OK, OK, what do you want him to do? Give it back? Chauncey Billups was handed a three-point basket by a clock screwup. Fine. He got three free ones. Detroit won by seven. No whining."It sucks to be on the other end of that," Billups admitted of the play that ended the third quarter, a play that started under one basket and involved dribbling, passes, a dump-off and a Chauncey three-point bomb, yet on the clock only took less than a second.I know basketball is a fast game. It's not that fast.
Break your nose. Right now. Go on. Break it. Then fly 500 miles and have it reset. Surgically, by the way. None of that cup-your-hands-and-snap-it-back stuff, OK? Now come out of anesthesia, get on a plane and fly 500 miles back.You with me so far? Good. Now comes the hard part. Put on a plastic mask, tie it around your head and go out to play an NBA playoff game.Now the really hard part.Watch your team stink up the joint.
And with the 17th pick, Lions fans said "Who?"Gosder Cherilus. That's the pick. Gosder Cherilus. Yep. An offensive lineman with a name more suited to a horror film (the old guy in the haunted house?) has filled the spot that has been fretted over, agonized over and argued over for months. Gosder Cherilus. Boston College. Let us say right here that you or I have no idea if he will be any good.But no one saw him coming.
Mitch Albom writes about running an orphanage in impoverished Port-au-Prince, Haiti, his kids, their hardships, laughs and challenges, and the life lessons he’s learned there every day.
