When it a whiteout not a whiteout?

For the record, Mr. Irrelevant, a whiteout is only a whiteout when all five white players on the floor at one time are worth a damn. Five guard-sized walk-ons and JV players is NOT and NEVER will be a whiteout. That's just clearing the bench and getting the non-scholarship players involved.

(as it turns out, it wasn't Mr. I who called it a whiteout, but I'll be damned if I can remember who. But I got the image from over there, so... fuck it. I'll fix it when I can undumb myself enough to remember where I saw it called a whiteout.)

Posted 02/17/08 by Ron | Filed under: NCAA Basketball

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For the record, it's spelled "Irrelevant."

And I have no idea what you're talking about with this "whiteout" stuff. I was simply pointing out the fact that they had five white scrubs on the floor at the same time.

Posted by Chris Mottram at 02/18/08 09:53:09

And they wonder why it's called "Garbage Time"...

Posted by Len at 02/18/08 11:31:18

Chris, I fixed the typo. I fucked up, I'll take the credit.

A whiteout is the term Bill Simmons (yeah, I know, my first mistake is reading Simmons) uses for when a team has five good white players on the floor at the same time (see his beloved 80's Celtics). It might've been somewhere else that used the term (Deadspin?) to describe the situation and I just retardedly gave you the jab.

Note to self: don't post after drinking.

Posted by Ron at 02/18/08 17:07:20

I always thought the rules of basketball forbade this kind of shocking behaviour (except in certain parts Eastern Europe, where black people don't exist).

Posted by Anthony at 02/20/08 09:10:25