Shawn Marion is a PHX Sun
Published by The Cavalier September 27th, 2007 in NBA, Phoenix Suns, Boston Celtics, Life Discussions, Sex, Who Shot Mamba?, Orange Roundie, Ranger Corps, Steve Nash, Shawn Marion
So like Shawn Marion requested the trade thing, and now the Suns are kinda looking at the situation and saying, “nah”.
With only about 3 teams that are possibly in the mix to add the Suns disgruntled power forward, there aren’t a lot of options.
This is especially true because one of those teams is the LA Lakers, who refuse to do anything - ever again.
As expected, all eyes are on Marion, and Captain Sun is getting hit with not much else in terms of media queries.
“We’re very close to winning a championship,” [Steve] Nash said. “We want everyone on board. All his teammates love him. We want him to be a part of this for sure, and we feel like he’s a big part of it. It’s frustrating to hear he’s unhappy, because we want him to be happy.”
That’s the kind of team captain we should all aspire to be - one who pulls the team together; not one who drives wedges into the very heart of the group dynamic.
In fact, you could even say that when your group dynamics are all put together, the group dynamic becomes stronger, because your group dynamic is strengthened (through group dynamic unity).
Group dynamics are a funny business - group dynamics are a science. The group dynamic cannot be broken in the lab - throw all the test tubes and molecules around that you want, but your group dynamic is unbreakable. Group dynamics.
There are 7 essential properties to group dynamics, and each one is needed. If one of the 7 group dynamic essentials is taken away, by definition you no longer have a group dynamic situation.
Also, Paul Pierce says he’ll have no problem with his stats coming down because of the Garnett/Allen additions. No mention of his current bodyfat percentage.
NOTE: What you just read is how we used to write essays in school, especially when the teacher would give a required length, which always messed up our singular dynamic, but also changed our life once. “What if I can make my point in one sentence,” we would ask.
“Essays are required to be a page and a half,” was her reply.
“But then you’ll be wasting my time and yours with a bunch of superfluous words you have to read. I also may confuse the exactness of my argument through the use of this padding text.”
This brought a small shiver to her cheek. She didn’t want us to see, but even then we had a keen sense of the emotional undertones of a woman’s face. This one was young…eager…but there was a pain inside. Somehow we had unwittingly tapped into this. All from a simple conflict about a simple essay…of a simple subject.
We’d hurt her, but there was no going back. “I can make my point in one sentence,” we repeated.
We set our paper down on her desk, and as a symbol of our stance (a line in the sand, if you will), we set our pencil down, as well, making sure the eraser end lightly brushed against one of her fingers. Her ring finger, to be exact - the very ring finger which was naked - empty…ringless.
We’d noted on the first day of school that she wasn’t engaged, and further observations told us she didn’t have a boyfriend, either. Of course, we had known at the time we’d be using this information against her. What came as a surprise even to us was that it would be here…now. On the second day of school.
“I wanted to be a dancer,” she said this simply - it surprised both of us, but we looked at her in a way that told her we understood…and that we already knew.
“You made your point in one sentence,” we said almost under our breath - you might even say it we said it “breathy”. It was sexually ambiguous to be sure - looking back on it today, we’re sure it played almost feminine. It didn’t matter - at that moment we were the only two people on Earth, and what would happen later in study hall was inevitable.
Miss Jones would know the innocent touch of an eighth grader, and an eighth grader would become a man.
I feel dirty.
Wait, I know I’ve read a variation of that before. It’s a short story–CobraBrigade or SML just linked to it this month. It’s about the ex-marine who’s trapped in a kid’s body in elementary school, and then forms a relationship with the teacher. It’s famous, I just can’t remember the name. Anyone else remember?
And please, the “we” in this context is completely creepy…Is the “we” the Borg? ha.
Rather than trying to post a witty comment riding the jock of this post, I’ll just thank you for making my day better.
How awesome was that post?!?!?! That was freaking awesome, soooo rad.
Perhaps it’s because I’ve become so dispassionate about this site that the standard shit post seemed passable. My drunkard of a brother once said (and I’m sure he wasn’t the first) “If you sit in your own shit long enough you start to like it.”
From all the shitty posts that this website has produced lately, I think I became ok with it because I sat in it for so long. That post was far above and beyond the norm of late. Thank you.
I don’t care if that wasn’t original, it was funny. (Look Jordi no caps!)
If my brother was still saying things like “rad” I would drink myself into oblivian and enjoy sitting in shit as well.
Good to see STILLAJEW is STILLINCAPS.
But anyway, any chance of stealing the promiscious Miss Jones from said 8th grader?
Bruce Paine, who writes on my site, wrote about that short story. I haven’t read it, so I don’t know. Here it is though for you to decide yourself:
http://www.coldbacon.com/writing/barthelme-mandible.html
For the record I’ve never seen that before. This is just what happened when I tried to write about Shawn Marion at 4:30 in the morning.
Scoop Jackson and Gilbert Arenas believe you, Cav.
Kidding.
Yeah….after reading it….there are probably thousands of those stories out there.
So what’s the statute of limitations on an adult having sex with a minor? anyone know?
We didn’t have sex, we just hugged and kissed. If you read sex in there, then you’re a degenerate.
It didn’t matter - at that moment we were the only two people on Earth, and what would happen later in study hall was inevitable.
Miss Jones would know the innocent touch of an eighth grader, and an eighth grader would become a man.
You left it pretty open ended, so we had to come to our own conclusions. I may not have ‘read’ sex, but I figured that’s what happened.
You ever talk about Miss Jones like that again and I’ll end you, Cobra.
Sorry, I figured you two ‘made love’….
Ok, thanks for the confirm, Cav, I figured you wouldn’t be ripping stuff. I was thinking that maybe “Bad Cav”, upset at the recent flood of posts from “Good Cav”, was trying to hasten the blog suicide by ripping off other people’s material, and that this was some sort of artistic statement to irritate Boney. In other words, WSM? and clues are so far into my head, it’s not even funny. I’ll be on the sideline now, thanks, ha.
If I need to make an artistic statement, I’ll usually point it out, because I am not smart and also because I’m pretentious like that.
The Cav seems more Dr. Suess-ish than Barthelme’s Kafka-like characters. Barthleme is obviously influenced by the Cold War and the preception that the Levittown America would solve all societies needs. However, as an outlier, Barthleme’s character expresses his frustration at the system. One that fails to fit this cross between Kafka’s Metamorphasis and Tynyanov’s Lieutenant Kije.
The Cav, on the other hand, seems more to fit a generation raised on comics and cartoons, with glowing eyes and references to secret powers. In discussing group dynamics, for example, the Cav re-iterates the term so often as to almost have a comic effect. However, in his Ms. Jones story, the Cav sheds his comic venture and goes straight for the groin, attempting a romantic nuance between a young man and an older woman. Controversial definitely, especially in light of recent events. Wherein lies the meaning of this? Is the Cav attempting to woo back Boney? What about Becky? The Cav did mention her going too fast a while back. Hmmm….. And what of his characters in the mysterious WSM movie? Could there be some Vanessa Hodgens like flirty playfulness in the film? Hmmmm…
“We’d hurt her, but there was no going back. “I can make my point in one sentence,” we repeated.”
You are making this shit up as you go along. How many of you made up the we?
Me -e -e -e -e -e and Misses, Misses Jones, Misses Jones
We got a thing goin’ on…
what the hell. i am so confused. did you mean to post the end of this post on a different site>