This whole Twitter thing has turned out to be a great emotional tool for professional athletes, much like it probably is for the masses of high school teens.
The only difference is professional athletes put themselves in the possibility of heavy fines whenever they express, or rather tweet, their emotions about certain things involving the team or the league.
Ron Artest is the latest to use Twitter to show his displeasure, and it was in the form of criticizing Lakers coach Phil Jackson:
"Finally Phil Jackson didn't mention me in media talking me Now I can build on game 2. Hopefully he talks to me before the media"
Just about an hour later another tweet came along:
"Ever since phil mention things about me in media before coming to me first I was weird . So every pray he can somehow close his yapper."
Meanwhile, the Lakers seem to be in cruise control to another Western Conference Finals appearence as they're up 2-0 in their series with the Jazz.
Now Artest has declined to elaborate at all on the subject which is usually typical. I'm starting to think that some of these athletes just have to be in the spotlight in some way other than what they do on the playing field.
Some people, including Artest's brother, is claiming that someone hacked into his Twitter account. That might be a possibility, but if that's the case then why wouldn't Artest just say that.
Once again it comes back to the need to be in the spotlight.
Jackson was very critical of the shot selection from behind the arc from Artest, and I'm sure it bruised Artest's ego a bit when he heard the legendary Phil Jackson to tell him to stop shooting so much from behind the arc.
Artest is shooting around 17 percent from behind the arc, so can you really blame Jackson for addressing that issue?
If you can't deal with the media then maybe you shouldn't be playing your professional ball in the NBA. It's the line of work you've chosen and you have to learn to deal with the criticism along with the praise.
Some people, including Artest's brother, is claiming that someone hacked into his Twitter account. That might be a possibility, but if that's the case then why wouldn't Artest just say that.
Once again it comes back to the need to be in the spotlight.
Jackson was very critical of the shot selection from behind the arc from Artest, and I'm sure it bruised Artest's ego a bit when he heard the legendary Phil Jackson to tell him to stop shooting so much from behind the arc.
Artest is shooting around 17 percent from behind the arc, so can you really blame Jackson for addressing that issue?
If you can't deal with the media then maybe you shouldn't be playing your professional ball in the NBA. It's the line of work you've chosen and you have to learn to deal with the criticism along with the praise.
Meanwhile, the Lakers seem to be in cruise control to another Western Conference Finals appearence as they're up 2-0 in their series with the Jazz.
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