TIM GRGURICH, fucking cool name. What's his deal? More importantly, what are the Nuggos gonna be doing in a post-Kleiza world where some other son of a gun comes in and takes some ill advised shots while occasionally going off for 40 points? You certainly don't expect such future fireworks from one Anthony Carter. The ghost of Eduardo Najara lingers, actually that's the scent of his man musk (Blake Griffin's ridiculous couple of seasons at Oklahoma were fueled by that untraceable testosterone boost known as Najara). MASON AND DIXON by Thomas Pynchon is really so excellent; if Carmelo and Billups can keep building on their unlikely adventure through this NBA age of reason, they might just have an 800+ page period piece of a season on their hands.
Can't embed every video I wanna watch here on the blog; WILLIAM RYBAK this is for you!THE LIFE
highlights:
The Trail Blazers also won a division crown with Grgurich on staff in ’98-99 and reached the Western Conference Finals twice.
Grgurich spent 12 years as an assistant coach under Jerry Tarkanian at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas, preparing emerging NBA standouts such as Larry Johnson, Stacey Augmon, Greg Anthony, Armen Gilliam and Sidney Green. The Runnin’ Rebels won the 1990 NCAA Championship and made three Final Four appearances while he was part of the program.
Wes Unseld's seed! making moves, not unlike the boys in the band in Wicomico County, Maryland. Gilbert Arenas is supposedly back and better than ever; I guarantee the WIZ make the playoffs, I also make a promise to attend at least one NBA game this season (here's hoping I get a glimpse of Dirk against Darko)
Highlights: In his tenth year as a member of the Wizards organization, Wes Unseld Jr. is in his second season as Assistant Coach. Just four days after his graduation from The Johns Hopkins University in 1997, Unseld began his career in scouting, with both professional and collegiate responsibilities to the Wizards organization. Promoted to advance scout in his first season, the thirty-one-year-old Unseld has reached a decade of service in Washington. In addition to his nine-year tenure as Advance Pro Scout for the Wizards, Unseld also spent three seasons as an advance scout for the WNBA’s Washington Mystics (1998-2000). In 1998, he spent part of the season serving as Assistant Coach for the Mystics.
Oh shit! The Future Folk Fest was a resounding success. Things are starting to really take shape and form. I gained the greatest backwards asset that I'd never think I'd stumble across in a thousand years; beautiful.
So, Dwayne Wade is making open overtures to get Lamar Odom back in a Heat uniform. Did you know LO has his own record label?
Anyhoo, someone's gotta be workin' with the youngin's down in South Florida; I imagine someone has to play "bag-o gnome" and steal the stash that Beasley and Chalmers try to sneak on to buses. So, get to know David Fizdale!
highlights: He began his professional career assisting in the HEAT’s video room during the 1997-98 season. Among his responsibilities in his new role, Fizdale will be assisting in the areas of player development, scouting, game preparation and other duties assigned by Head Coach Erik Spolestra.
A Los Angeles native, Fizdale earned a bachelor’s degree in communications and a minor in sociology from San Diego in 1996. He is single and currently resides in Miami.
I started writing for a nice blog based out of LA; Zebraisfood. There is so much to explore on the website, it feels good to be part of something that feels headed in the right direction.
What to do? Fractals based organization techniques abound!
How about the NBA champion LA Lakers? Whose holding it down on that bench, toiling in obscurity to get things done?
FRANK HAMBLEN! His Nba.com profile is intriguingly threadbare (aka blank). Here's some facts from the ol' Wikipedia;
Frank Hamblen is a National Basketball Association (NBA) coach and scout, and a former college basketball player at Syracuse University. He has served as an interim head coach for two different teams; for the Milwaukee Bucks in 1992 and the Los Angeles Lakers in 2005. He also has served as an assistant coach on numerous successful NBA teams and currently is an assistant coach for the Lakers.
Generally regarded as the best mind in the nba to never have become a full-fledged head coach, Thibodeau lied in relative obscurity despite his teams always performing incredibly well on the defensive end. His name comes up on the endless coaching carousel of la liga whenever a vacancy arises, he's always a finalist, but never gets the job. This reminds me of my own intramural basketball career; fucking pathetic.
anyways, he's not really photogenic.
Ubuntu? Desmobd Tutu? Vicar in a Tutu? Two plus Two = Two plus Two.
Welcome to Thunderdome; why an oral-sex-centric documentary was never produced concerning such a thing confounds me to no end.
One time I made up a rumor that an extremely physically imposing woman's tennis player at Oberlin gave a rim job to a relief pitcher on the baseball team and in exultation he screamed, "CHOCOLATE THUNDER"; it became a rallying cry of sorts for about 10 days between myself and maybe two other people. Also, Jaeger Bombs.
What about the OKC Thunda?!?!?! They didn't get that top pick in the draft; oh, the highly coveted athletic power forward who can shoot 15 footers...instead they got James Harden, who threw down a tremendous in game dunk in the summer league the other day that had me screaming Chocolate Thunder all over again.
So, who's the last dingleberry on the ass hairs of the nba? GIVE IT UP FOR RON ADAMS! ( I too was surprised that the answer was not Robert Swift, WHITE PEOPLE!)
Highlights: began his coaching career as an assistant coach at his alma mater, Fresno Pacific University in 1969 and was promoted to head coach in 1972 … Adams also had assistant coaching stints at U.S. International, University of Cal-Santa Barbara, Fresno State University and University of Nevada-Las Vegas … was head coach at Fresno State during a second tour of duty from 1986-90 … has coached professional basketball in Belgium, consulted and coached with the Canadian National basketball program, two Japanese professional basketball clubs and the Belgian Basketball Federation … graduated with a degree in History and Political Science from Fresno Pacific University in 1969 and received a master’s degree in Physical Education from Fresno State in 1974 …
Anyone who reads this blog (Taka, Sam, Max, Avis, Sweet P [fair, unbiased coverage, even for my republican countrymen; this is what it's all about, I'll even link his blog right here!] and that's probably it, unless Harry Hirsch likes the NBA more than he led on, knows that Benicio Del Toro wore a Blazers shirt on the Colbert Report a little while back; I wrote Henry Abbot of TrueHoop an email about it, even seeing it a day late he didn't put it up until the day after receiving my email, but I got 0 love on the post, which led me to believe that I am not a unique butterfly/gumshoe/shoegazer/cumdumpster. I am another spoiled, northeastern, liberal fucking around on the internet, trying to figure out why my brain was wired to type the words as they appear on the screen. Having no experience in programming, only minimal html code that I've actually learned only recently, I'm wondering why things gotta be the way they are, but it requires an understanding of the intuitive logic that goes in to programming. I'm gonna leave further commentary on that to Nick Knight and his soon to be, eventually that is, PHD from Berkeley for Comp. Sci.
HEY! I'm not the only one making mistakes/baring my soul in such indignant fashion. Wha' happened to this bio on NBA.com describing current Blazer assistant coach Joe Prunty; maybe the worst basketball name I've ever read out loud to a German person.
Jai alai (t) s [all non-blazer facts]:
He joined the Spurs in the summer of 1996 as assistant video coordinator. He was named an assistant coach at the University of San Diego in April of 1997. Prior to the start of the 1997-98 season, he returned to San Antonio as the Spurs video coordinator and was promoted to assistant coach/video coordinator during the summer of 2000.
Then in 2002-03, he was promoted to advance scout/assistant coach. For the last two summers, he has coached the Mavericks Summer League team (at the Rocky Mountain Revue in Salt Lake City in 2006 and the Vegas Summer League in Las Vegas in 2005).
In the six summers prior, he served as either a head coach or an assistant coach for the Spurs summer league squads in Boston and Salt Lake City. He has also worked a wide variety of summer camps including ABCD camp, Superstars, Pepperdine University and University of San Diego.
CHRIS BROUSSARD; you have a face for the internet age! OBERLIN ALUMS IN ACTION! (inaction?) Where's George Smith at?
What does this have to do with the NY KNicks? Well, for one thing, señor Broussard (whose picture up in the main stacks part of WOBC is fucking hilarious) sez that David Lee is not gonna get a contract offer from anyone, but the Knickerbockers. Same goes for WORLD CHAMPEEEN Lamar 'Lazarus' Odom with his LA County Lakers.
The knicks are gonna run again; they play for Mike D'Antoni, it's a given. Poor Chris Duhon's back couldn't handle it; Y'all questioning Steve Nash's durability again? I'm so fucking sick and tired of reading about these asterisk the mvp seasons of Nash over stat inflation. They will be cited as evidence towards a trend that was ushered in by some pretty incredible PG's; Nash's ascendance coincided the rise of young Chris Paul from cockknocker (Was Julius Hodge ever the same after that? Oh wait, maybe getting shot in his car was a bit more traumatic on his 'road to hope') to knockin at the gates.
Did you know Mike D'Antoni has a brother named Dan? Dan D'Antoni, ugh, well if y'all were hip to Jack Macculum's brilliant little log of what came to pass for the suns back in the dawn of the SSOL era, you'd know that D'an (easier shorthand, I'm sick of writing this last name; is it ironic that it took more effort to type the explanation? I HATE irony.) speaks Portugese, which was incredibly helpful in coddling (developing), mercurial guard Diana Taurasi Leandro Barbosa. What does that mean for the Madison Square Garden Dolanite Dolemites who run and gun and stun but never do quite enough to beat out Bosh and his dinosaurs (that goes double for Hedo) for Atlantic Division also-ran status.
Prior to joining the Suns in 2005, D’Antoni accumulated over 500 wins as head coach of Socastee HS in Myrtle Beach, SC, a position he had held for three decades beginning in 1975. Dan is also the founder of the Beach Ball Classic, the prestigious South Carolina high school Christmas basketball tournament that has showcased the likes of Kevin Garnett, Kobe Bryant, Jason Kidd, Vince Carter, Grant Hill, Rasheed Wallace and Raymond Felton. The Classic - which began as an eight-team affair in 1981 - has evolved into a 16-team national competition, with a women’s tournament added in 1998.
Word has it a young Jason Kidd could actually dunk!
Yes, I have heroes. No, I don't think covering David Bowie is part of that solution; Is TV on the Radio the next Wallflowers?
At least it's for a good cause; if you believe in good causes to give money for.
I had always assumed vocalist/pianist/drummer/all-around good dude Richard Manuel had died from his liver exploding; rumors abounded that leading up to this death he'd developed the habit of drinking 6 bottles of Gran Marnier a day. For anyone who's never tasted that syrupy orange devil, go get a pricey glass of that shit at your favorite dive and pour one down the gullet for an all-time great.
UPDATE: WHAT THE FUCK? It all makes sense now.
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So, let's find out what the fuck happened (of course we consult the original patty melt, allmusic.com, for answers)
In a group remembered for their vocal talent, the late Richard Manuel was often seen as the lead singer. His is the first voice you hear on the Band's legendary debut album, Music From Big Pink, a rich baritone so soulful and charged with pathos it's hard to believe it could come from the frail Canadian. His is also the last voice heard on that album, a lonesome, quavering falsetto on Bob Dylan's "I Shall Be Released" that raises the hair on the back of the listener's neck. Sadly, Manuel hanged himself in a motel room in Florida on March 4, 1986.
Manuel, the son of a Stratford, Ontario, mechanic, developed his vocal ability as a youth in the Baptist church choir. He grew up listening to country music, eventually discovering R&B, which would become a huge influence. (His voice would garner frequent comparisons to Ray Charles.) Manuel was the fourth future member of the Band to join the Hawks. In 1961, Levon Helm was the drummer for the Hawks and Robbie Robertson was on bass. Soon, however, Robertson took over as lead guitarist and Rick Danko was added as the new bass player. When Stan Szelest left the group that year, Richard Manuel was brought in as the piano player.
Throughout the legendary career of the Band, Manuel was troubled by drug and alcohol problems. It was only a few years after the Band had reunited in the '80s (without Robertson) -- and during an endless tour of much smaller clubs than the group was accustomed to -- that Manuel committed suicide. No other singer in the group was as admired, however. Even musical giants such as Eric Clapton (who has made no secret of his fascination with Manuel) were in awe of his vocal ability. Clapton would go on to record a tribute to Manuel, "Holy Mother," on his 1986 album August. Ex-bandmate Robbie Robertson would also eulogize Manuel on his 1987 solo debut with "Fallen Angel." Richard Manuel's grave is at the Avondale cemetery in Stratford, Ontario.
War on Drugs? Whose drawing up these battle lines? One of the most interesting things to me so far about Leo Tolstóy's WAR AND PEACE is his usage of maps; something that Jorge Luis Borges, Thomas Pynchon and other names that I drop as to raise your opinion of my literary savvy, have touched upon.
I am worried about this. Am I like the crowd at a David Cross show in Little Rock, AK? I hope not, who knows though, I do have this ogreish tendency when the music's off and the lighting's bad and the beer's shitty, and bottled.
There is a trade going on?!?!?! No speculation.
What about a guy whose name is Scott Layden. Sound familiar!?!? A high-character guy on a winning team somewhere, sometime probably 1980's heyday greatness, what is it?!?!? Oh that's right, wrong. He was this guy: Prior to working with NBA TV, Layden spent four and a half years as President and General Manager of the Knicks. During his tenure the Knicks made the playoffs twice, advancing to the Eastern Conference Finals in 2000. Prior to his stint with the Knicks, Layden spent 18 years with the Jazz, establishing a reputation as one of the game's most astute judges of talent and an instrumental figure in the Jazz' perennial success.
NOTED ALUMNI OF ST. FRANCIS (PA) include CHarles Schwab (is he the fat guy with the beard who has the most labyrinth-laden sports guessing game on tv? Wait, no that's Howie..., Kevin Porter the Craig Ehlo circa 1988 of record number of assists in one game that Scott Skiles stakes his claim to fame on (he's an OIL MAN I TELL YOU!)
Pause for indigestion related burping. Tap three times on the clavicle bone, feel the heat of 10,000 EBOLA PIGS.
So, what about the Toros, I mean Bulls, fuck this transition back to MErica; I gots to stick to the Spangleesh for a little while, eso es lo qué es.
SO lookout for MIKE WILHELM!!!!!!!!
prior to joining the Bulls, Mike spent the 2001-02 season as an advance scout for the Denver Nuggets … first entered the NBA with the Cleveland Cavaliers during the 1993-94 season as the team’s assistant video coordinator … Wilhelm became the head video coordinator in 1996, a position he held until 1999 when he became the team’s advance scout … also served as assistant coach for the WNBA’s Cleveland Rockers from 1997 through the 1999 season, winning the Eastern Conference Championship with the Rockers in 1998 … coaching career began in Sweden’s professional league, where he directed the Sundsvall Dragons for two seasons from 1990-92 … enjoys conducting basketball and coaches clinics in Scandinavia during the off season … worked the NBA’s Basketball Without Borders in China in 2006 …
Jacques-Louis David was the greatest representative of the Neo-Classical style. After the French Revolution seized control of France from the aristocrats, dainty, Frivolous Rococo gave way to a new austere Republican style. David was active in the French Revolution and a supporter of Napoleon. Determined to portray his political beliefs in art, David painted in an "Empire style." David's most famous painting, The Death of Marat, was called the Pieta of the Revolution, after images of the dead Jesus. The revolutionary Marat was killed in the bathtub by an assailant who gained entry to his house with a purported list of enemies of the Republic.
DEATH OF MARAT! THE GREAT MARTYR OF THE REVOLUTION! THE LEN BIAS! THE PISTOL PETE! THE BRISTOL, CT. Paranoia blues!
