Monday, January 30, 2012

Curses

Earlier this week in the WAC update at Rush The Court, PTW wrote this about New Mexico State's Hamidu Rahman:

"At the risk of sounding like a legal representative of the Department of Homeland Security, an apology is due. A pre-season prediction by moi that senior Hamidu Rahman would relegated to coming off the bench by 6-foot-10 sophomore Tshilidzi Nephawe in 2011-12 has proven to be invalid. Rahman has started all 20 New Mexico State games and is averaging 10.4 points (14.0 in conference action) and 6.6 boards while shooting 63% on the season. Meanwhile, Nephawe is a 43% marksman and averaging 5.2 and 3.1 respectively. Of late, Rahman has enjoyed 20 points and eight boards (in 22 minutes) matching up with San Jose State, followed by 16 points and six rebounds versus Hawaii (in 20 minutes). It was 12 and six in 17 minutes versus Idaho prior to SJSU.

The senior out of New Jersey was nagged by injuries last season, averaging 7.2 points per game while making 49% of his shot attempts. This go-around, he is healthy and showing his full potential."
Then what happens?

Against Nevada, Rahman plays 15 minutes, scoring four points and grabbing the same number of rebounds. Then, it's 16 minutes, eight points and five boards against smallish Fresno State. (was there some sort of injury involved causing the diminished PT or foul trouble or simply situational?)

Has the hex of being on the Sports Illustrated cover enbedded itself onto hindering anyone receiving praise from PTW?

Earlier this season (maybe it was the pre-season), PTW was singing the praises of LT's Brandon Gibson and he's 'enjoyed' what apparently is a jinxed shooting stroke in 2011-12.

PTW and the Typhoid Mary Touch -- a match made in ...

1 comment:

Patrick H said...

Before the season I too predicted that Nephawe would be the more important player for NMSU. And I've been baffled by the lack of improvement I've seen from him.