Cheese monkeys/ Heresy of the Zone Defense

When I read through Cheese Monkeys, I thought it was slightly confusing. The way the author jumped around from topic to topic made it really hard to keep up with. With the whole "left to right, top to bottom, big and small, and in front of and back of" it took me a bit of time to figure out what point was that the author was trying to convey.

What I did like about Cheese Monkeys is how cerebral it was. It was something that truly made me think about how when we get one concept in our head, such as the form of something, we forget about all other aspects of what we are observing.

I thoroughly enjoyed The Heresy of Zone Defense. I thought that basketball was an excellent analogy for the author to use to get his point across that the rules should enhance life, not govern it. I also really liked the Julius Erving story. It was a very good way to grab the attention of the audience and make them want to read on.

I didn’t like the story about Jackson Pollack and being able to drip paint. I felt that this story was uninteresting and didn’t really fit the overall theme of the reading. It didn’t really go with the idea that rules were needed to enhance the quality of our life activities. I also would have liked if the author had expanded more on some of the original rules of basketball laid out by James Naismith.