Women's Hoops Blog

Inane commentary on a game that deserves far better


Friday, April 09, 2004

Last week, Jason Whitlock said Candace's dunk sucked. I responded here.

Even better -- Candace's brother Marcus wrote in with his own response

"You ask, 'Why can't we just celebrate Candace Parker's game? But you would have never scrapped your column about Dwight Howard and written a story on Candace if she had not won the dunk contest.... That is why this publicity is good for women's basketball. Hopefully you will stay around, too, and 'celebrate her game' with columns after this dunk hype subsides."

In your face, Whitlock.

Undeterred, this week Whitlock goes after Okafor and Taurasi. He's tired of the Taurasi hype, especially the debate about whether she's the best player ever.

In fact, Whitlock says Taurasi might not even be the best UConn player ever: "we don't know if she's any better than Sue Bird or Nykesha Sales or Rebecca Lobo."

Yes, Jason, we do.

We can put that issue aside and move on to the real debate: who's the worst writer at Page 2? In a place of pseudo-sportswriters, where quantity matters more than quality, where editors never tread, where vacuousness is a virtue, the competition is fierce indeed.

Of course, the debate can never be settled. Just as we'll never be able to decide whether Taurasi is better than Miller, we'll never be able to decide whether Whitlock is stupider than Pressman. There's simply no objective way to measure.

But you must admit that Jason makes a pretty good case.