just bill walton, or all of 'em?

[cranrab]

now, before i ask the question, let me say that I KNOW that it's the job of the broadcaster to spice up the game for the audience, do a little rah rah, pay heed to THE SCRIPT, and NOT be objective AT ALL,

BUT,

tonight bill walton took the cake... that drug-addled FOOL said that ben wallace was a HALL OF FAMER, and seconds later said that ben wallace was the MVP of the detroit pistons...

with buffoons like bill walton covering games (and offering pseuo-analysis), it's NO WONDER that viewers buy into the MYTHS of some players actually possessing TRUE skills...

 

[Diamels]

Bill Walton is Bill Walton and that is all I will say about that

 

[Sango]

fuck that clown and his no skill having son...

 

[xfactor]

tonight bill walton took the cake... that drug-addled FOOL said that ben wallace was a HALL OF FAMER, and seconds later said that ben wallace was the MVP of the detroit pistons...

I heard him say this on the replay LATE last night. He also went as far as saying Chris Dudley was a Blazers' legend.

B. Wallace didnt look like one last night.... Z-Bo was owning that fool the whole game. B. Wallace only had 5 rebs and was getting pushed around all night.

I dont see anyone on the Pistons squad going to the HOF but Chauncey Billups is their best player.

On an unrelated note... Is Flip Saunders proving that Larry Brown's tenure in Detroit was a fluke?

 

[RunawaySlave]

Walton has a warped sense of humor.....they all know it
He's always on that "in the history of the game" stuff
because he's being sarcastic. Which is why I hate his ass

Like last night, he called the Pistons defense, the
greatest in the HISTORY of the NBA......lol

Only broadcasters I will listen to are Snapper and Mike
Breen. The guy on TNT's last broadcast is cool too

But never listen to Walton, Albert, Collins, KERR, Tolbert
Taurisco, Michaels (sometimes), Hubie Brown (liar) or
any of the sideline hoes except Cheryl Miller​

 

[parisian]

Walton has a warped sense of humor.....they all know it
He's always on that "in the history of the game" stuff
because he's being sarcastic. Which is why I hate his ass

Like last night, he called the Pistons defense, the
greatest in the HISTORY of the NBA......lol

Only broadcasters I will listen to are Snapper and Mike
Breen. The guy on TNT's last broadcast is cool too

But never listen to Walton, Albert, Collins, KERR, Tolbert
Taurisco, Michaels (sometimes), Hubie Brown (liar) or
any of the sideline hoes except Cheryl Miller​

u forgot gay ass Craig Sager
what's up with that dude and his ties anyway?

 

[cranrab]

what's you funniest one?

last week, dude that does the clippers games said that quinton ross was 1 of the NBA's top 5 players...

and he was DEAD serious... his co-host called him on it, naming a short list of players, and dude WOULDN'T back pedal... shit was hilarious...

but he is a forgivable dunce... cats like him get caught up in their enthusiasm and fan-dom, and stupid shit just comes out...

it's those repeat offenders like bill walton that kill me...

p.s. this thread in NO WAY should be considered a diss to ben wallace or quinton ross...

 

[originalman]

Man it doesn't even surprise me any more what crack head walton says. Check this out during the bulls last three peat run. Bill Walton said that luk longley reminded him of Wilt and Bill Russell in their prime!!

I knew then that walton had to be a crack/meth head cause only a dope fiend would say that shit.

Hey do you guys think that Bill Walton posts on BGOL main board. Cause a lot of the ignorant shit he says them fools on the main board say every day when it comes to sports. I guess that proves ignorant crack head fools think a like.

Last year some fool on the mainboard said that yao ming reminded him of patrick ewing with his athletic ability and post up game And said that he is a better player then Ewing at the same point in their careers!!!
Who ever made that statement had to be bill walton or just as dumb as him!!!

 

[Sango]

Man it doesn't even surprise me any more what crack head walton says. Check this out during the bulls last three peat run. Bill Walton said that luk longley reminded him of Wilt and Bill Russell in their prime!!

I knew then that walton had to be a crack/meth head cause only a dope fiend would say that shit.

Hey do you guys think that Bill Walton posts on BGOL main board. Cause a lot of the ignorant shit he says them fools on the main board say every day when it comes to sports. I guess that proves ignorant crack head fools think a like.

Last year some fool on the mainboard said that yao ming reminded him of patrick ewing with his athletic ability and post up game And said that he is a better player then Ewing at the same point in their careers!!!
Who ever made that statement had to be bill walton or just as dumb as him!!!

EWING & YAO comparison

 

[RunawaySlave]

Yao's post up game is actually better than Ewing's
but yao will never come close to being the warrior
Patrick was......never​

 

[Havoc]

now, before i ask the question, let me say that I KNOW that it's the job of the broadcaster to spice up the game for the audience, do a little rah rah, pay heed to THE SCRIPT, and NOT be objective AT ALL,

BUT,

tonight bill walton took the cake... that drug-addled FOOL said that ben wallace was a HALL OF FAMER, and seconds later said that ben wallace was the MVP of the detroit pistons...

with buffoons like bill walton covering games (and offering pseuo-analysis), it's NO WONDER that viewers buy into the MYTHS of some players actually possessing TRUE skills...

I caught that one. You're very funny.

What's the deal with his son? What's this guy doing? It's like he fell off the face of the earth or something.

 

[Spectrum]

EWING & YAO comparison

Ewing was a one on one defensive liability and had a limited offensive game. When it's all said and done...Yao Ming and Ewing will have similar numbers. They actually have very similar games right now;however, I think Ming will progress in his back to the basket post up game. I always thought Ewing was overrated. He was definately good for some MJ posters though.

 

[Bravo]

Ewing was a one on one defensive liability and had a limited offensive game. When it's all said and done...Yao Ming and Ewing will have similar numbers. They actually have very similar games right now;however, I think Ming will progress in his back to the basket post up game. I always thought Ewing was overrated. He was definately good for some MJ posters though.

Ewing overrated? Wow. Is this the Ewing that almost singlehandedly dragged a mediocre Knicks team into the finals? The same Ewing with a 21ppg career average on a defense-oriented team.

Everyone who plays defense ends up on someone's poster. I may be mistaken, but I think MJ was on a John Starks poster.

 

[RunawaySlave]

Ewing was a one on one defensive liability

Tell that to John Thompson....or Pat Riley
who built their ENTIRE defensive strategies
around PE

Ewing got dunked on by Jordan, Barkely and
alot of other all stars. But he rarely EVER got
dunked on by HIS OWN MAN. It was ALWAYS
someone else's

 

[originalman]

Tell that to John Thompson....or Pat Riley
who built their ENTIRE defensive strategies
around PE

Ewing got dunked on by Jordan, Barkely and
alot of other all stars. But he rarely EVER got
dunked on by HIS OWN MAN. It was ALWAYS
someone else's

Cosign!!!

Man being from chicago I hated the knicks but I had mad respect for ewing. The only reason ewing has a 21 ppg avg. is cause he hung around too long (playing for the super sonics and magic when he could barely move with his bad knees). Old boy must be smoking crack rocks with Micheal Irvin to say that ewing is overated or that super soft ass yao ming can even fuck with big pat.

Shit pat would drop 40 and grab 15 plus boards like it wasn't even shit. The kat was rookie of the year and avg. 20 plus points as a rookie. He also made a few 2nd team all defensive teams(maybe even first team I have to do some research). Something soft ass no moving yao will never do.

Plus what the fuck is he talking about pat had a limited offensive game. These fools on this website don't follow sports. Kat must have been watching pat when he was 36 playing with the magic. In pats prime only hakeem had a better offensive game then pat when it came to big men.

Only thing yao can do better then pat is pass. Pat had a better post up game. Was able to finish with either hand at the rim. Pat went to the hole strong (something yao rarely does). Pat was a better post defender and perimeter defender (something yao sucks at). Pat intimidated fools on the offensive end. Pat could put the ball on the floor with both hands and had very good handles for a center. Pat could also knock down jumpers from 18 to 19 feet consistantly. He also had 2 damn near unstopable moves the big 2 to 3 step running move fade away at the top of the key or at the free throw line ( in which he damn near traveled ever play) and his countless fade away shots on the baseline (only hakeems fade away was better in terms of centers). That soft ass fucker yao has yet to develop a damn near unstoppable move.

Plus pat rarely backed down from physical play. Only kat that gave pat problems was bill cartwright!!! Shit that faggot yao backs down from physical play all the time.

To any fool that thinks yao is better then pat let me send you the 7 game series the knicks played against the bull in 1992 when the bulls did their first repeat. I got all 7 games of that series. Pat single handedly kept the knicks in the series. Pat avg about 25pts 15reb and about 3 blocks a game while playing about 40 + minutes a game. Pat did everything but bring the ball up the court. The dude was unstopable. The tripped out part is he was the only knick that could consistantly knock down a jump shot over 10 feet. He was more consistant hitting jump shots of over 15 feet then the knick guards!!!

During that time the only center that was better then pat was hakeem!!!

Now that shit speaks volumes of how good pat was.

Fools on this website will say anything, these the same fools that were saying kobe was better then jordan and that shaq is an average player.

Mothafuckas play to much NBA live. Fools think just cause a mothafucka can ball on a video game that they play that good in real life.

Oh look brotha runaway I made dirk nowitzki win defensive player of the year on NBA live 06. I guess that means he is a better defensive player then Ron Artest and Ben Wallace in real life!!!!

The ignorance on this website never stops!!!!

 

[RunawaySlave]

Oh look brotha runaway I made dirk nowitzki win defensive player of the year on NBA live 06. I guess that means he is a better defensive player then Ron Artest and Ben Wallace in real life!!!!

I can't even comment on some of the remarks spread by these
knowledgable "fans"....Except to say, you'll rarely see me dispute
anything they say on the main board. Bring it here (where it
belongs), and we can discuss it....

There can be a case made for Yao being as effective on offense
as Patrick Ewing. Ewing had terrible hands (ask Mark Jackson),
I hated that fallaway jumper and that fall back off the wrong foot
in the lane move that he developed because the refs WRONGLY
picked on PE when he was a rookie and called him for countless
offensive fouls.....

Offensively, PE was not your prototype center, and it wasn't
entirely his fault. I know he felt persecuted when Shaq came
into the league bowling people over and getting away with it.
Patrick, Darryl Dawkins and a couple of others NEVER got away
with what Shaq got away with at the beginning of his career

Anyway, Patrick had some problem on offense. The fact that
he averaged 25, 26 ppg at points in his career should be a
testament to his intestinal fortitude and greatness.....Yao may
or may not approach Ewing on offense, but he will NEVER
come close to PE as a defender or a warrior in the trenches

Ewing practically shed BLOOD for NYC

 

[Uncle Reggie]

i like hubie brown. he breaks things down like he knows what he's talking about. i used to have a few of his tapes when i thought i could hoop.

walton is terrible. he's the kind of guy that will make comments that will make you wonder what game he is watching.

tom tolbert is my least favorite. he kills me when he talks about his nba experience. what experience? from the bench? practice? are we a talking about practice? practice? he can't tell me shit except when the trainer gets a fresh shipment of socks and shoes.

 

[xfactor]

Cosign!!!


Fools on this website will say anything, these the same fools that were saying kobe was better then jordan and that shaq is an average player.

Man... tell me about it. I went at it with two or three dudes about this and they were actually trying to say I had no idea what I was talkin' about. Shit was gettin me heated how people can be SO ignorant to the facts and swear they know somethin about bball.

Mothafucka coach his team to the playoffs and win the championship on dynasty mode on NBA Live (on rookie level) and think he is a basketball mastermind

 

[Sango]

Ewing was a one on one defensive liability and had a limited offensive game. When it's all said and done...Yao Ming and Ewing will have similar numbers. They actually have very similar games right now;however, I think Ming will progress in his back to the basket post up game. I always thought Ewing was overrated. He was definately good for some MJ posters though.

Ewing was way more Athletic than Yao. Ewing's game was on the baseline with his back to the basket, hitting those fadeaways or the elbow shots at the top of the key. Yao's game is stiff. Has no unique moves. Acts like he's developing a jump shot. And if his game looks similar to Ewing's it's b/c he's being trained by the man himself. Ewing's defensive presence was there, good shot blocker. But then again there are a few players that made for some good MJ posters no?..

 

[cranrab]

add steve kerr and doug collins to the list...

i lost a level of respect for steve kerr and coach collins during the miami heat v. fakers game...

during the 2nd half, coach riley switched up the D and put GP on tobe and dwyane wade on devean george...

BOTH of those clowns sat up there and said that this was a new strategy, and commented on how it was the first time that the heat had shown that look... one of the bums even speculated that the reason behind the switch was to protect dwyane wade's ankle (injured on a previous play)...

shows you how the blind lead the blind... if EITHER had been paying attention to THE ACTUAL GAME, they would've noticed that coach riley ran that D in the first half! Q2 to be exact...

 

[cranrab]

steve kerr: another strike against him

another reason why i give this clown NO cred...

No defending this decision

By Steve Kerr, Yahoo! Sports
January 18, 2006

In light of the Indiana Pacers-Detroit Pistons brawl last season, every NBA player knows without question that, regardless of the circumstances, it is not allowable to ever, ever enter the stands.

Antonio Davis' decision to do so Wednesday night in Chicago – in response to a fan's apparent heckling of Davis' wife – was an unfortunate incident but a mistake on Davis' part.

It is difficult to say what any of us would do in a similar situation, but I believe that given the league rules – and the nature of any incident that takes place in front of 20,000 people – the player has to quickly point out the situation to security and trust that other fans in the area will come to the aid of any person who is being threatened.

For his part, Davis said he thought he saw his wife fall backward while being confronted by the heckler, and he understandably was scared and felt he had to react. But the reality is that, in general, a player who enters the stands probably puts himself – and the fans – at risk, as we saw at The Palace of Auburn Hills.

As for security, there is only so much that can be done at an NBA game to prevent this sort of thing from happening. The security force in Chicago reacted quickly and prevented any further escalation of the incident, but there is no way they can be everywhere at once. These things are going to happen, particularly with the sales of alcohol at the arenas, but it is up to the players to trust that league and arena security will handle any altercations, even if they include family members.

Davis will most likely be suspended by the NBA. David Stern came down hard on all the participants in the Pacers-Pistons brawl, and while this is a much less severe incident and a much more understandable reaction by the player, Davis nonetheless broke a very serious league rule. My guess is that he will receive at least a three-game suspension – possibly more.

 

[RunawaySlave]

Pearls of wisdom from Walton.....
(just heard this one a few minutes ago)

"It's very difficult to win if you're getting outscored in every quarter"
Brilliant

Listening to Walton is like listening to Homer Simpson
The more you listen, the dumber you get

 

[RunawaySlave]

Cranrab, what you have to understand is that they announcers
aren't necessarily there to inform you on the nuances of the
game, a la the way Bill Russell and Rick Barry used to do.....they
are there more for spin control than anything else. How many
times have they completely ignored an infraction by one of their
favorite sons while holding other certain players under a microscope?

Unless there is blatant evidence of anything, the average announcer
"analyst" won't say shit. Even John Thompson holds his tongue
on certain players faulty plays

It happens in every sport. That's why I never pay them any mind

 

[Makkonnen]

Cranrab, what you have to understand is that they announcers
aren't necessarily there to inform you on the nuances of the
game, a la the way Bill Russell and Rick Barry used to do.....they
are there more for spin control than anything else. How many
times have they completely ignored an infraction by one of their
favorite sons while holding other certain players under a microscope?

Unless there is blatant evidence of anything, the average announcer
"analyst" won't say shit. Even John Thompson holds his tongue
on certain players faulty plays

It happens in every sport. That's why I never pay them any mind

did u catch thompson and barkley talkin shit about toby and the lakers the other night?

 

[RunawaySlave]

Barkley is like the gay poster
Everyone has him on "ignore"
because they know he's capable
of saying something completely
ridiculous....

I believe you're referring to Thursday
night's action?? If Barkley and Thompson
said anything....and John Thompson is
NEVER in the studio, then it was probably
after the game which means it was after
1:00AM EST.

You'd be hard pressed to hear whatever
comments they made like that BEFORE
a broadcast, or even during one. Never
in primetime either

You can catch alot of great programming
after hours. In every subject. But try to
find it while the majority population is
tuning in.

 

[Makkonnen]

Barkley is like the gay poster
Everyone has him on "ignore"
because they know he's capable
of saying something completely
ridiculous....

I believe you're referring to Thursday
night's action?? If Barkley and Thompson
said anything....and John Thompson is
NEVER in the studio, then it was probably
after the game which means it was after
1:00AM EST.

You'd be hard pressed to hear whatever
comments they made like that BEFORE
a broadcast, or even during one. Never
in primetime either

You can catch alot of great programming
after hours. In every subject. But try to
find it while the majority population is
tuning in.

actually you are mistaken - davide aldridge , thompson, ernie and charles did the whole show and in the prefirst game they started in

barkley is a trip - the late hours were filled with charles playing a game to show how ignorant he is called "where we be?" where he had to find congo argentina jamaica and some other places - shit was pathetic


charles and kenny always talk shit about toby's fga - thompson was too this time around but was laughin at the performance of some of the other lakers

 

[RunawaySlave]

actually you are mistaken - davide aldridge , thompson, ernie and charles did the whole show and in the prefirst game they started in

What I should have said was that Thompson is never in the
studio, except for this one time. Aldridge is not usually there
either. I believe were are taking the place of Kenny Smith,
who is doing alot of NY Knick broadcast now (btw, Smith is
one of the few whose opinions I will listen to, he may just be
on the way out from TNT too) and Magic

 

[cranrab]

steve kerr leaped to the head of the list

not only do i rank steve kerr the dumbest sports journalist EVER for writing this garbage, he now is highly ranked on my dumbest persons EVER list...

M-V-P! M-V-P! M-V-P!

By Steve Kerr, Yahoo! Sports
January 23, 2006

Sorry Chauncey Billups, Elton Brand, Steve Nash and Dirk Nowitzki – you're no longer in the hunt for the NBA's Most Valuable Player award. Kobe Bryant locked up the award Sunday night with his stunning 81-point barrage in the Los Angeles Lakers' come-from-behind victory over Toronto.

Think about that: 81 points! That's right, eighty-one. The second most points ever scored in a game in league history, behind only Wilt Chamberlain's record of 100. It was more than Michael Jordan ever scored and more than Oscar Robertson or Kareem Abdul-Jabaar ever had. It was as many or more than the Houston Rockets have scored 12 times this season.

Bryant's performance – especially since it rallied the Lakers from a second-half, 18-point deficit – ranks as the greatest show I have ever seen in the NBA. And I was in Cleveland back in 1990 with the Cavaliers when Jordan scored his career-high of 69. (I had two points.) I never thought I'd see anyone top that. But Kobe did.

*** The scary thing is that we all should have seen this coming. Since Dec. 20, Kobe is averaging 43.4 points per game. In his 62-point outing against Dallas, Bryant didn't even play in the fourth quarter. How much would he have scored had the game been close? On Thursday in Sacramento, he had an off night – and still scored 51.

His point totals have been so ridiculous that his 37-point effort in Phoenix on Friday was barely noticed. For almost anyone else, 37 would be a career night. For Kobe? It's a subpar game.

The question now is how high the bar should be raised. Is 90 points a possibility? Think about how preposterous that sounds, yet Kobe has actually made it a valid question. What if the Lakers play the Suns – who scored 149 points Sunday night and still lost – and Bryant gets hot? Then what? Could he score 100?

The man is virtually unguardable. His shooting range goes way beyond the three-point line, and his ball-handling ability allows him to get to any spot on the floor. His strength and fearlessness puts him at the free-throw line time and again, and his steely nature at the end of games makes him lethal in the clutch. He is a basketball machine.

What this all means is that Bryant has to win the NBA's MVP award. Brand was the early-season favorite after his fast start, and Nash has been mentioned as a repeat winner for leading the Suns to first place in the Pacific Division. Nowitzki also deserves consideration for his play and for the success of the Mavericks. But Kobe has elevated his game to an entirely different level – one that has rarely been seen in the history of the NBA.

He is far and away the best player in the league, and he deserves to be honored. After the show he put on Sunday, can anyone argue that he's not the MVP?

*** what steve kerr (and obviously many others) fails to realize is that teams WANT him to shoot... the more tobe shoots, the more likely tobe will shoot the fakers OUT of the game...

 

[cranrab]

ok, bill walton back on top again

after he mumbled these words about tobe:

"He's going to get 100-plus any day now," Bill Walton said, adding, "particularly if they keep playing Toronto."

 

[Makkonnen]

Re: ok, bill walton back on top again

after he mumbled these words about tobe:

"He's going to get 100-plus any day now," Bill Walton said, adding, "particularly if they keep playing Toronto."

i peeped that shit too lol - i think bill smokes out before games or something - who the fuck wants to hear him recite lyrics to obscure hippie songs all night?