kinda didn't keep my promise

9/28/09: Since when do I not have good ideas about what to be for Halloween? I came up with alot of terrible ideas today in my desperation. I still want to just put some Smarties candies on my pants and be a smarty-pants. Need to remember not to be Zombie Michael Jackson. Zombie Pswaze would be a lady killer if only I could pull it off.

The problem with the full court press is intimately tied up with the over-arching problem with basketball itself. It is an impossible game to officiate because what and what is not a foul is not very well defined. Technically, almost every time two players touch each other one of them should be called for a foul. In practice, the game is too fast for this to actually happen not to mention how boring a game would be. M. Gladwell is of course kind of right, all teams should press, and should especially trap ball handlers immediately after they cross the half court line. The main reason for this for teams of actual basketball players (as opposed to using 11 year old girls as your example) is not because of turnovers but instead because of time. Even if you are just being mildly annoying, have 10 seconds to find a good shot is going to result in much lower percentage shots than have 16 seconds. Unfortunately for coaches, top players just aren't going to want to go play for a program that presses, because basketball players are primadonnas and because they don't see pro teams doing it. And athletes is exactly what you need to defend the entire court. You need more of them than anyone else because you need to substitute. Its the best way to play, but its just an impossible thing to orchestrate, and free baskets are the inverse of turnovers. Just like in the article, the bottom line comes down to how aggressive the refs are letting you be. Pressing should certainly be option number one, because you can also go back to half court defense.

Three dates this week. Trying to get excited. For some reason, I'm not.

okcupid has learned to only recommend me the prettiest girls in the whole world. Not sure how this happened because it never really asks anyone to rate anyone in a way where this could be a thing. But at first it sent me a bunch of undatable people, and now everyone is nice to look at.

Thursday is really the only day for TV. Its pretty unfortunate, because by the time things are up on Hulu, its the weekend and there is stuff to do anyways.