So Edy, Stringer Bell and I wrote this preview back in October, full of stupid predictions, miscellaneous predictions and some blind-squirrel-finding-a-nut predictions. It was fun, and so, I decided get together a dream team to recap the season in true Sackrilegious style, so I rounded up my crew of ball watchers to help. In white font, is your's truly, in red is The_Real_Pat, in blue is DJ Stringer Bell and in black bold is the new roomate aka Humetron. Edy couldn't make it because he usually just copy and pastes everything Pat says, so he really isn't needed anymore.
Enjoy, ye hooligans.
1: How awesome is DeShawn Stevenson? I expect at least 5000 words each from everyone on this topic. At least 1,000 of which must describe what you imagine his next tattoo/piercing combo will be:
Enjoy, ye hooligans.
1: How awesome is DeShawn Stevenson? I expect at least 5000 words each from everyone on this topic. At least 1,000 of which must describe what you imagine his next tattoo/piercing combo will be:
Humetron: Not saying I didn't know who he was before these finals, but it was more how unnoticed he went in my eyes before June. He was more of just a side show to me during his Wiz years to me because I didn't follow them outside of Gilbert. I sorta love him now though. It may just be ALL your (Sack's) obsession rubbing off on me but he is a funny dude.
The-Real_Pat: To measure DeShawn's "awesomeness", I think we need to define DeShawn and work backwards. DeShawn Stevenson: Uber tatted meathead, could start a fight with anybody at anytime (himself included), has one main specialty (defense) with a secondary specialty (the tre ball) and has beef with one of the league's "stars". Tats, meathead, fight potential, one main trick, one backup trick, beef with star...on the awesomeness scale, I give DeShawn Stevenson 7 out of 10 Dennis Rodman's.
DeShawn's next tattoo will be LEBR on one ass cheek, and an N on the other...
Sack: I have already written this love letter to him, but since then he has continued rolling it on; skipping the Mavs' South Beach party because he was a family man and his wifey was preggos, getting arrested for public drunkeness (profiling), called out LeBron some more at the victory parade and explained that he got the $5 bills surrounding his Lincoln tattoo so he didn't have to explain who it was anymore. He is the gift that keeps on giving.
He is a free agent next year (NUGGETS, NUGGETS, NUGGETS), but wants to stay in Dallas. Since two of his teammates now have Larry O'Brien Trophy tattoos, I don't expect DeShawn to follow suit. I am willing to wager he goes big on the next one, stamping Tre Goggles permanently on his face.
2. Let's all mock Edy openly for calling Dallas most disappointing team? Then mock everyone for other terrible prediction (like Gilbert comeback player and Heinrich best white player. My bad).
Edy with a bad claim? Unheard of.
DJ Stringer Bell: We had some fucking retarded picks here, with Hinrich in the chocolate city of black holes (John Wall and Arenas) coming in as a runner-up to me and Edy jerking ourselves off to the Thunder. True they had a watershed year, but not nearly the championship contenders we talked ourselves into. Throw in the Perkins trade and we had damn near given OKC the title by the end of March when the fact of the matter was that Durant hadn’t properly barked down Westbrook into a subservient position yet (still waiting for this) and the team was still fine tuning their BIG game.
3. Then give me props for calling Dallas a darkhorse contender.
-When did Edy say that?!?!?! #dumb I am their biggest hater and it is partly because they are good and contend with the nugs on a normal basis (Ed Note: Hume and I played a drinking game based on Dirk's performance in these playoffs. If he made a shot, Hume drank, if he missed, I drank. This usually really got going in the fourth quarter, so Hume drank a looot).
You picked a team with two for sure Hall of Famers, a Puerto Rican Point God, a statistical juggernaut with a very outdated movie reference nickname (Matrix), the best right handed 6th man in the L, a guy who I'm gonna hand a title to in a few minutes, and a guy who registers a 7 on the Dennis Rodman Scale of Awesomeness...what exactly do you want props for?
-No one picked Dallas to do shit this year, but I felt they were primed. It's easy to look now and say Dallas was good, but everyone was calling them washed up early this year (not that I predicted them to win a title, but still).
-How can anyone claim ref conspiracy when the guy who bitches the most just won a championship?
There’s a shitload of bitching and twitter timeline quoting I could do, but there just weren’t enough close games involving the preferred markets to really make a case for Stern as Geppetto. New York was disjointed, newly formed and saddled with the Nuggets shit offloads of AC, Billups and Melo. Boston was a victim of their own murdering of the Ubuntu mantra (see the 2011 The Association season). And the Lakers succumbed to the Law of more, NBA miles and had nothing left to accomplish, save Barnes. None of these teams held up for shit in the playoffs and none of them even knew how to keep a game close when the 4th quarter came within its final 6 minutes. The argument could be made that Lebron and the Heatles (I fucking hate that name… and the Beatles.) were a preferred champion but even they were newly formed, without playing reps, and unable to get it close enough to let the angel of Stern work his magic.
My feeling on the matter is Stern looked at these playoffs the same way we all did; All of the final 4 teams were good for the NBA and the Mavericks just had too many great storylines not to let the playoffs play out or even to embrace them. The game thrives off of polarizing, astronomically dynamic characters and both the Mav’s and the Heat had them in spades. Furthermore, the final 4 teams were each darlings in their right and any of them as champions would have been great for the league. Add in what a Dirk win did for Overseas interest in the NBA and a Mav’s win doesn’t quite seem so FU Stern (cue Stern Jew smile)
What championship did Melo win? (Waits for applause to die down) Stop, thank you, you're too kind.
And nobody claims an outright ref conspiracy. And conspiracy is the wrong word. It's more like a nefarious consortium. It's a large group of people who all work in conjunction to promote the interests of the league. At the end of the day, just like anything else, it all comes down to dolla dolla bills yall. The NBA is a business. And any business is going to try to maximize revenue. When the most popular teams win exciting games in long dramatic series', the NBA makes more money. FACT. So to say it's rigged and a big conspiracy is overkill...to say the powers that be stay completely hands off is naive.
And nobody claims an outright ref conspiracy. And conspiracy is the wrong word. It's more like a nefarious consortium. It's a large group of people who all work in conjunction to promote the interests of the league. At the end of the day, just like anything else, it all comes down to dolla dolla bills yall. The NBA is a business. And any business is going to try to maximize revenue. When the most popular teams win exciting games in long dramatic series', the NBA makes more money. FACT. So to say it's rigged and a big conspiracy is overkill...to say the powers that be stay completely hands off is naive.
=-Stars will always get calls.
-Most entertaining team of the season?
Here's how this one should be answered: When you saw on the left side of SportsCenter that Team X's highlights were coming up, who would you refuse to miss more often than not?
Clips/Heat tie.
Clips/Heat tie.
I started off claiming a homer tie on this one between the Nuggets and the Mavs, but the truth is it was always the Mav’s. I remember watching regular season games where they held on against the Lakers and Blazers and it was evident just how much all the years together this Mavs team had, had done for their clutch performance. The team was killing it all year by making the extra pass and knowing exactly where each team member was going to be on the court. They win this award from the standpoint that they were a team in the strictest of definition of the word. They excelled all year by breaking the will of an opposing team with 3’s that shouldn’t keep going in and extended possessions where they just keep moving the ball away from defenses. Nothing will fucking kill a team more than a shot that shouldn’t keep going in or an offense that moves the ball despite ur best efforts. The Mavericks had both. Put simply, they weren’t playing Rucker ball and it showed.
You guys really missed this one, because it was clearly OKC. The Heat were more dramatic, Dallas better, but the rise of the Thunda, the Perk trade to make them legitimate contenders and then the epic Diva collapse of Russ Westbrook was fascinating theatre. Every queater of every game had this tension that it could collapse at any point, and it did. It was a psychological thriller.
-Most entertaining player this season (besides DeShawn, clearly)?
If anyone says anyone else but Blake Griffin they should be shot in the head.
BlakeTube Griffin
Runner Up: Derek Rose
Dead Last: Tim Duncan's methodical ass
Runner Up: Derek Rose
Dead Last: Tim Duncan's methodical ass
Worst yet, none of the NBA fanatical could come up with a good nickname for him. His half-white, half-black, red headed, freckled ass made this task damn near impossible. It was like trying to figure out a cool name to call Opie if his hair grew short and wiry and routinely jumped over Aunt Bea and Dipshit Deputy Barney Fife on the regular. (My contributions in the matter: El Mulatto Magnifico and the Soaring Griffin).
And when the season came to an end, we were still watching the Clippers who weren’t even within an 8th seed implosion of making the playoffs. Hell, that underperforming, Iverson-esque cocksucker Baron Davis even got traded because of him. If you get someone’s lazy ass traded away from you just because management is afraid he’ll somehow find a way to make you lax and unwilling to hustle, you’re usually doing some awe-inspiring shit.
Too bad ole Blake wasn't relevant in the playoffs. But yes, Mozgov-ing fools gets you this top spot.
-Will Dwight Howard play in Orlando next season? Chris Paul in New Orleans?
Watch for Dwight to take his talents to South Beach if not the Lakers like Shaq before him. I give it decent odds that he ends up a member of the Heat for less money. CP3 stays because of a little word called leverage and his own refusal to be a jobber to anyone.
If they go to LA and NY like the rumor mill (You must be an Insider to finish this thought
- Includes a 1 YEAR subscription to ESPN The Magazine - Over 50% off the regular monthly price!
- Includes a 2 YEAR subscription to ESPN The Magazine - Over 63% off the regular monthly price!
I think Dwight is 50/50 on staying vs. fleeing to LA. It is the only place that really makes sense for him.
-That little girl Chris Paul is already out of New Orleans. He is going to prance around New York with that doucher melo. I think Dwight is going to stay for some reason, unless the Magic upgrade though he is out.
-How long before Chris Bosh is booted from Miami?
When that shemale from Baylor is allowed to play in the NBA, he should start sweating.
-If they don't win next year or start slow, Like a Bosh is scapegoat numero uno, off to Siberia aka Milwakee for Andrew Bogut.
-Who was the craziest player in the league (aka Starbury award)?
Gilbert Arenas is deeply offended that you think this is up for debate. He's tweeting about your nappy ass shirt as we speak.
-Damn right it's Gilbert. I am going to claim this is what I meant by Comeback Player of the Year. Welcome back crazy Gil...keep on tweeting bout sharks, shoes and skanks til the Magic figuratively or literally have you whacked to get out of that contract.
Update: DeShawn Stevenson: tell me how my drunk Dirk taste.
P.S. Now we see why Gil and DeShawn were such awesome teammates.
We are all in agreement Kevin Love was best white American? Griffin ROY? Harden best beard?
False! I hand this title, as mentioned above in #3, to Brian "The Custodian" Cardinal. Any argument about the Best White American should be centered around White American skill sets. Kevin Love rebounds and scores. Those are bro skill sets, so Kevin Love is like the 85th best bro. BWA should be given based on hard fouls, killer screens (on or off ball), textbook box-outs, bounce passes, ball fakes, charge takes, defensive rotations, and bench enthusiasm. Brian Cardinal is the Kobe Bryant of White Americans (complete with jewelry).
No arguments on ROY.
BDiddy's beard takes silver to Harden's face-fro. (Coined bitches. O/U weeks til Edy uses that phrase around Val and her friends? I say however many weeks it takes for Val to have more than 2 of her friends around.)
No arguments on ROY.
BDiddy's beard takes silver to Harden's face-fro. (Coined bitches. O/U weeks til Edy uses that phrase around Val and her friends? I say however many weeks it takes for Val to have more than 2 of her friends around.)
Pat wasn't around for the beginning of the year and apparently didn't do research, but B. Diddy was retired from contention. Brian Cardinal had one, maybe two good games all season. Kevin Love set records. Real basketball records, not white player records.
I’ll take my victory laps around the park on the majority of these. Kevin Love dominated in this years’ Strom Thurmond/ Derrick Vinyard category, giving us white boys some hope and Harden brought new infamy to the Moussai beard with his bearded gap-toothed post 3 screams.
-O/U of players who get NBA trophy tatoos next season?
I feel like this HAS to be set at 0.5. And I'll take the under.
zero, douche bag terry
2
I am saying 20.5: Every sixth man/energy guy/irrational confidence guy for a contender is gonna get one. I mean, we've already had one fucking bench guy get one that didn't do shit. They are gonna be popping up errrawhere. I assume Birdman is getting one as we spreak.
-Most intriguing plotline this offseason?
Toss up: It's either
A. Bulls roster changes. They really felt like they were one or two guys away from being a championship squad. If they can add a guy who can create his own shot and a veteran who can get buckets in tough situations, I think they immediately become a championship favorite. Or
B. Lockout. Or
C. The Shaq Sex Tape.
A. Bulls roster changes. They really felt like they were one or two guys away from being a championship squad. If they can add a guy who can create his own shot and a veteran who can get buckets in tough situations, I think they immediately become a championship favorite. Or
B. Lockout. Or
C. The Shaq Sex Tape.
Most hated sportswriter/commentator: Jeff Van Gundy. No onegets under my skin like his nerdy, ill-placed, matter of fact quips. He was so annoying throughout the year I actually wished hiring upon him just so that I wouldn’t have to hear his fucking dipshit poindexter ass on my TV. I‘ve got room for one pencil-necked sports intellectual and John Clayton is it with his Stewie looking ass.
Lockout, duh.
Yeah, dumb question by me. Lockout is clearly the big story, Dwight number 2.
-Will the Heat ever win a title?
They need to upgrade at C, PF, PG, 6, 7, and 8th man, coach, PR, and towel boy. Even if they didn't upgrade any of those things, if King Dipshit could get his head right, they could win the next 4. Will they? Who knows. That guy's sucha Freudian wet dream that these next few season's could go a billion different ways.
-yep, that team can only get better. I mean jowhatver anthony and juan howard as post players??!?! some big lanky freak will sign with the heat.
Yes, pending a solid PF/C acquisition in the offseason .
They were argueably two shots away from it this year. I will bet my house on it next year (fact: I don't own a house, so thanks Tejouis for the collateral).
-Most hated player (I expect Russ Westbrook to get some love here)
Ask me about this a year ago and I put Kobe here. Ask me today and its Westbrook. No one consistently just pissed me off quite like his Antz/ Jurassic ass (Co-writer credits to Edy and Manchester there). I found myself likening his and Durants demeanor to the Good Son of the family that finds out he sucks at sports. He just kept having that whiny, I deserve to win and all these people are just hating against me look to him. A year ago I would have never said that especially after how much heart we saw him show against the Lakers, but this year he bought into the hype and really started believing he was better than everyone else (including Durant). Kobe had this same sort of bratty transformation, call it an NBA rite of passage but fuck this little-big headed prick for real.
As long as Sasha Vuji-bitch is in the league...
too many to count but right now it has to be serge i pound my chest ibaka. God he is annoying as all hell with his numerous facial expressions, fist pumps, and o yes that DK chest pound.
-How's my Dirk taste, BRON. Even though he has almost been ridden to death, fuck that motherfucker.
Anything else you find important/want to include.
"I'd like to thank the Man Upstairs for my thoughts and input here today. Without his inspiration, I wouldn't be here. All glory to Him."--Trev, if he lived in my basement.
-F the Mavs...focker outttttttt
Bonus: A DJ Stringer Bell Lookalikes Section:
Derrick Rose/OddJob,
http://cdn2.windows7news.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/oddjob.jpgDerrick Rose/OddJob,
http://cache2.allpostersimages.com/p/LRG/35/3592/GPU2F00Z/posters/derrick-rose-1-pick-2008-nba-draft.jpg
http://www.guesswhosback.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/26a1a.jpeg
Tom Thibodeau/ Devil from Constantine
http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film2/DVDReviews42/constantine%20blu-ray/large/large%20constantine%20blu-ray11.jpg
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-WSizouJaa-k/TaWufzeBoqI/AAAAAAAAAk8/amYTJL4S0mY/s1600/Tom+Thibodeau+NBA+Coach.jpg
Russell Westbrook and Gon from Tekken and Gook Cartoons
http://i11.ebayimg.com/07/i/000/99/dc/423a_2.JPG
No comments:
Post a Comment