Comments on: Sports Illustrated’s Profile of Michael Jordan’s High School Coach and the Cutting Myth Shows Power of Perception

By: Career High

Career High — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 13:08:19 +0000

Why even bother arguing over what exactly the word “cut” means. The originally narrative of the story years ago was that he was cut from his high school team, not that he didn’t make varsity.

By: HtownHacker

HtownHacker — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 12:26:34 +0000

Just finished reading the SI article last night. (was surprised Tebow wasn’t on the cover)

Nice job Lisk. This site needs more stuff like this.

By: oskie

oskie — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 11:17:55 +0000

all I am saying is that he wasn’t being considered for a spot, just like most sophomores. ya got your returning seniors and the juniors that were on JV the year before fighting for the spots. the kids on the cut list are the typically juniors that were on JV the year before but don’t make varsity team, and any seniors that may have been cut the year prior. the freshman and sophs could make the team if they do show something extraordinary compared to the upperclassman. i did play sports, and when I was placed on the freshman team and then the JV team as a soph, I never felt like I had been cut from the varsity. hell, I didn’t even consider that I was trying out for it, because i wasn’t, even though everyone was trying out together.

By: PL StabbinKabin

PL StabbinKabin — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 08:13:18 +0000

He was cut from varsity tryouts. He didn’t tryout for JV, he was placed there………….after being cut from varsity tryouts. That’s why the call it the cut list

And what Darrell says here. Have you people not played athletics before? Christ.

By: PL StabbinKabin

PL StabbinKabin — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 08:10:26 +0000

He really didn’t though. You can call it what you want, but apparently they allowed sophomores on their varsity team, and when he was a sophomore, they picked another sophomore over him. At my school if you went out for varsity and were put on JV we absolutely considered it getting cut.

Everything Jose said was correct. Dude got cut.

By: Quietgoesthedon

Quietgoesthedon — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 05:43:57 +0000

Lisk: Just when I start to get down on you, you right something really smart and incisive like this.

Makes me want to man-hug you.

By: JDiddy3000

JDiddy3000 — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 05:37:09 +0000

I think the point here is, and has been the point since his fucked speech…Jordan, for all of his greatness, is a little bitch when it come to what motives him. It’s like the guy who goes home after being cut off in traffic, when he wasn’t really ever cut off (it’s called a merge, bitches) and kicks his dog. Fuck the Bulls and fuck that Nazi-’stache shit.

By: sweett310

sweett310 — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 02:36:43 +0000

I thought this was already pretty well known?

By: oskie

oskie — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 02:21:52 +0000

meh. he wasn’t exceptional, yet. which is the case for most sophomores and frosh in high school. in that case, I was cut as a freshman from my high school varsity football team and baseball team. everyone “tries out” together.

By: scripty

scripty — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 02:00:55 +0000

That doesn’t mean he was cut,
When you try out for a team and don’t make that team – you are cut. Cut like cheese. He was cut.
Weak game.

By: Benjamin Franklin Rodriguez has the highest WAR evah!

Benjamin Franklin Rodriguez has the highest WAR evah! — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 01:54:58 +0000

that’s called not making the varsity team. if he was a sophomore and didn’t make the JV team as well? that’s being cut. no, it is not semantics.

He was cut from varsity tryouts. He didn’t tryout for JV, he was placed there………….after being cut from varsity tryouts. That’s why the call it the cut list.

By: TheRealAC

TheRealAC — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 01:13:04 +0000

/needs more memorable defensive plays and missed layups or GTFO

link or GTFO. i expecting to be impressed.

By: CodenameDuchess

CodenameDuchess — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 01:11:45 +0000

/needs more memorable defensive plays and missed layups or GTFO

Well played.

/Sucked at basketball

By: WWoS Stayed At a Holiday Inn Express Last Night

WWoS Stayed At a Holiday Inn Express Last Night — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 01:03:13 +0000

No less motivating to some people… the single biggest slight I could imagine

/needs more memorable defensive plays and missed layups or GTFO

By: TheRealAC

TheRealAC — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 00:56:37 +0000

they generally had a good relationship through his time at Laney.

and

He has largely been unemployed and at times homeless since he stopped coaching high school basketball over 25 years ago.

god forbid MJ help a brother out.

By: HakeemtheDream

HakeemtheDream — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 00:49:06 +0000

No less motivating to some people. I played on a very competitive traveling baseball team growing up. In 8th grade I was the starting SS, #3 hitter and the #2 pitcher. After we lost in the state tournament I was picked up by the traveling team that won state and took over the starting SS position and hit cleanup. Needless to say I was one of the better kids in the league and basically my entire self worth was based on that when I was 14. Fast forward to tryouts in high school and two of my old travel team buddys made the varsity and I didn’t. One, because we had a senior playing short and two, I didn’t have the greatest couple of days. However, despite the logic of my coach I didn’t see it that way. I saw two of my friends that I knew I was better than letter as freshman and I didn’t. I absolutely tore up JV ball that year and when summer came and the senior graduated I took the SS job on the varsity for the summer and the rest of high school. However, even as a senior I was always pissed that those two kids had four letter pins and I only had three. Looking back now it seems completely ridiculous but at 15 that was the single biggest slight I could imagine (#uppermiddleclassproblems).

LOL, glad you got that off your chest man.

By: CodenameDuchess

CodenameDuchess — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 00:31:15 +0000

that’s called not making the varsity team. if he was a sophomore and didn’t make the JV team as well? that’s being cut. no, it is not semantics.

By: oskie

oskie — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 00:19:52 +0000

did idiot start meaning correct? ok.

By: José Ovechkin

José Ovechkin — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 00:18:06 +0000

that’s called not making the varsity team. if he was a sophomore and didn’t make the JV team as well? that’s being cut. no, it is not semantics.

You’re an idiot.

By: oskie

oskie — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 00:13:34 +0000

At my school if you went out for varsity and were put on JV we absolutely considered it getting cut.

that’s called not making the varsity team. if he was a sophomore and didn’t make the JV team as well? that’s being cut. no, it is not semantics.

now, do we know for a fact that he wore his UNC shorts underneath his bulls?