I’m Out, Baby! I’m Out!

I’m not really liking having a personal blog, so I’m takin a break for a bit.  This is probably leaving on a low note, but whatever.

I might be back, who knows (or cares, am I right people?!).  Anyway I’m leavin up the blog to the other peoples, we’ll see if anyone wants to take over the heavy lifting.  Maybe Eagles can give us a live blog of cancercamp® or something.  A socal live blog of WNBA games from China?  Unlikely (probably clubbing too much).

Peace out.  It’s been real.

We Unethically Break News

Everyone who reads this blog regularly (just me) knows that we have mad connections and that we love to brag about them.  One of our connections came through for us yesterday, and we now have breaking news to report.

A student in the North Carolina area was talking to (or attempting to talk to) Gerald Henderson of Duke University’s men’s basketball team yesterday when Lance Thomas came by and yelled:

“He’s going to the NBA!!”

So there you have it folks, Gerald Henderson is going to the NBA.  As of right now all the major outlets have him as “probably going” or something like that.  Well, here we have him as definitely going because as I said before, we got madd connections.  Take that Jay Glazer.

And if this is kind of unethical because our connection kid wasn’t officially interviewing them, then our b.  This is a fricken blog.  I wouldn’t trust us enough to believe that we even know any students in any state anywhere.  We are pretty sketchy.  So there you go, don’t believe this report.  We aren’t reliable.

Quick Question

What exactly separates Ricky Rubio from Jason Williams?  Is it decision making?  Jason Williams averaged over 6 assists a game with about 2 turnovers.  Rubio has roughly the same amount of turnovers, but only had about 5 assists a game in his last European season (granted he’s extremely young). Everyone thinks Rubio is the next Pistol Pete, but didn’t we already have the next Pistol Pete?

I mean, don’t get me wrong, I am 100% excited that Rubio is entering the league.  Flashy point guards are awesome.  But even if a guy can do this, it doesn’t make him a world class point guard.  I’m not even really impressed with that move.  He had to slow down a lot to pull it off. Could he do this?

And for a version of the move Rubio did at full speed and 500 times as impressive go to 46 seconds, 1:09, 1:33, and other spots of this J-Will highlight reel.  Seriously, which guy has better moves?  Is it even close?

I guess my point is: I really hope Rubio can be like Jason Williams was, but I don’t know if I should get my hopes up.

Top 5 NBA Prospects Who Should’ve panned out.

One of these things is not like the others...

We’re kind of nearing NBA draft time (sorta) , so here’s an arbitrary and incorrect list of the top 5 NBA players who should’ve been superstars, but weren’t.

5. Harold Miner

The best dunker you’ve never heard of, he won two dunk contests and still only managed a career high of 10.5 points a game.  He lasted just 4 years in the league, but holy crap could this guy dunk.  All the time dudes who can dunk jump to the NBA and learn how to shoot and pass etc.  Miner never managed to learn that stuff.  He just faded away to nowhere.

4. Omar Cook

Everybody loves New York point guards.  Omar Cook had so much hype coming into his freshman season, people were actually afraid of St Johns for the first time in years.  He played ok, but couldn’t shoot.  Despite getting mixed reviews, he jumped to the NBA.  He was drafted in the second round and is now out of the league.  This guy was supposed to be the next Isaiah Thomas long before Chris Paul (and I guess Deron Williams) came into the league.  According to Wikipedia, “He is currently playing at the point guard position with the pro club Unicaja Málaga.” So I guess he’s sorta doing ok.

3. Darius Miles

Was tall. Was athletic. Could dunk. Starred in a movie with Scarlett Johannsson.  Scored 47 in a game. Got hurt. Never really came back.

2. Christian Laettner

The great white hope from Duke played on the dream team with Michael Jordan and Larry Bird.  He is probably the greatest college basketball player of all time.  He’s scored more points in the NCAA tournament than anyone else.  He did have the most successful pro career of anyone on this list, but he was still a disappointment.  His career high of 18.2 points per game came in his first season.  He averaged just 12.8 points per game for his career.  Some enjoy that he sucked in the NBA, some prefer to remember this:

1. Dajuan Wagner

He scored 100 points in a game.  Really.

Sure it was in high school, but can you imagine scoring 100 points on a high level high school basketball team?  Recruiters would go nuts! And they did for Wagner, who ended up going to Memphis (like seemingly every other guy).  He only played one year and was drafted sixth overall by Cleveland. He averaged 9.4 points a game for his career, and he never played more than 47 games in a season (his rookie year).  He only played in 103 games over 4 years and now is somewhere in Europe.  So you can say injuries killed his career, and you’d probably be right.  However, if you watch the highlights, you can’t help but wonder if he was just more lucky, and maybe if he worked out more to avoid injuries, could he have been a top 3 pg in the NBA right now?  I think so.

Yeah, It’s Kinda Like That

I mean, not really this extreme because I’m a total bandwagon bruins fan, but you get the point.

Lebron, Irony. Irony, Lebron.

About 45 seconds in here Lebron says:

I’m so much of a team guy that it’s hard for me to look at the MVP trophy.

Is it just me, or is this the equivalent of saying, “I am the most humble person in the world!”  Team players don’t have to say they are team players, Bron-Bron.  They just are.  And when you are as good as you are, maybe you shouldn’t pass to Varejao that often. 

I Love You, Dusty Baker

1st and 2nd.  None out.  Your manager?  Dusty Baker.  Your result? This.

Obviously, small sample size, but when you KNOW that ALL the samples show that this is stupid, youre allowed to pick out a funny one.  Remember when Dusty made Adam Dunn bunt?  Good times.

Video credit: Withleather

EDIT: Video taken down.

Even with all my vast computer knowledege (I can ping websites like you wouldn’t believe), I can’t figure out a way to embed mlb.com’s non-illegal version of the clip.  Here’s a boring link.

EDIT δύο: While finding that, I stumbled across this.  Let’s all revel in the insanity of a guy cathing a pop up IN FAIR TERRITORY and having to dive face first into the stands.  He couldn’t even turn his back?  No?  Because he has absolutely no range he had to be running full speed, and because he has absolutely no brain he had to slam his head into a chair.  As I’ve said here before, “If I had the range of a 10th grade jv player I could’ve made that catch with enough time to be running the other way.” Yup, I just quoted myself.  Also, if your confused, “δύο” is ancient greek for “two.”  You simply can’t help but learn things here at Talkpractice.

It’s 1:30, Do You Know Where Your Children Are?

Cause I’m bloggin, dad!  Aren’t you proud?  What?  No, I will not pay you back for paying off my college loans!

So I’m not sure what to write about next, so I’m gonna let our 6 person readership decide (and when not one person votes, I’m just gonna vote myself).

Here are your 4 options:

A. Top 5 NBA stars whom you’ve never heard of

B. Top 5 NBA prospects who should’ve panned out

C. Top 5 games in between the Jordan and sucky Spurs era

D. Top 20 blatant plot holes in the movie Dostana

And I really want to write D.

Kobe Fouls a Reporter

It’s kind of frustrating how likable Kobe is a lot of the time.  I mean, he doesn’t travel like Lebron.  He gets calls, but no where near as many as D-Wade. And now he’s teaching us all how to play basketball.  The shooting tips are pretty good.  His defensive tips are cheap (and theyre all fouls) but, hey, I guess it works in pick up.

Try to mostly ignore the reporter who nods way too much.

Oh, and yeah, because Kobe says to stretch, I guess I will now.

Palindrome

Here is a palindrome I wrote about the Uconn women’s basketball team:

Dip Uconn I in no cupid.

Not no Win i wont on

Blowouts suck I cried barbarically “yllacirabrabdeircikcusstuowolb!”

Racecar

Blowouts suck I cried barbarically “yllacirabrabdeircikcusstuowolb!”

Not no Win i wont on

Dip Uconn I in no cupid

It means that I did not love this Uconn team because they repeatedly killed every team and that was boring. Here’s to the WNBA draft being soon!

Hopefully when I wake up tomorrow I will delete this post.