Going into their game against Milwaukee last night, Chicago was down 2.5 games on the Bucks, with a slim chance at the playoffs still. This morning, they’re 3.5 back, and the reason is because our friend Ben Gordon and the rest of the team simply didn’t try.
Coach Scott Skiles saw it happening, and did what coaches sometimes do when they’re angry – he got mad.
Squatting before his players who were seated on the bench, Skiles screamed as his face turned nearly as red as the Bulls’ road uniforms.
”You think they weren’t going to show up?” he said, minus a few colorful words. ”Of course, they’re going to show up. The question is, are you going to show up?”
Here’s a perfect example of why we got kicked off our basketball team in our senior year of high school. It’s at moments like this we’d come back with an innocent, “Coach…I’m right here. I have my uniform on and everything,” or even better, a curious “I don’t understand the question.”
Then there was the time he was doing that coach-type thing where they grab you by the hip and try to move you into the position you’re supposed to be in in the post. One time we just rubbed his face and said, “ooh, Coach, your beard is so smooth.” That didn’t go over too good, plus at gametime, we had no idea where we were supposed to stand.
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Very nice.
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