Great recaps MrRolo - thanks. I wish someone taped this ... I would love to put some exact quotes up on the site of "CD on 610". Especially about Badiane and Spanoulis.
Actually, CD specifically mentioned it. He said he owns a couple pictures of David Stern which are "of intriguing nature", and Stern gave him the right to tamper at will in a memo sent to the Rockets organization last October in exchange to keep these pictures secret.
They need to get their money back from the mold makers. I can distinctly remember them saying Boki was in the "Tom Chambers" mold.
i don't think it's hard to imagine. padgett's wife is black. t-mac's best friend on the team in his early orlando days was mike miller. our team is "good people," regardless of skin color. *tear*
i saw sura, padgett, and barry all hanging out together with what looked like were some strippers a few weeks ago at belvedere. you can tell even on the court that barry and sura are really good friends.
WOW, awesome recap MrRolo! Thanks a ton! Those Badiane and Spanoulis comments are great! Like Clutch, I wish we could have gotten the exact quotes. Chance, you work at 610 right? Maybe you can get a tape of that show to Clutch so he can get the exact quotes? Cool about the team chemistry. The more you watch the games and the guys on the bench the more you can see they really interact well. Great stuff!
CD said Spanoulis talks to Dennis Lindsey just about every other day and he tells him "I have 'big confidence' now" because he has been making big shots over there. He also said Badiane is moving up in the leagues over there. And his size and length reminds him of Garnett.
It's quite impressive to read about Badire and the Greek guy (spokanosi {something like that}). I'd rather the Rockets take this route than to sign a 1st round pick and sit him on the bench for 3 years like Langi, Nachbar, etc. This way the players can show if they belong at the higher level. And you get rid of all of the imagined hype. I hope that these guys can come into the league and prove to be good replacements to the guys who'll be retiring in the near future.
T-mac's best friend in Orlando was Mike Miller. He expressed his resigned unhappiness about it when Miller was traded.
of course these guys all hang out - didn't I read somewhere that Yao, C Pine and Padgett went out to dinner in New York