Roy Williams: werewolf or vampire?
Today, the NCAA quietly moved up the deadline for a player to withdraw his declaration for the NBA Draft by five weeks.
You know how in the movie Underworld (plus sequels) that it’s basically vampires versus werewolves going on all around us? It’s the same thing in the world of a basketball player transitioning from the NCAA to the NBA.
Actually, it’s more like the movie Twilight (esp. the upcoming sequel), where the NCAA player is the protagonist in the story (Bella), whose sole mission in life is to find love — in this case, basketball love! Meanwhile, there’s this complex web of vampires and werewolves circling around you. Anything can happen. You could even end up turning into one or the other, but the fact remains: there’s a secret battle that constantly takes place, and the general populace is oblivious to it!
Someone could seriously write a college thesis about this, so I’m not going to spend a whole lot of time dissecting the topic right now. However, when Roy Williams said this…
“There’s no reason in the world it would take two months to decide what you’re going to do,” Williams said. “Make a decision to get married, or don’t make a decision to get married. It’s that kind of thing.”
…I became less a fan of Roy Williams (sorry), to the point where it caused me to vent mental energy and write this post. But hey, he’s a werewolf. He’s supposed to think that way and say those things. I don’t necessarily blame him.
See, in the NCAA’s communist perspective of the world, all basketball players are amateurs that serve local monoliths (teams), which serve the big monolith. Therefore as a basketball player, your only goal in life is to help the team win. As hoop junkies know, sometimes scoring 20 points maybe impress NBA scouts more-so than winning an NCAA game. Remember, if an NCAA coach wins, he remains employed. That’s a quick-and-dirty example.
In the NBA’s capitalistic perspective of the world, all basketball players are assets that serve to increase the value of greater assets, but also in the context of the ego behind winning a world championship. In fact, the value of an asset does not necessarily require you to win games because of intriguing superstars. Your goals are a bit more complex in this world. You could diss your team and go out and score 20 ppg without any regard to winning or losing, but at the same time, there are so many other assets out there in the free market, that you could diminish your own personal value in doing so, and the people in charge could more easily replace you with someone else.
Still, another head vampire of some other town could covet you, so you never know. But you’re better off looking out for yourself as #1, that’s for sure. Also, there are evil handlers everywhere, trying to skim some of that value off you for their own personal gain. Likewise, there are good angels here and there too. Distinguishing between the two can get very overwhelming.
The crazy thing about it is, the vampires might be manipulating the werewolves all along for their ultimate gain. By cutting the deadline to withdraw early entry into the NBA Draft, someone is basically using brute force to cut the number of early entrants into the NBA. The NBA owners don’t mind that because the NCAA will continue to be a free farm system for them.
I’m sure I’ll have more to say about this in the future, but if you’re rooting for the hero of the story to achieve his or her dreams, you’re pretty pissed off right now.
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