Random NBA Observations 2013 - 2014

[Brozay]

Just put $50K Colicash on the combined score being less than 199. Should be easy money, right?

4 of the 7 games last season were > 199

 

[GunRanger]

What about a guy like Pat Ewing whos been doing his due diligence on the sidelines as an assisstant. Ewing prolly isn't "networking" correcting .

After he got fired by the Magic, Pat did some announcing for the MSG Network. He was awful. He always looked nervous, didn't speak clearly, and would pause a lot during his points. I really think he is terrible in the interviewing process.

Most of those guys getting these jobs, either have pedigree (Budenholzer, Brett Brown, Richards etc.) or they know how to sell themselves. I think it's refreshing, instead of recycling the same lame coaches who get the same results.

 

[Easy-E]

After he got fired by the Magic, Pat did some announcing for the MSG Network. He was awful. He always looked nervous, didn't speak clearly, and would pause a lot during his points. I really think he is terrible in the interviewing process.

Most of those guys getting these jobs, either have pedigree (Budenholzer, Brett Brown, Richards etc.) or they know how to sell themselves. I think it's refreshing, instead of recycling the same lame coaches who get the same results.

I'm all for guys who have experience and paid dues.

 

[Panther]

How the hell did Flip Saunders become part owner of the T Wolves?

Dont know how he pulled that off but thats a power move

 

[Easy-E]

Sept 6, 2013:

Spitball, unresearch predictions

Pelicans 35+ wins

We had 34

Chris Paul = MVP KD Won

Kobe's not playin' anymore than 60 games, no more than 25-28 mpg
Im not buyin into Kobe hitting an Adrian Peterson

Kobe's only played 6 games and averaged 29 min.

Celtics will have the worst record, in the league MIL did it

Spurs ain't done

They in the Finals, again

3/5 I did good

 

[Easy-E]

Scott Raab, the author of the anti–LeBron James manifesto The Whore of Akron, was later critical of those reporters who chose not to speak up about West’s locker room blowup. Writing in Deadspin, Raab flatly declared that West had been “off his meds.” Raab, though, is a model of sensitivity compared to Peter Vecsey, who asked his New York Post readers to “consider the fact West has depression problems and suffers from mental illness.” Vecsey continued, idiotically: “What prevents him from concealing weapons in his Cavaliers workout bag and sneaking them into the arena or practice complex, and, on a particularly moody blues day, blasting everybody in sight?”


In West’s view, the press felt more comfortable assigning him to a category than trying to understand him as an individual. For many sports writers and fans, the clinical label became an easy explanation for anything he did that seemed out of the ordinary. In the season following his arrest, he was frequently silent and somber in the locker room, but West doesn’t believe a disorder is the best explanation for this behavior. He was worried that he might get serious prison time for the weapons charges. He had married and then divorced his college sweetheart. He says that negative thoughts went through his head every day: “I’m just going to go home, man. Turn myself in now. I don’t even deserve to play basketball this year, man. I’m too embarrassed, man. I can’t deal with the laughter.”

smh

Delonte West: He was branded as “crazy” and became the subject of a vicious rumor. Is the stigma against mental illness keeping him out of the NBA?

Long, great article

 

[Easy-E]

Speaking with West on the phone last fall, I mentioned that an increasing number of teams were bringing in psychologists and psychiatrists to work with players. “I guess everybody crazy now, huh?” he quipped. “Maybe I’m not the only one then. Maybe there’s something to that.” Then he turned more serious. “Maybe it’s not a ‘crazy’ thing. Maybe it’s just a highly intense, stressful type of job that puts a lot of pressure on guys to perform and play.” Then there’s the stress that pro sports can put on families and the various outside pressures that athletes deal with. “Guys need somebody to talk to,” West says.

 

[Easy-E]

In the year that I’ve been following his progress, the New York Knicks seem to have expressed the most consistent interest, but they’re now on the verge of signing Lamar Odom. Odom, a friend and former teammate of West’s on the Mavericks, won two championships with the Knicks’ new president, Phil Jackson. West tells me he’s happy for Odom, who’s seen more than his share of strife. A cousin of Odom’s died—murdered, Odom said—just before that season in Dallas. While Odom was in New York attending the funeral, the driver of a car that Odom hired crashed into a 15-year-old boy, who died of his injuries. Years before, Odom lost a 6-month-old son to SIDS; his mother died when he was 12. A disappointing season with the Mavericks was followed by a very public struggle with drug addiction, and in the gawking that ensued, West sees a failure on the part of fans and journalists to think of Odom as a person, rather than as a Kardashian-affiliated celebrity who’d gone off the rails.

Aw man, LO.

 

[Cory MBA]

4 of the 7 games last season were > 199

 

[inndaskKy]

Sept 6, 2013:



3/5 I did good

 

[Easy-E]

I'm shootin 50%<

...basketball

 

[tremonthustler1]

How the hell did Flip Saunders become part owner of the T Wolves?

Dont know how he pulled that off but thats a power move

Simple. He actually wanted to keep the T'Wolves in Minnesota, so he organized a group and purchased a piece of that Aggro Crag. If you wanna keep that team there too Glen will sell you a stake.

 

[inndaskKy]

I'm shootin 50%<

...basketball

Shooting 40%. Guess we're countin' em as 3-pointers.

 

[Easy-E]

Shooting 40%. Guess we're countin' em as 3-pointers.

 

[He Who Posts Well]

They even included the