Eddie House is something of a textbook definition of "one trick pony". House does one thing well - shoot. He can shoot set shots, off the dribble and falling away, and is an elite free throw shooter (even though he hardly takes any - he's averaged barely a half a free throw attempt per game for his career). House is very small, can not get to the rim with much consistence, or finish, when he gets there, but the jumpshot is all there, and his lightning quick release (as well as the height he jumps to shoot it) means that he can always get it away.
House has extremely few point guard skills and is not a great one on one defensive player. His defense is limited to using his speed to be an occasionally disruptive influence, and despite being almost exclusively an off-the-ball player on offense, he can only defend point guards. But he can shoot. Really, really shoot. That, his very good points-per-minute average, and his good quickness, have gotten him a multi-year NBA career. And there's millions of people out there that are extremely jealous.
Fun Eddie House fact that isn't strictly a fact: Eddie House has brothers called Light, Green, Haunted and Boat. Indeed, Eddie's real Christian name is "Brick Shit", but he rightly figured that having "shit" in his name would give negative implications about his game, and that "brick" wasn't the name a jumpshooter would ever want to be referred to.
- 4th April, 2009.
Anagram: "Hide doe use," to cover up deer enslavement.
Note: As you can probably tell,
some of the nicknames were made up. Many are genuine, though, and they
are only made up in the instances where a real one couldn't be traced.
Many given nicknames are of common usage, but some are also sourced
from lesser known sources - these sources are not often cited, not because
I hate the people involved, but because there's too many to do so. For
argument's sake, just assume that the unfunny ones are mine.
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- a lot of times, a player will sign with a big agency, and they will
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Also, foreign players tend to have both American and domestic agents.
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like a fun multiple choice game, except without the "fun", "multiple
choice" and "game" elements.
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