack City.”
4) Bread: noun – money
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Stupidity (Why an extremely dumb question got an extremely dumb answerfrom Andrew Harrison)

"Here it comes bruh!"

As I was standin’ out in front of Lucas Oil Stadium on Saturday night I overheard these three cats arguin’ about the stupidity of duns in the world. Robert Heinlein said, “Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.” Albert Einstein walked up to a boy tryin’ to scalp some tickets and said, “The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.” Then Chris Rock grabbed the tickets out of ole boy’s hand and said,” I don’t get high, but sometimes I wish I did. That way, when I messed up in life I would have an excuse. But right now there’s no rehab for stupidity.”

Well playas…ole dull Andrew Harrison of the Kentucky Wildcats wished he was high when he learned the first rule of show business! “THE MIC IS ALWAYS HOT!!!!!” Whenever you sit down to speak with ANYBODY and there’s a microphone in front of you playboy, it’s on! On Saturday night after Kentucky went down to Wisconsin in the national semifinal 71-64 the UK players were holdin’ their post-game presser with the dull media and Harrison made a fool of himself.

Ole boy was sittin’ next to his brother Aaron directly to his left and Willie Cauley- Stein was sittin’ to his right. A dull reporter asked Karl-Anthony Towns: “Karl, could you talk about Kaminsky and what if anything is unique about defending him?” Then Andrew responded with his hand over his mouth thinkin’ that nobody was gonna hear it, “F**** that N******!”

Let’s keep it real or all the way 100, whichever comes 1^st! First of all playa, if I’m his daddy I’m puttin’ my foot so deep in his butt that that we’re still at Methodist Hospital this mornin’ pullin’ me out of his mouth. At some point you’ve got to think bruh! You’re on national television after a devastatin’ loss so you know that you’ve got to choose your words carefully.

Now don’t get it twisted, he said out loud what all of those duns were thinkin’! Unfortunately, all of these kids call each other the N-word and it’s ridiculous. It completely blows my freakin’ mind because not only do the black kids use it but they let the white kids use it too. How do I know? Because I’ve got a teenager and I hear these cats talk to each other? It completely blows my mind!

So when ole boy said it durin’ the presser it was like him sayin’ F**** that MF etc. He meant nothin’ by it racially. Now was he stupid for sayin’ anything close to that? Sure he was and he needs his butt whooped for it. However, the dull reporter asked the worst question that could be asked at that moment.

Let me put it where the goats can get it bruh! These journalism schools are doin’ a horrible job of teachin’ boyz how to ask questions. Why do I say that? Because I constantly hear these dull media types askin’ a boy what he thinks about another player. First of all playa, you NEVER ask a question that there’s no answer to. Black Culture Rule No.1 is, “Never ask a boy about what another man is doin’!” In other words bruh, you NEVER ask a man what he thinks about another man. I hear guys in NBA locker rooms doin’ it all of the time and it drives me crazy because there is no answer to that question. All you’re gonna get is a canned answer and if he’s pissed off he might say anything. You can’t ask any shape or form of that question. Why? Because it violates every square inch of the Code of Conduct.

So if you’re goin’ to interview players you’ve got to understand what the rules are of their upbringin’! So when you ask a boy about what Kaminsky was doin’ or what he thought of Kaminsky, the only answer to that question was a variation of the one that you got. Why? Because he just lost the first game of the season and it ended his season. It’s a wonder that he didn’t curse you out for askin’ a dumb “A” question like that! Was he wrong for his response? You darn right he was! And that’s the edited version but you asked for it!

However, don’t get upset when you get the only answer available for a stupid question from an emotional kid. Here’s my idiot media type screamin’ from the roof tops, “The question wasn’t even directed at Harrison. It was for Towns! So why did he have to say anything?” So would you rather have Towns say it or Harrison? Because you were gonna get the same response because the question was stupid and they’re emotional kids.

Listen up playas, would you listen to the Crocodile Hunter tell you about the habits of the crocodile if he knew nothin’ about the crocodile? So why would you listen to sports writers talk about the habits of players that they know nothin’ about. You can’t effectively interview cats that you know nothin’ about. If you understood the players you wouldn’t keep askin’ them stupid questions. That’s why you keep gettin’ dump idiotic answers. Stop me when I start lyin’!

Playas Thesaurus:

1) Dun: noun – the person in question, dude, guy, etc.
2) Let me put it where the goats can get it: To break it down to its simplest form. Goats eat off of the ground so I’m puttin’ it on the ground for you to understand it.
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Internet Gangstas (How all of the haters came out on Twitter & Facebook after the UK loss)

"Ima take it like a G and move on bruh!"

Robert A. Heinlein, the science fiction writer, once said, “A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.” William Penn pulled up smokin’ a cigar and talkin’ a $100 worth of noise when he said, “The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.” Then Max Frisch, the Swiss playwright, shut the buildin’ down with, “Jealousy is the fear of comparison.”

Well playas…the Wisconsin Badgers did what boyz thought they couldn’t do, includin’ me, and that was to beat the Kentucky Wildcats 71-64 to get to the title game on Monday night! They figured out how to break the code and they picked that 38-0 lock. But what trips me out is all of the jealous cats comin’ out of the wood work hatin’ on a team that was 38-0 and killin’ boyz all season long!

Let’s keep it real or all the way 100, whichever comes 1^st! Kentucky was the first team since the 1991 UNLV Runnin’ Rebels to show up to the Final Four undefeated. So that means that NOBODY has done anything like it in 24 years bruh! And after the game was over on Saturday night social media was full of haters that have obviously never played organized sports in their lives. Why? Because anybody that has ever played a day of sports understands that in order to accomplish what those kids from Kentucky were able to accomplish was darn near impossible. So you’ve gotta give them their props even with a loss.

Major college basketball and a boy gets to 38-0? You can’t do anything but salute them. You sound like a fool talkin’ crazy about them. Unfortunately, Twitter and Facebook are the dumpin’ grounds for studio or internet gangstas. You can say whatever you want because you don’t have to see a boy face-to-face.

Now you’re hatin’ on UK because A) they went 38-0, B) they’ve got a roster full of One and Done cats or at the very least NBA players, C) they kicked your school’s butt and that’s the edited version. Understand this playa; I don’t have a dog in this fight. I just understand that what they’ve done is remarkable and any clown that’s hatin’ on them is a sucka.

What’s the ultimate goal pimpin’? To win a national title and go to the NBA! Well…that’s the goal of the elite player, playa. I’m not talkin’ about some dun that just has a basketball scholarship. I’m talkin’ about the duns that will be millionaires in a few months. The social media hater knows that and that’s why he’s jealous. He took pleasure in Kentucky losin’ because that’s the only time he’ll feel on top for whatever reason.

The kids from UK will be upset for a few days that they didn’t win it all but on Thursday or Friday of this week when they sit down with their agents it’ll be all forgotten. When a boy gets some advance money this week they’ll forget all about the freakin’ Final Four and you’ll still be livin’ your hater’s life lookin’ for somebody else to hate on. That’s real talk and it hurts you to hear a boy tell you who you are. Like Max said earlier, “Jealousy is the fear of comparison.” Stop me when I start lyin’!

Playas Thesaurus:
1) Pimpin’: noun – the person that I’m passionately tryin’ to get me point across to.
2) Take it like a G: verb phrase - to take it like a gangsta, to be strong in the mist of adversity.  
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Dark Side (Why Kentucky isn't beatable at this point)

"What you say bruh!"

Michelangelo once said, "The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection." Aristotle gave it to us like this, "Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work." Vince Lombardi shut the buildin' down when he said, "Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence."

Well playas...Ole Vince hasn't seen the Kentucky Wildcats play because these boyz are as close to perfect as it gets. Now are they the best basketball team that we've ever seen? Naw playboy! But they are the best basketball team left standin'! 

Let's keep it real or all the way 100, whichever comes 1st! I had Arizona picked to beat these boyz because I thought that they had the horses and fire power to keep up with them. Unfortunately, they wet the bed against Wisconsin. 

Now when I look at the other duns showin' up in Indy it'll be like carjackin' a boy drivin' a Hyundai with no locks. Wisconsin's got shooters but they can't run the floor. So when Kentucky starts swattin' balls and gets into transition it's gonna be a problem. 

Michigan State has what a boy typically needs to win it all. They've got coachin' and serious guard play. However, they've got NO bigs. So unless Travis Trice has the game of his life they don't have a shot. Izzo can out coach a boy but he doesn't have the horses in the front court to keep up. 

Duke's got Coach K and a dun named Jahlil Okefor. However, Coach K ain't playin' and when Okefor's not on the floor they're a mediocre team. I know boyz are upset with me for keepin' it real but that's real talk playboy! 

So for all the duns lookin' for Kentucky to lose, stop lookin' playa. It ain't gone happen. Notre Dame had the perfect game plan but Karl Anthony Towns put a hole in that. So come on over to the dark side pimpin'! I had to! So if I can do it you can too! Stop me when I start lyin'!

Playas Thesaurus:

1) Dun: noun - the person in question, dude, guy, etc. 

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Cadillac Doors (How the Final Four got caught up in some religiousfreedom foolishness)

"All of this work we've put in and the freakin' governor brain farts!"

Oscar Wilde, the Irish author and playwright, pulled up in the new whip and said, “By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.” Confucius jumped out of the big body Chevy and shouted, “Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.” Then the big homie Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. started slammin’ Cadillac doors when he said, “Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”

Well playas…the Final Four is in Indianapolis this weekend and the dull governor of the state of Indiana has completely lost his freakin’ mind! On last Thursday he proved to the world just how sincerely ignorant and conscientiously stupid he was. Mike Pence signed the “Religious Freedom Restoration Act into law and turned the joint on its ear with foolishness. The law, which takes effect in July, now allows residents and business owners the right to use their religious beliefs as a reason to deny services to folks.

Let’s keep it real or all the way 100, whichever comes 1^st! The law was designed to give a boy the right to discriminate against gays and lesbians. Let’s just call it what it is bruh! It didn't specifically state that but the law is so loosely written that it begs for foolishness to take place. What blows my mind is that boyz always want to hide behind religion and most of these duns doin’ the hidin’ have never opened the word of God in their lives! The only religious freedom God commands us to have is to LOVE EVERYBODY!

How are you lovin’ everybody if you’ve got the potential to hate someone because they’re into something that you aren’t into? This is real talk playa! Here’s my ignorant business owner screamin’ from the roof tops, “Man I’m glad that I’ve got the approval to deny these gays the right to eat in my restaurant and there’s nothin’ you can do about it! I’m Christian and it goes against my religious beliefs!”

Oh yeah! Well let me ask you this pimpin’, since you’re so Christian and I’m quite sure you’ve read the entire bible are you gonna use you’re religious freedom to deny the dun that walks into your establishment that cheats on his wife? Maybe there’s a guy that doesn’t cheat on his wife but he looks at porn all of the time. I know you’re gonna kick him out of the joint right? How about the cat that’s a drunk or the drug abuser? So I know you’ve got a plan in place to remove the cat that has a problem lyin’ to boyz? No way are you gonna serve the guy that is jealous of other folks?

I know you’re gonna stop a boy from sittin’ down that is a back stabber right? How about the duns that walk in that are fornicators? I know you’re gonna keep them from eatin’ in your joint because your religious freedom just couldn’t stomach that right?

I’m Christian and I know what the word says playa! “We’ve all sinned and fallen short of the glory of God, and all are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus!” Romans 3:23-24!

Mike Pence and the senate that even passed the bill have got to be out of their minds bruh! The word of God isn’t there for you to defend playa; it stands on its own. He’s the only one with the power to judge a boy’z actions. So as the freakin’ governor your job is to govern the state and not folk’s religious beliefs. He's the governor for everybody not just the straight population of the state! It's like the fools that were upset with President Obama for not runnin' after every issue concernin' black America. He's not just the black folks President, he's EVERYBODY'S President!

Think about the amount of bread this dun is about to cost the state! Every major corporation that has come here for conventions etc. has the potential to pull out. The comic book cats, Comic Con, have already announced that they’re bouncin’! That convention alone brought in $53 million in one weekend.

He’s makin’ the city of Indianapolis look like a bunch of fools this weekend for the Final Four too! The world will be watchin’ all of the folks protestin’ this week because every major news outlet will be here and instead of talkin’ about how the city is puttin’ on a great show for the Final Four we’re talkin’ about a dun protestin’ his or her right to be different.

What happens when the NCAA announces that it’s not gonna have the Final Four here anymore or when the Big Ten pulls their football championship game and basketball tournament out as a result of this foolishness?

So Mike Pence is willin’ to lose darn near a billion dollars in revenue to satisfy the beliefs of a bunch of bigots. Don’t hide behind religion playa because the same bigots that enslaved Africans in this country for darn near 300 years hid behind the same thing. This law is like weed bruh! It’s the gateway to other discrimination.

If a boy can deny a gay couple from eatin’ in his joint then what’s gonna stop him from callin’ me a N----r and puttin’ me out? What’s gonna stop him from denyin’ the Latino cat and his girl from sittin’ down? God doesn’t condone this foolishness! So don’t put him in it. We are to LOVE EVERYBODY accordin’ to his word and if that everybody is willin’ to pay for his or her meal and be respectful in your establishment then they should be welcomed.

I don’t care if the dun was green and purple from the planet Mars as long as he’s got on a shirt, shoes and some pants and his money is green then he’s all good! Now let’s hang out and enjoy this Final Four! Stop me when I start lyin’!

Playas Thesaurus:

1) Whip: noun – a luxury vehicle
2) Big Body Chevy: noun – old school Chevy Caprice, late 1980’s to early 1990’s
3) Pimpin’: noun – the person that I’m passionately tryin’ to get my point across to.
4) Bread: noun – money, currency
5) Bouncin’: verb – to leave
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Coachin' & Guard Play (How Notre Dame pulled a Clubber Lang but just couldn't knock a boy out)

"You already know bruh!"

Jamais Cascio, the famous writer, once said, “Resilience is all about being able to overcome the unexpected. Sustainability is about survival. The goal of resilience is to thrive.” Sheri L. Drew, the author and publisher, gave it to us like this, “Indeed, this life is a test. It is a test of many things – of our convictions and priorities, our patience and our resilience, and in the end, our ultimate desires.” Then the big homie Joshua Waitzkin, the famous chess player, shut the buildin’ down with, “The moment we believe that success is determined by an ingrained level of ability as opposed to resilience and hard work, we will be brittle in the face of adversity.”

Well playas…if the Kentucky Wildcats were thinkin’ that success was determined by an ingrained level of ability before Saturday night they aren’t thinkin’ that anymore, I can tell you that bruh! They’ve been bullyin’ boyz since the start of the tournament and they completely carjacked ole dull ish-talkin’ West Virginia on Thursday night. Well…Notre Dame showed up in Cleveland on Saturday evenin’ and made a boy earn his paycheck and his stripes before goin’ down 68-66 at the buzzer.

Let’s keep it real or all the way 100, whichever comes 1^st! I told boyz in my Hot Joint entitled “Hidden Targets” on Saturday mornin’ that now Calipari was gonna have to show up and coach. The NCAA Tournament is about coachin’ and guard play and those are two things that Kentucky didn’t have up to this point! I told you boyz that the game plan for any coach worth his weight in his salary would be to spread the floor, make the UK bigs come out of the water and back door them.

Ole Notre Dame’s Mike Brey was definitely worth his weight in his salary pimpin’! He spread those duns out and went to work! Even though ND was out manned they weren’t out matched because they had coachin’ and guard play! They controlled the second half of that ball game but had no answer for Karl-Anthony Towns (KAT.)

They simply had no answer for that dun and Calipari knew it. So he put his coachin’ hat and waders on and fed the monster. Ole boy put up 25 points and popped off 17 of them in the second half in foul trouble bruh. ND couldn’t do nothin’ with him! He was pushin’ Zach Auguste around like he was in a stroller at the mall. The Fightin’ Irish played darn near the perfect game to beat these boyz but KAT put the Cats on his back and road out. The only other playa in double figures for Kentucky was Devin Cook with 10 points but that’s all they needed to get to Indy.

They shot 52 percent from the field and 50 percent from downtown. Those numbers were inflated by the production of two cats literally! KAT shot 76 percent and Booker popped them for 66 percent! They did what they needed to do to win the game playa! That’s all that counts. It wasn’t pretty but they won and are headin’ to Indy for the Final Four!

"Daaayyyyymmmm!"

What can you say bruh? Mike Brey had his boyz “ret-ta-go” and the game plan was solid. Let’s spread these boyz out and attack the rack from the back door! In hood terms “We gone ring the doe-bell and then kick in the back doe!” Coachin’ and guard play had Kentucky on the ropes like Clubber Lang had Rocky for most of the ball game. But in the end it was coachin’ and guard play that saved UK’s magical run for now because Cal took advantage of the ND’s weakness on defense and that was Auguste. Now don’t get it twisted, he was a beast on the other end doppin’ 20 and 9 but he couldn’t defend his girlfriend in a pillow fight last night bruh. 

Both teams were horrible from the foul line with ND shootin’ 76 percent and UK shootin’ a mere 70 percent. But down the stretch the guard play of Andrew Harrison knockin' down two clutch free throws to put the Cats up 2 to stay with 6 seconds remainin’ as ND’s Jerian Grant put up the air ball as time expired.

Talk about a great ball game that was worth every second! I’m not gonna lie playboy, I gained a little respect for Calipari’s ability to coach in a hostile environment and the Young Thunder Cats he’s rollin’ with. However, I still say they he’s the worst coach left standin’ and one of these duns is gonna get him. I picked the Arizona Wildcats to get him but I guess Bo Ryan and Co. is up next. That’s my story and I’m stickin’ with it! Stop me when I start lyin’!

Playas Thesaurus:   1) Ish: noun – human feces
2) Pimpin’: noun – the person that I’m passionately tryin’ to get my point across to.
3) Ret-ta-go: verb – country south hood for “Ready to go!”
4) Doe: noun – door
5) Young Thunder Cats: noun – the Kentucky Wildcats basketball team.
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Hidden Targets (Why Calipari is suddenly lookin' like a dull Chrysler 300)

In my Old Otis voice, "What cha say der boi!"

When I pulled up at the car wash to get the whip cleaned up for the weekend these three cats were arguin’ about talent. John Wooden said, “Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.” This cat they kept callin’ Michael Jordan stood up with a huge cigar in his mouth and said, “Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.” Then Arthur Schopemhauer, the 18^th century German philosopher, leaned back in his seat, crossed his legs and like a real G said, “Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.”

Well playas…now that we’re down to the Elite Eight talent has hit the targets that no one else could hit but the geniuses are just now gettin’ dressed! I know that everybody and their momma’s momma has picked Kentucky to win this joint and most cats are callin’ the tournament the Kentucky Invitational. However, talent alone has taken them as far as they can go! Calipari has to start earnin’ his pay check today homeboy!

Let’s keep it real or all the way 100, whichever comes 1^st! I’ve been tellin’ boyz since the joint started that Kentucky was the MOST talented team at the rodeo. However, this isn’t the NBA Playoffs playa! In the NBA the MOST talented/best team ALWAYS wins the championship. Why? Because you’ve got to beat a boy 4 times playin’ the best of 7 series all the way out to win it all. In the NCAA Tournament all you gotta do is win one game at a time. So you don’t have to be the best team! You just have to be the best team for 2 hours pimpin’!

I’ve also been tellin’ these boyz in the barber shop that coachin’ and guard play wins the NCAA Tournament! Yesterday I helped the homies Nick Bozak and Evan Altman host Kent Sterling’s Show on CBS Sports Radio 1430AM and we had former Duke Guard, Chris Duhon, on the show. I asked him if I was crazy for tellin’ boyz that and he said that I was spot on. I knew it all along playa, I just wanted him to say it on the radio so that these suckas out here would hear it because when I say it doesn’t hold water because I didn’t play basketball or win a national championship but I know what the hell I’m talkin’ about.

Kentucky doesn’t have either! They’re the best team in the joint defensively but they are mediocre offensively with average guard play and Calipari is probably the worse ‘coach’ from a strategic stand point left standin’! He can recruit his butt off! And that’s the edited version. So, they’ve been bullyin’ boyz up to this point, now he’s gotta coach! Look whose left playa! Duns like Rick Pitino, Tom Izzo, Mike Krzyzewski, Mark Few, Bo Ryan and Mike Brey have literally gotten to this point with half of the talent Kentucky has bruh!

It’s March playboy and Coach K, Izzo and Pitino literally transform this time of year. He’s not beatin’ either of them.

Don’t think for one minute that boyz are gonna allow Kentucky to stand under the freakin’ basket and swat balls all night like they’ve been doin’ all year! Like I keep tellin’ boyz, a team that moves the basketball that can shoot has a chance to beat them. Duns like Notre Dame, Arizona, Wisconsin and Duke all share the ball and they have bigs that can shoot the rock.

So guess what pimpin’? The Kentucky bigs are gonna have to come out from underneath the basket. The floor will be spread and now they’re vulnerable. They aren’t playin’ basketball in the freakin’ SEC and there is only one coach in the entire conference and that’s Billy Donovan and he has no talent right now. So Calipari looks like he can coach until some REAL coaches show up. So guess what playa? They’re ALL fully dressed and ret-ta-go!

Let me put it where the goats can get it playa. A cat pushin’ a Chrysler 300 is always tellin’ boyz that it looks like a Phantom until a Phantom pulls up. Well, Calipari looks like he can coach until a real coach pulls up. Now does he have the talent to beat everybody left in the field? Sure he does! But again, talent won’t win this thing bruh! Coachin’ and guard play will. He brings neither to the table.

I say he struggles against Notre Dame but beats them. But if ND can get hot from outside Kentucky goes down. If they get past ND Arizona creates all types of match-up problems for them and that’s who I’ve picked to beat them when the joint started. If they’re fortunate enough to get past them, Coach K will coach circles around that dun. Why because geniuses can hit targets that no one else can see!

So one of those three are gonna get them because coachin’ and guard wins the Ship not cats showin’ up with the ability to bully a boy! Stop me when I start lyin’!

Playas Thesaurus:   1) Whip: noun – luxury vehicles only! Some cats try to call their car a whip but if it’s a regular joint it’s just a car bruh!
2) Pimpin’: noun – the person that I’m passionately tryin’ to get my point across to.
3) Ret-ta-go: verb phrase – country hood for “Ready to go!”
4) Let me put it where the goats can get it.: verb phrase - To make it plain and simple for you. To lay it out on the ground so that it’s easy to get to. Goats eat off of the ground so I’m goin’ to literally spoon feed you at this point.
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Hit & Run (How Calipari is killin' me actin' like he didn't pull a Suge Knight on boy)

"Well that takes care of that playa!"

Norman Vincent Peale, the author of the ‘Power of Positive Thinking’ once said, “Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.” Joe Namath stepped into the joint rockin’ a full length gangsta mink and said, “When you have confidence, you can have a lot of fun. And when you have fun, you can do amazing things.” Then the big homie, Mark Twain, lit his square, leaned back in the ride and said, “To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.”

Well playas…the young West Virginia freshman, Daxter Miles Jr., must have thought that ole Mark Twain was hollerin’ at him. Why? Because he was both ignorant and confident when he told a boy that Kentucky was gonna be 36-1 when they got finished with them. What ole boy didn’t know was that they were about to play REAL basketball with a REAL ball against REAL Kentucky players! West Virginia walked on the court and got hit by an Italian cat drivin’ a blue and white Mack truck and the license plate read “37-0 U Ain’t Know?”

By the time West Virginia got to its feet the final score was 78-39 and boyz were in my Bernie Mac voice, “Bucket Naked!” They stripped searched those duns and left them out on the middle of the street beggin' for a ride to the crib.

Let’s keep it real or all the way 100, whichever comes 1^st! If you’re gonna talk trash to boy then you better be on the same level that he’s on. Otherwise, just walk in to the joint, take the beaten like a G and keep it movin’!

The young freshman thought that he was about to play some duns out of the Big 12 that tend to fold up like a tent. We all saw EVERYBODY from that conference with the exception of Oklahoma and West Virginia get car jacked last weekend.

This dun had the nerve to say, “Kentucky is gonna be 36-1 when we finish with them!” That’s cool if you can ball! I wouldn’t expect a boy to say anything less goin’ into battle because you’ve got to have confidence in your ability to compete! However, you gotta be able to tie your freakin’ shoe first! WVU was out there with their jocks on backwards and they don’t even wear jocks anymore bruh. The main dun talkin' noise didn't score a single point! Now you talked a $100 worth of noise, got on NATIONAL TELEVISION with Big Momma watchin’ and got the breaks beat off of you and couldn't buy a bucket! Wheredeydodatat?

At the break it was 44-18 bruh! But at that point it was too late to retreat! UK is out there just draggin’ a boy up and down the floor. West Virginia is caught on the front axle and a boy is just backin’ up and runnin’ over him like Suge Knight’s dumb “A!” Side note playa: Suge Knight has finally acted a fool for the last time! That dun will never get out of jail! Ya’ll see ole boy fall out when the judge hit him with the $25 million bond? Why? Cuz it just got real!

That was West Virginia on Thursday night bruh! Durin’ warm ups that young freshman looked over and saw those beasts lickin’ their chops and that dun passed out on the floor. Huggy Bear ran over to him and woke him up. “Naw playa, you talked all that noise! You gone play tonight! You gone take this "A" whoopin’ wide awake! Next time you’ll just shut up and play! Go me out here lookin’ crazy!”

The Mountaineers didn’t get to 20 points until the 11:41 mark of the second half playa! By the time they pulled those clowns out from underneath the truck the cat drivin’ the joint was on some ‘It wasn’t me type joints!’ Calipari was like, “Well, that didn’t come from me because that’s not how I coach!” Hold on a second dawg, weren’t you the dun drivin’?” Don’t act like you didn’t hit that fool standin’ out in the middle of the street on purpose! You didn't call off the dawgs until the 4 minute mark! So you purposely ran up the score. I’m cool with you runnin’ him over and backin’ up over him playa. Just say it. He was talkin’ noise and we had to get him! That’s fair. I know how the hood works. You gotta send a message! Makes sense to me just don’t act like I don’t know what you were doin’!

Don’t tell me that I didn’t see what I saw! West Virginia deserved to get blasted but don’t back away from it. You were drivin’ the truck and you hit that dun on purpose! All the real G’s completely understand.

I still say Arizona is gonna get these boyz because they can shoot and they’ve got the horses to bang with them. It should be fun to watch! Stop me when I start lyin’!

Playas Thesaurus:
1) Gangsta Mink: noun – a full length mink coat, normally worn in places like Gary, Chicago or Detroit. You gotta have crazy swag to put one on playa because otherwise you might get it pulled off of you.
2) Ride: noun – car, vehicle also known as a whip dependin’ upon where you’re from.
3) Dun: noun – the person in question, dude, guy, etc.
4) G: noun – gangsta
5) Wheredeydodatat?: Hood for, “Who does that?”
6) $100 worth of noise: verb phrase: to talk trash 7) Suge Knight: CEO of Death Row Records that just ran over two cats killin' one and the judge hit that dun with a $25 million bond.
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Bullied (How Wichita State finally ran up on Kansas and took their new Jordan's)

"I don't hear y'all playa?"

M.C. Escher, the Dutch graphic artist, once said, “My work is a game, a very serious game.” George Orwell, the English novelist and essayist, spit a lil’ fire when he said, “Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.” Then Sonia Sotomayor, an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, shut the buildin’ down with, “There are uses to adversity, and they don’t reveal themselves until tested. Whether it’s serious illness, financial hardship, or the simple constraint of parents who speak limited English, difficulty can tap unexpected strengths.”

Well playas…difficulty tapped some unexpected strengths that the Wichita State Shockers didn’t realize they had until the always dodgin’ Kansas Jayhawks got sucked into an unwanted match up in the round of 32. Kansas has been dissin’ these boyz since 1993 bruh! “Naw playa, we don’t need to play y’all! We’ve got nothin’ to gain by beatin’ up on you! We’re 12-1 against you in the regular season.” When in reality they’re scared to death to play these duns when it counts. Well playboy, Sunday afternoon they could no longer hide from a boy and they got their heads peeled 78-65. In NCAA Tournament play against the Shockers, Kansas is 0-2 at this point.

Let’s keep it real or all the way 100, whichever comes 1^st! Boyz in Lawrence already knew that it was a slight possibility that they could play Wichita if both teams took care of business on Friday. The cats from Wichita had already circled the joint and showed up talkin’ a $100 worth of noise. Wichita State straight bullied Indiana and was waitin’ on Kansas at the playground.

Fred VanFleet and Co. went to work on these boyz takin’ jewelry and sneakers off of them as they destroyed them both offensively and defensively. They held KU to just 35 percent shootin’ from the field and 28 percent from downtown. They had boyz so rattled that Big Momma was about to fight in the stands bruh. While the Shockers dug off into Kansas’ butt on the other end shootin’ 49 percent from the field and 50 percent from behind the arc.

"My momma just bought me them shoes bruh!"

On some real talk, they sure didn’t wanna play these boyz! Now they’ve got to take that dull Big 12 Championship to the crib and burn it playa. Kansas has won like 11 Big 12 Titles in a row? But we just watched the entire conference, with the exception of Oklahoma, crash and burn the first weekend of the tournament. So I don’t wanna hear anybody say another word about the freakin’ Big 12 until football season.

They showed up, got carjacked, pulled out of the ride and stripped! Boyz took the new Jordan’s off of them and those tight “A” skinny jeans these young cats are wearin’ now days. Well…you deserve to get beat down for even puttin’ them on in my opinion. That’s just me playa.

The field of 16 is set and only the strong will survive pimpin’! Duke ain’t no punk because they’ve got some horses and the best coach in the field. Kentucky is Kentucky! Zona’s got both shooters and an inside game for yo “A!” Tom Izzo has been bullyin’ boyz for years. So his Spartans aren’t playin’ around. Wisconsin’s got shooters! Huggy Bear and West Virginia hustled their way into the party usin’ a Maryland’s ID and Gonzaga always finds a way to show up.

Now it just got REAL for a boy and who’s willin’ to step their game up? For the record we can cut through all of the song and dance playa! Arizona will beat Kentucky and then Duke for all of the marbles because they’ve got shooters and horses! Stop me when I start lyin’!

Playas Thesaurus:

1)      Dissin’: verb – to avoid

2)      $100 worth of noise: verb phrase – to talk tall trash to a boy. So much that it’s annoying!

3)      Crib: noun – house, home

4)      “A”: noun – it’s the edited version for anus, butt, etc.

5)      Pimpin’: noun – the person that I’m passionately tryin’ to get my point across to.

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Insanity (How Cincinnati did everything right against Kentucky but usecommonsense)

"Y'all hard headed dawg!"

When I pulled up to the brown bag joint to get some fire shrimp I see these three cats standin’ outside debatin’ the concept of insanity. Bruce Feirstein, the famous screenwriter, took a toke of his square and said, “The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.” Albert Einstein jumped out of the whip cocked his hat to left and said, “Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result.” Then Friedrich Nietzsche walked out of the spot, gave a pound to the homies and said, “In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.”

Well playas…he should have added teams to that list and more specifically the duns rockin’ the Cincinnati Bearcats uniforms on Saturday afternoon. They did everything right but use commonsense offensively to win that game. They were aggressive, talked just enough trash and even got under the young Wildcats collar. However, they thought boyz were lyin’ to them when they told them that you can’t go to the rack against them. Bein’ hard headed cost them an otherwise very well played ball game 64-51!

Let’s keep it real or all the way 100, whichever comes 1^st!  Cincy had the formula defensively to beat these boyz but freakin’ Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck must have been callin’ the plays offensively. They held Kentucky to just 37 percent shootin’ from the field and out rebounded them 45-38.

Here was the problem pimpin’, UK held Cincy to just 31 percent shootin’ from the field primarily because these duns were hard headed. The Bearcats kept knockin’ on the Grinch’s front door and he kept swattin’ that joint into the third row on a boy. I'm sittin’ there sayin’, “How many times do they have to swat that joint before you realize that it’s not gonna happen bruh? Not here! Not today!!

This is the best team in the country at swattin’! They needed Albert Einstein sittin’ on that bench because ole boy was brain fartin’ all night! It was insane to keep tryin' to take them to the rack. In order to have any chance of beatin’ Kentucky you’ve got to have a mid-range game or be able to light it up from downtown! That’s it! No way are you gonna bang inside with them and walk out alive.

Cincy did all of the right things on Saturday evenin’ but think! They had UK rattled for 15 minutes, talked tall trash to them and even had the Harrison twin shook when he retaliated by pushin’ Octavious Ellis and picked up the technical foul. Any time a boy starts tryin’ to get his lick back he’s shook! Don’t ever let him tell you otherwise.

Kentucky is a young team bruh and they can be shook but you’ve got to be able to shoot the rock. That’s why I picked Arizona before the tournament started to upset these boyz in the Final Four. They are the only team in the country that have the horses, the inside and outside game and gonads to beat them. So just sit in the cut and enjoy the ride until they meet in Indy playboy!

Oh don’t trip, you can thank me later for the insight. I know all of you duns have UK cuttin’ down the nets but Cincy just exposed to the world what I’ve been sayin’ about them all year.

Let me put it where the goats can get it playa. Kentucky plays in the SEC! This ain’t football season pimpin'! They haven’t played anybody all season with the exception of maybe the in-state rival game against Louisville. Now don’t get it twisted, you’ve got to be damn good to go 36-0 I don’t care who you’re playin’ but it’s a whole lot easier to do it playin’ the little sisters of the poor all year.

Mark your calendars playas and playettes April 4^th  is the date that the Wildcats from Arizona are gonna do everything Cincinnati did to them but they won’t be insane enough to try to take them to the rack. They’re gonna pull the mid-range out of the holster and “light them boyz up!” In my Huggy Lowdown voice, “Waaaait for it!” Remember playas, this isn't the NBA playoffs! The best team doesn't always win the championship! See in the NBA the best team ALWAYS wins the title because you've got to win the best of 7 in a series. In the NCAA Tournament you just gotta be the best team for 2 hours! I saw Villanova shoot 90 percent in the second half to beat the UNSTOPPABLE Georgetown Hoyas in 1985 with Patrick Ewing to win it all! Stop me when I start lyin’!

 Playas Thesaurus:

1)      Brown Bag Joint: noun – Carry out food in the hood. They call then the ‘brown bag’ because your food is given to you in a brown bag. It’s normally, BBQ, shrimp, burgers, tacos, soul food etc. As long as you get a brown bag it qualifies.

2)      Fire: adjective – good, delicious, tasty

3)      Toke: verb – to take a puff of a cigarette

4)      Square: noun – cigarette

5)      Whip: noun – car, vehicle

6)      Cocked his hat to the left: verb – he’s lettin’ a boy know that he’s gang affiliated so don’t even try him out here.

7)      Pound: verb – to shake a persons hand out of respect

8)      Dun: noun – the person in question, dude, guy, etc.

9)      Rockin’: verb – to wear

10)   Rack: noun – the basket

11)  Swattin’: verb – to block shots

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Clueless (Why Tom Crean is terrible and Indiana is just a middle of the road program)

"I have no idea what I'm doin bruh!
But if they keep payin' me I'm cool with that!"

Christian Nestell Bovee, the 19^th century epigrammatic writer, once said, “No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.” Carl Sagan, the astronomer and astrophysicist, gave it to like this, “It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.” Then Richard Dawkins, the English ethologist and evolutionary biologist, shut the buildin’ down with, “A delusion is something that people believe in despite a total lack of evidence.”

Well playas…it looks like ole Tom Crean is just as delusional as the Indiana faithful! After ole boy did probably the worst coachin’ job down the stretch of a ballgame that I’ve ever seen as he and the Hoosiers got knocked off by Wichita State 81-76, he was still optimistic about his future in Bloomington. This dun said that he planned for his team to “be obsessed with getting better” in the areas that plagued it this season.

Let’s keep it real or all the way 100, whichever comes 1^st! I picked Wichita State to win this ballgame bruh! So I’m not at all surprised that they beat IU. However, it’s the way that the Hoosiers lost the freakin’ game! Boyz will say that they played with a lot a heart and that they did on Friday. However, the dun that was drivin’ the freakin’ car kept makin’ wrong turns and finally wrapped the joint around a telephone pole.

With 35 ticks left on the clock this dun calls a freakin’ timeout, comes out of the break and nobody still knows what to do. As soon as Wichita State inbounds the ball he stands there and let’s like 10 seconds roll off of the clock before he starts foamin’ at the mouth for boyz to call a timeout!! They finally get it after 16 seconds expire! Now my question was, ‘What was the freakin’ timeout for if you didn’t tell these duns to foul a boy comin’ out of the freakin’ timeout?”

It was classic Crean down the stretch of games! It’s like, what was the timeout for if you didn’t tell a boy what you wanted him to do? It’s insane and that type of behavior has been goin’ on for 7 years! It’s almost like clockwork that a boy will come out of a break and be clueless as to what to do.

For him to sit in the post-game press conference and even think about the possibility of returnin’ next year is crazy to me. After 7 seasons he’s 121-111! For all of you simple minded individuals that means that he has a .521 winnin’ percentage! Not only did the Hoosiers lose their final three games of the regular season but they lost 10 of 15 down the stretch after a 5-1 start to Big Ten play. He’s only made the tournament three times in his 7 year run! It’s not an elite program bruh! Because if it were those would be fireable offenses and they should have been years ago pimpin’! 

Elite programs don’t let boyz stick around for years bein’ mediocre and that includes Bobby Knight too! Indiana hasn’t been worth two dead flies smashed since the late 1980’s. They’ve been missin’ out on the best talent in the state for the past 27 or 28 years but everybody around this piece wants to act like they don’t see the elephant in the room scratchin’ the crack of his butt! And that’s the edited version.   

Am I lyin’? Sit down playboy and check out this list of duns that grew up in the state and shot spit balls at IU, signed with other programs and went to the league: Rick Fox (UNC), Glenn Robinson (Purdue, POY), all three of the Plumlee brothers with Mason and Miles already in the league and Marshall on deck (Duke), they missed on two of the Zeller brothers, Tyler and Luke (UNC and ND), Rodney Carney (Memphis), Josh McRoberts (Duke), Zach Randolph (Michigan State), Greg Odon (OSU) Mike Conley (OSU) George Hill (IUPUI) Shawn Kemp (UK, JUCO), Sean May (UNC), Jeff and Marquis Teague (Wake Forest and UK) Courtney Lee (Western Kentucky), Eric Montross (UNC), Luke Harongody (ND), Robbie Hummel, E’Twan Moore amd JaJuan Johnson (Purdue), Gordon Hayward (Butler). Just this past year Gary Harris (Michigan State) Glenn Robinson III (Michigan) and Mitch McGary (Michigan) were drafted! I could go on but why? And I didn't even mention all of the cats that played at big time programs that didn't go to the league like Chris Thomas (ND) and Jason Gardner (Arizona)! But you think that it’s an elite program?

Here’s my diehard IU fan yellin’ from the roof top talkin’ crazy as usual, “Man most of those guys wouldn’t have even qualified to get into Indiana.” Really? It’s a state school you idiot! If they could get into the other schools I’m quite sure they could get into IU. John Thompson wasn’t turnin' boyz down at Georgetown in the ‘80’s and that was a private school pimpin’! Why? Because he was tryin' to win! So don’t give me the academics excuse because they let me in and I could barely read and I didn't play basketball! Stop it! Just stop! I’m tired of the freakin’ excuses!

If Crean is still answerin’ his company cell phone or landline by Tuesday of this week they’ve confirmed once again that it’s not an elite program and I don’t wanna hear anything else from delusional IU guy! I’m an IU grad but I’m a reasonable thinker! Indiana is a middle of the road program that typically gets middle of the road talent. Every blue moon they hit the jackpot on a boy like Victor Oladipo or Eric Gordon. But guess what pimpin’? All middle of the road programs do! Stop me when I start lyin’!

Playas Thesaurus:

1) Dun: noun – the person in question, dude, guy, etc.

2) Simple minded individuals: adjective – Hood for, “all you dumb folks out there!”

3) The edited version: That’s me tellin’ a boy that I’m tryin’ not to curse everybody out in this piece.

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House Money (Why I'd rather be a hooper on Hampton's yard this mornin' bruh)

Yeah, y'all blasted us playa but I'll be on the yard in the mornin'!!"

Norman Vincent Peale, the author of ‘The Power of Positive Thinking’ once said, “Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.” Helen Keller looked at it this way playa, “Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.” Then the big homie Mark Twain kept it simple by just sayin’, “To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.”

Well playas…the Hampton Pirates had both ignorance and confidence when they showed up to the KFC Yum! Center on Thursday night! For the record, if I’m goin’ to battle I want every single one of those duns in the ride with me. Sure, Kentucky walked into the joint with 9 McDonald’s All-Americans, a record of 34-0, a Vegas point spread of 32 points and essentially playin’ at the crib! With all of that Hampton covered the spread and only lost by 23!

Let’s keep it real or all the way the 100, whichever comes 1^st! Hampton should have gotten beaten by 40 or more playboy! They came into the joint with a record of 17-17 playin’ in the freakin’ MEAC!!! When boyz from ESPN were followin’ them around for the past few days, to a man, they all believed that they could win! Now you, I and Big Momma knew that they were gonna get the breaks beat off of them. Hell, they knew that they were gonna get the breaks beat off of them but they had the right attitude!

They were playin’ with house money bruh! They had nothin’ to lose by tellin’ a boy that they could win that freakin’ game! That’s the dun I want with me when I’ve got to run over to next hood over and get my lil’ sister’s bike back. I know I’m gonna get whooped because I can’t whoop the entire hood but when I leave boyz got respect for me.

Now when they see me they give me a pound and keep the rest of the hood off of my back. Every now and then you’re gonna run up on a boy that you can’t do anything with. It is what it is playa! However, the question is how are you gonna deal with the challenge?

Hampton told a boy that we’re gonna ride and whatever happens, happens out here pimpin’! As far as I’m concerned Hampton is Pookie and Ray-Ray from around the way because they’re willin’ to ride or die!

When everybody and their mommas momma tells you that you’re a 32 point dog walkin’ in and you walk out only losin’ by 23 and you’re Hampton? Can you say BMOC? Have you EVER been to Hampton bruh! Have you seen the women at Hampton? Put it like this playboy! They may as well have won the national title last night because they’re about to get back!!!!!

So you boyz can laugh at the Pirates all you want on Sports Center and standin’ around the water cooler this mornin’ but these duns are about the hit the yard today with the swagger of Barack Obama! Now whether you like President Obama or not he’s the most powerful man on the planet and when he walks into a room you can smell it! That’s the duns at Hampton today! On some real talk, you’ve just gotta be the most powerful man in the room that you’re standin’ in! I’m just sayin’! The duns from Kentucky aren’t at Hampton today! Stop me when I start lyin’!

Playas Thesaurus:
1) Dun: noun – the person in question, dude, guy, etc.
2) Pound: verb – to shake my hand out of respect
3) To keep the hood off of me: verb – to make sure that nobody in the hood bothers me with I walk through. To be untouchable because the head gangsta in the hood has to the word out to never bother this dun.
4) To ride: verb – to give your best shot, to lay all of your chips on the table.
5) Pimpin’: noun – the person that I’m passionately tryin’ to get my point across to.
6) Ride or Die: verb – to be all in bruh!
7) BMOC: noun – Big Man On Campus, you can’t tell a boy nothin’!
8) To get back: verb – to reap the benefits of success! Whatever that means to you playa!
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