Ep. 195: A New Day!
The Basketball Jones ‘The Fix’ — Episode 195 (.mp3)
On today’s show, Tas and I discuss the The Kobe Show — Day 8,467; how comfortable Yao looked in Adelman’s high-post Princeton offense; which Blazer — Aldridge or Webster — has a better shot at Most Improved; and much, much more…
We also get to your mail, hand out the Whoa Boy fantasy line-of-the-night, and “Can’t Believe” we started with a loss. Ah, it’s good to be back…
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Man is Lamarcus Aldridge gonna be good. I’d say if he can stay healthy but I dont wanna get slapped.
Great podcast, as always… glad the dailies are back.
If only Roy-Bot was himself, maybe the Blazers coulda taken down the Spurs. He only played 5 quarters all preseason cause they were worried he’d re-hurt his heel again, and looked off for every quarter till the last one against Seattle where he had a more Roy-like performance of 14 points and 5(?) assists (all in the 4th) to win the game.
Brandon Roy claims his heel is fine, so hopefully it was just a combination of Bowen’s grabbing and some rust.
Martell Webster had a sports psychologist this past off-season to deal with confidence and consistency, and for whatever reason he is a completely new player. He was the only Blazer to play good every single pre-season game, and “finally” is playing up to his ability. He’s only 20(!) still, so he has lots more room to grow, but it’s great that he has carried his pre-season play into the real season.
Considering Webster’s mom was killed by the Green River Killer and he went straight from HS to the pros, he seems remarkably well adjusted.
Even if people think Aldridge will break out this year, it still is probably underrating him. He is GOOD. Better than Z-Bo NOW, good. As a Blazer fan I’m glad the Bulls traded him to Portland, but how perfect would he have fit over Tyrus Thomas with the Bulls? They’d have their post scoring finally, and he’d come young and cheap. Tyrus will have lots of cool blocks and dunks, but I think Chicago would rather have all-round excellence over highlights.
Thank the Basketball Gods for Kevin Pritchard. He’s Colangelo-West.
Speaking of Colangelo, The RAPTORS will do better than most experts are saying. Andrea Bargnani will have a great sophomore year (at least I hope so, as he’s my center for fantasy), Bosh is a superstar, and the rest of the team is probably more solid than anyone in the East outside of Detroit.
Sorry to expound at length on Blazer talk. I guess I’m just excited about how Portland looked last night, and the future once Oden comes back. I mean, God damn GREG ODEN! Plus Rudy Fernandez, and probably (another) shitty lottery pick. It’s not even fair to the rest of the league.
Thank you for indulging me. Great job, as always.
Mortimer
The Blazers started practicing together in mid-August i believe.
The difference in the game was San Antonio’s experience. Everytime the Blazers made a run, the Spurs would knock down a three or get a steal to keep Portland at bay. Martell and Aldridge were awesome, and if Pryzbilla avgs close to a double double with Roy back to his regular self, the Blazers will look good THIS year.
btw, i agree w/everything Mortimer says