How does kev stan for someone who hates fun so much?
― Spottie, Saturday, 20 January 2018 21:17 (six years ago) link
Windhorst"Right now, the best place for Isaiah would be in the G-League...He's costing the Cavs games right now. It would be better if he was costing the Charge games."
― fgti spinner (Spottie), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 20:45 (six years ago) link
shd be standard to rehab in the minors after a big injury, players shd be into it, chance to get yr groove back in a low pressure situation
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 31 January 2018 21:05 (six years ago) link
agree
― fgti spinner (Spottie), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 21:09 (six years ago) link
congrats to zach lowe for finally figuring out a workable hair situation.http://i68.tinypic.com/2hol79e.jpgalso his new pod w woj man between the two of them is just way too much stuttering! both really dry basketball nerds does not make for an entertaining podcast.
― fgti spinner (Spottie), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 03:52 (six years ago) link
i need this magic sleep drinkhttps://www.si.com/nba/2018/02/06/nuggets-knicks-trey-lyles-blake-griffin-derrick-rose-som-sleep-drink
― fgti spinner (Spottie), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 17:32 (six years ago) link
ESPN announced that they are expanding their Rachel Nichols hosted, The Jump, to one hour.— Andrew Marchand (@AndrewMarchand) February 20, 2018
― they call me melo gelo (Spottie), Wednesday, 21 February 2018 03:32 (six years ago) link
Richard Jefferson on Simmons had a lot of great Cavs drama gossip
― while my dirk gently weeps (symsymsym), Wednesday, 21 February 2018 03:42 (six years ago) link
gotta check that
― they call me melo gelo (Spottie), Wednesday, 21 February 2018 03:43 (six years ago) link
Ethan Strauss joining the Athletic might be enough to push me over the edge to sign up.
― they call me melo gelo (Spottie), Friday, 13 April 2018 16:14 (six years ago) link
Hey nerds listen to the basketball movie podcast my sister has started doing w her friendshttps://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/film-court/id1393865270?mt=2
― devops mom (silby), Thursday, 5 July 2018 02:01 (five years ago) link
Subd. I’ll check it out
― Hall of Fam (Spottie), Thursday, 5 July 2018 05:32 (five years ago) link
Thanks; please thinkfluence all your friends so she becomes extremely successful.
― devops mom (silby), Thursday, 5 July 2018 05:35 (five years ago) link
breens greatest calls
Mike Breen Greatest Calls: A Thread pic.twitter.com/BeehE5aItT— Ike (@ManILoveOhio) July 16, 2018
― InfoWarriors (Spottie), Monday, 16 July 2018 22:43 (five years ago) link
cant wait for this show
“I still regret giving my 14-year-old my name.” - @KingJamesThis and more real, unfiltered conversation with @OBJ_3, @mavcarter, and more in UNINTERRUPTED’s unscripted series THE SHOP. First episode dropping 8/28, exclusively on @HBO. pic.twitter.com/zIoxEgBnJn— UNINTERRUPTED (@uninterrupted) July 26, 2018
― InfoWarriors (Spottie), Thursday, 26 July 2018 20:52 (five years ago) link
Shams leaving Yahoo for the Athletic.
― InfoWarriors (Spottie), Tuesday, 14 August 2018 16:39 (five years ago) link
SVG joining ESPN
Our Andrew Marchand reporting Stan Van Gundy expected to join ESPN as studio analyst. Would love instead to see Mike Breen paired with the Brockport boys - Jeff and Stan https://t.co/tZQeTl3K3S— Marc Berman (@NYPost_Berman) September 28, 2018
― Machine Gunk Jelly (Spottie), Friday, 28 September 2018 22:16 (five years ago) link
they gotta let those guys do a game together at some point.
― call all destroyer, Friday, 28 September 2018 22:27 (five years ago) link
For sure
― Machine Gunk Jelly (Spottie), Saturday, 29 September 2018 00:24 (five years ago) link
my fav hoops pod rn is brian windhorst's espn pod w/ the other espn basketball ppl. it's basically the old truehoop podcast but w/ all good/smart writers and no "personalities" like amin or the more talk radio-ish guys that used to be on the truehoop pods. windhorst is kind of a garbage writer but as a moderator of conversation he's good bcuz he is very very knowledgeable about the league.
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 17 March 2019 20:18 (five years ago) link
i listen to it cause brian is good but i actually hate the combinations of guests who rarely seem to have any chemistry. other than bontemps whose grumpiness i enjoy they can be a drag.
― call all destroyer, Sunday, 17 March 2019 21:06 (five years ago) link
it's a little worse now bcuz jackie macmullan is out... sometimes it's a weird crew. kirk goldsberry in partic is not very good.
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 17 March 2019 22:49 (five years ago) link
yeah he's awful.
― call all destroyer, Sunday, 17 March 2019 23:32 (five years ago) link
windy is cool enough. he knows a lot for sure, seems really plugged in. i havent listened to his pod recently ill get back into it. dude lacks any sense of humor tho.
― but I can't let Trae do it I got Huerter on my mind (Spottie), Tuesday, 19 March 2019 00:31 (five years ago) link
windy has a sense of humor but like any good midwesterner it's extremely dry.
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 19 March 2019 01:05 (five years ago) link
espn shuffling nba countdown again:
SOURCES: BEADLE, PIERCE, BILLUPS OUT AT ESPN’S “COUNTDOWN”
only Jalen is staying on
― big city slam (Spottie), Wednesday, 12 June 2019 18:15 (five years ago) link
i like chauncey, paul is awful obvs
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 12 June 2019 18:31 (five years ago) link
jalen, u cant fire jalen
chauncey is fine just boring. beadle seemed fine? idk the whole show needs to be re-thought. try something totally different.
― big city slam (Spottie), Wednesday, 12 June 2019 18:38 (five years ago) link
that show is really and truly wretched... jalen actually is prob the only good one
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 12 June 2019 18:59 (five years ago) link
honestly i really enjoyed scott van pelt's coverage of game 5 on his special edition of sportscenter they should just give postgame to him
beadle seemed really disengaged most of the time. none of them had any chemistry.
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 12 June 2019 19:03 (five years ago) link
agree. i love the final sportscenter with ScottVP. great format
― big city slam (Spottie), Wednesday, 12 June 2019 19:06 (five years ago) link
yeah its good
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 12 June 2019 19:14 (five years ago) link
players only is done.
Via sources: TNT will no longer air the Players Only NBA broadcast. Turner Sports will likely do some Players Only content but as far as games for the 2019-20 season, the Players Only broadcast on TNT is no more.— Richard Deitsch (@richarddeitsch) July 24, 2019
― big city slam (Spottie), Wednesday, 24 July 2019 21:29 (four years ago) link
a not-bad idea that was horribly executed.
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 24 July 2019 21:54 (four years ago) link
i did enjoy some players only broadcasts but when it was bad it was insufferable... they also did it too often. would've liked to see them tweak a bit but oh well
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 24 July 2019 21:56 (four years ago) link
yah you both are otm. kinda wish they tried to hone it to a good spot and adapt it rather than dump it completely but the naysayers were pretty harsh on it from the start.
― big city slam (Spottie), Wednesday, 24 July 2019 22:31 (four years ago) link
i think they'd just need to be more selective about the scheduling... it was a cool vibe for those middle of the season thursday night west coast TNT games that are like blazers vs rockets or whatever. but sometimes they'd get a good game where you actually wanna hear real announcers and it would be like, why'd anyone think this was a good idea
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 24 July 2019 22:45 (four years ago) link
by good game i mean big game
yeah there was one where there was some crazy shotmaking going on between two good teams and i think on a big go ahead bucket greg anthony was like "well that was a really nice look there ... well executed" or some monotone platitude and all i wanted was a breen BAAAAANG or w/e
― big city slam (Spottie), Wednesday, 24 July 2019 22:54 (four years ago) link
yup all otm
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 24 July 2019 23:03 (four years ago) link
Matt Barnes is the future imo
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 24 July 2019 23:13 (four years ago) link
barnes is good breaking down the game and what not from the little postgame and The Jump clips ive seen but not sure about entertaining for a 2.5 hour broadcast. its really a hard skill, even the best at it get bad after a while (van gundy).
― big city slam (Spottie), Wednesday, 24 July 2019 23:25 (four years ago) link
an idea for players only would be to rotate different guys in and out like a quarter at a time or something
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 24 July 2019 23:34 (four years ago) link
Players only being gone is good but questionable stuff is going on. They got rid of The Starters, Kamla gone. Seems like cost cutting for no reason.
― Matt Armstrong, Thursday, 25 July 2019 03:34 (four years ago) link
yeah wonder what their plan is, if anything
― big city slam (Spottie), Thursday, 25 July 2019 17:52 (four years ago) link
Ros and Fratello out at nba/tnt
― big city slam (Spottie), Saturday, 27 July 2019 05:36 (four years ago) link
Fitz as Hannity I’m guessing because on his (recently canceled) radio show he would defend literally everything the warriors org did and would just really go over the top praising Myers/Jacobs/Kerr etc
― brimstead, Monday, 29 July 2019 19:00 (four years ago) link
oh duh i totally read matts post wrong thought he was talking about jim barnett. fitz is a goof yeah.
― big city slam (Spottie), Monday, 29 July 2019 19:08 (four years ago) link
I’m done with player pods.
― Jeff, Wednesday, 12 June 2024 10:26 (five days ago) link
"the headline should be that the celtics melted down on offense in the most predictable way" --zach lowe
really that should be the headline for a game which they won to go up 3-0 in the finals, im thinking more third graph
― lag∞n, Thursday, 13 June 2024 16:00 (four days ago) link
hes doing a whole segment on the this hes very passionate about it, havent been able to get through one of his pods in a while, sad
― lag∞n, Thursday, 13 June 2024 16:09 (four days ago) link
it just feels like where the game is now, big leads barely mean anything anymore, like a 15 point lead can evaporate in a few minutes, teams are gonna make runs
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 13 June 2024 16:10 (four days ago) link
there's just too many super gifted offensive players on a bunch of teams
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 13 June 2024 16:11 (four days ago) link
think it was more the Celtics just breaking down on offense like for 5 minutes they barely got a shot off
― frogbs, Thursday, 13 June 2024 16:13 (four days ago) link
its was a real bad stretch but thats why you go up by 20, and then they pulled it together and won the game
― lag∞n, Thursday, 13 June 2024 16:17 (four days ago) link
wtf is lowe’s problem, i haven’t listened but heard he was dissecting luka’s fouls like the zapruder film
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 13 June 2024 16:56 (four days ago) link
hes got bristol brain, baby, incurable
― polyamerie "it's more than this 1 thing" (m bison), Thursday, 13 June 2024 16:57 (four days ago) link
dallas never led or even tied lol
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 13 June 2024 16:59 (four days ago) link
i forwarded past the those first two segments of the luka fouls and the celtics cold snap where he seemed depressed over the whole sitch, and now hes cheered up and is complimenting the celtics saying he always believed in them shouldve started that way then dug into the details after, weird stuff
― lag∞n, Thursday, 13 June 2024 17:05 (four days ago) link
― call all destroyer, Thursday, June 13, 2024 12:59 PM (fourteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
they were up the whole first half!
― brony james (k3vin k.), Thursday, 13 June 2024 17:14 (four days ago) link
no i meant in the famous run following the 21 point lead
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 13 June 2024 17:24 (four days ago) link
Haven't listened to this Lowe-cast, and honestly probably won't.
I had the same experience others had upthread with his Finals preview, where he started with a capital-S SERIOUS "WHICH TEAM HAS MORE AT STAKE?" question. Then he was pre-emptively super-defensive about the question itself, then started talking about some dumb shit that Perk said on TV. Had to shut it off!
I listened to his podcast religiously from like 2017 to 2022 but I feel like something changed around then that I can't quite put my finger on.
Maybe I don't really feel like I learn anything from him anymore, plus he's like 20% more manic and shticky than he used to be. And the constant mentions of what his ESPN TV colleagues think, as has been covered well upthread.
― intheblanks, Thursday, 13 June 2024 17:31 (four days ago) link
I tend to skip to the guest with TLP but I like his guest segments a lot. They usually have room to talk, whereas THC is the same ten jokes over and over mixed with small servings of very good analysis.
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Thursday, 13 June 2024 18:22 (four days ago) link
xp manic and schticky is right, he also talks way more than he lets the guests talk. he usually has some good points buried in there but it’s a lot.
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 13 June 2024 19:35 (four days ago) link
it is really weird the whole groupthink that developed over the course of this season where somehow the team that was by far the best team in the nba all regular season by any objective/statistical measure was somehow not the favorite the win the championship
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 13 June 2024 20:35 (four days ago) link
people saw the 2021 jazz and the 2022 suns and have now overcorrected into thinking the statistically strongest team is always a paper tiger
― intheblanks, Thursday, 13 June 2024 20:43 (four days ago) link
also boston playing in the weaker east was a factor, even though they went 23-7 against western teams during the regular season
― intheblanks, Thursday, 13 June 2024 20:47 (four days ago) link
i don't think it was misguided groupthink to say that denver should have been considered the favorites. i think at any point in history any title team returning their starting 5 of guys all still more or less in their primes has had a claim to being title favorites. and if denver played boston in a 7 game series maybe they would beat them
― slob wizard (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 13 June 2024 20:53 (four days ago) link
yes Denver for sure I was more thinking of how people across the board were picking Dallas
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 13 June 2024 21:04 (four days ago) link
Yeah, it's totally fair to have had the Nuggets as favorites to repeat. That said, I do think a lot of people saw Boston's regular season success as a mirage on some level. I mean, more than half of the ESPN experts picked the Mavs to win this series
― intheblanks, Thursday, 13 June 2024 21:05 (four days ago) link
well…I think it was also a bit of a case of not understanding basic probability. even if the nuggets were the best team this year, which is arguable, they still had to make their way through a loaded west to even have the chance to play the celtics in the finals. you can hypothetically be a 3-1 favorite three series in a row and you’d still be well under 50% to make it through all three.
I do think the celtics were the best and most complete team, but their road to the finals was probably historically easy…something that’s been more or less the case for east champs for 25 years now. at some point someone should do something about this imo…
― brony james (k3vin k.), Thursday, 13 June 2024 21:09 (four days ago) link
and it turned out it wasnt just the celtics path to the finals that was easy, the finals was easy too
― lag∞n, Thursday, 13 June 2024 21:12 (four days ago) link
yeah I don’t want to get too much in the business of discounting individual championship runs, the celtics have def earned it this year. but there’s a pattern that seems like it’s bad for the league esp now that lebron is out of the east/irrelevant
― brony james (k3vin k.), Thursday, 13 June 2024 21:14 (four days ago) link
on the other hand in the aforementioned 25 years, the east has gone 8-17 against the west
― intheblanks, Thursday, 13 June 2024 21:15 (four days ago) link
it would be more fair and also more entertaining to de conference the league imho
― lag∞n, Thursday, 13 June 2024 21:18 (four days ago) link
needs to happen at some point
― I Chet the Holmgren (Spottie), Thursday, 13 June 2024 23:54 (four days ago) link