SB Nation User Blog: znimrod

Summer League Squad Video

znimrod — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 23:55:12 -0000

Summer League Squad Video

Here's some video from the Summer League Practice. We got Cubits, Yawn, Hairston, Blair, and they even threw in Coach Newman, RC, and some practice footage.

Gary Payton said what?

znimrod — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 17:06:32 -0000

Yeah, so apparently Al Jefferson is playing better than Tim Duncan, and deserves to start over His Majesty in the All-Star game. During TNT's broadcasts Thursday night, Payton made this statement about Jefferson's lack of inclusion as an All-Star. And I guess later, he starts going off about how Amar'e should be starting over Tim as well (much to the amazement of the rest of the TNT gang).

In the You Tube clip Payton states that he watches a lot of the suns and not very much of the Spurs. That should tell you everything right there, so there's really no need to try and disect his reasons as to why he spewing crap on national tv. And then he starts going off on Kenny about how much better he was than the Jet (the real Jet, not this Jason Terry fella who stole Kenny's nickname and pretends to fly around the court when he makes a basket). I'm just glad that all of my hatred of Payton has been justified by seeing this mindless drivel. What an ass!

DUNCAN: The Man

znimrod — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 16:20:55 -0000

2-time back-to-back Regular Season MVP, 3-time NBA FInals MVP, 4 NBA Championships - what more do you want from the man?

So Timmy D hit the 1,000 game milestone last night, and that made me want to contemplate his career. A Number One Overall draft pick in 1997, he quickly became The Franchise, taking the torch willingly passed to him by David Robinson. What ensued the next 11+ years is legendary stuff, making him a Hall of Fame lock.

Don't let this pleasant persona fool you - he will knock you down!

Everything about Duncan is pure awesome. He's laid back, and takes everything in stride. He's not a demanding, preening fool, who thinks he deserves everyone's homage and butt-kissing (although everyone should give it to him because he has deserved it). He's confident in what he does, and he does it well. He accepts his position as any other normal player, who doesn't demand special treatment from the coaching staff. He performs with excellence on and off the court, and leads by example. He doesn't get all up in his teammates' faces, though he has done it when required to hammer home a point. And, he wins. Plain and simple, the man wins, and wins with style. Mind you, not the style that gets his face plastered all over video clips on ESPN, but the calm, cool style that defines his very essence.

Nothing comes close to defining him better.

Trying to list and elaborate on all his on-court accomplishments can be a bit time consuming, so I'll spare everyone a complete recap on his NBA career (because a) you all already know what he's done, and b) I'm too lazy to really dig in depth). Rather, I think I'll give a little rundown in pictures of what TD means to me.

He is an encouraging teammate.

"I know you're not as good as I am, but you can at least try."

He makes his teammates better.

"I, Merlin, now give you the powers of non-sucking."

He has a cool stance at the free throw line.

Now if he would just use his quads.

He leaves players like Pau Gasol watching him drive by them.

Pau - "Dang, he got by me again! Wow, look at that ass. And nice quads, too. Too bad he doesn't use them on his free throws."

And he's basically Number One.

"Of course I'm #1. I'm the best there is."

The dude is good, and I love him. There's not too much negative you can say about him. The only thing I can think of is that he doesn't have MANU's killer instinct. But that's why we have MANU. Anyway, congratulations and props go out to my main man, Timmy D. You are definitely THE MAN.

Some proof that the detractors weren't off their rocker

znimrod — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 16:08:22 -0000

I know that there was a lot of complaining and Front Office ripping after the George Hill draft pick. Especially after his "awesome" summer league performance.

And I also know that pretty much everyone here has now come to the consensus that he was a great pick, and has forgiven the FO for a seemingly miscalculated blunder.

But to those of you who were part of the faction that hated on Cubits, y'all weren't really too far off your rockers, because it seems that even the coaching staff and FO were a little leary of what their draft pick would become. This notebook article has a small section (the second section, after the part about Pop retiring before 2016) about the Spurs' dilemma in dealing with the thought that George might not be what they thought he was cracked up to be. Good for us that he is a tough little cracker, er...um...player.

PROOF THAT WE'RE NOT THE ONLY ONES MAD AT BONNER

znimrod — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 16:39:15 -0000

Okay, so when the Red freakin' Rocket misses a wide open 3-pointer, it seems that i'm not the only one who would like to rip his head off.

via i61.photobucket.com

Now if I could only seem to find the same kind of evidence in favor of Michael Finley, I would be satisfied. And Jacque Vaughn. Yes, what I woudn't do for an opportunity to see the head of Finley and/or Vaughn on the ground next to their lifeless bodies (a little morbid? not for Halloween, it isn't). Not that I wish them ill will, but them not playing on the court would do wonders for my expectation of Spurs greatness. It's a little lacking at the moment, and I need a pick-me-up.

That's on small step for Spurkind

znimrod — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 14:03:04 -0000

This has been one of my most annoying things about the Spurs, and it has finally been remedied. I just hope that he's not worse than the nasally, uninspired, non-entertaining, ear-grating voice of a PA announcer that was Stan Kelly. But if you have a knickname of "Big Kev" in the middle of your first and last name, then you should automatically be an upgrade...am I right, or am I right?

A great start to our big man rotation

znimrod — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 16:44:21 -0000

So it appears that our young blood on the front line (Mahinmi) is going to miss all of training camp with a sprained ankle. This bodes well for his development and what he will be able to bring to the floor this season. Pop said he was planning on playing him 35 minutes a game during the preseason, so now that's out the window. Who knows how much he'll be able to contribute and play this season because of this. I don't know, maybe a miracle will happen, and one of the other "young bloods" will show some promise. And it will most likely be Curious George - all signs point to him; big bright neon yellow signs.

PARGO?

znimrod — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 15:41:35 -0000

So mysa.com reports that Jannero Pargo is a possibility to join the team. I'm thinking that means if they do indeed sign him, they are thinking of putting Curious George down to the Toros. Either that or burying him on the bench, which doesn't make sense. I think Pargo would definitely be an upgrade for the immediate over JV and Hill, but I don't know if I'm sold on him overall. But if this does happen, it doesn't give me a lot of faith in the FO, because once again their draft pick won't pay off for the immediate. And also their belief that Hill was going to be an immediate impact player was off, so that gives me a LOT of confidence in their ability to evaluate player talent. Who was it that we could have drafted instead of Hill? I can't seem to remember.

What does Kobe know?

znimrod — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 16:05:28 -0000

After his post game press conference, we can pronounce that Kobe knows nothing. I think half of his answers were "I don't know." Here is a sample:

Reporter: "When did you feel like tonight you weren't going to be able to make it out of the hole?"

Kobe: "I'm not sure. I don't know."

Reporter: "Can you tell me how you see the Lakers prospects from here?"

Kobe: "I don't know, I don't know."

Reporter: "You said earlier that Bynum addresses the needs of rebounding and shot-blocking. Is there anything else that you feel needs to be addressed in the future?"

Kobe: "I don't know. I have no idea."

Reporter: "Kobe, you embraced with Doc Rivers after the game. What did he tell you."

Kobe: "(Laughing) Honestly, I don't know. My mind was someplace else."

For the record, he did actually answer some questions with full sentences, but I like to think that he does actually know nothing. I fully enjoyed seeing him wallow last night, almost as much as he and Fisher crying when we took them out a few years back. Good stuff.