an angry post…

To find bliss in ignorance. What a glorious thing we humans can do. Turn our heads the other way, pretend nothing bad is happening. Pretend that what we are doing is the right thing because if it helps us, it’s bound to be good for everyone else also.

WELL GUESS WHAT! WHAT’S GOOD FOR YOU SURE AS HELL AINT ALWAYS GOOD FOR ME!

The thing we like to pretend to do with life, with how we analyze other people, is we like to lump people to together. Generalize their lives, make people generic. We like to pretend that if we can find a generalization large enough where we can lump everyone together, we can make one big generic solution.

Guess what? There already is.

IT’S CALLED THE HUMAN RACE! AND THE ONLY THING EACH AND EVERY ONE OF US HAS IN COMMON IS THAT NONE OF US ARE THE SAME!

So what does that tell us about the great big solution? Is it life ran by bureaucracy? Is it some utopian society? Nope. Your wrong if it’s either of those.

OUR DIFFERENCES MEAN THAT WE ARE THE ONLY ONES WHO KNOW WHAT IS BEST FOR OURSELVES!

I don’t often try to spit angrily at people’s beliefs on society or politics, but in a world where every single person is an individual how can we claim to be a society based around the principles of equality?
Affirmative action programs, scholarships granted based upon skin color…it’s all a load of bull. Is it too much to ask for that we just all get the same amount of government help? If we look at the largest generalization of people, how can we have affirmative action programs and still came to be an equal society?

THIS NATION HAS FORGOTTEN WHO IT IS AND WHAT IT STANDS FOR!

NEW SONG!!!

Heres a new song that I’ve been working on for a few weeks now. I’m not really sure if it’s 100% done but it’s as done as I think I’m gonna get it because I’m getting tired of trying to make a “perfect” song. Anyways…piano, cello, drums, bass guitar. Pretty simple concept. The site that hosts my mp3′s isn’t working correctly so I put the song to video for now. Hopefully there will be mp3′s available soon.

The Q Review…

A Post on the Detroit Pistons.

Here we are a good portion of the way through the regular season playing for the second straight year under a rookie head coach. That coach? John Kuester, the man more commonly called “Q.” Unlike his predecessor in Michael Curry, Q does not truly define what a rookie head coach is. He has multiple finals appearances in his coaching career, a championship ring with the Pistons, and the tutelage of some of the games best head coaches. So to call him a rookie head coach is a bit much.

So here we are in the beginning of a head coaching career needing to look at how he’s done. So to start off, lets look at what he has. The Pistons roster looks like this. Look up and down it and you see a pretty good situation for a new head coach to get in too. It’s a roster with no ego’s to play up to. Three rookies fighting for playing time. An old center and point guard at the tail end of their careers looking to pass on their knowledge to the youth and put a stamp on their basketball legacies. Plus a few guys who can not only score, but play unselfishly as well.

A head coach review is never easy. There are no head coach stats outside of win/loss record, so much of what you think about the coach comes from the players he/she coaches. The problem is that a coach can work his ass off and still not get a player to hit the shots or move their feet on defense. The flip side is that a good coach can get his players to work for him because they respect him. That’s where my review begins….Does Coach Q have the respect of his players?

Yes he does. All you have to do is watch this team play to see that. They fight tooth and nail for him despite the plethora of injuries that have befallen this team. This team respects him because he made the right first move as head coach: he got the vets respect. Without guys like Ben Wallace and Chucky Atkins buying into his system the fight of this team isn’t there. When the young guys see an old fogey like Big Ben hauling in rebounds by the truckload, they naturally say to themselves “the system works for him, it can work for me too.”

So he has the respect of the vet’s and in turn the respect of Detroits youth movement. This is a good thing. There’s alot of youth on this team to need respect from. So now I move on to how he’s used the rookies. All of us at this point know about Jonas Jerebko. I’ve given my fair share of praise to the guy. Jonas just always works. What impresses me is that Q has given Jonas this chance. So many rookie coaches would have automatically given the job to the guy who was the first round pick. That wasn’t Jonas, it was Austin Daye. Obviously it wasn’t like he needed to keep a big name player happy. Austin is still a rookie. But Jonas wasn’t even the main back up to Tayshaun Prince before he got hurt. To jump him up to starter at this point seems like an act of coaching genius. Not only are we getting awesome play out of a rookie, we’re getting a boost of energy every time this Swede touches the ball.

This takes me to Coach Q’s lineups. Chucky Atkins, Rodney Stuckey, Jonas Jerebko, Jason Maxiell, Ben Wallace. Those are the guys who started the last game. One rookie, one “energy guy,” a talented young guard, and two savy vets. Does the lineup impress? Not at all. Is it working? Yes it is. It works for one reason. The big names on this roster are willing to come off the bench. On a team where the big name scoring guards are down for a bit, a guy like Charlie Villanueva could easily expect to start, but as I said earlier Q has gotten this team to buy into his system.

So what is Q’s system? Is it run and gun? Slow and steady? Defense oriented? Offensive oriented? To be honest I have no clue. All I can say about his system is that it preaches that every player on this team play as hard as possible. That no matter what the score says there is still a chance to win the game. When all seems lost you don’t just stand there, you do something about it. That appears to be his system so far. To sum it up into one word: Fight. Plain and simple.

I can’t call John Kuester the greatest head coach ever. He is after all a just a really experience rookie. It is safe to say though that he is a pretty damn good rookie head coach.