It must be fun being a referee having to listen to partisan fans, many of whom don’t know a thing about basketball, cuss at you about “missing” a foul call.
It has to be even more fun when it’s the guy who ordered the Code Red in “A Few Good Men.”
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There is no blowup here. Just a coach who’s obviously pissed off about losing Game 2 and has to go talk to the media for a few minutes after the game. He gets progressively annoyed by the questions and then settles down toward the end. It is a lesson in composure.
Part of the problem is that half of the reporters that cover the games never played competitive basketball in their lives. Popovich’s response to the “energy” question was a little perplexing. One team can certainly play with more energy than another, but I think his point was that his Spurs were playing hard and the ball just didn’t bounce their way.
Club Seat has a funny list of the ten worst tattoos in the NBA.
6.Michael Beasley (Miami Heat) – When you have a tattoo on your body that has the word “Supercool” in it, chances are you probably aren’t cool at all. When that tattoo is the size of your back, and in this case says “Supercool Beas”, then you’re definitely not cool and will never have a chance to be cool again in life.
See the entire list here.
In his latest column, regular Steve Kerr critic Bill Simmons breaks down the series of events that turned around the Phoenix Suns.
You need luck with these things. Somehow, some way, Kerr got lucky four straight times. In order …
1. Gentry. Who fell from the sky, basically.
2. Cavaliers GM Danny Ferry talked himself into Shaq. Beautiful. Kerr dumped him for Ben Wallace’s expiring contract and bought Wallace out, saving Phoenix about $13 million (including tax), and leaving the Suns some wiggle room to sign Channing Frye, yet another good-chemistry guy and someone Kerr’s staff felt could spread the floor and shoot 3s. As weird as this sounds, Frye was a better fit for Phoenix than one of the greatest centers of all time.
3. Last summer, Kerr had to sign Nash — only the face of his franchise, the most popular Phoenix athlete ever and the heart of his locker room — to a contract extension. Kerr knew Nash couldn’t stop rehashing the past four years, thinking of all the couldas and wouldas and whatmightabeens. He knew Nash wondered if Kerr and Sarver knew what they were doing. He knew that, if this were anyone else, Disgruntled Superstar X would have demanded a trade or made it clear, “I’m playing this last year out, and if we fall short again, I’m out of here.”
But he also knew Steve Nash isn’t wired that way. He’s loyal. He’s Canadian. He’s old-school. He believes in things like, “I am the leader of this team, so as soon as I say that I might want to leave, I can’t lead anymore.” Nobody else would have stayed. Steve Nash stayed. Kerr promised him things would be better, that the window hadn’t closed, that he would, for lack of a better word, fix this. He even believed it.
Even when the Magic trailed by eight at halftime, it really didn’t seem like there was a good chance that they were going to lose the game. In the third quarter, they outscored the Hawks 35-26 to take a one-point lead heading into the fourth quarter. In the final period, Orlando outscored Atlanta 28-15. Game over, 112-98.
Dwight Howard posted a 29-18 and hit 13-of-18 free throws. In fact, there were four Magic players with 20+ points: Vince Carter (24), Jameer Nelson (20) and Rashard Lewis (20) rounded out the quartet.
Al Horford had 24-10 for Atlanta, but Joe Johnson and Josh Smith combined for 11-for-31 shooting. That’s not going to get it done. The Hawks did hit 30-of-31 free throws, but it wasn’t enough to overcome their 41.5% shooting, especially when the Magic shot 55.9% from the field.
Atlanta is not going to win this series, folks.
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