The special interest journalist
by John Berkowitz on Dec 26, 2008 10:55 AM PST
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PrintSometimes in life you unintentionally make enemies without really trying. For UW head coach Lorenzo Romar all it took was taking the Washington coaching job while Mark Few was still coaching over at Gonzaga.
Andy Katz of ESPN is an unabashed Washington and Lorenzo Romar hater while at the same time being a close personal friend and booster of Mark Few and Gonzaga. He wrote this ridiculous drivel this past week about the Pac Ten season so far.
Most disappointing team: Washington. The Huskies returned the core of their team, including potential player of the year Jon Brockman. UW may still wake up and go on a roll in the conference. But Washington whiffed in its two high-profile games in the CBE Classic, losing to Kansas and Florida. That came after starting the season with a road loss at Portland. The Huskies have yet to be impressive. Beating Portland State, the top team in the Big Sky, by one point isn't going to scare any conference opponent.
I found it funny that the day he wrote this piece Gonzaga was pounded at home by the same Portland State team he was so unimpressed about. He also forgets that Washington beat Portland State without Jon Brockman in the lineup. He just happened to be out with an injury so the victory was actually even more impressive for the young Huskies.
If you are a sane and unbiased observer of Washington basketball this season you have probably noticed that the team gets better every game. The key to their improvement is improved play around the perimeter. As Isaiah Thomas grows so will the Huskies post season tournament hopes.
Andy Katz is the kind of journalist who really bugs me because he simply isn't honest. He writes snide remarks about the programs he doesn't like to try to influence recruiting. He doesn't tell it like it is because he has the motivation to tell it like it isn't. I guess you can classify him as a special interest journalist.
Portland State's upset of Gonzaga is just another in a series of validations that Andy Katz doesn't know what he is talking about.
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He is a Bastard!
Sorry for the curse word but call it like you see it!
Reminds me of a certain journalist from the PI
I can’t stand boosters who call them self writers/reporters. Somebody needs to make Katz get a job and live in Spokane, and Moore needs to get a job, and live in Pullman.
What ever happened to responible journalism?
"Bow Down to Washington"
"Kick the tires and light the fires!"
Columnists
Both of the guys you refer to are columnists. Columnists aren’t required to report, they give opinions. I’m of the opinion both of the guys you refer to are idiots but as long as people read them they will get paid.
I'm amused
when the posters on Dawgman get upset at something Moore writes. I never read him so I wouldn’t know what he writes except for the furor over there.
Moore is different
Moore is a friend of mine and he is tongue in cheek. Katz is a predatory cancer who is really at the bottom of the human food chain,
by John Berkowitz on Dec 26, 2008 6:37 PM PST up reply actions
I agree
It does influence recruiting and is dissappointing from our supposed news reporters. Instead of reporting what happens and let you decide what to think, they tell you what they want you to know and then tell you HOW to think. Then finally there is no accountability for their actions when they are wrong, they just move on to the next subject.
Katz
If you look at everything Katz has written about UW ever since the day Romar arrived it is pretty ugly. Once or more a week you get some piece of garbage somehow related to one of the nicer guys in coaching.
It isn’t like I hate Gonzaga at all. I just don’t like Katz’s relationship with Gonzaga.
I DO
Yet another reason why we must revive the rivalry and silence this pompous asshole.
by AllEyezOnMe on Dec 27, 2008 12:05 AM PST up reply actions
Better Defense and less Turnovers!
Katz is a moron! Sorry for the name calling JB. But Katz’s remark shouldn’t influence Romar’s recruiting efforts. For starters Washington and Gonzaga don’t recruit the same style of basketball players. What influences the recruiting is winning and losing.
I might be alone on this, but I think what has hurt Romar’s club more then anything is the lack of defense and turnover ratio. We need to get tougher on defense and quit turning the ball over quite so dam much! Do that and we should win some ball games. Don’t do that and we are sitting home in March. Pretty simple stuff. Win and you’re in – lose and it’s off to the N.I.T. and the loser’s club.
better team defense and cut down on turnovers will get us to March Maddness.
Go Huskies! WOOF!!!
Youth
I think it is more of young team than anything else.
by John Berkowitz on Dec 26, 2008 3:10 PM PST up reply actions
We've been young since Roy graduated though
JB- from my understanding we’ve been young since Brandon Roy graduated. Our leader (Brockman) was a sophomore then and a junior last year. Youth in basketball is a lousy argument to use in our case. Because any good coach will tell you that even though we are young, our kids can still play defense. Using the youth excuse works when you can’t hit free throws, can’t close out games, or miss the big shots. We should always be able to play defense even as freshmen. In my book learning how to play defense as freshmen should always come first. Because upper classmen can distribute the ball, shoot the ball, and rebound. But the freshmen reserve should always be a defensive stopper- that should be his role. We’ve got to play better defense and quit turning the ball over.
Question: I’m clueless, where did Oliver go? I thought the class with Pondexter, Oliver, and Nelson was going to be HUGE. Pondexter is still in the program, Nelson is at Portland (state), but what happened to Oliver?
True
My point is we have never been able to replace the solid perimiter play since Roy and Nate graduated and that is how you win at this level. Now we have some soild guys at guard that are only going to mature.Ypu win at the college level with guard augmented with your front line.
by John Berkowitz on Dec 26, 2008 7:59 PM PST up reply actions
Oliver is at St Jose St
Oliver is tearing it up there too
by alldawgsgo2heaven on Dec 26, 2008 9:27 PM PST up reply actions
Katz
What a piece of work this moron is. Try and watch a game once in awhile. I cant stand Few either. Just signed up on your site and appreciate what you are doing here.
Thanks
He's trash
But John Carzano of The Oregonian is worse.
If you can't get your Dick Enright, get your Dick Harter
no he's not. Canzano is alright. Ducks hate him ..
… which makes him fine by me.
"Greed is Good."
So is Rudy.
I can't believe he has a national forum to spew this crap
I will never forget when Andy Katz said Brandon Roy should go the JC route and that he didn’t think BRoy would amount to much at Washington.
by alldawgsgo2heaven on Dec 26, 2008 6:33 PM PST reply actions
It is funny
He is a terrible writer. Just a piece of human excrement.
by John Berkowitz on Dec 26, 2008 7:03 PM PST up reply actions
Wobbly
I have never seen anything written by Katz that didn’t have a slant to it for somebodies benefit at the detriment of others.
Why the hyperbole, John?
I’m not some Andy Katz idolator. Search his archive at espn.com. There are plenty of articles there that don’t have “a slant to it for sombody’s (gr!) benefit at the detriment of others.”
I’m a Dawg through and through, John, and I am not trying to disrespect you. I discovered this blog some time ago and I appreciated the respectful and intelligent way in which you approached the issues surround Udub’s athletic programs.
The Katz thing, though, is pretty classless and I believe you know this.
Wobbly II
I am sure you are, but lets just agree to disagree on Katz. I probably know a lot more about him than you do from behind the scenes. They guy isn’t on the level and it just isn’t with Washington. He is manipulator rather than a reporter or columnist. I don’t have any respect for the guy and most on the inside agree with me.
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