Let's Never Talk About this Car Crash Again

Crash? What crash? The critically acclaimed film starring Don Cheadle, Sandra Bullock and Terrence Howard? No? The one from Thursday night involving Terrence Jones? No idea.

Exactly. It didn’t happen.

But lets assume for a moment that it did. My man John Clay says Jones’ little adventure “could have been worse.” Clay rolls through the facts (disputed and undisputed) and even drops a gem of a joke at the end of the article. Clay argues that a mistake should be treated like a mistake:

Made available to the media, Jones said he left the scene because “I was afraid that Coach Cal would find out,” that he never saw the other driver much less entered into any kind of argument. He said he called an assistant coach immediately and asked him not to tell Calipari. That didn’t work, however. The head coach found out. The head coach always finds out.

Bottom line: On the one hand, Jones is considered a veteran leader, a veteran who was said to have matured heading into his second season. On the other hand, he is a veteran in that he is a sophomore on a freshman-oriented team. He is still a kid, 20 years old. Kids make mistakes. And this mistake could have been far worse.

While I’m over this whole car crash story, Mr. Clay makes a good point. If we’re going to put this thing to rest, I think the article provides some good closure. But seriously, we should never talk about this again.