Ep. 263: All Around The L In 20 Minutes

The Basketball Jones — The Fix — Episode 263 (.mp3)

On today’s show, Skeets and I discuss: How the new look Cavs are looking one game in, what problems the Suns face with Shaq, how the Rockets have quietly won 12 in a row, Bobby Jackson and Tracy McGrady reuniting, and much, much more.

We also take an email from Australia and announce our next giveaway, this time courtesy BetUS.com.

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By Tas Melas at 10:42 am on 02.25.2008 — Tags: Podcasts

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15 Responses to “Ep. 263: All Around The L In 20 Minutes”

  1. Loren at 11:01 am on 02.25.2008

    Carl Landry is in fact a rookie. Out of the second round at that.

  2. Papa Chango at 11:19 am on 02.25.2008

    11h00am(eastern) and cant DL the podcast or listen to the stream. Ain’t my connection since I can access other podcasts.

    What is that L word you speak of anyways?
    Labia?
    Laxative?
    Lallygag?
    Lapdance?
    Limp?

  3. Tas Melas at 11:37 am on 02.25.2008

    Working for me. Anyone else have problems?

  4. BMatthews at 11:52 am on 02.25.2008

    No problems here. But does betus actually work?! I’ve been looking for a new way to blow my paychecks.

  5. bballous at 11:55 am on 02.25.2008

    Skeets….Cairns is pronounced “Cannes”

  6. Papa Chango at 11:59 am on 02.25.2008

    Mea culpa. After reading your answer, I booted into Linux and Firefox DL’s it justfine. My fault for spending more than 5min on the Windoze side of things. Sorry for the trouble but it was getting close to lunch and I was Jonesing. Thank god there is a monday show.

  7. Tas Melas at 12:27 pm on 02.25.2008

    BetUS works BMAtt, it’s legit.

  8. Blake at 12:50 pm on 02.25.2008

    The Raptors sent a scout down to Australia to check out Nathan Jawai. No word on how he looked, but his numbers and frame are impressive. He should maybe be called Aussie Robert Tractor Traylor at this point, not Aussie Shaq, but I digress.

    Anyways, the NBA has clearly evolved to scouting just about everywhere, so I wouldn’t be surprised to see Hodge on a summer league team this summer.

  9. joejoejoe at 1:15 pm on 02.25.2008

    The Rockets have done much better when they cut the minutes of Chuck Hayes from low 20s to less than 10. I like Chuck Hayes but he’s looking more and more like he’s a defenisve sub with a limited role, not a rotation player.

  10. Ryne Nelson at 1:15 pm on 02.25.2008

    Tas, I completely agree the Cavs game is not a true marker of what is to come. I’m of the camp that the Cavs just screwed their financial situation as well as their legit title chances with this deal.

    As far as the Suns, it’s very possible they don’t make the playoffs this year. If Golden State gets Biedrins healthy and Denver can play some defense, PHX is gone.

  11. i hate andrew bogut even though i'm australian and have the same first name at 6:16 pm on 02.25.2008

    “cannes” is pronounced like…er…khan.

    “cairns” is pronounced like…well, like skeets pronounced it, just with less of an “r” sound to it.

    least thats how we do on the west coast.

  12. Alan at 6:28 pm on 02.25.2008

    An interesting look at the human side of the trade involving Bobby Jackson told by Tyson Chandler:
    http://my.nba.com/thread.jspa?threadID=300025597

    Definitely worth a read

  13. Slim at 7:13 pm on 02.25.2008

    My Rox are hot, aren’t they boys? Couple of things you neglected to mention (or you just haven’t watched enough Rockets ball)…

    Yao struggles big time against small teams. That d-bag JoNoah kind of shut him down last night. I’m not sure what it is about smaller defenders that makes Yao struggle, but he has problems with him (you know what I mean about smaller defenders because, yes, I do indeed realize he is 7′6″ and everyone is smaller).

    You mentioned lack of scoring from the bench which is true, but we also have no one to really play the 2 when T-Mac goes out. We do however, have about 37 pg’s on our roster, so if you need to borrow one feel free.

    joejoejoe has a great point about C Hayes. I like Chuck but Luis and our sleeper ROOKIE (2nd round pick out of Purdue) Carl Landry have played very well.

    I still don’t think we are a title contender, but I won’t mind being wrong. No way can we beat the Lakers and G-State (whom we can’t beat, I think because of small ball), I think the only other teams we would be downed by are Detroit or Boston…probably the LeBrons as well, but outside of that, I honestly believe we can beat anyone else in the West and hope that Orlando makes it out of the East.

  14. matt at 2:44 am on 02.26.2008

    stephen jackson played in australia like 7 years ago or somthin

  15. Nic at 1:43 pm on 02.26.2008

    hey i think the bulls are going to get on a hot streak with more scoring with Gooden and Hughes. hopefully they wind up being in the sixth seed since that is still up for grabs and it would prevent them from having to face Boston or Detroit in the first round.

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