rude!
― lag∞n, Friday, 12 January 2018 23:09 (six years ago) link
i love the basketball jones/the starters weekly pod, but I could understand if it is way too silly for some. Road trippin is occasionally entertaining. The Ringer's NBA pods should be much better than they are. Give Shea Serrano a podcast, simmons!
― while my dirk gently weeps (symsymsym), Saturday, 13 January 2018 04:50 (six years ago) link
I fully admit to watching the starters daily nba tv show most days please do not ban me
― Clay, Saturday, 13 January 2018 05:13 (six years ago) link
lol those guys are living the life props to them for turning hoops fandom into a career. havent really listened to them since the TBJ days, I follow them all on twitter tho.
― Spottie, Saturday, 13 January 2018 05:39 (six years ago) link
i can only (sporadically) get into the tv show around all-star game and playoffs, but yeah they are inspirations
― while my dirk gently weeps (symsymsym), Saturday, 13 January 2018 05:56 (six years ago) link
I mostly like the constant dunking on leigh ellis and his constant Dad ways
― Clay, Saturday, 13 January 2018 06:04 (six years ago) link
bill simmons on Lowe's pod just released, im sure to discuss the Rox/Clips dramz
― Spottie, Tuesday, 16 January 2018 19:08 (six years ago) link
it was p good. but they are mostly talking midseason awards or w/e. think lowe is going on simmons' pod tomorrow.
anyone watch the rachel nichols show the jump?
― Spottie, Tuesday, 16 January 2018 20:33 (six years ago) link
i'd like to but it's on at a time where i am never watching tv
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 16 January 2018 20:48 (six years ago) link
yeah the timing is rough, i let it run in the background when im at work sometimes. p good. she gets good guests.
― Spottie, Wednesday, 17 January 2018 02:43 (six years ago) link
Chris Paul watched ASG last yr and didn’t like lack of competition... he hated seeing Steph have fun especially when he laid down on floor during game after Giannis dunk. From @BontaHill show with @sam_amick— warriorsworld (@warriorsworld) January 20, 2018
― Spottie, Saturday, 20 January 2018 21:11 (six years ago) link
Didn’t know cp was a “play the game the right way” truther . What a dork.
― Spottie, Saturday, 20 January 2018 21:12 (six years ago) link
lol cmon of course he is
― lag∞n, Saturday, 20 January 2018 21:14 (six years ago) link
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 (four years ago) link
i like chauncey, paul is awful obvs
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 12 June 2019 18:31 (four 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 (four 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 (four 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 (four years ago) link
agree. i love the final sportscenter with ScottVP. great format
― big city slam (Spottie), Wednesday, 12 June 2019 19:06 (four years ago) link
yeah its good
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 12 June 2019 19:14 (four 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
and he cant pronounce any players names even when theyre jones
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 14:13 (three weeks ago) link
xp i think that’s right. and back in the 90s we didn’t have the tools to always know who was lame so those reggie trolling videos took on a different tone.
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 14:14 (three weeks ago) link
honestly i don’t hate reggie like he doesn’t grate on me the way mark jackson or richard jefferson do/did. he’s just kinda dumb. or more than kinda. the clock thing last night being a great example
― slob wizard (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 17 April 2024 14:14 (three weeks ago) link
his biggest offenses as an announcer imho
1 can barely talk, consistently mispronounces very common words forget about at all unusual player names theres no hope, and just has a weird way of talking in general he has a flat affect like theres something amiss in his brain
2 is always way behind the action, theyll be some big play then the other team has the ball across halfcourt and hes like wow zion is really putting the team on his back, hes just never has his head in the game no sense of timing doesnt bring any emotional intensity, just very disconnected from the general goings on
3 is consistently wrong even about what hes currently seeing in a replay, but also about the rules of the game, strategy, whats normal in basketball, player evaluations etc
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 14:28 (three weeks ago) link
comparing him and jefferson is interesting cause jefferson is so unlikable but otherwise understands the job does it pretty well, where reggie has no personality and is deeply incompetent
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 14:33 (three weeks ago) link
“i’ve seen him rise to the occasion occasionally” was so classic
― slob wizard (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, April 16, 2024 11:42 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
its a great pod obvs and i know they have this adversarial schtick but i wish sometimes they would give each other a lil credit windy tells great stories has cool lines like that and theyre just on his ass immediately after, even just let it breathe a bit bontemps particularly is always stepping on everyones punchlines
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 14:41 (three weeks ago) link
At one point he said Zion was 6’3”
― Jeff, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 14:53 (three weeks ago) link
Twice
ha yeah he does shit like that all game he has no idea whats going on ever
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 14:55 (three weeks ago) link
lol what
Wow shots fired at @KendrickPerkins from @NBAonTNT panel 👀 pic.twitter.com/0lpDkiUXus— Bri Marie D (@BriMarieD) April 24, 2024
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 24 April 2024 16:32 (two weeks ago) link
love that lol
― brony james (k3vin k.), Wednesday, 24 April 2024 16:44 (two weeks ago) link
whats the backstory there
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 24 April 2024 16:45 (two weeks ago) link
Chuck's outfit there is rough
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Wednesday, 24 April 2024 16:46 (two weeks ago) link
lmao at lagoon's list of Reggie offenses ... "can't talk" "bad timing" and "always wrong" ... not great if your job is to talk about live basketball on TV!
― alpine static, Wednesday, 24 April 2024 19:41 (two weeks ago) link
im sayin
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 24 April 2024 19:43 (two weeks ago) link
also incredibly unfunny
― the defenestration of prog (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 24 April 2024 19:53 (two weeks ago) link
the total package
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 24 April 2024 20:20 (two weeks ago) link
And one of the most grating voices
― I Chet the Holmgren (Spottie), Thursday, 25 April 2024 04:21 (two weeks ago) link
https://theathletic.com/5432961/2024/04/23/lebron-james-goat-michael-jordan-nba-player-poll/
lol at Pierce pulling the same percentage of GOAT votes as Magic.
― Costas Mandylorian (Leee), Thursday, 25 April 2024 17:36 (two weeks ago) link
wtf!
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 25 April 2024 18:59 (two weeks ago) link
i.e., one inexplicable vote. Pierce floated the idea that it was LeBron who voted for him, which is lmao.
There's definitely some interesting data in that poll, I've been meaning to bring it to ilh. Thing that jumped out to me the most is how insanely Giannis' stock has plummeted. One measly vote for best defender, distant 5th (behind Tatum) for MVP, and a massive fall from being the runaway 52% winner last year of "who would you start a roster with" to just a single vote for that as well. Other things, the players seem to love Adam Silver, they still hate Rudy Gobert, and Thibs' reputation as grueling precedes him so strongly that it's gotta influence signing players.
Link to the full survey is here: https://theathletic.com/5433545/2024/04/22/nba-player-poll-2024-lebron-jordan-goat-celtics-nuggets-rudy-gobert-timberwolves/. Lmk if someone wants full text in that other thread though it will miss the very helpful graphs
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Friday, 26 April 2024 12:14 (one week ago) link
full text would be nice thanks
― micah, Friday, 26 April 2024 12:54 (one week ago) link
Only reading it now, some nice gems, like guys being afraid to fight James Johnson, and nobody wanting to play for Thibs by a longshot.
― Costas Mandylorian (Leee), Friday, 26 April 2024 19:48 (one week ago) link
just remembered was half asleep in front of the game last night when i heard chuck and the gang rapping a public enemy song, i was like i should wake up and figure out whats going on but i did not
― lag∞n, Friday, 26 April 2024 20:22 (one week ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9g0Hl1KD9c
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 7 May 2024 14:04 (two days ago) link
i appreciate TNT for looking for solutions to the problem of putting reggie miller on TV but i’m not sure adding jamal crawford to the mix is the answer
― slob wizard (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 7 May 2024 14:55 (two days ago) link
its not good, theyre actually very similar
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 7 May 2024 14:59 (two days ago) link
it’s wild bcuz i think SVG is easily the best in game analyst now on either network now, he’s as good as his brother at quickly calling out strategy stuff but w/ fewer of the antics. but then their main broadcast team goes entirely in the other direction in having zero ppl who can explain what is happening on screen
― slob wizard (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 7 May 2024 15:07 (two days ago) link
celtics fans were very mad at stan that last series idk what he got up to i watched the local broadcast
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 7 May 2024 15:11 (two days ago) link
they should have the local guys do all the playoffs idk why its just the first round, mb its cause some people dont get nbatv
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 7 May 2024 15:12 (two days ago) link
iirc the celtics were killing the heat but he was unimpressed by the celtics defense and thought the heat were missing easy shots
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 7 May 2024 15:22 (two days ago) link
which may well have been partially true but isn’t that fun to refer to multiple times on a broadcast when the celtics are up by 25 or whatever.
yeah thats silly
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 7 May 2024 15:24 (two days ago) link
Yah he’s mostly ok but can get fixated on stuff like that and it borders on him seeming like he’s choosing a side
― I Chet the Holmgren (Spottie), Tuesday, 7 May 2024 15:25 (two days ago) link
he was the coach of the heat for a while iirc
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 7 May 2024 15:26 (two days ago) link
imo stan's bias crossed a line throughout that series, nitpicking whatever the c's were doing run and praising the heat for hanging in when they were down 20 yes. hate to say but it soured me on him and while he is definitely one of the best in-game analysts in the national rotation in terms of the level of insight but i find him pretty joyless. hard to say why but his brother's misanthropy is endearing, and stan's is grating. makybe because jeff leans into and embraces it. i'm at the point that i would certainly take redick over him, and doris (though she also gets stuck on personal bugaboos). hope i never get to the level of preferring reggie tho lol
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Tuesday, 7 May 2024 16:26 (two days ago) link
run=wrong
ok i think you guys need to take a breather lol i don't think svg has an anti-celtics bias
― slob wizard (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 7 May 2024 17:28 (two days ago) link
he doesn’t he was just being annoying
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 7 May 2024 17:29 (two days ago) link
i'll accept that bias was the wrong word there but the particular narratives he got stuck on were a mismatch for what was happening on the court
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Tuesday, 7 May 2024 18:56 (two days ago) link