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Originally Posted by Jordan G
an NBA thread? Most wonderful. Seriously, this is going to be a great playoff run.....which should deflect attention from the Seattle debacle.
The Jason Kidd trade obviously isn't working. Chris Paul and Dwight Howard are taking the next step. And my lowly Sixers are in a perfect positon to upset the old, cantankerous Pistons - nothing to lose and plenty of momentum.
I do love me some crazy Stephen Jackson......he's much more than 70% flake though. Baron had great numbers in the first half of the season but he's wearing down.
I read like a Bill Simmons column.
EDIT: more on point - CMAC, do you go to the games? The sports guy has been banging on the Warriors fans.....saying they lost the energy/vibe that was so overpowering last season. Any truth to that?
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The Seattle debacle. Sigh . . .
We moved to the NW in '67 when I was 15 (from NM). It was the Sonics expansion year. They played one game at St. Martins college, right next to OlyWA where we lived. It was with the Baltimore Bullets and my dad somehow got courtside seats at one of the corners. It was Earl Monroe's rookie year, or second year, I forget -- this would have been early spring '68.
Also still had Gus Johnson. I knew nothing of them at the time (what I wouldn't give to relive that experience live, right now). Johnson was like the original Dr. J. Incredible moves for a forward and Earl, well, Earl is/was one of the top 5 guards ever, IMO.
I saw him again in Seattle mid 70s with the Knicks -- scored about 35 points with some blinding quick turn around moves.
I saw Russell, Chamberlain, Jerry West, Lenny Wilkens, Nate Thurmond, Willis Reed, Walt Frazier, Bill Bradley, Rick Barry, and more at the Seattle Coliseum. I was there when they were runners up to the Bullets and then beat the Bullets the next year. Seattle's only league title in any sport (hockey maybe?) ever. The town about went nuts that night. They had Paul Silas, the mighty oak, those two years. Dennis and John Johnson also. A very tight, under-rated team, IMO.
Oklahoma City?!?
But, to the present, I've not been to a single Warriors game in person, sorry to say. My work schedule is so full. The fans have seemed pretty boisterous to me. They had an attendance record for the Denver game that they needed and lost. Denver outplayed the **** out of them. Don't know Iverson gets his skinny legs and 160 lbs to do that but he smoked them that night. I think they do a thing with the fire marshalls to gradually let in more people so they keep having state records for attendance at an NBA game.
Their two starting forwards, Jackson and Harrington, are just not mature and deep enough in their game, IMHO. And Matt Barnes must have started eating junk food or something after his mother died (no slam intended, that's a toughy) cause he looks way skinny and weak compared to last year, when he was about the most exciting white American forward I'd seen in years.
Davis can be very good but he disappeared too often this season. Who knows. Also, trading J. Rich may have hurt them more than they thought it would.
But Nelson should have gone to his bench more, IMO. Bellinelli is a great shooter with potential but he rarely broke a sweat. I'm sure the NBA would love to stoke up the Italian viewership by having him see more floor time, and he could possibly have contributed.