briztoon
Mar 16, 2010 Jun 01, 2012 2 303
Well I'm Aussie so I hope no one holds that against me. Played ball at school in the late 80's when not many kids down here played it. Was just another skinny white kid who could shoot from the outside, cross the ball through my legs, and dribble to my right, but otherwise had no skills to speak of. I could always read the game faster than I could play it.
Today I run a pub and spend half my time at work talking various sports with the punters. When it comes to betting on the NBA and College ball, i'm the one they ask. Not that my knowledge would compare to most of gus into ball in the states.
Started following the Sixers when they drafted Jerry Stackhouse after reading about him in the first Slam magazine I ever picked up. Then we drafted Iverson the following year and there has never been another team for me.
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Eliminate the second round of the NBA draft
by briztoon on Jul 3, 2011 9:22 AM EDT
on Liberty Ballers
Hey guys,
I didn't really want to start a new FanPost, but I didn't know which current FanPost to talk about this idea in.
I find most of the talk about the lockout pretty boring. As far as I am concerned both sides are going to lose out in this situation. I'm not talking whose right or wrong, or who gets the better deal. I'm talking about the general publics perception. As it's been mentioned before, when a bunch of billionaires and a bunch of millionaires are argueing over the share of a pie, well I think both sides are a bunch of @#*!ers.
However I found the last idea in this article from CBS interesting;
http://eye-on-basketball.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/22748484/30388477
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The changing landscape of the NBA
by briztoon on Jul 17, 2010 5:01 AM EDT
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The Big Three. I do not know if the phrase was coined before Kevin Garnett and Ray Allen joined Paul Pierce in Boston. I do know the term has been used quite a lot this summer since Chris Bosh and LeBron James joined Dwyane Wade in Miami.
Ken Berger talks with Ben Gordon in a recent article, Pistons' Gordon salutes sacrifice made by Heat triumvirate, about the NBA arms race, and that if you do not have three NBA all stars on your team, you will no longer be in the hunt for a championship.
Towards the end of the article, Berger mentions that Chris Paul made a toast at Carmelo Anthony's wedding last weekend about forming "our own Big Three" in New York with Amar'e Stoudemire. I do not know whether the league will look into this as possible tampering or collusion, but I do believe it represents a new era for the NBA. Top tier players will no longer be interested in resigning for the max, if they are not in a situation to compete with the other elite players and teams in the NBA.
Unfortunately there are only so many genuine all star calibre players to go around. In the future, are we going to see only four or five genuine title contenders, then a significant drop off in terms of overall team talent and win/loss records.
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