"Yeah, well, that's just, you know, like, your opinion, man."
You know you want to buy these: Lego NBA players from 2002. Only $12 each! They're in keychain or necklace form, because nothing says "I'm a classy dude" like wearing an Antoine Walker Lego player necklace to the blackjack tables when you go to Vegas or Atlantic City.
Worst of the Night in Pictures:
Mistake #1 -- Hiring Doug Collins
Nationally Televised Games:
Celtics at Heat, TNT, 8pm: The current injury report for the Celtics has both O'Neals day-to-day. That might as well just stay on the injury report the entire regular season, right? Just save them the trouble of typing it out each week.
Lakers at Nuggets, TNT, 10:30pm: Considering how screwed up and unpredictably bawful this week has been, I can totally see the Lakers somehow losing in a fourth quarter collapse to the Nuggets. (Wait, Arron Afllalo is covering Kobe? Nevermind.)
All The Other Games:
Warriors at Bulls, 8pm: Good thing for the NBA this one isn't on national TV. The Warriors have averaged 91 points on 38% shooting in their last nine trips to Chicago, even though they've averaged nearly 109 points per game since 2006 otherwise. (I can hear The Superfans chanting "DA BULLS" right now in between bites of hot wings)
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Go read the comments sections from the past few posts, that's what I'm referencing. (I can't remember the last time I even watched the guy, much less remember how well he played defense...)
Ouch.
He conveniently ignored the fact that the Heat curb-stomped the Magic, one of the NBA's top teams, in between losing to those other teams in a season opener against a veteran team and an utter statistical aberration game against Utah.
Will they win a title this season? No, not unless Gasol is injured during playoff time and a bunch of other stuff goes their way. Are they as bad as he makes them out to be? Hell no.
Plus they're advertising Lebron's jersey to the right hand side of the article.
Afflalo didn't guard Dunleavy *at all* that game. Dunleavy dropped 31 on such noted defenders as Carmelo Anthony and JR Smith. Afflalo was on the bench for 18 of those points, and covering either Collison or Granger for the rest.
As far as I can tell, Silvio doesn't watch the Nuggets, he just reads box scores and assumes Afflalo was guarding the opposing team's SG. Anyone who actually watches the Nuggets would know AA defends the other team's best perimeter creator, while Melo/JR/Billups get guys like Dunleavy.
The last thing I want to be is a Heat apologist, but to call this team gutless is stupidity. They've lost all three of their games by a COMBINED 13 points. You can't call a team gutless (or crappy, or lousy, etc.) if that team with no inside presence loses by an average of 4.2 points per loss, and wins by an average of 22.6 per win.
Woj put up a Heat-hate article as well today: http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news?slug=aw-rileyheat111110
The "unnamed executive" in the Yahoo article reeks of Dan Snyder giving up Comic Sans and having Woj do his writing for him.
Also, more Heat hate from the Boston Herald: http://www.boston.com/sports/basketball/celtics/articles/2010/11/11/cant_stand_the_heat/?s_campaign=8315
1. A half-empty building (good for me because I paid for the cheapest upper level ticket but was able to sneak into the 8th row aligned with center court)
2. Lacktion Jackson's career night (11 pts in 23 mins)
3. Michael Beasley's career high 42 pts
4. Westphal major coaching boner #1: leaving Tyreke in the court with 5 fouls, causing him to promptly foul out of the game with 9 mins to go in the 4th quarter
5. Westphal major coaching boner #2: claiming that he played Dalembert, Jason Thompson AND Lacktion Jackson together to try and stop Beasley from scoring.
6. Wolves playing Maurice Ager as a backup point guard for extended stretches, and immediately waiving him after the game was over. http://www.usatoday.com/sports/basketball/nba/2010-11-11-1940803524_x.htm
MAJOR FAIL!!!
1-6 Rockets : http://espn.go.com/nba/team/stats/_/name/hou/cat/PER/houston-rockets
All but one Houston player have positive PER, indeed 12/14 players are with PER of 10+.
Average PER for all 14 players is 14.6. For example 7-0 Hornets average for 13 players is 13.4 : http://espn.go.com/nba/team/stats/_/name/no/cat/PER/new-orleans-hornets
Obviously, PER is purely offensive measurement. It does not reflect fact that Hornets are 3rd best league defense with 98.2 points allowed per 100 possessions, while Rockets are 28th with 110.3. Not comparable, with 2 offenses being comparable. Luckily, league standings reflect it.
72-10 my ass.
Also, hadn't seen Chuck in a while. He's lost weight! Now he looks like a SMALL walrus!
"Let me tell YOU something, pendejo!" (love that Lebowski scene- nice caption)
Best moment of the game so far: Jesus for 3 smooth as butter, smirk to Reggie, LeBron "retaliates" by airballing it, probably killing a baby or something, cut to a confused Riley and a distraught woman.
Dan played 20:42 minutes for Warriors tonight. Well, it gives new meaning to word desperation.
I mean, if Dan was last player basketball player on Earth and I'd have to draft team for game versus aliens ... I would pick Looney Toons and left Gadzuric undrafted.
I love Spo.
Anyways, lol heat.
1982-2010
Cause of death: LeBron James
And the offense is atrocious. Its on Spotard (as we dubbed him). Lsat year I complained a lot with the iso/pick and roll = whole offense. I thought it would change. Just disgusting.
And Bosh is pillowly soft. I see that now.
www.firespo.com
Tweet of the night, courtesy of Paul Pierce
BTW, with so many players tweetting out there. We should establish a BAWFUL tweet of the day/night.
7 secs left, down by 5 points, inbound pass to Lebron. He spun, then dribbled then shot like he has all the time in the world. And of course he missed.
Kobe shooting 11-31 doesn't help. You have teammates Kobe, find them! There was a period in the game where he just kept shooting, and shooting and shooting, and there were guys open as well! Come on!!
I really hate ripping on my team but sometimes it's jus too much to not vent.
For those who don't catch sarcasm too well: Kobe shot 11-32 for the game, which doesn't look too bad... but during Afflalo's rests mid-second quarter and most of the third, Kobe shot a combined 5/7 for 14 points; against Afflalo, Kobe shot 6-25 for 20 points.
http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news;_ylt=AoSGMxqMOMwZh3njPZVLBKm8vLYF?slug=aw-celticsheat111210
Big baby Davis, intentional dirty quote machine: “No one can spoil this night. Good for us to come in and spank that ass.”
"The Heat now face the very real prospect of falling to .500 on Saturday, because there doesn't appear to be any reason why the Raptors won't be capable of exposing Miami's defense the way the Celtics did on Thursday and the Utah Jazz did two days earlier."
Is ESPN serious? I mean, I am not big fan of the Heat or anything. But come on, the Craptors?
Again:
strong PG + inside presence = Miami doom!!
I think the last line (underlined) was something like "**Fire Eric after the Thanksgiving" but i'm not sure. Can you respectable gentlemen confirm?
@stephanie: "Best moment of the game so far: Jesus for 3 smooth as butter, smirk to Reggie, LeBron "retaliates" by airballing it, probably killing a baby or something, cut to a confused Riley and a distraught woman"
That was A-W-E-S-O-M-E. If I could make that into a frame-by-frame poster or image, I'd have no more reasons to live.
Funny thing is, I can't remember when we started even considering whether Turkeygloo "would be ok" with coming off the bench. Has he become such a prima donna that he now demands to start? What have you become, oh NBA?
Craig Seger asks Jesus: "You don't like this team, do you? Tell us about that." to which he replies "We don't like anybody. We like ourselves. That's what we work on in practice." Awesome. I should work on liking myself more in practice as well- seems to be working for Ray Allen.
Speaking of... he seems to have his jumpshot back in check. Think he spent the whole summer shooting jumpers and re-living game 7.
Suns need to build that chemistry and assertive unselfishness again, and Gentry needs to just start his 5 best players. This may involve putting faith in Frye at C and sending Lopez to the bench to work with Dragic again, and moving Warrick to PF.