The Open Run With Will Strickland Episode 175 - The Standard
How many of us measure our success and happiness on the accolades and accumulations… of others?
Having examples to review as an indication of bar setting is great; using those examples as your bar?
Not so much.
Well, level up as Wall $t. assesses the first two game of the NBA Finals, primes Vancouver for the start of Full Court21 Canada’s 2024 National Tournament Tour, salutes those who plants seeds that grow strong roots on and off the court, gives us a WNBA Power 5 and Rookie Watch for the week, launches the Caitlin Clark Protectionism Investigation Agency and ponders why Life gives you The Test first, then The Lesson after…
News. Views. Truths.

References Made:

Robert Keith Horry, listening vs. hearing, Paige Bueckers, Verizon Center, protectionism, Children Of The Corn, 1981 NBA Finals MVP, humility, Margo Dydek, iPromise School, the first ever kiss, Dearica Hamby, hoop goons, Drederick, Monday Night Football, Connor McDavid, air quotes, St. Michael Jeffrey Of Wilmington, Sucka Sauce, Nigeria, prostate cancer, Wilton Norman Chamberlain, and more, all on the podcast where Basketball and Life are One: The Open Run With Will Strickland!
Don’t Get Beat Off The Dribble!
Find Will On These Rough Interweb Streets: Twitter: @W_Strickland1 IG: @WillStrickland1

The Open Run With Will Strickland

Episode 174 – Paralysis By Analysis
The old phrase “Piss Or Get Off The Pot!” may sound disturbing, but decision making reveals certain character markers that oft times separates the champs from the chumps.
Choose Wisely.
The first round selection to help Wall St. earn them rings and things you sing about (bring ‘em out) is Canada’s biggest Dallas Mavericks fan and podcast super producer Ryan Antonio Henry.
Dwight Powell’s favourite fan and the head honcho of FC21CA’s #mapleGxNG set the narrative straight on Caitlin Clark’s first 11 games (in 20 days, no less) in the WNBA, and laugh at the handwringing around physicality being shown to the rookie while wondering if she and the other 143 women in the league are corporate partners… or competitors.
The guys also shop at (Washington) Wizards R’ Us like Association champions have for the past eight seasons, get to pattin’ pockets on the NBA coaches carousel and oh yeah… preview the 2024 NBA Finals between the Mavs and the Boston Celtics!
News. Views. Truths.

References Made:

Lindsay Harding, load management, prijatelj, Mid-American Conference, Brittney Griner, context, pommes frites, Kermit Washington, facetiousness, The World’s Most Unique Basketball Tournament, predictive text, #binHWSBN, wrasslin’, body shaming, objectivity, Unrivaled, Darren Waller, old pussy, Bishop Bullwinkle, nepotism, Glory, and more, all on the podcast where Basketball and Life are One: The Open Run With Will Strickland!
Do What’s Popular With The Population!
Find Will On These Rough Interweb Streets: Twitter: @W_Strickland1 IG: @WillStrickland1

The Open Run With Will Strickland
Episode 173 – Shattered Dreams
It is said that there are two sides to every story… three when you include the truth!
But with the line between reality and the virtual version of it being so very blurred by disinformation, bombast, prevarication and duplicity, where would any reasonable person when facts are a must?

You’re not saying we’re Number One…

Welpington.com, we’re sorry! We lied!
We’re numbers one, two, three, four and #FiF!
Aiding us in cleaning these rough interweb streets with brooms and directions toward #tackleBoxSZN loss of a legend, is schoolteacher-by-day | playground hoops vlogging giant and FC21 – Boston Director Mak Thompson!
He and Wall $t. discuss how he built a narrative of success in This Thing Of Ours called Basketball from pain and disappointment, and the inevitability of NBA Finals matchup not quiet set yet.
Angel Reese’s WNBA worldview, including a new team in Toronto, George Floyd, Scooby Doo and My Daddy’s Tools shape the episode as well!
News. Views. Truths.

References Made:

“Throw It Down, Big Man!”, R.I.P. Bill Walton, Pac-8, Dwight Equan Grant, White Men Can’t Jump, bear tings, Fenway Sports Group, broughtupsy, Golden State Valkyries, CEBL, vlogging, Texas Two Step, Chalky White, BringYaAss,org, Apologies Leonard Miller, air quotes, The Notic, piraguas, Nothing’s Over There, Michael B. Jordan, U.N.I.T.Why?, sage, All-Stars vs Superstars, and more, all on the podcast where Basketball and Life are One: The Open Run With Will Strickland!

Don’t Get Beat Off The Dribble!

Find Will On These Rough Interweb Streets: Twitter: @W_Strickland1 IG: @WillStrickland1