Cup of Coffee: January 30, 2007
Posted by SBG on Tuesday, January 30th, 2007 at 2:00 am
The declining Kevin Garnett scored 44 points and the Wolves stop the Suns 17 game winning streak.
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...and general managers around the league salivated at the prospect of picking up the aging and former susperstar from the players-who-used-to-be-great scrapheap, as a spare part on their run for an NBA Championship.
I don't think the Wolves should trade Garnett but this would be the year to do it.
Sure. Let's trade him, Jaric and James to Memphis for Gasol, Atkins, Miller, Warrick, Gay and their next two first-round draft picks (one of whom should be the first or second pick this year).
Too bad jerry west isn't totally insane. that deal almost sounds plausible.
I find the T-Wolves announcers to be extremely unprofessional. They both clearly love Mark Madsen, because from I hear he's a really nice guy. That's great and all, but they have GOT to stop going out of their way to heap praise on him every time he does anything at all. Last night at the end of the game they were claiming that he was the Wolves' second-most valuable contributor in the victory behind KG. He had SIX FREAKIN POINTS. The eight rebounds were nice, but he's a 6'9" big man, he should be expected do grab a board once in a while. Madsen had an okay game and proved that he can be on the court and not kill the team aif he plays competently, but the announcers need to grow up and stop letting their personal feelings for player affect how they call the game.
I just try to ignore it. Hanneman calls the game like the sideline reporter that he is. Jim Peterson can do good work, but he's obviously been instructed to be a cheerleader.
But, hey, it's news when Madsen actually puts the ball in the hole. That ugly little jumper is about the longest shot that he's made in a T-Wolves uniform from the floor. He's usually so terrible that when he actually doesn't kill them on the offensive end, it's a big story. He's got three plus years left on his deal. Get used to it.
I've heard them refer multiple times to travelling with the team. I'm not sure the extent to which all announcers travel with their respective teams, but I could see how that would really put them in an awkward position. You don't really want to call out a player on the air if you're going to have to sit next to him on a five-hour plane ride home the next night.
That said, sometimes silence can be pretty effective in conveying a point.
I understand this notion, and that's why I don't really get after announcers too much for failing to harshly criticize a player who provides absolutely no value (coughTROYHUDSONcough). But their praising of Madsen is over the top. I'm not asking them to call him out on the air as a worthless player, I'm just asking that they stop going out of their way to compliment him any time he does something that any half-decent NBA player should be able to do routinely.
Maybe they are afraid that MadDog will call them out on his blog.
That's true. Just not hero-worshipping a scrub player shouldn't be too difficult.
Sounds like the effusive praise for Juan Castro early last summer, dished out on a nightly basis by DicknBert.
Same Half-Baked Crap, Different Sport.
Did you see Barrieo bobo, Steve Aschburner's call to use player w-l records as a meaninful stat in evaluating team talent or make-up? Talk about half-baked crap.
I saw that. I might have to reprise the "Charting the Competition" feature.
I saw a Ken Rosenthal piece today about Barry Bonds. Rosenthal is good as a reporter, but he really channels Souhan as a columnist.
One-line throw-away paragraphs? Check.
Ridiculous pop culture references? And lots of them? Check and check.
No real point? Check.
This part was the worst, though:
As if using LOL (as an entire paragraph, nonetheless) wasn't weak enough, what the hell is LOLOLOL supposed to stand for? If you're going to go that route (not recommended), you should at least throw in a ROTFL instead or one of the other more involved variants. Bonds' agent was being pretty ridiculous, but that's hack-tastic writing.
Wow. That is a craptacular piece.
From the Daily Dime:
Can McCants really make a difference on this team? It kind of seems like the guard rotation is already fairly crowded and that Ricky isn't going to be too happy with fewer minutes.
And from Jon Barry in the same Daily Dime:
It looks like Wittman's stay in Cleveland overlapped a bit with Ricky Davis' stay. Is there any word on how well those two get along?
This Minnesota story brings to mind one word: eeeeeeeeeeeuuuuuuw!
Boy, was I swearing under my breath after seeing the results of Monday's Wolves game. Horrible timing forced me to turn down those court-side seats. Horrible timing.
Marlins kick the tires (sans wheels) on Stewart [scroll down]:
Couldn't sending one of Ford/Tyner to Miami bring back a little something worthwhile? If they're truly considering Stewart, they've gotta be desperate.
And he has been plagued by ailments in both feet in recent years.
There's that, and then there's his poor throwing arm--which could be quite interesting in that deep CF in Miami.
Stewart in CF. Might as well put me out there.