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Welcome to Tony Allen's Playoffs-Grantland
Posted on 5/8/15 at 10:30 am
Posted on 5/8/15 at 10:30 am
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Are you enjoying Tony Allen’s playoffs? Of course you’re enjoying Tony Allen’s playoffs. Watching Tony Allen in 2015 is impossible not to enjoy. He’s like a combination of a professional wrestler, an elite superhero sidekick, and the dad from Finding Nemo.
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He plays basketball at a permanent setting of yipee-ki-yay, motherfricker.
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Allen wore a microphone for Game 2, which — I mean, is there some reason why we haven’t made this a permanent arrangement? Can the commissioner issue a mandate? Because take any game, I don’t care how good it is; now drop a miked-up Tony Allen into the middle of that game and ka-bang, it’s instantly 20 percent more entertaining. And that’s a conservative estimate.
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Again, he’s not a guy who creates highlights; making the ball go in the basket is probably the basketball skill he’s worst at.
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What Tony Allen does? It does not look fun. Murderous man-to-man defense, hyper-vigilant awareness of passing lanes, a willingness to chase your man from one end of the floor to the other, the tenacity to grind for 48 minutes against the other team’s best player … none of this looks remotely enjoyable.
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He’s back in action tomorrow night, with his Grizzlies improbably tied 1-1 with the favored Warriors. They’re playing in Memphis, where he’s loved; being inside FedExForum is going to be like having a seat inside a jet engine for 150 minutes. He’ll feed off it. He’ll crash around like an in-control out-of-control garbage truck, with desire bordering on fanaticism and not an ounce of visible fear. We’ll love watching him, because of the complete transparency with which he shows us what he wants. And we’ll love watching him because of the insane effort with which he’ll go after it.
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Welcome to Tony Allen’s playoffs. Every team needs a player like him. But then, who else ever could be?
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Posted on 5/8/15 at 10:32 am to Slippery Slope
He's a freak for sure, HOF defensive talent.
Posted on 5/8/15 at 10:36 am to Slippery Slope
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He’ll crash around like an in-control out-of-control garbage truck, with desire bordering on fanaticism and not an ounce of visible fear.
such a perfect description of The Grindfather
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Posted on 5/8/15 at 10:37 am to Slippery Slope
Posted on 5/8/15 at 10:46 am to RTR America
Posted on 5/8/15 at 10:46 am to RTR America
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I decided I’d go all in for the Grizz as a fan for four quarters, which was shockingly easy to do when a team has a player like Tony Allen.
I’ve never seen a professional basketball player do the things Allen does during a basketball game.
There’s the scrappy play and clear talent that has kept him in the league for almost a decade, but it’s so much deeper than that. He’s an entertainer, but it’s not clear whether he knows it or not. There’s a little Metta World Peace in him — an almost childish curiosity that makes him want to sit on the scorer’s table during timeouts to look at a replay — but he lacks all negative traces of MWP/Artest.
There was the time Allen accidentally poked the Pistons’ Rodney Stuckey in the eye and loudly verbalized that he didn’t do it. But then he looked at Stuckey, obviously in pain, and said, “Aww man, my bad.” And then he put his hands atop his head and seemed to strongly internalize the fact that he hurt someone. He walked back to his bench, pouting. All of this took place in about 15 seconds, but watching it felt like a movie.
There was the way he interacted with Randolph, which was the closest thing I’ve seen in basketball to what Ray Lewis and Ed Reed had on a football field. Z-Bo would get upset at himself and go sit at the end of the bench, and Allen would go down and plop next to him for a minute. And in that moment, it was Zach and Tony versus the world. No one else seemed to matter. And then they’d be good, break, and would both join the rest of the Memphis Grizzlies franchise.
It was impossible not to watch Allen, almost to a point of studying him, because his passion for the game, his teammates, and the people who paid to see him was unparalleled. It was no wonder why everyone in Memphis loved him, because as a fan you dream of having a player like that.
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Posted on 5/8/15 at 10:47 am to RTR America
love watching him play.
he and the rest of that defense are frustrating the shite out of GSW's offense and disrupting any flow that they can get.
he and the rest of that defense are frustrating the shite out of GSW's offense and disrupting any flow that they can get.
Posted on 5/8/15 at 10:49 am to Slippery Slope
First Team All Defense
Posted on 5/8/15 at 10:53 am to RTR America
I have said this 100x, if I wasn't a rockets fan id be a griz fan. I love their roster, fans and persona
Posted on 5/8/15 at 10:56 am to RTR America
He's what Lance Stevenson wishes he was.
Awesome all-around dude, boy.
Awesome all-around dude, boy.
Posted on 5/8/15 at 10:58 am to Dire Wolf
They are without a doubt my second favorite team, probably the only team I root for outside of the Rockets. I would love to see them get a championship. With all the small ball stuff happening in the NBA they swung the other way and have two awesome big men
Posted on 5/8/15 at 12:06 pm to Slippery Slope
i love tony allen. he fits on every team in the league. hes tenacious. he plays on the edge. he does all the dirty work.
its funny how championship teams always have guys like him. hes an elite role player, thats for sure.
its funny how championship teams always have guys like him. hes an elite role player, thats for sure.
Posted on 5/8/15 at 12:13 pm to Slippery Slope
Good lord, the writing on Grantland keeps getting worse.
Posted on 5/8/15 at 3:10 pm to SabiDojo
Hard to believe he is having the best career out of all the studs he played with at Okie St...
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