You Must Be Willing To Get Posterized
Posterized - A slang term depicting a play in basketball. In said play, a player dunks the ball over top or in front of another player, making a play so picturesque that it may appear on a poster, hence the term, posterized. (Blake Griffin makes a living out of posertizing NBA players.)
For those of you that follow sports you know that @blakegriffin is a freak of nature and is an ESPN top 10 highlight reel waiting to happen. I happen to know Blake and his family, as they attended the LifeChurch.tv Campus that I pastored for many years. (casual name drop)
Blake has always had an amazing knack for the rim and ability to finish with a power dunk. With the recent addition of one of the best point guards and floor generals in the game, Chris Paul, it’s power dunk to the nth degree. So much so that the LA Clippers arena is nicknamed Lob City because of what Chris Paul combined with DeaAndre Jordan and Blake Griffin can do with the alley-oop.
Recently Blake Griffin did a monster dunk on OKC Thunder Big Man, my man Kendrick Perkins. The dunk has received over 3 million views and counting on YouTube. You can check it out here. I personally have seen way more powerful dunks by Blake Griffin than the Kendrick Perkins contested dunk.
The next game after the Big Posterization dunk on Kendrick Perkins, Blake Griffin and the Clippers faced the Utah Jazz. Every time Blake got close to the rim, players were scurrying like a bunch of scared mice, because they didn’t want to get posterized. It’s not only happening with Blake Griffin, but often times you will see players vacate the scene because they don’t want to get posterized.
In life or in basketball, if you want to be successful and you want to be a winner you must be willing to get posterized. Don’t back down from a challenge, a promotion, taking a risk, facing an opponent or contesting one of the most prolific dunkers in the game. Go after em’, give it what you got and be willing to get posterized. Kendrick Perkins’ response to the posterization sums up what I’m trying to say, “It happens… At the end of the day, if you’re a shot blocker, you’re going to get dunked on.” At the end of the day if you give it all that you have in life, business, sports etc. you’re going to get dunked on.
The ones that will be successful in the end are the ones that are willing to take a risk, the ones that are willing to get posterized. That poster is a symbol that you were willing to try and not run away like a scared coward. I’d much rather have a guy like Kendrick Perkins on my team than these other guys who are running scared. That timid business is just weak sauce… no matter the task; give it all that you have.
Our 26th President Theodore Rooselvelt spoke about those that are not willing to get posterized,
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.” ~Theodore Roosevelt
Why is this generation a generation that is unwilling to get posterized? Share your thoughts on this new generation of cold timid souls.
