Bullet time
by Stop-n-Pop on Dec 26, 2009 6:45 PM CST
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i been keepin dis ta mahself for a minute now...
but yall rememba i wuz a huge mike miller fan. less juss say i got sum seriouz inside info on his paly lass year:
he wuzzint happy frum de start. de fact dat he wuz in minny made hiz family (wife an kidz) wanna be der too, but he wuz like nah yall stayin in memphis. Mike likes ta sleep around accordin ta my source mayn an he wuzzint happy dat everywun recognized him here mayn. he dememded a trade in december mayn. obiovusly dat ain happened. he much happier in washington aldoe he iz currently gittin divorced, which aint a surprise given de info i got.
it sounds ta me like he wuz TRYING to git traded by not shootin de ball aldoe he still thank he magic johnson in DC so maybe he juss crazy. his creent hairstyle supports dis claim. fuck a mike miller iz what i have ta say, dis shit really put all doze halftime “mike miller is such a great guy” pieces in perspective.
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MAYN HOL UP!
I know concrete insider info about him sleeping around...
and alluded to it last year and everyone ripped on me and said he was such a “great family man.” Hmmmm…
by College Wolf on Dec 27, 2009 11:39 PM CST up reply actions
Gomes is back
PS..the game on NBATV is blacked out if you live in the Twin cities?
What is more surprising?
Urban Meyer stepping down or Vinnie Del Negro employed as a head coach?
Because there are no fours.
Toine
stupid league pass...
….has this blacked out. amazing.
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Match-ups
A scoring 3 and a versatile shooting 4. We might be in trouble, but still seems very winnable.
Because there are no fours.
Toine
Love with 7 of the first 10
I have a good feeling about this game.
by Bad News Wolves on Dec 26, 2009 7:15 PM CST reply actions
I was at the WAS v SAC game last week...
… Where Tyreke robbed Gilbert in the final seconds to seal the win for the Kings… The Wizards are a lazy team. They don’t block out/rebound well. They stand around a lot and depend on their stars (Gilbert, Caron, Antawn) to generate offense. We can beat them.
I noticed that on D in the Wiz - Suns game last week too...
It was the like the Suns were running a layup drill the whole game?
"I'm gonna make you cry...I'm gonna make you cry and dip my cookie in your tears!!!"
Don Zierden...
…with the tech. That was for the Lynx.
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I'm really rooting for a Wittman tech
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this is one of those games...
…where I really wish i could be right behind the visitor’s bench. The heckling possibilities are endless.
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Did Corey just try to throw an oop to Love?
Wow. Surprised nobody suffered a career ending injury.
Because there are no fours.
Toine
Wow
This is the longest i’ve seen Love go without a rebound.
by Bad News Wolves on Dec 26, 2009 7:24 PM CST reply actions
He won't be near the offensive glass much with Jamison out there
Antawn is going to stay out near the three point line
Wow
The Wizards are terrible on the glass
by Bad News Wolves on Dec 26, 2009 7:28 PM CST reply actions
especially on the offensive glass...
…their forwards just sit around and wait for the ball to come to them.
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I hope Hollins and JaVale McGee see some burn at the same time
Two of the most athletic bigs in the NBA
my peepers hurt
first chance I’ve had to see a game on TV (don’t live in Minny). . Can’t believe there are still fans of this team that defend/wildly overvalue Jefferson and Brewer.
Brewer looks like he’s playing a different sport than the other 9 guys on the court. A sport that only he knows the rules of and is winning going away.
by Son of Gerald Green on Dec 26, 2009 7:32 PM CST reply actions
Well Jefferson is playing better
Since Love came back he’s around 20 and 11.
by Bad News Wolves on Dec 26, 2009 7:35 PM CST reply actions
3-4 from 3Pt land
And roughly 2-15 in the paint. Just guessing, but holy god has any collection of basketball players missed more layups than our guys?
Because there are no fours.
Toine
Good First Quarter
The Wizards are soo lazy…how do you not get control of a lose ball with 3 players surrounding the ball
Earl Boykins is a Wolves killer
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here are his splits
http://www.basketball-reference.com/players/b/boykiea01/splits/
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Stats sites are great
My friends embellish all kinds of statistics; I just whip out the laptop and prove them wrong.
Also surprising that Boykins is averaging 20min a game for his career. Don’t know why, just is.
Haha
Sasha just held up his hand for a high five and everyone walked in the other direction.
by Bad News Wolves on Dec 26, 2009 7:39 PM CST reply actions
did anybody hear jeff van gundy
during the cavs/lakers game yesterday, making fun of the fact that this was the national broadcast offering tonight? it was pretty hilarious. mark breen or whoever was trying to get him to shut up and stop dissing the matchup.
by secretarykissinger on Dec 26, 2009 7:39 PM CST reply actions
at least they didn't make it...
….nets/wolves.
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I heard that...
..and he followed it up with something like “What’s next, Minnesota-Sacramento? Oh wait, Sacramento is pretty good at home.” Ouch.
wow
monday night’s broadcast game is wiz-grizz! yuck.
by secretarykissinger on Dec 26, 2009 8:54 PM CST up reply actions
So we're 2nd to last
in TOs and 3Pt % and last in blocked shots. Wow. We suck. And Ramon still can’t shoot.
Because there are no fours.
Toine
he's shooting...
….13% less than last year.
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Ramon gets to the line all the time but keeps missing
Meanwhile Jonny hits almost all his FTs but can’t get enough respect to get a call
the sad thing...
….is that his ft rate is essentially unchanged from before…he’s just missing more.
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Wizards sure messed that up
Love got caught way out of position, but bad passing and a terrible shot anyway
Dang, how many of Washington's defensive boards has Love gotten at least a finger on?
…another successful tip to Al… Way to keep it alive!
That pass into the stand was an homage to Foye.
Think he’ll have one of his own?
Because there are no fours.
Toine
the Randy Foye Memorial Turnover
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Corey and Hollins
have the worst hands in the NBA
by Bad News Wolves on Dec 26, 2009 8:01 PM CST reply actions
Combine with Al's passing prowess...
…and you have a front-row injury machine!!
Love's having problems with Jamison
Antawn keeps pulling him outside his comfort range from the hoop, and Love doesn’t have the quickness or length to grab rebounds he can’t position himself for first
well...
….there went the feed.
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indeed...
….i think i’ll have to go read a book or something.
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i'll put up an open thread...
…game wrap tomorrow.
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heaven forbid
not that! damn nba league pass restrictions!
by secretarykissinger on Dec 26, 2009 8:12 PM CST up reply actions
Try this one...
http://www.rwbsports.com/ch5.html
"I'm gonna make you cry...I'm gonna make you cry and dip my cookie in your tears!!!"
ok...
….my neighbor and i walked to the local pub with wi-fi and amazingly enough…they have the game on. missed a bunch though.
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Look how far they play off of Brewer...
Just begging him to shoot…
"I'm gonna make you cry...I'm gonna make you cry and dip my cookie in your tears!!!"
Why
would we give it to Brewer to shoot at the buzzer.
by Bad News Wolves on Dec 26, 2009 8:06 PM CST reply actions
Must be the Lakers' effect
I’ve seen LA run that play dozens of times, but of course in their world, that’s Kobe at SG
And we have more assists and blocks...
Which happens…like…never…
"I'm gonna make you cry...I'm gonna make you cry and dip my cookie in your tears!!!"
Ha
Great to watch Love in that sumo-squat position for about 10 seconds after his tip-in juuuuust rimmed out.
Josh Smith sure rebounded nicely after his foul-fest against us
22 points, 6 rebounds, 5 assists, 4 steals, 4 blocks against Indiana
I always love checking out his almost cartoonish lines in fantasy
Al Horford’s awesome 25 & 19 on .786 shooting with 5 blocks is pretty phenomenal as well.
Smith is one of those few players aside from Kirilenko whom you think can plausibly go for a 5×5 line (points, rebounds, assists, blocks, steals). He’s all over the place.
Five assists for Jonny tonight...
Is that already a career high?
"I'm gonna make you cry...I'm gonna make you cry and dip my cookie in your tears!!!"
I was joking...
But those numbers do surprise me…much better than expected.
"I'm gonna make you cry...I'm gonna make you cry and dip my cookie in your tears!!!"
About his average
In the past month. He’s just gotta cut down on his turnovers, unless he starts averaging 9 assists or turns into LeBron/Wade.
Of course
It’s hard to tell when you’ve made Gil have a bad night when he’s shooting 41 percent and averaging 3.7 turnovers. Yuck. No peripheral numbers make up for that kind of inefficiency.
He's averaged 30ppg in his last 5
Since he’s coming off injury, it’s more accurate to judge him on his most recent games than the whole season
Agreed
He’s just always been really inefficient with FG and TOs, even in prime seasons when he averaged 30ish. It’s also really hard to tell when Gil’s totally healthy, as up-and-down as his knee has been. I guess a good night against Gil is just holding him below 20 or to make him more inefficient than he already is. I agree that Brewer is a great defensive matchup call.
I’d almost prefer Gil gets 30 instead of Antawn, considering Antawn will generally be a hell of a lot more efficient in getting his 30. But we really have no good matchup for him (the perimeter big problem we have) so we might as well hope Gil shoots his team out of the game and our bigs clean up after his misses. Which isn’t all that unlikely with these two teams.
it's nice when the ball goes into Jefferson in the paint
because I get chance to catch up on my reading, pay some bills, play with my kid, and do some light housekeeping without missing any action
by Son of Gerald Green on Dec 26, 2009 8:31 PM CST reply actions
Anyone else notice
that when Hollins gets a rebound he always looks surprised?
by Bad News Wolves on Dec 26, 2009 8:38 PM CST reply actions
The same way
He always does with the ball in his hands with people around him? He’s the master of the “crazy flailing arms after the ball’s been easily stripped” move as well.
Tonight is total bizarro...
We have more assists and blocks than the opponent
I want Brewer to shoot, and Flynn and Wilkins to not
Wilkins has 11 boards while Love has 4
Weirdness…
"I'm gonna make you cry...I'm gonna make you cry and dip my cookie in your tears!!!"
Second time you've said that.
Jamison would keep Love away from the hoop when Love is on defense, not offense.
Love got pretty much his season average of defensive rebounds
In the games he puts up huge rebounding numbers, he’s doing on the offensive glass. Look at his game log.
Doesn't make your first statement any less wrong.
(Unless you were implying the brutish strength of Antawn Jamison kept Love out of the paint on offense.)
Offensive rebounds = Jamison on D, Love on O. No reason for Love not to be around the basket like he usually is.
Defensive rebounds = Love on D, Jamison on O. Jamison plays more along the perimeter than most power forwards. Love is pulled away from the hoop where he would grab defensive rebounds.
Or perhaps
Antawn is bad enough on defense that K-Love doesn’t miss the close in shots he might typically miss, therefore he won’t get his own offensive rebounds.
There's the Brewer we know and love
Nice travel.
by Bad News Wolves on Dec 26, 2009 8:41 PM CST reply actions
Why do they keep calling Corey for travelling?
When his feet aren’t even moving? It’s called a “pump fake” refs…
"I'm gonna make you cry...I'm gonna make you cry and dip my cookie in your tears!!!"
I've watched it on replay several times...
…Corey likes to take two small steps when he does his pump fake. He doesn’t really go anywhere, but his feet do move. Brewalk?
beautiful pass before the brewsist there
by secretarykissinger on Dec 26, 2009 8:42 PM CST reply actions
Love
He’s played some nice defense against Jamison tonight.
by Bad News Wolves on Dec 26, 2009 8:44 PM CST reply actions
complete random thought...
but when did it become THE thing to do after every free throw attempt for the shooter to give low fives to his teammates? if you focus on it, it is really annoying. i don’t remember that becoming a trend until the last decade or so in the NBA.
There's an Andrew Bogut video
on Youtube where he goes looking for the lows between shots, nobody responds, so he just gives them to his imaginary friends.
"I tell one of my media colleagues to watch Hollins, who regards cutters entering his vicinity with the sort of startled amazement newborn infants have when their own appendages enter their vision for the first times."
-Britt Robson
Is it time for...
Hack-A-Sessions?
"I'm gonna make you cry...I'm gonna make you cry and dip my cookie in your tears!!!"
My thoughts exactly.
Flynn should reappear shortly
"I tell one of my media colleagues to watch Hollins, who regards cutters entering his vicinity with the sort of startled amazement newborn infants have when their own appendages enter their vision for the first times."
-Britt Robson
the wolves really...
…ran it through love during the last few minutes of the 3rd.
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ryan hollins...
….just killed the bar.
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Hollins' dunk...
Just WOW!!!
"I'm gonna make you cry...I'm gonna make you cry and dip my cookie in your tears!!!"
Remember that Tom Chambers dunk from like 20 years ago?
That’ dunk by Hollins just reminded me of that…
"I'm gonna make you cry...I'm gonna make you cry and dip my cookie in your tears!!!"
over mark jackson
…i give the nod to chambers….that dunk belongs in the smithsonian.
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I agree...
Chambers was even higher, and it was a huge two-handed throwdown. I think that may be where the term “posterized” originated from…
"I'm gonna make you cry...I'm gonna make you cry and dip my cookie in your tears!!!"
Bad spacing by Love there
Bailed out by Al drawing the foul, but Love should not dribble into a triple team like that
Who's uglier?
Oleksiy Pecherov or Mike Miller
by Bad News Wolves on Dec 26, 2009 9:04 PM CST reply actions
Al has played some decent help D tonight...
And made a few nice passes. And yeah…he totally got hosed on that one…
"I'm gonna make you cry...I'm gonna make you cry and dip my cookie in your tears!!!"
This feed is pretty poor
did Corey bank that free throw?
flynn needs to get some run now
lest they start fouling ramon “the brick” sessions
The return of 4th quarter Foye?
"I tell one of my media colleagues to watch Hollins, who regards cutters entering his vicinity with the sort of startled amazement newborn infants have when their own appendages enter their vision for the first times."
-Britt Robson
and so goes..
…..his career.
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the gator chomp...
…..in the crowd.
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This win is all the more sweet
for the fact I took our boys in my NBA betting comp today.
"I tell one of my media colleagues to watch Hollins, who regards cutters entering his vicinity with the sort of startled amazement newborn infants have when their own appendages enter their vision for the first times."
-Britt Robson
There it is...
Hack-a-Ram
"I'm gonna make you cry...I'm gonna make you cry and dip my cookie in your tears!!!"
There wasn't one.
They were just so surprised he didn’t miss the layup they decided to give him a pat on the back.
by Bad News Wolves on Dec 26, 2009 9:23 PM CST reply actions
Wow
the last time we beat the Wiz Ricky Davis was are top scorer.
by Bad News Wolves on Dec 26, 2009 9:25 PM CST reply actions
Arenas...
26 pts. on 10-27 shooting. I think I could score 20 jacking it up that much…
"I'm gonna make you cry...I'm gonna make you cry and dip my cookie in your tears!!!"
Absolutely...
Yet he still found a way to throw 27 shots up…amazing. What is the purpose??? Flip needs to sort his team out…
"I'm gonna make you cry...I'm gonna make you cry and dip my cookie in your tears!!!"
gil sucks...
..worst max deal ever.
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Rashard Lewis
Might be worse; check back in four years.
It took them roughly a month of actual play
to go through all the stages of Foye grief. Randy can be an effective point guard…. Randy is like Billups, who also took some time….. We can go with two “lead guard” hybrid types…. Randy is probably best as juice off the bench.
"It has come to the editor’s attention that the Herald-Leader neglected to cover the civil rights movement. We regret the omission."
For having so many talented playmakers...
….the Wizards sure don’t facilitate much. 12 assists tonight….9 of them just from Arenas
There we go Love with another double double.
by Bad News Wolves on Dec 26, 2009 9:30 PM CST reply actions
The first 0 turnover game of his career.
Though don’t shot block violations count as a turnover on someone? How else would that offensive possession be accounted for in the box score?
Fantastic Win.......
"I tell one of my media colleagues to watch Hollins, who regards cutters entering his vicinity with the sort of startled amazement newborn infants have when their own appendages enter their vision for the first times."
-Britt Robson
Good win
I think Love-Jefferson can do it with John Wall in the backcourt. At least that’s tonight’s feeling.
19 Orebs,6 blocks, and just 11 TOs...
…make up for a lot.
I think we had just 1 TO in the first and just one in the fourth. I think. Corey outscoring Arenas on 12 fewer shots and 11 fewer minutes. Ramon and Wilkins getting 21 rebounds. Flynn and Wilkins shooting 3-22 but being a combined +28 (team leaders). Our bench getting much more burn than the Wiz’s. Six wins, 9 losses in the last 15, with Love being 5-8.
What a strange game.
Because there are no fours.
Toine
Corey Brewer the MVP tonight
27 points, 7 rebounds, key buckets, clutch free throws, and lock down defense on Arenas
I'm beginning to regret my comment a few weeks back...
… about Corey Brewer and 20+ point games. He’s averaged 16.7 PPG in his last 7 games, even with those terrible shooting performances vs the Celtics and the Clippers. I really hope he keeps it up.
You were a daydreamer, a sass-mouth, and, not infrequently, a bit of a gigglepuss. Somehow I doubt twenty years of amphetamines and failure have done anything to improve that.
by Kevin Loves McHale's Navy on Dec 26, 2009 10:51 PM CST up reply actions
I'm kind of in the same boat
When we beat the Kings, I said it’d be at least a month before Corey posted a second 20+ game. Turns out it only took him a week.
A far more convincing case could be made...
that the Wolves should bring back Wilkins next year than the one saying they needed to bring back Carney. He’s got good situational awareness that adds something every game. Tonight, it was crashing the boards because of how they were dealing with Love and taking the ball to the hoop once the Wolves got in the penalty halfway through the fourth.
by pagingstanleyroberts on Dec 26, 2009 10:38 PM CST reply actions
Been sayin' since before the year started
that he was a sort of veteran version of Carney last year: Limited offensive game with some threes, probably willing to get after it on defense a bit to justify another contract, playing on a team with a vacuum at his spot.
The rebounding was puzzlingly high early, though, for Damien. From the opening night win over Jersey where he put back the winner as time expired, he’s just been boarding better. He’s at something like 1.5x his career percentage rates in stuff like defensive boarding. That’s a wrinkle, for me anyway.
"It has come to the editor’s attention that the Herald-Leader neglected to cover the civil rights movement. We regret the omission."
Few Thoughts
1. The only issue with Wilkins is I’m guessing they probably add at least 2 wings in the off-season with more upside. The only possibility would be if they let Gomes go. Which I’m kind of mixed on. I guess as a 10-12th Man- Damien would be solid next year.
2. I’m sure glad I sided with Brewer in the Brewer vs Carney Death Match. Although I never really debated it.
It’s also a good thing they picked up Brewer’s extension.
3. Love gets his hand on so many balls it’s amazing.
4. Why don’t the Wizards give Javale Mcgee any burn?
i was at the game...
… all the way from NC tonight. and i was super-pissed that javale didn’t see the court. i wanted to watch him and hollins run the floor together.
This game shows why the contract was extended
of course he has also had about ten games that showed why Kahn waited til the last possible moment to decide. Let’s hope the positives continue.
F*** you, Flip
This game gave me a lot of satisfaction to watch. The strib’s pre-game interview with Flip was as nasty as any I’ve read this year. He was sooo disappointed to see the poor product the Wolves are putting on the floor now, and blathered on about the 7 years we would suffer in lottery Hell before emerging as a playoff team. Now, all of this might be true, but what’s HIS excuse? Our group of not-much-talent-there players just beat the Wiz. My take is, the better team won, and if we played them again tomorrow, we’d beat them again. This is starting to look like a .500 team to me.
You can forget about John Wall. For one example, we just caught up to Philly in # of wins. We’re on the way up; Philly is on the way down.
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