OT: Elgin Baylor

[moofs]

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/st ... ons/081008

[pancakes3]

good article if you're someone like me and had no idea of the troubles baylor went through as a player back in the day, but if you stop and ponder it after you're done reading, you feel like simmons rushed through this project and did not give it adequate thought/prep. It could've been an actual piece, with an actual interview, and written with care and style that would've really tugged at your heartstrings- the stuff that pulitzers are made from. instead, it's another simmons b(log)-job where he goes off on a bunch of non-sequiturs in stream of conscious and entirely too many personal pronouns. It's a good style if you're running a mailbag or making quips about nba/nfl picks, but for a story of this caliber, it'd be nice if he busted out a thesaurus from time to time and used some really fancy words or something.

that said, it's a good read, and hopefully the firing and the pending litigation will get someone to pen a real piece on the hardships that baylor endured that would do this story justice.

[hipmaster]

I remember my dad telling how great a player Elgin was back in the day. Too often a great player does not equal a great talent evauluator or coach. There is something about struggling as a player that leads to being a better coach or GM. I guess you just keep trying to get better, not relying on God-given physical abilities.