Balls

The Purdue Boilermakers were just dismissed from the NCAA basketball tournament. This marks the end of the basketball career of Chris Kramer, an Indiana boy from Huntington that was widely regarded as the best perimeter defender in the country. His heroics in the tournament were well documented, so I won't get into them. I will say that I appreciate what Chris Kramer is.Most people love Kramer until their team is playing him. There isn't a coach in the country that wouldn't want a Chris Kramer on his squad. Only fans that can't objectively evaluate their opponents fail to appreciate Kramer. To them, he is a "dirty" player. That is a weird term. Often, a player is "dirty" when he does things for his team that nobody for your team is willing to do. Those things would be play tough defense, dive for loose balls, work hard for steals and hustle into the passing lanes. Kramer was never a star, not in any conventional sense. No, he was some s...