Lithuanians

    Has anyone EVER come out of Europe and done some serious NBA rebounding? Gasol, Nowitzki, Ilgauskas, Dino Radja?- good but not great. Sabonis? A bull, but he had legs as fragile as a Middle East truce.

    Our Vidas did provide me with one of the funniest things I ever saw. While he was playing in Europe, he got into a fight with 2 nameless black guys(Slavs are a lot like Italians and Irish- they don't fear American blacks). I forget what started it, but one guy came right at him.

    Arvydas grabbed him by both ears and hit him with a headbutt so hard, MY ears are still ringing. Instant, unquestionable KO. The other guy decided that discretion is the better part of valor, and he hid behind the basket support when the big Lithuanian came after him. Sabonis went right, he went left....a few times. Sabonis looked a lot like Bumbles, when he was chasing Yukon Cornelius and Rudolph around in that Christmas Special. I expected him to shove his face into a brook and come out with a salmon.

    If Rasheed had seen that tape, he would have not only not thrown that towel in Our Vidas' face, but he would have gently wiped the sweat from him. He's crazy and frequently high, but he ain't stupid.

   Lithuania, which is a Connecticut-sized country in Eastern Europe, seems to produce spectacular per-capita basketball talent. The Soviet team that knocked off the Admiral, MitchRich and company in the 1988 Olympics was led by 2 Lithuanians, Sabonis and Marcuilonis(?). They also nearly knocked off the Dreamy Teamy at the last Olympics. 

    Makes me wonder if the Moors didn't send a few raiding parties up the Baltic Sea. There seems to be a lot of blue-eyed soul in that country.

 

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