“He Hired a Shooting Coach, Camera Man, and Editor”: Mad Dog Russo and Jason Whitlock Clown Audacity and Authenticity Of Stephen A. Smith’s Shooting Video

As if enough people around the sports stratosphere haven’t given Stephen A. Smith‘s enough grief for hiring a shooting coach and posting a video of him draining jumpers Klay Thompson style (If the video is unedited), Mad Dog Russo took his Wednesday co-host to task in one of his closing, classic rants on his “What Are You Mad About?” segment on Wednesday’s “First Take” close.  Russo referred to a scene in the classic movie “Hoosiers,” starring Gene Hackman.  “Remember that famous scene in Hoosiers when Gene Hackman is trying to get  Jimmy Chitwood (local hoops star who quit the game) to join the Hickory(HS) team and Hackman  goes out there to visit him and rebounds the shots and (Jimmy’s) hitting shot after shot after shot. You know who now is our new Jimmy Chitwood? The phony,” Russo said, pointing at Smith with the video playing in the background.   “He hired a professional basketball coach,” Mad Dog said in disbelief, trying to clown the 57-year-old Smith. “And by the way it is all edited. They made sure the ball went in. This is ridiculous.”  “What are you doing???” Mad Dog asked, implying that the entire setting was staged. Mad Dog Clowns...