(01-23-2013 03:58 PM)TigerTimmy Wrote: (01-23-2013 03:51 PM)dan o Wrote: (01-23-2013 01:19 PM)TigerTimmy Wrote: Is there a credible link that says Tarik Black refused to enter the Harvard game?
That would be the same links previously given in response to your same question in another thread.
And, those links refer to interviews with Josh.
That's about as credible as you are going to find.
None of those links said anything about Black refusing to enter the game. There is a big difference between a player sulking on the bench and refusing to play for his team. I am calling BS on this story.
It looks as if you have chosen to latch onto demanding a spoken phrase by Tarik that said he "refused to enter" while ignoring the circumstances as described by Coach Pastner.
In the other thread where you asked the very same thing about credible links---here is the dialogue:
dan o Wrote:
Jason Smith @TheCAJasonSmith
Looked checked out to me. Pastner says some guys "sensitive." RT @MemphisSissy: @TheCAJasonSmith what's going on with Tarik?
L. Jason Smith @TheCAJasonSmith
Bottom line: Tigers have too many guys doing things right way, playing through their struggles, to stop and wait for someone to catch up.
L. Jason Smith @TheCAJasonSmith
In responding to my ? on Black, Pastner started on Ferro: "Ferrakohn didn't play, but he was tremendous on the bench. He was pumping us up."
Memphis Tigers see big lead evaporate, come back to defeat Harvard, 60-50
By Jason Smith
Posted January 19, 2013 at 1:37 p.m., updated January 19, 2013 at 8:37 p.m.
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n the meantime, junior forward Tarik Black, who sat out a game earlier this season after walking out of a practice, sat stone-faced on the bench down the stretch while his teammates stood and cheered around him. Black played just four minutes in the second half, finishing with two points and four rebounds in 12 minutes.
Asked afterward about Black’s mood on the bench, Pastner said: “We don’t have time to wait. Guys sometimes can be sensitive on things, but the bottom line is the caravan’s moving forward. Tarik is on the caravan, it’s just I’m not gonna baby-sit during the game. If you’re producing, you play. If you don’t produce, you sit.”
Geoff Calkins: It's D.J. to the rescue, again
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The Tigers blow leads because they stop trying quite so hard. They don't play with the same fury when they get up big. There is no great mystery to this. It might even be expected and natural. The only mystery is why more of the Tigers haven't noticed the way Stephens plays and see if it could work for them, too.
Seriously, if you're Adonis Thomas or Tarik Black, why don't you say to yourself, "Geez, I'm more talented than D.J. Why don't I try to do what he does? Why don't I bust my butt ever single moment I'm on the court? Imagine the good things I could do."
TigerTimmy Wrote
Where does Jason Smith say Tarik Black refused to go in the game?
dan o Wrote:
Interpret it to suit yourself. I never said that he wrote that.
You implied [so it seemed] that an anonymous tweet was the only source for Black not playing anymore.
The interviews with Josh indicate that he was bypassed for more play because of a bad attitude.
That is about as credible of a link as you are going to get as to Black's pouting, sulking attitude which communicated to Josh that he didn't want to play anymore. Thus, Josh skipped over him in the rotation, and explained that Tarik's attitude and expression and body language, et al convinced him that he did not want to go back into the game.
Once again, you can interpret all of that to suit yourself, but Josh made it perfectly clear---to most folks
It's over now and everyone is ready to move on, but there was a situation that Josh clearly interpreted as Tarik not wanting to re-enter the game.
As I said before, accept what Josh had to say or else interpret it to suit your own beliefs. But, there is no need to seek "credible links" beyond those now provided---twice.