{"id":609,"date":"2007-03-21T06:32:20","date_gmt":"2007-03-21T11:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/?p=609"},"modified":"2022-01-02T07:38:25","modified_gmt":"2022-01-02T12:38:25","slug":"where-have-you-gone-bob-cousy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/?p=609","title":{"rendered":"Where Have You Gone Bob Cousy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"426\" height=\"255\" title=\"bob-cousy.jpg\" id=\"image610\" alt=\"bob-cousy.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/bob-cousy.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As I watched Tennessee&#8217;s Chris Lofton sprint around the court in his baggy, below-the-knee, capri-length shorts last weekend, it occurred to me that basketball players these days keep wearing their shorts longer and looser. Gone are the days when real men, like Bob Cousy, wore theirs &#8220;high and tight.&#8221;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"168\" height=\"248\" align=\"right\" title=\"fab5cover.jpg\" id=\"image611\" alt=\"fab5cover.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/fab5cover.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I can remember when it started. In the early 90s, Michigan&#8217;s Fab Five sported longer, baggier bottoms (which by today&#8217;s standard&#8217;s appear short-short), and from there, things have continued to head south.  I suppose it may have had something to do with bringing a &#8220;street look&#8221; to the court, and since street fashion has continued to become longer and baggier, so have basketball shorts.<\/p>\n<p>Call me crazy, but if we&#8217;re talking about maximizing mobility and enhancing athletic performance and comfort, it seems like shorter would be better. It&#8217;s as if players today are afraid of showing off a little leg and &#8220;what they&#8217;ve got,&#8221; so to speak. Which begs the question: What are players hiding in those modest, Christian college regulation shorts they&#8217;re wearing these days? My guess is, not much at all.<\/p>\n<p>Where have you gone Bob Cousy? We need you now more than ever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I watched Tennessee&#8217;s Chris Lofton sprint around the court in his baggy, below-the-knee, capri-length shorts last weekend, it occurred to me that basketball players these days keep wearing their shorts longer and looser. Gone are&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,54,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-nostalgia","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=609"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9647,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609\/revisions\/9647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}