define('DISALLOW_FILE_EDIT', true); define('DISALLOW_FILE_MODS', true); delray brooks – Rush The Court http://rushthecourt.net The Independent Voice of College Basketball Thu, 14 May 2009 20:03:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.9 http://rushthecourt.net http://rushthecourt.net/wp-content/mbp-favicon/RTC.jpg Rush The Court More on Gladwell’s Full-Court Pressure Argument… http://rushthecourt.net/2009/05/13/more-on-gladwells-full-court-pressure-argument/ http://rushthecourt.net/2009/05/13/more-on-gladwells-full-court-pressure-argument/#comments Thu, 14 May 2009 03:57:45 +0000 http://rushthecourt.net/?p=9127

We think we’ve isolated what Gladwell’s problem derives from on the fallacious full-court press argument he made last week.  Put simply, he’s drinking the Rick Pitino kool-aid.  We don’t blame him, Pitino is an engaging guy who can sell ice cubes to eskimos, and Gladwell wouldn’t be the first to slurp it all up (ask Karen Sypher or any Boston Celtic fan ca. 1997-98).  But it appears that Pitino is his sole source of information when it comes to how underdogs win basketball games, and somehow Coach P has convinced Gladwell that much of his collegiate success is based on undertalented yet hungry players [...]]]> http://rushthecourt.net/2009/05/13/more-on-gladwells-full-court-pressure-argument/feed/ 7