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One of the ways guaranteed to lose in racket sports is showboating. It takes energy from you, upsets your rhythm, and energizes your opponent. One of the ways the Knicks lose is by showboating. Their coach is a show boat and has his own tv program, that must distract him from teaching the players such things as how to shoot a free throw, and how to get a rebound. But worst of all is Gallinari, the italian stallian, who looks just like all my opponents when he finally makes one of his non-percentage 3 point shots, on which it's impossible to even hope for a rebound. He gloats, looks at the bench, expands his chest, looks for a teammate to shake hands with, and struts backwards as he finally gets into bad positin for the defense. I beat Martie Hogan that way in racket ball, as he gloated every time he won a point, and I caught him 21-20 in the third game, being the only person in history to have a + record on him.


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  1. Sam Humbert on November 18, 2010 9:28 am

    MOTU can breath easy knowing that Daily Spec’s administration is entrusted to an aristocratic Italian http://i55.tinypic.com/2qsq9vd.png rather than a lower socio-economic sort.

  2. James Humbert on November 18, 2010 1:37 pm

    It is interesting that Italian women are typically polar opposite to the personality complex of Italian men. Until you get them behind closed doors anyway. (Francesca Schiavone, the current women’s Roland Garros champion, is one of the more humble top female atheletes in the world.)

  3. barry knight on November 18, 2010 1:46 pm

    if you want to enjoy knicks basketball, get out old footage of when the game was glorious, late sixties and early seventies, they played proper basketball back then, todays game is schoolyard, showboating, grab and hold league ball, it stinks

  4. Nick Sont on November 19, 2010 10:07 am

    The two best examples of showboating in the NFL are Chad Ochocinco and Terrel Owens. A closer look at their stats will show that their best years of overall performance are long gone (Terrel 2000-02 and Chad 2005-07). Well seasoned fantasy football managers steer clear from such players as their performance steadily deteriorates and their week to week scoring is very inconsistent. Terrel and Chad, depspite their talent, spend much of their effort in futile activities like developing clownish touchdown celebrations, signing up TV shows, and creating “controversy” in the media to the detriment of the team. However, what is most interesting is that actual NFL managers as well as rookie fantasy football managers fall for the trick and recruit such showboats with the historical odds clearly not in their favor.

    A closer look at this year’s stats for wide receivers will show that the top performing playres rarely show up in the media as showboats.

    1) Roddy White Atl
    2) Andre Johnson Hou
    3) Brandon Lloyd Den
    4) Reggie Wayne Ind
    5) Hakeem Nicks NYG

    Terrel Owens developed under the tutelage of Jerry Rice. Mr Rice is perhaps the best receiver of all times who had an unbelievable work ethic discipline. Yet, Terrel decided to take the other route and become a sad and pathetic showboat.

  5. dave whitesel on November 22, 2010 9:10 pm

    Showboating also comes from officials…..in sports where gambling is a big part of the attraction, showboating by refs, isnt easy to tolerate, and yet most neglect the showboaters for lack of evidence about showboating. Because this esteemed site has so many statistical gurus i am wondering if there are any who can decipher these stats, and provide a determination as to whether or not these stats illustrate showboating or just rate its probability

    http://statsheet.com/mcb/referees/greg-burks

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