I’m sitting here watching the NBA finals and listening to Mark Jackson. Jackson uses the “if you’re” construction incessantly. Listen to the guy.

He says if you’re Lebron James you have to do such and such. If you’re Eric Spoelstra blah blah.

He also says if I’m so and so I do so and so.

What’s with all this if you’re and if I’m stuff? I’m me and I’m not anyone else and I don’t have to think about what I’d do if I were somebody else. I wish Mark Jackson would find another verbal construction.

If I’m Mark Jackson I say something different.