Tony Allen: Seldom Unmasked Potential

More photos » by Michael Perez - AP Nobody is better than Tony Allen Browse more photos » How do you even begin to write about Tony Allen?  Seriously, how can you even begin to put into words any coherent thoughts about a guy whose career has - whether viewed at a macro or micro level - displayed about as much coherence as this paragraph?  Which is to say, hardly any. Surely the only way to broach the subject, when that subject is so maddeningly inconsistent, dangerously erratic and, on a good day, effectively wild, is to pattern my article in the same manner.  Perhaps if I start to make a good point and then lose focus and fly off at a wild tangent, peppering my article with disappointingly formed analogies and paragraphs where I contribute nothing of value whatsoever, but then every now and then I write somethin...