"I'm a rookie and I'm white" - Nik Stauskas

[Based Lord Zedd]

I assume Staukas is talking about his whole game experience, which implies the players on the opposing team knew about his tangibles while playing him, so as the game wore on, whatever coverage he received became a correction on his contribution to the game.This is the case for all players, including rookies, whom are often worse than other players and thus might receive special attention to take advantage of mistakes. So Staukas' noted experienced can be explained by rookie scorer experience alone, which you still have yet to acknowledge. Instead you harp on allusions. Given Staukas didn't have any inclination he had any proof or sincerity behind his comments, they might just have been word salad from his own head. In pro sports I don't think there's any "stereotyping" that happens in a real game. I don't see it in the NFL. Weddle gets the same routes thrown at as anyone else.

Eric Weddle isn't a rookie. No shyt. No one treats Steve Nash like this either, for the same reason. Enough is known about them that you don't have to rely on lazy stereotypes.

NBA players are probably not familiar with his game yet, so they are likely to rely on some sort of stereotype. One of those stereotypes might just be "white rookie who probably can't defend for shyt / just a shooter" and they'd actually be pretty spot on huh?

 

[TooLazyToMakeUp1]

Even Larry Bird was hard on cacs

 

[IGSaint12]

Even Larry Bird was hard on cacs

Exactly. Larry Bird himself said that he felt disrespected by having white players guard him. If even white players have white stereotypes what exactly is so odd about what Nik said?

 

[TooLazyToMakeUp1]

Exactly. Larry Bird himself said that he felt disrespected by having white players guard him. If even white players have white stereotypes what exactly is so odd about what Nik said?

It's odd because he's drawing attention to his vulnerabilities

 

[LurkMoar]

but he is a shooter and plays bad defense

 

[godkiller]

Exactly. Larry Bird himself said that he felt disrespected by having white players guard him. If even white players have white stereotypes what exactly is so odd about what Nik said?

The field of play is not conducive to narratives and tabloids like the news media is. On the field of play, you get guarded by whomever you deserve because otherwise the other team gets punished (particularly if you're an important guy)-- and coaches/players lose their jobs when teams lose. So even though Bird might have felt this way or that, he was guarded by whichever players the opposing team thought would best match or stop him. Especially since he was very effective.

 

[Kobes Two Jerseys]

Derek Fisher: "When I have a white guy defending against me, I feel like I have an advantage.”

Larry Bird "“As far as playing, I didn't care who guarded me - red, yellow, black. I just didn't want a white guy guarding me, because it's disrespect to my game.”

Don't understand the backlash. People get offended about anything in 2014.

Less fathers at home teaching their kids that everyone isn't going to love them or think they're special. More bytch raised fakkits who think everyone who doesn't agree with them is a hater.

 

[godkiller]

Eric Weddle isn't a rookie. No shyt. No one treats Steve Nash like this either, for the same reason. Enough is known about them that you don't have to rely on lazy stereotypes.

NBA players are probably not familiar with his game yet, so they are likely to rely on some sort of stereotype. One of those stereotypes might just be "white rookie who probably can't defend for shyt / just a shooter" and they'd actually be pretty spot on huh?

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Like @LurkMoar says (and bullshyt aside) Staukas reportedly is a shooter and playmaker with lackluster strength and defense . So saying the dude is "rookie that is poor defensively and more of a shooter" and playing him as such is spot on. Are teams and players supposed to ignore scouting reports when the truth doesn't fit into some dumb narrative? How does Staukas know he wasn't played the way he was because of his scouting report and rookie status?

 

[godkiller]

If it'd been a black player saying the same or similar thing, rather than (Canadian) Nik Staukas, @Emperor_ReinScarf would have this thread.

 

[mrken12]

I hope that he fails in the NBA.

 

[GoddamnyamanProf]

Non-story

 

[Buckeye Fever]

Rookie of the year.

I'm callin it

 

[Jax]

NBA thuggery even white boys be some thugs

 

[Digga38]

Derek Fisher: "When I have a white guy defending against me, I feel like I have an advantage.”

Larry Bird "“As far as playing, I didn't care who guarded me - red, yellow, black. I just didn't want a white guy guarding me, because it's disrespect to my game.”

Don't understand the backlash. People get offended about anything in 2014.

came in to post this...somebody should give Nik a real nikka award for keeping it real

 

[Digga38]

there isnt you insecure bytch