Where's My Ball

CAN HE KICK IT?

Posted 05/11/2007 at 5:50 PM  |  2 comment/s

Amare Stoudemire doesn’t strike me as someone who just makes things up. So when I heard him call Bruce Bowen “a dirty player,” I listened. And then I hit YouTube.

And then I wondered why people were so surprised at this. There’s a reason Bruce Bowen is always on the All-Defensive Team but has never won a Defensive Player of the Year award. The guy knows how to shut you down on a basketball court — and he doesn’t have to slap the floor and get low to do it. If you want someone to slide their feet, keep the hand-checks to a minimum and yell when he forces turnovers, don’t ask Bruce.

He’s like a quiet assassin. Somehow, San Antonio manages to camouflage Bowen behind Tim Duncan and Tony Parker and, uh, Eva Longoria. He’s not Carmelo Anthony or Rasheed Wallace or even Shaq, who from time to time (or every time), manages to lower a shoulder in the paint and knock someone to the ground. Bowen isn’t loud or boisterous or the type to initiate a fight. He managed to make his side of an argument with New York Knicks’ head coach Isiah Thomas earlier this season look like a casual conversation.

But is Bowen as bad as fellow players make him out to be? Is he really out there trying to take out Amare Stoudemire’s Achilles? Is he a “dirty player”?

Check YouTube. Where there’s smoke there’s fire. There's a reason they call him Bruce "Lee" Bowen. It’s just amazing we’re all still so surprised.

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