JEFF VAN GUNDY LIKE SLOW WEEK 11-17-07

Ok, fireplace is blazing… right?! Check, Patron is flowin?! Yesss sirr!!!, What a life. That basically described my weekend. Everything was just a good old solid, except Saturdays sports was kind of lame. Very happy MD beat BC, I just really can’t stand Boston fans. There everywhere when there winning but no one remembers the Redsoxxx when they sucked before getting Manny, Big Papi and Pedro, they don’t remember the C’s wit the great Dino Radja(my 3^rd fave celtic ever and fave European player), but winning cures all. Speakin of Boston I saw the Departed for the first tyme since opening week at the movies. Great damn movie, I posed the question to the Get Right Clique, where would u rate it against other gangster movies. Some did didn’t even put it in the top ten, I cant see that, when match-up the master Scorsese, the diabolic one Jack, then 3 of the best young actors, Wahlberg ,Leo and Damon, u get a certified banger. E’nuff about Southie,

The first weeks of the L are in the bag and what have we learned. We learned KG (as mentioned in my earlier blog) is playin like he on a mission. We learned that Wiz our in serious trouble. I was scanning Gilly blog: http://my.nba.com/forum.jspa?forumID=400032200 and it doesn’t look good, he been playin major minutes and his knee has already been drained. The scary part about the Wiz is they have been playin bad, the big # have pout up good numbers and Brendan Haywood has been havin a career year and there still 0-5. they got make move, me personally I would love to trade Brendan for Brad Miller, that will give Brendan a fresh start and he will be a fine player; it gives the Wiz the gr8 passing big man that it a must for the Princeton Offense. Can one imagine the wings spread and Gilly back door his man and Miller hittin him from the high-post wit a perfect bounce pass. Sitting in front of my fire I was sitting Indian style and thinking about diff offense and the beauty of basketball when I was inttrupeted but Tmz.com (tv show) they had a clip about The Doggfather, has to be one of the funniest things I ever saw. Im sorry I couldn’t embed but here the link please watch and laff: http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid353549946/bctid1293608637

Anyways back to the beauty of basketball, mainly the Princeton offense, I found this old clip by the father of the Princeton Offense :

Very deep stuff he had some major upset and major scares in the nc2a tourney. Watch and learn suckas. Speakin of Nc2a my boy OJ had a killer game albeit in a loss to Mercer… which got me to thinking about upsets already, Wat the deal wit Kentucky losing to Gardner Web. The pundits will say it early and this and that but they just fired a gr8 coach in Tubby Smith for this type of loss. One can only imagine wat they would have done to him. But in lighter news I was peepin the ESPN family of networks schedule, one word insane: http://sports.espn.go.com/espntv/espnTopics?topic=Basketball&watch=CollegeBasketball

U can really o-d on this stuff. In a sidenote, I was watchin the Notre Dame game and was really in shock. It one thing to have some injuries and lose games, that happens in football, but to see the team lose to service academy’s is just unacceptable. Can u imagine the gap in athletic budgets between ND and Air-force, it has to be a diff. of about 100 mill. I found this clip by Dr. Boyce Watkins :

Peep his website: http://www.boycewatkins.com/

It’s an interesting concept/idea, I’m kind of torn to be honest, I’m a diehard Notre Dame, been one since my dad let me stay up late for the 1989 Natl. Championship game and I saw Rocket Ismail took the kick-off back and I fell in love wit those Golden Helmets. Unfortunately cant let me love be blinded by the god (touchdown jesus) awful teams. Was it blatant racism exercised at the expense of Ty Willingham, I think that pretty obvious now. Every coach should have 4 yrs min. ot prove that they can or cannot handle the job, firing him 3 yrs into his contract wit a winning record is unheard of. Now the kicker is wat if all elite Black athletes boycotted Notre Dame………..Imagine that. That would rock the sporting world on fire…….the power would inevitably return to the people oops I mean players. Stay Tuned.

Tuesday Night Special

Man the traffic coming home has been great, I’ve even managed to get a round of bowling in. Now I can admit I’m not a the best bowler, hell I have no strategy or form, in fact I just try to throw that son of a gun down the lane as hard as I can which usually end up in the gutter. But for my last frame I was like PT Weber (u know the dood who wears the sunglasses after NFL countdown), 3 str8 strikes……….an amazing feeling, comparable to a weekend marathon of real world/road rules challenge on MTV or and Intervention marathon on A&E. Anyways since it was the Bones-House medical drama on fox night, I was sanctioned to the backroom to watch ‘Cuse and St Joes. It got me thinking about that magical 2003 run, man that was a squad, the Mel-man, Gerry Mac, Colin Firth(the biggest stiff in college-basketball history), Duaney and I forgot the the other starter. I remember watchin PTI wit the big homey Mikey; were very big Melo fans since he represents East b’more not far from us; Tony asks him how ya’ll gonna do in the Nc2a, he says “if we get a 3 seed or better chalk us up for the chip”. Classic Mel man line let hope one of the great incoming freshman can have the same Swag.

A real quick entry from the "U cant blame Davey Stern" office:

I was watching the De'twat and Lakers game last night and they made injured Chauncey Billups watch the game in the locker room because he did not have on a Blazer on. Now u can look at it from multiple angles; Angle 1-who cares about a 10 mill dollar over paid point guard who blatantly dissed the rules, Angle 2- nobody could lend homey a blazer and Angle 3-he knew the dress code an s still said uck it, no matter how u call it on or off the court u better have ur uniform on.

In closing, real quick I was thinking just how good is J-Kidd, I saw he just dusted the Magic for 11-19-10 are u serious. That 19 boards……6-4’ son. Anyway I had to compare him to Magic just so see how close they are. Very interesting

Magic Johnson 6'9"
G played 906
Asts 10,141
APG 11.2
Stls 1,724
Blks 374
Pts 17,707
PPG 19.5
FG% .520
3PFG% .303
FT% .848
Rebs 6,559

Avg 7.2

Jason Kidd 6'4"
G played 954
FG% .40.2
3PFG% .33.3
FT% .77.9
Rebs 6374
RPG 6.7
Asts 8771
APG 9.2
Stls 1,915
Blks 291
Pts 13813
PPG 14.5

Kidd the sickest shit out but Magic was and is still in another level.. I leave u wit some Kidd Nuggets, Get Some!!!

Peace

Weekend Splash

Oct 27^th

Damn only 3 days left, im still pondering getting the NBA league pass. My reservations or are pretty Silly, do I really care to see those wack ass West Coast games (sac kings, clippers, Portland sans big boi Oden) or those lame east coast 7o’clock starts (hawks, indy pacers…actually The Hawks might be fun to watch)…. U know wat fugitabout it, I’m ordering the League Pass 2nite…How u think I should run this by my girlfriend, I mean she hates that fact that Thursday used to be Ugly Betty and Grey Anatomy now it Espn college football and now it NBA double-header…I’m gonna have to re-up a nice xmas gift for all her troubles……….

Sittin in the crib late/early last night depending on wat angle u wanna enter (3am) I peeped the preseason games on ESPN, Celts v. Cavs and Lakes v. Kings. They say u cant put to much stock in preseason but I think u can put a little stock. First, the C’s look in sync, the boi KG had a trip-double, he’s ready for war, I’m thinking he gonna have that get my Swag back year award. Think about the 1993 season of Mr. Affaletic Charles Barkley, he was coming off the impressive 1992 Olympics (where he led the team in scoring) and was traded to Phx. From the get-go he was on a mission, he avg. 25.6 pts and 12.2 rebs plus 4.6 dimes. More importantly he took that underachieving team to the Finals and was pretty even wit the Bulls. I can remember sittin in my friend peachy house watchin game 7 of the WCF v. Sonics, in the crazy game seven Mr Affaletic had 44 pts and 24rebs, now that wat I call money during money time. Peep these: http://www.nba.com/suns/history/1993_retrospective.html

Gr8 Shit, this man was just possessed on the court………..back to the future later…

now I hope this is the mentality for KG, to be honest I was never a huge fan until I saw an interview wit him and Big John Thompson I think during the 2005 ASG

one of the most thoro passionate interviews ever, one of the rare players of 2day who give a u ish. I’m really rooting for him to get on a roll and just dominate anybody on the court, he got the help and the squad around him……….dominate KG, please just look at those Barkley Highlight tapes and just dominate………

Since we got some tyme to speculate and talk-over, let’s do a small straw poll and analyze our fave NBA announcing teams and studio squads. I was talking wit my big brother about this, I really like Jalen Rose in the studio wit Screamin A….now I can do wit out Mark Jones but he’s better then lazy Canadian John Saunders (who u know black openly admits to liking the NHL…..). Where’s Greg Ant and Timmy Legs, there aight G.ant knows his shit and Legs a local legend, he takes it back to cheap seats in the Cap Centre (old skool bullets for u newbies that thought I was new). I love listening to Hubie break ish down, simply marvelous. In fact there was a old clip of hubie at the old 5 star camp throwin behind the back passes like clock-work. An amazing video that I will be on the hunt for. I did find a old Roy Firestone interview wit Hubie and even funnier news, Roy Firestone is a singer…….tru weird ish:

Oct 28^th

Wat a glorious lazy sundae afternoon, just 2 days left to the NBA pops off. Actually made my fist batch of mac and cheese; a complete success. So I’m getin ready for the Pats-Skins game (later found out to be renamed the Halloween Massacre) and I’m rippin thru the Wash Post Sunday paper, I come across this great Gilly article in the Wash-Post magazine: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/23/AR2007102301560.html

Please read and drop science, it one of the best articles I ever read about an athlete. I’ve been loving Gilly for a min (ask rome), he rare in 2day NBA cookie cutter wanna be perfect superstars. I’m xxpecting his game to improve this year, wit his quickness and speed he should be getting to the middle wit ease and dishin for more dimes. Still a lil away from being a total complete player but as far as pure offensive and like-abilty is Pure Man’.

Lastly for the Weekend Update, from our most popular chamber “U cant blame Davey Stern” desk. The boi Ratchet Wallace is up 2 it again :

Rasheed says NBA "wanted'' Cavs, LeBron in finals

Saturday, Oct 27, 2007 7:09 am EDT

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It may have only been the end of the exhibition season, but Detroit Pistons forward Rasheed Wallace was in mid-season form.

"I still don't think they (Cavaliers) beat us, we beat ourselves," Wallace said. "And I think we also fell victim to that personal NBA thing where they are trying to make it a world game and get (television) ratings. They wanted to put their darling in there (the NBA Finals) and they did, and look what ended up happening.

"This game ain't basketball anymore, it's entertainment," Wallace said. "It's starting to get like the WWF. There ain't no real wrestling anymore either. It's all fake."

Source: Detroit News

It an interesting POV, I think it has some merits, to be honest every major sports is based and runned by the the huge tv conglomerates. Now most will say how can u sway a game or a particular series one-sided, well we know now refs can and do cheat when giving an chance. The bottom-line is the Cavs did win and the Pistons did let King drop 56pts on them…….who knows……….Lets just get it on..