Jordan Poole Profile (Yahoo Sports)
I really liked this profile. I’m in the Bay Area, so I follow the Warriors.
A few bits that stood out but there’s a lot here.
Poole is constantly searching for loopholes. Those gaps in the rules that hang over classrooms and practice gyms that, when exploited, can unlock what’s yet been imagined. “We taught all our kids, always believe in Poole is constantly searching for loopholes. Those gaps in the rules that hang over classrooms and practice gyms that, when exploited, can unlock what’s yet been imagined. “We taught all our kids, always believe in yourself. No matter what. We even told them you can always question authority, as long as you do it respectfully,” said Anthony Poole, the Warriors guard’s father. When most youngsters played rec ball on lowered rims, Anthony’s 8-year-old followed him to pick-up runs at the Atonement Lutheran court and hurled triples while the grown man guarding him spat junk in his face. “I could live with it,” Jordan Poole said, “because it feels better when you take something.”. No matter what. We even told them you can always question authority, as long as you do it respectfully,” said Anthony Poole, the Warriors guard’s father. When most youngsters played rec ball on lowered rims, Anthony’s 8-year-old followed him to pick-up runs at the Atonement Lutheran court and hurled triples while the grown man guarding him spat junk in his face. “I could live with it,” Jordan Poole said, “because it feels better when you take something.”
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“I’m kinda, like, writing this blueprint for myself, and I had to see what it looked like, what I had to do, what I had to figure out after my first couple months in the NBA,” Poole said. “Then I had a foundation of like, this is what I want to work on? OK, boom, boom, boom. This is what I need to do to get better at that? Just being around Steph, being around Klay, just being around these people, it really comes out. ‘What’s this? What are you thinking for this?' This isn’t 23-year-old Jordan asking as a professional athlete. This is 15-year-old Jordan, basketball fan, asking because I’ve seen you hit 29 threes in a game, you know? I just wanna know! It just happens to be that I’m in the situation where I can apply it to my life and apply it to my game and apply it to my style of play and still add on my personal, natural flair.”
December 9th, 2022 at 9:10 PM ^
Oddly repetitive, hard to understand, but 100% upvote because Jordan Poole
December 9th, 2022 at 9:22 PM ^
Really? I mean, it’s an interview, so some of the same things will recur, but I thought it was interesting as part of his emerging role with the Warriors in the context of Steph and Klay.
December 9th, 2022 at 9:27 PM ^
Really. Not sure if you formatted it incorrectly or something, because the first stanza literally repeats itself twice, and those are long passages to repeat. Check your work and you will see what I mean.
Jordan Poole is a unique genius - his quotes are hard to follow. He does not communicate in a clear, linear fashion, but the brilliance is there.
December 9th, 2022 at 9:38 PM ^
Felt like I was having a stroke reading it.
December 9th, 2022 at 9:40 PM ^
So did Hulk!
December 10th, 2022 at 12:13 AM ^
Yep. I see it now. Somehow I got a duplicate when I copied the text. Sorry.
December 10th, 2022 at 8:45 AM ^
Always check your work before posting - I thought that was just a normal standard everyone always did?
December 10th, 2022 at 11:20 AM ^
that's enough
December 10th, 2022 at 10:42 AM ^
I'm curious about the mechanics of this weird repetition.
I've occasionally cut once and pasted twice (modern version of measure twice and cut once?) but how did this kind of syncopated repe-repe-ti-repe-tian happen?
Perhaps it seems more befoggled than it is because of Poole OR Poole's father talking about finding loopholes about unstated rules posted in gyms, which in my experience were about behavior and not playing basketball.
In any case, like a splash of cold water, it sure woke me up this morning.
December 9th, 2022 at 10:50 PM ^
I thought it was me, I've got one eye closed falling asleep and I'm reading this same thing over and over and its poorly written. But good to know it's not me!
Hi Indy Pete!
December 9th, 2022 at 11:16 PM ^
Hi A2 - nice to meet you here on the stroke unit!
December 9th, 2022 at 9:17 PM ^
You know what man? The first part was pretty hilarious. It was pretty hilarious. The first part.
December 9th, 2022 at 9:38 PM ^
I see what you did there. You did something that I could see.
December 9th, 2022 at 9:25 PM ^
That was a fun team.
December 9th, 2022 at 9:27 PM ^
Summary: Overdose of swag.
December 10th, 2022 at 10:11 AM ^
I just chalked it up to modern journalism. Lots of words put together poorly. That’s the only rule in today’s journalism.
but, +1000 for Jordan Poole
December 9th, 2022 at 9:36 PM ^
?? Is this miscopied or did I just have a stroke while reading this
December 9th, 2022 at 9:39 PM ^
I feel like murderwolv is gaslighting us - see his defense above that ignores our collective stroke
December 9th, 2022 at 9:59 PM ^
What on earth is going on with the first paragraph?
December 9th, 2022 at 10:11 PM ^
odd sense of deja vu when reading this.
December 9th, 2022 at 11:36 PM ^
Poole is constantly searching for loopholes. Those gaps in the rules that hang over classrooms and practice gyms that, when exploited, can unlock what’s yet been imagined.
Well this makes a lot of sense now why he was the person the NBA chose to make an example out of for the carrying violation lol. Love Poole but he commits the most flagrant carry violations in the NBA. https://www.sbnation.com/nba/2022/11/2/23436892/nba-carrying-rules-jordan-poole-video-quotes
December 10th, 2022 at 8:51 AM ^
There are carry violations in the NBA? I don't think I've ever seen one*... Seriously. There are some slow dribblers over the years that clearly catch the ball on the bottom, take a full step while moving the ball/hand to the top, then bouncing it back down. I mean, isn't it the rule that your hand shouldn't go further than half-way down the ball? The full turnover from bottom to top is quite common, even in college - and I've never, ever, seen a carry called.
* - I don't watch the NBA much anymore...
December 10th, 2022 at 10:46 AM ^
I think that, way back in olden times, anything other the hand on top of the ball was a carry.
December 10th, 2022 at 12:17 PM ^
It used to be like volleyball still is.
You could contact the ball with a direct hit—a strike of the ball in volleyball, a smack on top of the ball dribbling a basketball—but any contact longer than that meant you could alter the ball's direction at the last minute, giving the offensive player an advantage.
We can still see the difference in displays of fancy dribbling: manipulating the ball with old-fashioned dribbling is impressive, any more contact than that and it's carrying, which looks ordinary.
December 10th, 2022 at 3:04 PM ^
With HS volleyball these days, setters are bringing the ball further down into their fingers, almost catching it and redirecting it. It gets called maybe 5% of the time.
The times, they are a-changin'.
December 12th, 2022 at 11:38 AM ^
There's no loophole there. Those clips in the article are clearly carries. Now, how often that actually gets called in the NBA is another story.
December 10th, 2022 at 10:16 AM ^
Wow, Jordan’s dad repeats himself a lot.
December 10th, 2022 at 10:47 AM ^
Wow, Jordan’s dad repeats himself a lot.
December 10th, 2022 at 3:21 PM ^
John Beilein prepared his teams for EVERYTHING:
And by March, as the Wolverines faced a two-point deficit to Houston, with the clock dwindling in the second round of the NCAA tournament, it was Poole who launched from deep beyond the right wing as time expired, his legs scissor-kicking with his release. It was no miracle, Michigan had drilled that exact sequence. Over and over. Poole still has clips from the team’s practice saved on his phone, artificial crowd-noise blaring over the loudspeakers, where he calmly sinks the same heave that forever etched his name into March Madness lore. The Wolverines don’t dance to the title match without Poole’s heroics. “I was calling him a little pup and a little pitbull,” (Michigna assistant DeAndre) Haynes said, “and look at him now.”
December 10th, 2022 at 8:45 PM ^
I'm a huge Jordan Poole fan, and have defended him on several forums over time. I thought that this article made him sound a little full of himself and offered very little real insight about him. Whether he or anyone could live up to expectations like that. . . Thanks for posting.