J.J. Redick Is Unstoppable
J.J. Reddick is unstoppable.
There I said it. I’m tired of the talk. Stop it.
Not tall enough for the league. Not quick enough off the dribble. Just another good college player. You can make a sandwich with all of that, because it’s just a bunch of baloney.
Enough already. What Redick is doing is possibly playing one of the best college basketball seasons in the modern era. Stop it. I don’t want to hear it.
What the little slow kid from Roanake, Virginia did was simply pluck the eyes out of the North Carolina Tar Heels last night by torching them for 35 points on 12-of-22 shooting.
What the little slow kid did was simply dart into the passing lanes for four steals, two of which led to breakaway layups.
What the little slow kid did was score more points in the Dean Center than Johnny Dawkins, the greatest player in Duke’s history.
What the little slow kid did was tie Len Bias for the second-highest single-game scoring total in the history of the Dean Smith Center.
What the little slow kid did was slam the door in the face of Carolina fans with a sweet behind the back move and pull up three. It was a move that left his defender falling like Bryon Russell in the 1998 NBA finals when you-know-who put the brakes on and made one of the most charismatic jump shots in NBA history.
I’ll say it again and I said it before, J.J. Redick is unstoppable.
I am tired of hearing that all you have to do is put an athlete on him. Well how many athletes do we have left? Mr. Redick has scored 30 pts or more 9 times this year. He has scored 40 or more three times. As of last night he leads the country in scoring. And no he doesn’t play for Austin Peay, Niagra or Eastern Michigan, he plays for Duke in the ACC. When it’s all said and done, only a season-ending injury in the next couple of weeks will keep him from becoming the ACC’s all-time leading scorer.
It’s not like he’s blowing past defenders like Randy Foye from Villanova, or using his athleticism like Rudy Gay from Conneticut. He shoots the lights out. Everybody knows what he’s going to do, but everybody is rendered helpless.
He maybe the slowest, greatest player I have ever witnessed. He must have traveled down the yellow bricked road and seen the Wizard because he has an overabundance of courage. His willingness to step up in times of emergency is unmatched. Maybe we should vote J.J. Redick for President. If anything were to ever happen, he would step up immediately.
Hey, I am a pessimist and the glass is always half empty, but Redick has my glass filled to the brim. This is from an avid Duke hater since the Bobby Hurley days. This is from a guy who always questions how one player can have so much hype. J.J. Redick is like the Internet: he can answer any of your questions.
If you still have doubts stop it. There is no doubt that Duke is 22-1, just as there is no doubt that Redick is largely responsible for that. No more talk about he can’t do this and he can’t do that. You have two choices. Stop it. Or simply stop him.
