Red Propaganda about Mescheriakov

[StPetersburgHoya (Inactive)]

Here's a bad translation of some other portions of the article:

If, as in the NBA, there were a prize for the "most improved player" in Belorussian basketball, the top candidate for such an award in teh 2006-2007 season without a doubt would be Nikita Mescheriakov. In his very first year in the United States, the 6'5 young man became the leader of his highschool team and earned an offer from Georgetown, one of the strongest basketball programs in America. In the last 12 months, Nikita has turned from "the younder brother of a forward on the Belorussian national team" to a self-sufficient star, with whom Belarussian fans' hopes are in no small way connected. A correspondent of basket.by met with the freshman during his vacation in Minsk and asked about his experiences last year.

My thoughts: First - big ups to the Belarussian sporting press for recognizing the work JT3 has done.


Here are some other quick hits from the interview.

Q: I heard that you personally had occasion to encounter the 5th selection of the NBA darft, Jeff Green, who played for Georgetown last season, on the court ...

A: Jeff regularly participated in the summer scrimages of the team, that way he kept his form. Undoubtedly, he's a very talented guy, and simply a good person. And in basketball he's able to do practically everything - he can hit it from behind the arc, goes to pass, fights for possession, and is a very strong physically ... A few times I was up against him on defense, it wasn't very easy. Its impossible to figure out, what he's going to do next.

Q: There was no feeling that with similar stastics they took you onto the team as a replacement for Green, who has left for the NBA?

A: The assistant coach said something similar. One highly rated player with a shot has left, now we have another ... But, speaking honestly, I still don't have the mussel mass to effectively battle under the baskets. If my shoulders get bigger, and I get more fit, then maybe there will be an occassion to talk about the similarity in style of game.

Q: Have you gotten to know the other local celebrity - the 7'2 Roy Hibbert?

A: Yes. They say that when Roy came to Georgetown he had a lot of potential but nothing more. However, the senior imporved, and has become a real athelete, and is now a player who is hard to stop. Especially, for his size - by the way, Hibbert is a very pleasant to tlak with - a very nice guy.

There's a lot more here - he likes the Mavericks and Novitsky. He was recruited through out the year - long before we knew much about him - and his scholarship situation was determined by Jeff leaving for the NBA. Nikita also has some nice things to say about JTIII as well.

[vcjack]

"Where was the coach? Why didn't he smack the nancies in the head to teach them a lesson in comradeship and the philosophy of collectivism?"


oh those reds...

[Deleted]

I am enjoying reading these translations in my best Ivan Drago accent.

[bubbrubbhoya]

pash said:

Mescheriakov's donning of the blue and gray has not gone unnoticed in the motherland. For you imperialist pigs who do not read the "dirty communist script," as it was so ignorantly called in another thread, we offer for your re-education translations of articles published in the Russian and Belorussian press.

In the finest tradition of Kremlin bully-pulpit, smoke-and-mirror politics, you throw mud in the eyes of the shining beacon of freedom that is U.S. America in order to blind its fine, freedom-loving citizens from seeing the imminent threat posed by the Putin generation of the iron-curtain. In your haste to defend the script preferred by Stalin and the Rosenbergs, however, you unwittingly betray the fact that it is Russia and not the United States that harbors imperialist aspirations. As you correctly point out, Mescheriakov's exploits are not going unnoticed in his motherland, but you then erroneously include both Russia and Belarus as his "homeland," as if these two countries are in fact one. Your cartographic aggression does not go unnoticed by this ignorant defender of freedom. Kindly go cozy up to a fawning biography of Alger Hiss and leave the liberty-soaked HoyaTalk forum and the fine residents of Minsk alone.

[StPetersburgHoya (Inactive)]

Bubbrubb - The Rosenberg's first language was English and they were both naturalized citizens of the United States. Secondly, its not cartographic aggression if Belarus really, really wants to be part of Russia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_of_Russia_and_Belarus

Long live the Great October Revolution, the First Glorious Prolitarian Uprising. Long live, friendship between all commrade-workers. Death to revisionists.

[bubbrubbhoya]

stpetersburghoya said:

Bubbrubb - The Rosenberg's first language was English and they were both naturalized citizens of the United States. Secondly, its not cartographic aggression if Belarus really, really wants to be part of Russia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_of_Russia_and_Belarus

Long live the Great October Revolution, the First Glorious Prolitarian Uprising. Long live, friendship between all commrade-workers. Death to revisionists.

First, thanks for informing me on the Rosenberg's first language; it's a real revelation. Unfortunately for them, they chose to abandon this superior freedom-loving language the minute they chose to spy for the dirty Soviets.

Second, did you even read the article you link above? If so, are you embarassed that you conclude from the information presented therein that Belarus wants to be part of Russia? Maybe it's not your fault; maybe you just missed the biggest paragraph of the article, "Developments," which concludes with the following:

In January 2007, talks appeared to be stalled, as Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko stated: "The Russian leadership is demanding that we join the Russian Federation - that's what is in the heads of the Russian leadership. I don't want to bury the sovereignty and independence of [Belarus]." He added: "From all the consultations and discussions, I have understood that we have different approaches and understandings of the building of a union state," and opposed "the possibility of the [Belarus'] incorporation into Russia."

Not cartographic aggression? Please, pinko, pull the wool over some other freedom-hater's eyes.

Go back to Leningrad.

[dajuan]

You can't spell "Belarussian" without "Russian". Fact.

[bubbrubbhoya]

dajuan said:

You can't spell "Belarussian" without "Russian". Fact.

Linguistic aggression.

[prhoya]

Mods, I feel a lock coming.

Please move this discussion to Embassy Row instead of 37th and O.

[StPetersburgHoya (Inactive)]

bubbrubbhoya said:

stpetersburghoya said:

Bubbrubb - The Rosenberg's first language was English and they were both naturalized citizens of the United States. Secondly, its not cartographic aggression if Belarus really, really wants to be part of Russia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_of_Russia_and_Belarus

Long live the Great October Revolution, the First Glorious Prolitarian Uprising. Long live, friendship between all commrade-workers. Death to revisionists.

First, thanks for informing me on the Rosenberg's first language; it's a real revelation. Unfortunately for them, they chose to abandon this superior freedom-loving language the minute they chose to spy for the dirty Soviets.

Second, did you even read the article you link above? If so, are you embarassed that you conclude from the information presented therein that Belarus wants to be part of Russia? Maybe it's not your fault; maybe you just missed the biggest paragraph of the article, "Developments," which concludes with the following:

In January 2007, talks appeared to be stalled, as Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko stated: "The Russian leadership is demanding that we join the Russian Federation - that's what is in the heads of the Russian leadership. I don't want to bury the sovereignty and independence of [Belarus]." He added: "From all the consultations and discussions, I have understood that we have different approaches and understandings of the building of a union state," and opposed "the possibility of the [Belarus'] incorporation into Russia."

Not cartographic aggression? Please, pinko, pull the wool over some other freedom-hater's eyes.

Go back to Leningrad.

You have been reported. Hope you like Siberia, imperialist.

[bubbrubbhoya]

pash said:

In such circumstances, should I have written "motherlands" or somehow otherwise distinguished between mother Russia and the land of her fellow Slavs to the west? In answer to that, I will leave you with the words of Cioran, who wrote, "On n'habite pas un pays, on habite une langue. Une patrie c'est cela et rien d'autre."

First Russian and now French? You sir, are a "coward." Yes, I just called you a "coward."

Even though you (for some reason) supplied a cowardly answer to your question posed to me, the real answer is, "Yes, you should have distinguished between mother Russia and the land of her fellow Slavs to the west, because not doing so constitutes cartographic aggression, and I'm sure that Pyrtle would agree."

Long live the United States and freedom-loving U.S. Americans!

(P.S. I don't know who Cioran is, but his French isn't very good. If it were, he obviously would have said, "On n'habite pas de pays..." So not only did you quote a coward, but also you quoted an idiot. Oh well, I suppose you're just another misguided Russian looking through the window to Europe to the French to turn around your woefully backwards country.)

[ExcitableBoy]

bubbrubbhoya said:

U.S. Americans!

U.S. Americans? Is this the Miss Teen South Carolina pageant? What about South Africa and The Iraq? Don't they need our help?

[bubbrubbhoya]

excitableboy said:

bubbrubbhoya said:

U.S. Americans!

U.S. Americans? Is this the Miss Teen South Carolina pageant? What about South Africa and The Iraq? Don't they need our help?

They certainly don't need the Putin-esque "help" being foisted upon our poor compatriots in Belarus. I am sure, however, that were we to invest more in education for South Africa and The Iraq, U.S. Americans would only bolster their case to being the most freedom-loving people in the world, because education is the truth, and the truth shall set you free!

[Massholya]

In Belarus... basketball shoots you.

Anyone... anyone...

[vcjack]

excitableboy said:

bubbrubbhoya said:

U.S. Americans!

U.S. Americans? Is this the Miss Teen South Carolina pageant? What about South Africa and The Iraq? Don't they need our help?

Well if we are using the term America to refer just to the United States, then it is an unecessary distinction but in reality all of the people in the western hemisphere (well, except the jelouse Canadians) consider themselves to be part of the legacy of Amerigo Vespucci's namesake and therefore it is an important distinction to use in such a heated foriegn politics/hoya basketball related discussion.

But let me turn to back to the defender of the Great Bear, you seem to follow some sort of party line, using frasing like "Hero of the people" and "Noted American Puppet" you must be buying into something, I'm just not familiar with Eastern European Politics to know what

Besides all this red/Putinic agression bores me. Wake me up when the true hero of the people comes in and saves Russia from the criminals: Garry Kasparov!



[attempttokeepthisonthemainboard] its interesting to hear that Nikita was brought in as "Jeff's replacement", I hope he will be given the opportunity to try and live up to that daunting task

[StPetersburgHoya (Inactive)]

massholya said:

In Belarus... basketball shoots you.

Anyone... anyone...

In Belarus ... Cuse still sucks ...

[prhoya]

pash said:

And, you know, I'll always be able to nail the three, that's just part of my game, no one can take that away. In America, big men are generally valued by the quality of their shot, and really not by much else.

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First, I guess he's cocky. I like the fact that he thinks he can hit the 3. Now, I want him to prove it. I remember another certain European who supposedly could hit the 3 too. Hit it regularly, pass, drive and defend = playing time.

Secondly, I guess we know where Nikita stands on defense and the big guys. He doesn't value it. He better come around on this one.

[tgo]

bubbrubbhoya said:

First Russian and now French? You sir, are a "coward." Yes, I just called you a "coward."

... you should have distinguished between mother Russia and the land of her fellow Slavs to the west, because not doing so constitutes cartographic aggression, and I'm sure that Pyrtle would agree.

Bubbrubbhoya could definately challenge RDF as my favorite hoyatalk poster with more exchanges like this.

[prhoya]

Lost in translation?

What I like most about Nikita is that he had the guard skills before growing to his current height. From what I read re: Kenner, he has kept those skills. That is invaluable. The fact that he can stroke it, and make it, from 3 is big bonus. Now, I hope he can show it all, including defense, when it counts. He has four years to grow and adjust.

BTW, I think the fans at The Booth should pick up the "Belarus!" chant.

[StPetersburgHoya (Inactive)]

I haven't read the whole thing. But even the Belarussian media has picked up on the fact that we have a lot of sons of famous players on the team ... Sigh ...

Also, he references our games always being sold out and getting discount at stores ... I can't speak to the discounts - but don't expect 20,000 for the William & Mary game Nikita.