I hate to start off BAD with, ahem, bad news, but this is decidedly not AWESOME, BABY!!! Dick Vitale is going to call another NBA game. (h/t JE Skeets)
ESPN college basketball analyst Dick Vitale will call the January 20 Jazz/Spurs game for ESPN, alongside play-by-play voice Dan Shulman. This will be the second NBA game Vitale has called for ESPN since the network regained rights to the league in '02.Why can't they actually do something people want? Get the announcer from NBA Jam, for example. It'd be a perfect tie-in for when they bring out the new NBA Jam game. (Thanks to AnacondaHL for sharing that news -- he's on fire! Boomshakala!)
In other news, Scottie Pippen got his ass whupped by some midgets. And issued a press release about it.
Wait, what?
Skeets posted the rundown and the UNBELIEVABLE press release on Ball Don't Lie today. Go check it out. Now. (Also, Gary Coleman is in the movie, and there's inadvertente nude footage of him. There isn't enough eye bleach in the world...)
Worst of the Night in Pictures:
Nationally Televised Friday Games:
Celtics at Hawks: Rondo and Pierce are expected to play. The Hawks tend to match up well with the Celtics. AND it's on ESPN so I can see it. I am absolutely excited for this game.
Crabs at Nuggets: Holy crap, the Nuggets have a lot of people listed day-to-day: Lawson, Andersen, Billups, Carmelo, and Nene. Did they steal the Frail Blazers' training staff?
All The Other Friday Games:
Raptors at 76ers: Holy crap, the Raptors are at .500 now. Who knew? Another fun fact: only four players are left from the Raptors' roster as of the last game of '08-'09. I wonder if those two are somehow connected...
Magic at
Nyets at Hornets: The Nyets are 1-17 on the road. Get ready to make that 1-18.
Pacers at Timberpoops: As far as I can tell, this game isn't televised anywhere. And for that, we applaud you, NBA and television programmers.
Bulls at Bucks: Chicago had been on a hot streak, but now they've dropped two straight, and they've only won once in their last 10 road games. Is VDN still feeling the heat?
Mavericks at Spurs: Per the Stats LLC preview, "Dallas is concerned about how it will defend Duncan, particularly if center Erick Dampier misses a third straight game with a knee injury." Ruh roh. Mark up the Spurs win right now.
Heat at Suns: In one game, we have Heat AND Suns (not just one sun, multiple suns!). All in one arena. Holy crap, I hope their air conditioning works pretty well. It's going to be super duper hot in that building!
Lakers at Frail Blazers: The Lakers have lost the last eight times they played in Portland. That is impressive. Keep it up, Blazers!
All The Saturday Games:
Hawks at Magic: I don't care if the Magic are slumping. It's still not very fun for the Hawks to play the Celtics AND the Magic back to back.
Grizzlies at Bobcats: It's the battle of the southern market expansion teams! (Faaaaaaaantastic!)
76ers at Pistons: Eek. Ooph. Insert other onomatopoeia here.
Timberpoops at Bulls: Well, nice of the schedule makers to give the Bulls a free win in a super-sloppy game full of tired players.
Pacers at Thunder: Attempting to give a damn... nah, just not happening unless Durant goes off for 50 points. (Likelyhood: higher than you'd think)
Jekyll & Hydes at Mavericks: If you can predict the outcome of this game, you are a better man than me.
Knicks at Rockets: Give me good reason to preview this game. Go ahead. (waiting) That's what I thought. Moving on...
Nuggets at Paupers: Yeah, things just aren't looking good for Sactown right now.
Natonally Televised Sunday Games:
Crabs at Frail Blazers: A rarely seen Sunday night ESPN game! And a legitimately good game at that! Solid week for ESPN broadcasts.
All The Other Sunday Games:
Hornets at Bullets: You know, I'm surprised that Agent Zero didn't quote the "Don't disturb my friend, he's dead tired" line from Commando on the plane at some point while he was running his mouth.
Celtics at Raptors: I know the Celtics went through a rough patch and lost to some bad teams recently, but they don't lose to the Raptors here, do they?
Heat at Clippers: I'm just going to say it. The Heat aren't all that great. But the Clippers are who we thought they were. So this game could go either way, but honestly, shouldn't the Heat win?
Nyets at Spurs: We all know how good the Spurs are at beating up on bad teams. And good God is this a bad team.
Bucks at Lakers: What a nice, boring, bland way to cap off the night and help you go to sleep.
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I hate loving this team
Yeah.
Ugh, 6 out of 7 losses, 5 of which are moral victories.
:(
Almost 2 years later of the Gasol-for-nothing trade, I have remembered that day post of Basketbawful, in wich a so-called Statbuster wrote Marc Gasol "sounds like the second coming of Bryant Reeves" and defined him as "a slow-footed low-jumping center who may never set foot in the NBA". (http://basketbawful.blogspot.com/2008/02/christmas-comes-early-for-lakers.html)
I wrote the next comment:
"From Spain, and agreeing with you on Pau gasol softness, Marc is not a slow-footed low-jumping center. Really, try to see him in a couple of games. He's averaging 16p-8r in 40 minutes games, about 20-10 in 48 mins, and shooting 65% from the field.
Look at this video: http://youtube.com/watch?v=xOAF2zjkRDk
This is not what I say a slow-footed player. Ok, I know he's not Olajuwon, but he's fucking far from been Bryant Reeves."
Ok, he's not 20-10-65% but 15-10-62%- despite the fact he's the fourth option in offense gameplan- and leading the defense on a team that, remember, is starting OJ Mayo, Rudy Gay and Zach Randolph, not exactly an All-Defensive Team trio.
I've read this blog usually during this two years (love it!) but I don't remember if Statbuster is on the team so far, or he has new nick or wathever, but, in any case, I would like to know the official stance of the blog team about Marc Gasol.
Thanks a lot, sorry for my poor english and congratulations for the blog (all of it, but specially those brilliants daily lacktion reports from Chris).
John -- Thanks
Wolfe -- Statbuster still goes by that name. He doesn't post very often, but he still does occassionally post some stuff. I'm the newest writer here (though I've been reading for a year or two myself), and we don't have any "official stance" on anything here between all the writers. That being said, I think Marc Gasol is underrated, and he's really surprised me by turning into a productive player.
Good luck with the Clippers.
Mike Brown, Doc Rivers, and Mike Woodson are the three longest-tenured coaches in the East.
Wow.
Wolfe: Mini Gasol turned out good for the money ($3,240,000 this year), and his game-saving block tonight is p. cool. He's very low on the Grizz's list of problems, which include how much the Thabeet pick is costing them, and, uh, not having money.
Sigh.
UGH.
Why couldn't Sacramento be a major market town that Donaghy, Bavetta, and Stern prefer?! WHY!??!?!
Roy: 32pts
Kobe: 37 shots
Roy: 11 Shots
Wow.
Fate really hates this franchise, doesn't it. No titles in 58 years.
http://1980snba.blogspot.com/2008/03/1985-nba-all-star-game-part-1.html
at 7:40, discussing Moses "Jackhammer" Malone
How sad is it, that I see the Heat up by 5 with 3 minutes left, and don't even expect the Suns to have won.
really lebron? that's fashionable these days?
Also, the Fakers have lost nine straight in Portland.
somehow they manage to show more Lakers highlights than Blazers, even though the Lakers got whooped, and make it sound like Kobe had a great game. Never mind he needed 37 - thirty f'n seven - shots to get his 32 points (and opened up the 2nd half with an air ball on a wide open 3) compared to Roy's32 points on just 11 shots.
Is this why Kobe has so many out of market fans? they just watch recaps that erase all his misses and embarrassing TOs. shit, you could take the same approach to my performances in my rec league and i'd look like a god too.
"Andray Blatche, JaVale McGee and Nick Young also were docked by the team for their lightheaded participation when Arenas pointed his index fingers at teammates as if he were firing a pair of guns during an on-court huddle before Tuesday night's game at Philadelphia. A photo shows most of the Wizards players smiling or laughing, but the four players were deemed the worst offenders."
Unfortunately, the story (in the San Fran. Chronicle) goes into no greater detail than that. I really hope these people weren't fined for laughing...
Word verification: "worti". This action is worti of much scorn.
i understand that tho, given the fact that the cavs def lead the league in alternate jerseys produced...
you know they have to milk the cow as long as it is in ohio..
And except for Udoka(!), they shot poorly. Casspi and Udrih really blew the bunny from distance.
With time running out, Felton misses the layup, only Gerald "Don't Test Me for Rebound Enhancing Drugs" Wallace follows with the putback and time officially runs out, Charlotte win.
Also, with both teams on the 2nd of B2Bs, Orlando up 66-37 on the Hawks at the half, and destroying them.
Nash is on his 5th game in a row with 5+ TOs.
"I didn't know they had steroids for skill. Maybe you should look into that."
Also, trying to find the video of Tyreke airballing a 3, and J.R. Smith, thinking it was made, taking the ball out of bounds...
Yeah, I can't complain about tonight, I just hope that the actual-victory column continues to improve - the paupers are still 6 games under .500 and unfortunately, as noted by myself many times, are not in the Leastern Conference.
You know what would really be an awesomely bawful "retro" garb? Arenas Bullets jersey...in the Baltimore look!
(Hmm, maybe instead of getting KC-Omaha Tiny Archibald schwag someday, I should get the KC-Omaha look for Tyreke the Freak. LOL.)
3rd Quarter
03:54 Evans 3pt Shot: Missed
03:53 Smith Rebound (Off:1 Def:2)
03:52 Smith Turnover : Step Out of Bounds Turnover (3 TO)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHk7gpEGkmI
EPIC FAIL
The Heat and the CLIPPERS now have nearly identical records (18-17 and 17-18 respectively).
Zonkers.
Also, Milwaukee with 28 points. At the half. LeBron had 31 himself at the half.
On ESPN, the female announcer is just flat out horrible. Not for being female, but for her inability to not praise LeBron with every other sentence. Instead of "praise" I would have used a more accurate phrase "verbally suck off", but I may be accused of being a misogynist.
I've been getting the best CAPTCHAs lately:
morballo = Gots to be a Magicism
synerow = Where Magic likes to sit in a movie theater
and the most frightening of all (from a different site - rwandan minds