College Basketball Week 2: 5 biggest takeaways

J.P. Macura Is Great At Making People Mad

Everything people wanted Grayson Allen to be, J.P. Macura has become.

That’s what grabbed the headlines this week, but by no stretch of the imagination was this his best work. Sometimes the simplistic getting in the opponent’s head is more effective.

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What makes this as enjoyable to consume as downing some Mr. Pibb when no one is looking, is that Macura is backing up his antics with stellar play. Three games in, he’s averaging 17.3 points, 5.0 rebounds and 4.7 assists per outing.

Also, Mr. Pibb is > Dr. Pepper. You guys can drink the fancy eight-year-schooled soda all you want. I got the blue-collar person’s soda in my fridge because of its greatness.

What were we talking about again? Oh yeah. J.P. Macura is all of a sudden Michael Jordan.

That entire game, for what it is worth, is a showcase of how college basketball can be great. The crowd was in a frenzy, the entire Xavier team played heels, and it was as entertaining a game as you’ll see this early in the season.

While college football knuckleheads are currently in a tizzy over Baker Mayfield’s several antics over the weekend, here is to hoping that backlash fails in preventing Macura from doing some crazy and fun stuff.

We should want more pro wrestling in our sports. For every dull and benign player in every sport in the country, we need a personality to counter it. Furthermore, if someone like Grayson Allen is going to pretend he isn’t everything he actually is, the shooty hoops desperately needs a dude like Macura pretending as if he’s the sport’s version of Ric Flair.