John Stockton, distributing. When you lose this way, when you are profoundly embarrassed and your postseason is extinguished as quickly as mathematically possible, you begin searching, doubting, blaming. Your faith gets shaken at its core, in everything from the blueprint to the legendary coach who put it together, and you can't win in sports with anything shaking like that. Foundations don't shake. This bloated, hideous abomination has inflated as if on steroids.
Newspapers devote more space to the draft than they do to riots and death.
This bloated, hideous abomination has inflated as if on steroids. Newspapers devote more space to the draft than they do to riots and death. They were mocking them, clowning them, laughing them right out of the playoffs as an extraordinarily expensive joke. We haven't seen this Jamal Mashburn before. It wasn't so much his playoff stat sheet, though, that was startling enough.