Here's Hoping That Beasley Gets It

B-Easy, as he is known, has an opportunity to be Derrick Coleman and I don't mean that in a good way. Derrick Coleman should have been the best power forward to ever play the game but lack of commiitment and arrogance did him in. Derrick Coleman was a lefty Tim Duncan with athleticism. He was a 6'10 PF with a soft shooting touch, and the mentality to bang the paint but his attitude towards the things that make you great and not his talent did him in. Enter Michael Beasley, a young man who was drafted lower than his talent and college production dictate that he should have been who provides that same concern. I admit I somewhat defended Michael Beasley because I had a problem with the media saying that there were concerns about his character and yet would never identify what those concerns were (i.e. does he have drug problems, anger management issues, high maintenance with the coaching staff). Nothing other than he likes to pull childish pranks materialized. But now we know that he was involved in the incident with Mario Chalmers and Darrell Arthur. In fact, he was fined $30,000.00 more dollars than they were which leads me to speculate if he was the one who had the weed in the room (the other 2 deny smoking marijuana). It leads to some concern whether he was the one flushing something down the toilet as NBA security entered the room. I hope B-Easy gets it because his talent is unreal. I hope he doesn't go the way of the Derrick Coleman's, Glenn Robinson's, and other talented players who short change themselves because they fail to ever get it.