Where did I say that Harrison is or isn't butch? He might be spending less time boxing out to grab rebounds if our bigs did their part. That was my point. Why is our 6'2 shooting guard the only defender who puts a body on an opposing player?
Pointer plays like he's in high school gym class. He, and several other players have no idea where they should be. He just waits for a shot to go up so he can try and block it. After which, he's off balance and likely to trip over who knows what? This time, it was more costly than usual.
You said our big men do not play like men. I wondered how their (in this case Pointer's) playing like more of a man would have resulted in his not stomping on Harrison's head. I did not reference Harrison's butchiosity - I find him quite butch, about the butchest guy on the team - and did not think you did either.
Agree about Pointer. The worst thing that happened to him in his college career was hitting the game winner against SJU. Now he plays every play like its an audition for ESPN's top ten list. As an astute observer wrote elsewhere:
"he could be a pretty good basketball player if he'd just stop trying to be a great one. Rafferty called it "false hustle," but it seems to me something more than that: he tries to make sports center plays when mundane ones would suffice. (For example: he lets players get past him on defense so he can block the shot at the rim.) In an event that was eerily similar to one last year where he went all Tonya Harding on Harrison's leg during a scrum out of bounds, Pointer this time stomped on Harrison's face while the latter lay defenseless on the ground. Predictably Pointer was off balance and out of control while futilely attempting to slap a shot to Canarsie"
Great minds? Strange bedfellows? Hopefully not the latter, that wouldn't be butch at all.