So the girl I have been dating tells me that her girlfriend is dating this guy thats a basketball player for the rockets his name she tells me is 'calo' or 'cato' or something like that.. i started laughing..of all the rockets out there my only potential meeting with a rocket is cato... anyway i have put some pressure and it appears that we *may* be going on a double date...I stress may as until it happens it is still a *may* happen deal.. anyway.. so maybe I can come with some real info over and above my desire to discredit the know it alls of this board.. So first of all should I even bring up the rockets? I know stupid question but if we are to be hanging out i am sure that he wouldnt want some dorky white guy asking him a bunch of questions... besides the obvious jabs what (when we do talk hoops) should I try and get out of this guy..? remember insulting him may not be my best move as I am 5 11 175. He is well..a big guy... what do you think? ------------------ "no matter how good she looks someone... somewhere..is tired of her sh*t"
ask him if he is going to PLAY basketball or whine about his pinky and sit on the bench ------------------
Treat him like you would any other person. If you wouldn't like talking alot about your occupation, why would he? The guys only crime is being lazy (by NBA standards). He's not an axe murderer or a serial killer just one of millions of people who aren't particularly ambitious. Who knows, you may make a new friend. Just don't arm wrestle him for the guest check! ------------------ Raef to Rocks in '01-'02! [This message has been edited by GATER (edited July 24, 2001).]
Ask him if he could choose any NBA team to play for, which team would it be. (but butter him up first and say you like college hoops better than the NBA, and that he had a monster college career.) ------------------ I'M COOKING WITH GAS...
If you want to get into his good graces so he might reveal something Rockets-wise, compliment him on his writing of childrens books. I would say that if he does this outside of basketball, he must really enjoy it, so he would appreciate any accolades he might get, since he never gets any for his basketball play. Then, after you have turned him from an enemy into a friend. BAM! Ol' fork in the eye. ------------------ Life is a **** sandwich. The more bread you have, the less **** you have to take. You can Run from the bet, you can Rave at the bet...but you just can't hide.
"Then, after you have turned him from an enemy into a friend. BAM! Ol' fork in the eye." ------------------
My experience with or near Cato tell me that it may be the worst date of your life. He is not a pleasant person. ------------------ American business long ago gave up on demanding that prospective employees be honest and hardworking. It has even stopped hoping for employees who are educated enough that they can tell the difference between the men's room and the women's room without having little pictures on the doors.
Even though it is Cato, that is pretty cool there sirhangover. Tozai, I don't think your quite helping out our man sirhangover..... I think he mentioned that he is only half the size of Cato, and didn't want the night to be ruined... Granted I still think sirhangover could take him even at 5'11"
Ask him this: If you were a tree, what kind of tree would you be? ------------------ I'm looking for a job, so hire me "And I just have to smile and say 'well, I hope so' while I'm really thinking inside how I'd like to just strangle them and take their job."
Go in with no preconceptions. Greet him the way you would greet any other guy you'd like to be friendly with. Relax and talk and laugh and listen normally. See what kind of person he is, as you would if he were just another guy. Then come back and tell us your impressions.
Ask him if he got in trouble for biting KT in the face? ------------------ This is our FRANCHISE and these are the RULES - Learn it, Live it, Love it!
Warning: Be careful that Cato doesn't screw you with the bill...... Like he screwed the Rockets with his contract!!!
Ask him how he got such a good seat for each of the Rocket games? He's like our Jack Nicholson. He's always courtside, but never does much to help the team.
I think you should shoot the breeze with him See where is his mind is at. No need to be invasive or anything . . DON'T BE INSULTING! and don't send him here to post. [then again we know he does not have a post game *grin*] Rocket River ------------------
Sirhangover, you should bring rockHead along to take pictures... ------------------ "Oh No..." -Bill Walton in 97 just before Stockton's buzzer beater
Just be cool. If he wants to talk basketball he'll bring it up. If he doesn't, he won't. I think you'll find a lot of things to talk about other than basketball, and you can bet your bottom dollar the girls won't want to get into a basketball conversation. So just be cool. If you hang out again you'll learn more about the basketball part of him. ------------------ humble, but hungry.
