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i think the initial play that bosh got injured on has been blown out of proportion and... i kind of side with reggie on that one. i think we're understandably sensitive to guys stepping under our raptor jumpshooters by now, but i don't think reggie was looking to hurt chris. imo, it was more bad luck for us than it was anything done intentionally by reggie evans (the operative word being 'intentionally').

that said, i think it still unveils a type of player (and person) that seems to be everywhere these days: the "tunnel vision" person. i mean, you'll see 'them' in traffic, for example, the people who aren't even on cell phones and still manage to disrupt flow considerably without knowing they are by, i don't know, moving into the passing lane and then braking just before a line of cars would've passed them. you'll also see 'them' in the weight room, for example, just leaving weights around all over the floor as if: 1) they don't think someone will have to put them away eventually, and that that someone will/would be doing 'their' work if/when they do; 2) they don't know that someone could... step on them and sprain their ankle, for instance. hell, you see 'them' everywhere, doing all kinds of things that either hurt people physically or emotionally, and that being done unnecessarily every time. good ol' mr./mrs. tunnel vision.

i think reggie evans might have revealed his "tunnel vision" tendencies on that play. like, what are you really doing? do your instincts really not tell you that you could hurt someone by doing that? that's too bad. that depresses me. i'm going to be honest, though, i sometimes see chris as one of 'those' people, too. and i like chris, don't get me wrong, but he will also from time to time attack a rebound with unnecessary reckless abandonment, for example, without seeming regard for anyone around him, as that rebound is getting ready to fall into his teammate's lap quite easily. it rarely leads to a turnover but the point is that: 1) it could lead to an unnecessary turnover; 2) it could lead to an- again, unnecessary- injury to either himself or his teammate.

the reggie evans play was just another example of it. i just watch and wonder, "do you really not know, instinctively, that you're choosing to do something here that doesn't really help you at all and could quite easily hurt another person? why are you doing that? or better, why do you not know that that could happen?"

i don't have the answers to those questions but it does bring me down. i take it beyond basketball. i wonder why tunnel vision plagues our world on such a widespread basis. i also worry that it'll plague even more of the world tomorrow, and even more of the world the day after tomorrow, etc. i wonder how we could stop its progress. the reggie evans/chris bosh play was just a microcosm of a bigger problem for me. oh well. it's also my problem for taking it too far.

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