It was just about two years ago today that I invited one of my best friends to accompany me to a Rockets game with my wife's season ticket. I don't remember who we played, but I remember that Yao Ming got dominated. I pontificated with righteous fury all the way from the Toyota Center escalator to the car that there was no excuse for a man who is 7'6" to ever get dominated. To this day, I have yet to live down my solution to the quandry of that evening. Everyone that I know is aware that on that evening I demanded a trade of Yao for Eddy Curry and Tyson Chandler. Good thing I'm not in management... If you're like me, you make some pretty dumb comments about your home town squad from time to time. We're emotional about our Rockets. Thats why all this negativism towards T-Mac bothers me. Players can feel the temperment of crowd, just ask David Carr. Our negative energy will do nothing to help Tracy turn his game around. Give the guy a break; there is a chance that he may never be the player that he was 3 or 4 years ago again. He does, after all, have a chronic back condition. So what if he has to pace himself; there is not a team in the league that wouldn't kill for the chance to land T-Mac today. Don't get me wrong, I'd like to see him shoot a little better and penetrate a little more, but is 19-7-6 is as good as it gets I'm OK with it. You be hard pressed to find a better facilitator and distributor in the league; especially at 6'8". I guess all I'm really trying to say is don't be a moron like me. -rday
I confess, too. I demanded that we sign #33 in 1998. I demanded the Cato extension. And I in Clutch's secret email ballot to all US members regarding whether we should allow China IP addresses to post here, I voted YES!
ahhhh,I thought this thread was about Kenny smith and Madam charles.But I concur,sometimes we let our passion and lack of patience get the best of our Judgement.Guys from Sportsradio610 wanted to trade Yao for KG =/
Thanks for your post. I agree that stepping back and gaining a little perspective on the overall situation is a good thing to do from time to time.
Count me in on this one. "Wow, did you see that preseason game where Cato had twelve blocks? We'd better lock him up quick!"
Bill Walton Spends Entire Lakers Broadcast Gushing About His Son November 30, 2006 Bill Walton Spends Entire Lakers Broadcast Gushing About His Son Copy and paste this code into a new post in Blogger, MySpace, or any other blog tool. It will display this Onion headline, picture, and teaser copy on your page, depending on what you select above. LOS ANGELES—Bill Walton, the former NBA Most Valuable Player and popular current NBA broadcaster, spent the entire running time of Tuesday night's Milwaukee Bucks–Los Angeles Lakers game lavishing praise and affection on his son Luke, a Lakers small forward. Enlarge Image "Just look at my big boy Luke standing tall and proud," Walton said during the visiting team introductions, ignoring the on-screen graphics displaying the career stats of Bucks All-Star guard Michael Redd. "While my mentor, shaman, and spirit guide John Wooden taught me 99.999 percent of almost everything I knew about the greatest sport in the world, Luke taught me everything else—and even more about that greatest game of all—the ceaseless jubilant dance of the great ever-turning mandala of Life. Truly, the boy is father to the man. The boy is father to the man." "Nice pass!" Walton added, as Luke found himself boxed in at the post and kicked the ball back out to the top of the key, where Lamar Odom's jump shot put the Lakers up 11-9. "Nice pass indeed." "It does my old heart good to see Luke keep on truckin' in this big old City of Angels, where I made such fond memories in a different era and learned for myself, like the great poet Bob Dylan once asked a heartbroken nation, how many roads a man must walk down before they could call him a man," Walton continued, as the second quarter of play began with the score already an astounding 67-44 in favor of the Lakers. "Yes, I may indeed be suffering from a 'touch of gray,' as the great Jerry Garcia once said, but with the sight of my pride, my joy, and my only true immortality before me, I will get by." "Oh, yes! Throw it down, big man! Throw it down!" Walton said in a rare acknowledgment of on-court events as Luke Walton scored two of his 14 points on a wobbly lay-up. "It's just possible that that was absolutely the smoothest and most fundamentally sound shot that I've witnessed yet this decade. Truly, the student has become a master in his own right, and the apple has not fallen far from the gnarled, wizened tree with two bad ankles I've become." Enlarge Image "Why, it was just a week or so ago, I was watching the great John Fogerty sing 'Fortunate Son' for the good people during the halftime show of our Thanksgiving holiday," Walton continued, as Kobe Bryant collided with Milwaukee center Dan Gadzuric, suffered brutal compound twin spiral fractures of his right fibula and tibia, and was carried off the floor with his career almost certainly over and his prospects of walking again in doubt. "And I thought to myself: Neither you nor I, Mr. Fogerty, you faded sage of a more innocent yet equally doomed epoch, neither you nor I are fortunate sons. But I hope my Luke is." "Looks like we're ready to get going again after the interruption," Walton added as the last of Bryant's blood was mopped up and the younger Walton inbounded the ball. "Nice pass." "I couldn't give him the world without war my generation wanted so badly for his, but I tried to raise that boy right, and I share this with all the fathers, sons, mothers, daughters, and—and everyone out there with a family," Walton added as play stopped for almost 15 minutes while a Bengal tiger, brought in as part of the Lakers' floor show, escaped and brutally savaged seven audience members. "We are all fortunate to have one another. Your team can be your family, and I played on a lot of close teams, but Luke, Adam, and Nathan, and Chris, they're my Omega Point. And what's more, they're my actual family." "Yes, I'm their father," Walton added. "They're my sons. And Luke, my son, is playing his heart out tonight." "Thanks for joining myself and Snapper Jones for this meeting of the Bucks and Lakers, the team for which my boy Luke has become a man right before your very eyes and mine—eyes he'll steal right off your face if you're not careful, but that's all right… the future belongs to him," Walton said as the broadcast concluded. "To him and all the fine young men everywhere, blessed be them all. Amaste." The Bucks won the game, 109-105. Luke Walton finished with 14 points and seven rebounds in 29 minutes of play.
LOL. I take it that's from the Onion? That's is very funny. Its a pretty good imitation, actually. I don't know that this article was on topic, but kudos for finding this gem anyway. "Oh, yes! Throw it down, big man! Throw it down!" Walton said in a rare acknowledgment of on-court events "
Good point about David Carr. I got emotional once and demanded we not re-sign David Carr, and draft Vince Young instead.