February 5, 2004
The mechanics of a good rivalry
Ok, I'm about to bust a fucking nut over here, so I'm going to outline the MECHANICS OF A GOOD RIVALRY.
1.) Both teams must be good. This immediately discounted the past two years of UNC-Duke rivalry as we went through some .. "coaching" difficulties. Do not talk smack when one of the teams suck (this is why there is no Clemson-UNC rivalry although we keep losing there; Clemson is not considered 'good' enough for a rivalry).
2.) If you want to talk smack after the game, YOU MUST TALK SMACK BEFORE THE GAME. When you do this, you open the door to some cross-smackage and you're saying, "hey's both invest some personal stake in this game." IF YOU DO NOT TALK SMACK BEFORE THE GAME, DO NOT TALK SMACK AFTER THE GAME. This was a mistake many UNCers made a few years ago when we beat Duke. Most thought we weren't going to win, but when we did, they tried to talk smack. WRONG.
A good example is the smack Sung talked about Philly before the NFC championship game. He opened the door to smack-talking when he constantly made references to "running up the score." I counter-smack talked him, so this allowed me to make merciless fun of him after the game.
3.) If you are talking smack to someone and they are obviously not reciprocating, discontinue the smack talk. This person has excluded himself from the rivalry post-game smack talk. In other words, LEAVE THAT PERSON ALONE.
For whatever reason, this PERSON may be going through difficulties that GO BEYOND A SIMPLE OF BASKETBALL. For instance, I may have bigger issues on my mind for the week, so I may try to indicate to Hao Zhang that I'm not interested in involving myself by 1.) ignoring IMs relating to the subject, 2.) deleting multiple comments in my journal regarding this message and 3.) generally ignoring anything regarding this subject. However if you continue onwards and talk smack after that game, I will get f'ing pissed off.
If some random Dukie comes up and starts talking smack about the game, I will blow a f'ing gasket.
Sorry, it's been that kind of week.
:takes a deep breath:
It was a good game though. Good tenacious defense on both sides ... Duke showed a lot of weakness tonight, not their usual "run up the score by 50 points" good. I still don't like Redick very much, but Ewing has sick game. Deng was pretty quiet ...
I gotta say the more I watch Manuel, the more I like him. I am starting to really really really dislike Melvin Scott. He jacks up threes but he misses most of them. It was like he was trying to imitate Redick with that 28-footer three. What the HELL? And the final shot ... the moment Scott touched the ball, our whole room groaned. We knew he was going to miss it.
1.) Both teams must be good. This immediately discounted the past two years of UNC-Duke rivalry as we went through some .. "coaching" difficulties. Do not talk smack when one of the teams suck (this is why there is no Clemson-UNC rivalry although we keep losing there; Clemson is not considered 'good' enough for a rivalry).
2.) If you want to talk smack after the game, YOU MUST TALK SMACK BEFORE THE GAME. When you do this, you open the door to some cross-smackage and you're saying, "hey's both invest some personal stake in this game." IF YOU DO NOT TALK SMACK BEFORE THE GAME, DO NOT TALK SMACK AFTER THE GAME. This was a mistake many UNCers made a few years ago when we beat Duke. Most thought we weren't going to win, but when we did, they tried to talk smack. WRONG.
A good example is the smack Sung talked about Philly before the NFC championship game. He opened the door to smack-talking when he constantly made references to "running up the score." I counter-smack talked him, so this allowed me to make merciless fun of him after the game.
3.) If you are talking smack to someone and they are obviously not reciprocating, discontinue the smack talk. This person has excluded himself from the rivalry post-game smack talk. In other words, LEAVE THAT PERSON ALONE.
For whatever reason, this PERSON may be going through difficulties that GO BEYOND A SIMPLE OF BASKETBALL. For instance, I may have bigger issues on my mind for the week, so I may try to indicate to Hao Zhang that I'm not interested in involving myself by 1.) ignoring IMs relating to the subject, 2.) deleting multiple comments in my journal regarding this message and 3.) generally ignoring anything regarding this subject. However if you continue onwards and talk smack after that game, I will get f'ing pissed off.
If some random Dukie comes up and starts talking smack about the game, I will blow a f'ing gasket.
Sorry, it's been that kind of week.
:takes a deep breath:
It was a good game though. Good tenacious defense on both sides ... Duke showed a lot of weakness tonight, not their usual "run up the score by 50 points" good. I still don't like Redick very much, but Ewing has sick game. Deng was pretty quiet ...
I gotta say the more I watch Manuel, the more I like him. I am starting to really really really dislike Melvin Scott. He jacks up threes but he misses most of them. It was like he was trying to imitate Redick with that 28-footer three. What the HELL? And the final shot ... the moment Scott touched the ball, our whole room groaned. We knew he was going to miss it.
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