Week in review/Great off-season performances
by Stop-n-Pop on Jul 26, 2009 6:00 AM CDT
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Jaguars and Eagles getting along. Viva the poor school!
It was a busy week in Wolves-ville. Craig Smith, Mark Madsen and Sebastian Telfair were sent to the Clippers in exchange for Quentin Richardson. David Kahn went to Spain:
Mad Dog wrote a letter. Jonny Flynn has a cool YouTube Summer League highlight reel. Hoopus attempted a podcast. Oh, the Minnesota Lynx continue to be the best professional basketball organization in town.
In non-Wolves news, the WNBA gets high marks for diversity. Small forwards are kind of important. NBA salaries in context. Why you need to know about American Needle.
Finally, I will be out of town from the 1st to the 11th. It is time once again for our grand loop of middle-America; driving from Omaha to Oklahoma City to Fort Worth to Little Rock to Saint Louis to Kansas City to Ames to visit family, friends and everyone in between. If any of our readers are feeling frisky when it comes to longer fan posts, that would be the best time to publish them. Wyn will be around to bump things to the front page.
Until later.
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Not only are threes important,
They’re also not all that amazingly hard to pick up in the draft. If you look at who busts and who becomes a star, it sure seems like small forwards tend to be safer picks with higher “upside,” at least relative to their draft position.
In almost every draft it seems like somebody gets a Richard Jefferson at #13 or a Josh Howard later on. Mid-range first rounders seem to produce more actual stars in that position. Granted, there are some busts — Gallinari got injured and Joe Alexander’s looking shaky, not to mention Corey Brewer who’s further along that spectrum I think. But for the picks used on them, I’ll take my chances on a SF.
Funny video.
Especially funny since I’ve known Ross, the blond guy out of that duo, since he was ten years old.
Bon voyage, SnP
I assume you’ll have the Electric Babysitter loaded up with DVDs for the kids? Or are the girls fortunate enough to hear thousands of miles worth of TWolves analysis, Air Force stories, and trenchant progessive political strategies?
Rooting for a Rubio Revolucion since roughly 10:20 a.m. on June 24th, 2009
nope..
…just mad libs. it’s going to be a lonnnnnngggg trip ;)
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Unfortunately...
…we will miss Cahokia this time around. Although we have been to both the mound and East St. Louis on a prior trip ;) It’s not that far from the world’s largest bottle of ketchup. This trip we are headed to the John Brown Memorial House in Kansas, one of the nation’s only all-black towns outside of Weweoka, OK, the Route 66 Museum in Clinton, OK, the Kennedy assassination site in Dallas, a Trail of Tears site in Arkansas, Sun Records in Memphis and…well, I don’t know what my old roomie has planned for us in Saint Louis. Whatever it is, it will probably involve a stop at Ted Drewes.
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BTW:
on the trip where we went to cahokia, we also stopped at the mother jones historical site. i’m indoctrinating the kiddies early ;)
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Some time I'll buy you a Jucy Lucy
in the old neighborhood and we can compare notes on raising politically-aware children.
By the way, if you’re in St. Louis and have some time to kill with your friend, some family friends of ours own one of the coolest record stores in the country.
Rooting for a Rubio Revolucion since roughly 10:20 a.m. on June 24th, 2009
Very cool...
…that record store looks great. I’ll shoot you an email sometime during the season when I come up for a game. Here’s my record-store of choice:
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Love the vinyl . . .
That store’s got it going on. Thanks for the tip.
Rooting for a Rubio Revolucion since roughly 10:20 a.m. on June 24th, 2009
Have a great trip
Since I’m sure you won’t drive thru (but around) my neck of the world. Be careful, I know those Arkansayers are TERRIBLE drivers.
Sometimes the obvious is hidden.
Indeed...
…especially in Little Rock.
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ay SnP mayn
mayn u need ta git sum kill fo all dem hourz in de car mayn! bump dat Rotha mayn!
MAYN HOL UP!
"mayn u need ta git sum kill fo all dem hourz in de car mayn! bump dat Rotha mayn"
The next time my grandparents set off to Arizona for the winter, I’m going to say this instead of “bon voyage.”
Rooting for a Rubio Revolucion since roughly 10:20 a.m. on June 24th, 2009
It definitely should take its place
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We'll be boozing it up..
….at the Bohemian Cafe at some point over the weekend. Either there or some Irish bar my brother lives above in Old Town.
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