See, here's what the Isiah Thomas era feels like to me.
Isiah is to GM-ing what Peja Drobnjak is to the English language. The key difference is that Isiah's hilarious non-sequiturs are NBA transactions, instead of phrases like "DeNiro is #1 Hero!" and "Stay In School... It's Free!" I think the same things that attracted us to Drobnjak's Manjaks back in the day are what make us laugh at Isiah's pathetic attempts at a career.
But there's an external element that needs to be captured in the metaphor. Isiah is not only GMing in broken English, but is unwittingly being taunted by his peers as well. Isiah's basically the foreign guy at a high school kegger who's too naive to say no when the other kids tell him to say "Would you like to see my testicles?" to the biggest bully in school. Besides, he wants to make friends, so he'll say the sentence to make his "friends" laugh, when in reality he's being laughed at. That's Isiah, except with trades.
So, for example, maybe Orlando's GM calls him yesterday and says, "hey Isiah, I'll give you Steve Francis for Trevor Ariza and Penny Hardaway. In America that's a good deal!" And of course, Isiah says the NBA equivalent of "OK! We make the pretty trade yes! Ameeeerica number one!!!" Then everyone starts laughing, and Isiah looks around and laughs along with them because he doesn't realize they're laughing at him.
I have no idea if that made sense to anybody. Isiah's a cross between Drobnjak, Latka Gravas, and the Berserker guy from Clerks. So there.
Isiah is to GM-ing what Peja Drobnjak is to the English language. The key difference is that Isiah's hilarious non-sequiturs are NBA transactions, instead of phrases like "DeNiro is #1 Hero!" and "Stay In School... It's Free!" I think the same things that attracted us to Drobnjak's Manjaks back in the day are what make us laugh at Isiah's pathetic attempts at a career.
But there's an external element that needs to be captured in the metaphor. Isiah is not only GMing in broken English, but is unwittingly being taunted by his peers as well. Isiah's basically the foreign guy at a high school kegger who's too naive to say no when the other kids tell him to say "Would you like to see my testicles?" to the biggest bully in school. Besides, he wants to make friends, so he'll say the sentence to make his "friends" laugh, when in reality he's being laughed at. That's Isiah, except with trades.
So, for example, maybe Orlando's GM calls him yesterday and says, "hey Isiah, I'll give you Steve Francis for Trevor Ariza and Penny Hardaway. In America that's a good deal!" And of course, Isiah says the NBA equivalent of "OK! We make the pretty trade yes! Ameeeerica number one!!!" Then everyone starts laughing, and Isiah looks around and laughs along with them because he doesn't realize they're laughing at him.
I have no idea if that made sense to anybody. Isiah's a cross between Drobnjak, Latka Gravas, and the Berserker guy from Clerks. So there.
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