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The Bryant point was secondary. The point was that we have been down the Simmons/rings/Malone/big and small market road with you many times, and I was pointing out to Moses that I think the thread is "slower" in part because guys in general are staying away from that sort of stuff here at this point, and I think that may not be a bad thing.
I watched part of the Bucks/Timberwolves game last night and the Bucks seemed absolutely joyless, especially Monta Ellis. Not sure if this is because of Scott Skiles, but they just seem miserable out there. Like they were being paid to do a job and there was nothing else in it for them.
i might get there myself considering the sixers just tipped off in chicago.
Popovich is already on board; he rested his guys against the weak and puny Heat to be ready for your guys.
Rick Majerus died todayhttp://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaab/2012/12/01/st-louis-utah-coach-rick-majerus-dead-at-64/1739971/
1, the last ~10 days, the sixers have been running a 10-man rotation -- holiday, wayns, richardson, young, turner, wright, young, allen, hawes, brown -- but tonight, on the 2nd night of a back-to-back, young was out of the lineup, and brown was a DNP-CD, meaning that the sixers ran an 8-man rotation, with #8 -- maalik wayns -- playing just 9 minutes, and #6 -- spencer hawes -- playing like absolute horseshit.
going back to last year, i thought the biggest tactical mistake that collins made was to tighten the rotation when things started going downhill in mid-february, and it is slightly concerning to me that that card is still in his deck.
2, that waved-off and-1 with ~3 minutes left in the 4th quarter was a killer. if jrue would have made the FT, it's a 1 point game, but instead, jason richardson missed a 3 (where he appeared to be fouled by noah on his shooting hand, but that wasn't getting called in this game at that time), the bulls went back down the floor where hinrich hit a 20' dagger to take their lead to 6. the sixers got to within 1 with ~15 seconds left in the game, but two loose balls got picked up by the bulls and rip hamilton made 3/4 from the FT line and the game ended when the sixers missed their next shot.
3, stats:
thaddeus young: 22 points, 7 rebounds, 4 blocks, 4 steals...BEAST
jruth: 23 and 7 assists
ET: 12, 4, 7 assists, and 3 steals
this is an annoying loss, but the sixers didn't play very well, they weren't coached very well, and they got the #### end of the stick from the refs in a few key spots.
next game is tuesday v. minnesota. hopefully they'll have a better showing.
I do think these are two of the best teams in the league.
Caught the end on League Pass audio; the Memphis PBP guy was very emotional, and going off on Danny Crawford--yelling right at him--on the air. Elliott Perry, the MEM color guy, was calming the PBP guy down.
This is a pretty common occurrence.
Hmm, I was watching the local Memphis TV feed and that is Pete Pranica and Brevin Knight so I didn't catch that part. That must be the radio team, I guess. There were a couple of calls in the OT period that were not great, but #### happens.
That's not at all the point I was trying to make, but whatever. Kobe is clearly a sore subject for some people, so I'll let it go.
Condolences to the Majerus family. He was a huge figure in the Utah sports scene obviously, and he will be deeply missed.
Think it depends on the announcers. This is the first time I have heard this guy do it, but I had MEM on LP video last year, so didn't hear them much. He was pissed off about the possession when Bayless threw the ball away late when it was 97-95; he said that it was a 24-second violation and that Crawford, after talking to Lionel Hollins, admitted as much. Elliott Perry agreed but also pointed out that Memphis made a lot of mistakes, and that Randolph had a very bad shooting night. Even in a close one, there are always many things to point to that cause you to lose.
Stern didn't set up the fix in time, I guess.
Sorry, I meant with those specific announcers. Your original post made me chuckle. Eric Hasseltine, the Grizzlies radio play-by-play guy, does a decent enough job, but he is kind of a doofus and gets very emotional and complains about the officials pretty often, while Elliot Perry always stays pretty calm.
Yeah, pretty much this is all correct. It was a 24-sec that they didn't call and then Bayless didn't really throw it away. He lobbed a high pass to Rudy but Manu just grabbed Rudy's right arm from behind so it went out of bounds off Gay. But the Grizz couldn't get anything to fall for a long time in the 4th and OT so it happens. You can tell when bigs start to lose their legs a little because they start shorting 15-footers and missing point-blank put-backs.
I should probably note that all the Grizz announcers were a bit edgy towards the refs by this point because they really screwed the opening tip in OT pretty bad. Gasol won the tip and then Manu knocked it away from Randolph in it what was arguably a foul, but more importantly he knocked it out off his own knee. Spurs ball. If I had to guess, that radio guy had probably been working himself into a froth from that point right there.
Which all goes to show that the whole NBA rigs game meme is utterly stupid. If ever there was a game where Stern would put the word out, you'd think it'd be this one, but no such luck for us. Instead, reffing basketball is hard and sometimes it bounces your way and sometimes it doesn't.
So, this one is isn't about Kobe Bryant's being a "sore subject for some people", particularly since I wasn't endorsing Simmons' ranking of him and was just responding to something NJ said about Bryant's longevity.
Hmm. Didn't know that. Hasseltine was OK on PBP on the whole, but kind of lost it there at the end.
Hmmm. The radio guys missed that IIRC; Perry, when the pass was thrown, said "Nooo" in a very sad voice and while they were pissed about the no-call and other calls, said that Bayless had made a poor play. Guess I need to upgrade to League Pass premium so I don't miss stuff like that.
So it was a questionable decision by Bayless, but if Manu hadn't fouled Rudy there it probably would have worked out because he probably would have had to foul him from behind on a layup or dunk attempt or let it go clean.
It was definitely not the platonic ideal of a fast break.
What was that, like 8 or 9 months ago? It was when I first became a regular in this thread. It doesn't mean that every post I've said since has anything to do with that or that I keep wanting to have the same arguments over and over again.
My opinion on this actually doesn't really have anything to do with Kobe specifically. Yes, I thought it was dumb that Simmons originally had Kobe 15th in TBOB and then jumped him up to 8th when the Lakers won in 2009. Why, cuz he figured out how to win without Shaq or whatever Simmons explanation was? That's lame. As someone who surely watched the Lakers more than I did, do YOU think that Kobe was better in 2009-2010 than he was in 2006-2007 when he was losing in the first round? Or are you like me and think the circumstances changed more than he did? So yeah, it seems silly to me to give someone such a big bump in the rankings just cuz he had better teammates than he did a few years earlier.
And again, this doesn't just apply to Kobe. I thought it was silly that Garnett seemed to jump in every ranking I saw after 2008. He didn't become a better player with the Celts; he had better teammates. He was actually slightly past his prime by the time he got to Boston. So yeah, changing his ranking cuz of his teammates seems dumb to me. YMMV.
That's all I meant by saying that I disagreed with the "count the ringzz" method of ranking players. If the Hornets had kept Kobe rather than trading him to the Lakers, he'd probably have fewer than 5 rings. If Minny had kept Garnett, he probably wouldn't have any. And I don't think either players ranking should have suffered if those things had happened. It's not a dis against either guy. Just against the method many people use to rank them.
In particular with Kobe, no he wasn't necessarily better in '09-'10 than he was in '06-'07 but he had definitely had more valuable career by that point because he had added another 3 full seasons at 27 ppg, 25 PER, etc, etc and had been one of the two best players on 3 more Finals teams and 2 champions. So I would be shocked if anyone didn't move him up their rankings by some amount after that.
And with Garnett, he's added another several years as the defensive anchor of a really great team that went to a couple of finals and won one. That all matters, including the playoff success.
I'd rank Kobe higher now than I would've in 2008 too, but it's because he's still cranking out superstar caliber seasons every year well into his 30's and has thus added a lot of career value since then. That's a lot more significant in ranking individuals IMO than the fact that his team's management built some better teams around him than they had earlier and he got a few more rings out of it. Again, YMMV.
I think you've got me wrong WRT Garnett; I don't think he's historically overrated now that he has a ring - I think he was underrated before. The career value he's added since leaving Minny has improved his rank a lot obviously, but again, that would've happened if he hadn't left too. I'd still take 2003 KG that lost in the first round over 2008 KG that won the title any day of the week.
There are a few players here and there where the circumstances are such that I would cut them some slack on that score. Pre-Boston Garnett is almost certainly one of them.
I don't mean to imply that winning rings should have no bearing on a players ranking; just that I think it has too much on many of the rankings I've seen. If a player plays great in the Finals and his team wins the title because of it, of course that should count for a lot. What I don't agree with is when a player plays poorly but his teammates bail him out and he still gets a bump for winning. Or vice versa, when someone plays great but their teammates don't and they lose anyway and they're labeled a choker. I think counting rings is more useful when ranking teams than players, personally. But to each their own.
Heh. The Grizz have indeed been a pleasant surprise. I've already got my tickets to see them when they come to town on the 15th (of course, they're welcome to play at least a LITTLE worse than they have been in that game...).
I agree with the thrust, but I have to disagree here; I think Garnett was obviously a guy who could anchor a champion before he got to Boston. In a sense, Garnett is like Kareem in that the most visible part of his career has overshadowed his actual physical prime.
My "narrative" comment about Simmons' ranking proclivities certainly meant rings, as Maxwn noted. But it also includes some other things. One interesting thing about Bryant's career narrative is that in most cases, one-team slam-dunk HOF guys are widely admired as personalities: Cousy, Russell, Havlicek, Frazier, West, Bird, Johnson, Duncan, Robinson, Stockton. Guys that good who change teams are often disliked, prickly, or at least controversial in some way or become so in part because they changed teams or change teams in part because they are like that: Chamberlain, Robertson, Abdul-Jabbar, Barkley, O'Neal; and in recent years, Garnett, James, and now Howard, whom several people in this thread have said they really have come to dislike. Pierce is an anomaly in this scenario to an extent, perhaps, although he is obviously admired in Boston. Jordan was unique, period, but I also know that a lot of people, like Simmons, simply write off Jordan's time in Washington.
Yet Bryant, of course, is probably the most polarizing star in NBA history--but has played his entire career with one team, and is now in his 17th year. He has been a Laker for his entire adult life and for about half of his whole life. That comes with caveats (he "ran Shaq out of town" the rape allegation was a singular event which triggered a lot of understandable contempt for him) but I think one reason, along with the obvious fact of the two post-Shaq titles, that his image has improved is that he is, after all this time, still scoring the ball for the Lakers, and is still a guy to be reckoned with on the floor. Shaq did win again in Miami, but bounced around from team to team and became sort of a parody of himself; McGrady and Carter's careers wound way, way down. But Bryant is still here, still averaging 25 points a game, still a guy people have strong feelings about, and is still a guy you have to gameplan for.
And, to a guy who sees the game like Simmons does, that kind of thing is a big deal, which is really all I was getting at, when NJ made the point that Bryant isn't the best player, but if he keeps going long enough he could have a better career than some guys who were better at peak than he was. The most obvious example, I think, is Shaq. Shaq was a better player at peak than Bryant was, but who has really had a better career? I think the answer is probably Bryant.
He is doing better there than he is at WoW. They had him 294th among active guys in their preseason player rankings, two spots away from Sasha Pavlovic.
I think when Bryant goes, he's going to go fast and it's going to be because those legs finally wear out, but I'm not going to be the guy to predict when that's going to be because I thought it was going to be last year, when he averaged 28 points. Dominique hit the wall after 34, as did West and Havlicek and, of course, Jordan. Alex English hit the wall after 35. Oscar Robertson's decline began at 32, as did Clyde Drexler's. All of those guys declined slowly, then at some point went off a cliff or just walked away. Bryant has more mileage on his body than any of these guys. He's right around the age when the handful of comparable players break down. We'll see in the next two seasons whether or not he's special or truly unique.
Well, he's no Ben Wallace.
dion waiters is not a reluctant shooter, is he? averaging 15.5 fga/g (in 32.0 min, while shooting 35.5% from the field) at age 21.
this has gotten some attention, but blatche as 6th man has been a godsend to brooklyn. he's scoring, rebounding, even getting to the line. current per: 23.8
looks like the high ceiling / high risk lotto pick of andre drummond is ahead of schedule in terms of being a good nba pivot.
i thought james johnson was a nice short term pickup for sacramento ... at this rate, he might not even last the season on the roster (after a nice preseason too where he won a starting spot)
there's a few interesting things going on in houston. parsons is playing like a legit starter at the three, asik has kept out of foul trouble and upped his boards (at the expense of blocks), harden - well, we all know w harden (though he needs to watch his turns) and it even looks like they might have something cooking at the four, with patterson playing well (though i'm still bearish on him), greg smith staying efficient in a more significant bench role, and terrance jones having btb monster games in the d-league.
i know nash is gone, but the suns need to get the ball in to gortat more frequently - and play him more in general. maybe then he'll give less counterproductive interviews...
portland's bench... wow. every member of the blazers lineup has been an average to good player this year (lillard-matthews-batum-aldridge-hickson; hickson actually leads them in per, but that's misleading, in large part because of his lack of d) - yet they're only 7-10 as their bench has been sub-lakerian by magnitudes. meyers leonard is the only other guy on that team giving them even replacement level minutes. that said, benches are easier to fix than most things and that lineup is young.
I thought of you and Hollinger when Jamison and Meeks went off on Friday; 20/28 from the floor, 54 points between them. Jamison put up a 33/12 against Denver. In the game before that, of course, against Indiana, I think they had one point between them.
D'Antoni, carrying over his view of him from New York, has basically benched Hill and does not play Ebanks, either. Secondary guys need to be able to shoot a little to play for D'Antoni. Hill's PER has held steady at around 15.
I actually mentioned Blatche in preseason as a reason I liked the Nets. OTOH, I was very vocal about the Pacers being #2 in the East.
i may be projecting this, thing i like most about lin is he has recognition for the good matchups on his team. when he's against a faster guard, he's not driving, but keeping his player away from the action. he's looking for mismatches and constantly looking to push.
i think (and have thought) the best situation for the rockets is for lin to bring the ball up with a p-n-r option with asik, and parsons / pat^2 just outside the 3 point lines, harden off to the left. if they double lin on the p-n-r and he can't get the ball to asik, he's either got harden for a one-on-one, or a kickout for a three to parsons or pat^2. having harden be the point and spotting up lin for a three as the main recipe isn't as good as the reverse.
the rockets need a real backup at point guard (douglas is awful), and lin gets burned against faster guards in iso situations. the forwards are looking better on defense than expected, and asik has just been a major steal. he's holding on to more of lin's passes for layups/foul shots as well. also wonder why cole aldrich isn't getting some time at center - he looked ok from what i saw? don't want asik to get burned out early.
disclaimer: rooting for lin, have been since before linsanity began.
Be glad Kobe was acquired by the Lakers. You have had the privilage of watching up close and rooting for one of the 5 most physically gifted players of all time. He's aesthically pleasing to watch and his killer instinct / desire to win is second only to Jordan Crawford. Kidding! It's second only to Michael Jordan - who still can't let go of anything [unrelated: Jordan's "For Kobe to say that, it's not one of the smartest things he's ever said..." quote from this summer is one of my favorite quotes ever because it's the perfect representation of what made MJ the GOAT and what would make him an unsufferable person to be around]. I digress...
Kobe's start to this season is nothing short of amazing. Watching him and Tim Duncan play like the clock has been turned back 10 years* has been wonderful. Add in that my favorite player - AK47 -is back in the league, and it's easy to see why the NBA has put had a giant smile on my face this year.
Now can't we get back to talking about what's most important? Where exactly does this years Sixers team rank all time? Are they merely better than the 95-96 Bulls or are they better than the Original Dream Team?
*OK - statistically their starts are more like 06-07 than 02-03, but whatever.
I get that Jazz fans need to stick together and all, but I find it "amusing" that you seem to be assuming that Booey can't make his own choices about what he talks about and who he talks to.
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Maxwn brought up Abbott and ELO. The WoW thing was just a joke, which someone else actually brought up a long time ago. Maybe you are being sarcastic here, of course.
As to "baiting" Booey, this started when NJ made an observation about Bryant's longevity. I responded by saying that people like Simmons who care about narrative rank him pretty high, without endorsing the ranking. Booey then went off on some subjects that he has gone off on before; and in the context of noting that, I acknowledged that I have done the same thing about my own preoccupations many times and that I was actually responding to Moses as much as criticizing Booey. In this particular case, my long post about Bryant actually made a point about his career that I hadn't made before, and it didn't mention Abbott or anything like that.
And, of course, you could have simply talked about Kirilenko and ignored the whole thing but chose not to--due to your own preoccupations.
If you want to talk content, talk content. Going meta is always a choice. Just ask TAFKARA.
I don't know, but I did see part of the Brooklyn/Miami game last night, and as Windhorst suggested in his story last night, it seems almost impossible at this point that Miami will not be in the Finals again, and I can't really picture anyone in the West beating them, either. SA appears to match up with them the best, with perhaps the Lakers as a "wild card" in that scenario, if they can pick things up. OKC is still very good, but as I said at the time, and as others said, I think the Harden deal moved them further from the title, short-term.
Williams is apparently playing through a wrist injury at the moment.
Might be my Lakers fandom but I completely disagree with that, though obviously Kobe would be high on that list. RANKING TIME!!
Most physically gifted players (basis includes gifts comparative to competition):
Lebron
Shaq
Wilt
David Robinson
Kevin Johnson
Chris Webber
Michael Jordan
Dr J
Vince Carter
Shawn Kemp
I don't see how early or Peak Kobe gets on that list.
I am watching this early Knicks-Suns game and it is impressive how quickly the Suns' defense disintegrates if the Knicks set one decent screen. Apparently nobody cares to switch or run through the screen, or if one guy does, both do. I am also starting to hope that Michael Beasley becomes NBA Buck Showalter and every team he leaves becomes instantly good.
Olajuwon as well, IMO.
Darvin Ham is coaching in the league IIRC and is well-liked--may be a head coach at some point.
It would also be cool to have a list of the least physically gifted/athletic guys...but the list might, uhh, skew a little white. Rex Chapman was a very good athlete; Kirilenko has some interesting physical gifts as well.
I think I would have Ed Nealy and Mark Madsen on my "least" list, if we do not consider being 6-9 or so a "gift."
If we do...Scott Brooks would be up there.
Has he been playing through it since the day he was traded to NJ? Somewhat serious question.
EDIT: I hate physical gift rankings. I think it's harder than one would expect to decide exactly what counts as a physical gift. I also think it's complicated by things like how sure Howard can run and jump, but he's also undersized for his position. So do we count that as a "negative gift"?
Well, this is obviously just a "fun" thing, not an issue, but Montross was gigantic and strong, which is why he had a career, so in a sense that is a "gift." But yes, he was very awkward for a guy who played at North Carolina and in the NBA.
I don't really remember Vrankovic, but the Showtime Lakers briefly had a guy, Mike Smrek, who could give him a run, I think. It is really too bad that Smrek played before the Shrek movies.
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Williams says he sprained the wrist against the Clippers a few days ago. He supposedly has a lot of little physical issues and is shooting poorly. Avery Johnson:
A lot of other guys on that list are physical freaks whose bodies didn't hold up for them.
I assume most of the least athletic players legitimately sucked -- Jack Haley, Steve Scheffler, etc. Maybe Khalil El-Amin or something if you want diversity. In terms of guys who were actually good... John Stockton? Some of the bruiser big men, e.g. Charles Oakley? The too-tall-to-get-out-of-their-own-way crew, e.g. Yao or Smits? Many of the fat guys (Oliver Miller, Boris Diaw, etc.) are actually tremendously skilled athletes, they're just fat. Almost everyone pre-Wilt, heh.
David Thompson for most athletic. McDyess before the knee injuries was pretty amazing. Spud Webb, I guess. Westbrook? I agree not Kobe. Jordan before Kobe for sure (not that anyone necessarily disputed that.) I think it's incredibly impressive that Jordan hit .200 at AA ball. Heh, funny that I can't possibly see putting the other baseball crossovers (Danny Ainge, Ryan Minor, Mark Hendrickson, Dave DeBusschere, Chuck Connors... not that I saw those last two guys) on there.
Nash is the obvious example. Not big, not fast, can't jump. Remarkable shooter, though, and even in a league where most perimeter players possess some level of ambidexterity, Nash's left hand sets him apart. Couple that with his court vision, and you get a special player.
It is tricky. Cousy, for example, has massive hands for a guy his size and literally one-in-a-million peripheral vision according to stuff I have read. Jerry West has exceptionally long arms for a guy his height. Those things are gifts, but people usually mean raw run/jump/start/stop athleticism when they talk about "gifts."
I like athleticism talk, but I don't know what it means either. There's a guy like Haddadi with tons of size and strength - and some coordination, but zero quickness and stamina - he seems more like the mold here than, say, an uncoordinated guy who can run a little at the same height (um - thabeet?).
Asik shouldn't be up for discussion - unathletic guys can't do what he does covering the pnr.
The NBA version of Arvydas Sabonis would be another test case of what exactly counts here. Ideally, I would say that if "court vision" means awareness, ability to predict how a play will unfold, etc. in a sports sense, it shouldn't count, but if it literally means superior eyesight, then it should count. Similarly, "length" and hand size -- physical gifts that you can't do anything about -- should count. But since I don't know everyone's eyesight or body proportions, it's easier to base it on running, jumping, and general gracefulness. Ah well, it's all semantics...
I wasn't for the so-early firing, but the Meeks think was ridiculous. D'Antoni is trying to replicate that now with Jordan Hill though. Someone needs to look into whether Hill hit on D'Antoni's wife or something. That is some real bad blood right there. I do however like that Mike D has realized that Jamison has no business at the 3 anymore.
The other day, after Jamison blew up against Denver, D'Antoni was asked about maybe benching Pau and starting Jamison. He said "way too soon" and then said "But we need to spread the floor."
My issue there is that while I think it is good to have a system/principles, you also need to be able to adapt. But MD doesn't seem to be--short rotation, shooters get first dibs on PT. Period. Part of the stuff with Pau is on Pau himself and his knees, but MD needs to try to get more out of him, and I think it would be wise to give Hill a little burn to cut Pau's minutes, not overexpose/wear out an ancient Jamison, and to keep Howard fresh, even though D'Antoni apparently dislikes Hill and Hill is not his type of player. Failing that, they might try moving Hill for a player of similar value and salary who fits what D'Antoni wants to do. No idea who that might be.
Kobe is playing 37 MPG right now, and Lakerpeople are concerned about that, but I am really not, since if Kobe wants to play less, he will go to D'Antoni and say, "Play me less."
There have been low-level rumors about the Lakers talking to Pietrus, who AFAIK is unsigned. Since D'Antoni seems to share DK's view of Devin Ebanks, if Pietrus is available, the Lakers should consider it.
So, I like the hire, but I do have some questions about D'Antoni early on.
He signed with Toronto on Friday.
Figures.
As a current NYC public school teacher, this made me laugh...for a long time. Thanks, Andrew.
Six points on 2-for-7 shooting.
Can Kobe be trusted to keep his minutes down, if need be? (Honest question) He seems like a guy who's destructively competitive, if you know what I mean. (Not that he hasn't made it work for him and not that he isn't really smart, basketball-wise.)
The video used to be YouTube, but doesn't seem to be right now.
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I was sorry to read about Majerus.
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this is an annoying loss, but the sixers didn't play very well, they weren't coached very well, and they got the #### end of the stick from the refs in a few key spots.
Despite what either of us would like to think, they're pretty evenly matched average teams right now (Bulls have a better DRtg) that could very well look totally different by the end of the season if their best players come back healthy.
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i thought james johnson was a nice short term pickup for sacramento ... at this rate, he might not even last the season on the roster (after a nice preseason too where he won a starting spot)
He doesn't seem like a guy that should struggle with the mental and effort side of things, and yet he does at times. I obviously wasn't a fan of the Bulls picking him, but he showed enough spurts that I thought there might be something there. He always looks good playing against the Bulls since they gave him away.
asik has kept out of foul trouble and upped his boards (at the expense of blocks)
I haven't seen a ton of him, but he's really improved his conditioning to play that many minutes. It's disappointing (to me) it's happening in Houston though.
Yeah, that's pretty impressive.
Jordan did have three years of college, though. And while I'm a big proponent of prospects skipping college, the first year or two those guys usually aren't dominant.
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Steve Blake has a torn ab muscle, needs surgery, and will be out 6-8 weeks. That also sounds painful.
It's tough getting old, as Lakers fans are seeing.
Ups to Orlando for taking it to the Lakers and getting the job done. I am sure their fans enjoyed it and understandably so.
Nope. Not a peep. Last update was that he was cutting (and the update before that was that he wasn't cutting yet).
is that definitely what he said? I was at the game with my Dad yesterday and as soon as the FT missed I looked to Sheed to see what he would do, and I saw him bellow something. i would've pretty much bet every dollar in my pocket that's what he said; good to know he didn't let me down.
I also considered he may have had a rough night the night before and wasn't interested in sticking around for long
I love having Sheed back in the NBA. He needs to coach when he's done playing.
Only if Iverson gets to be his assistant coach in charge of overseeing practice...
That would be quite Dickensian with a longer last name.
I was talking about this last night. I think he'd be best utilized as a sideline reporter for the TNT crew.
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