Ep. 305: Ding Ding, Round Two
The Basketball Jones — The Fix — Episode 305 (.mp3)
On today’s show, Tas and I discuss the weekend’s hot new second round action, Tuesday’s Cavs-Celtics series, why home-court advantage is so key in the NBA, gang affiliation, Iron Man and much, much more. Enjoy.
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I think the Jazz were a bit worn down from their series with the Rockets. They’re in a rough situation having little time to prepare for this series, and they probably won’t extend it past six games.
sign me up for the Skeets Symphony
“Body wrap-up.”
Is that like a euphemism for tackle, Tas? Still, I hope they don’t give one of those ridiculous end-of-season suspensions that they do sometimes. Can’t let Kidd and Haywood slide and then slap him with 3-5 games, as Wilbon ridiculously suggested.
I think you guys are right about six, although I could be inclined to even give ‘em seven in the Cavs-Celtics series.
Not to play devils advocate but I’d say that home-field advantage matters more in NCAA basketball and soccer….discuss amongst yourselves.
sign me up to fool for the Skeets Symphony….
Hey, glad to see Skeets come to his senses re: the Cavs ability to win a playoff series. Do you think that having both BBJones guys picking the Wizards contributed to their punkish overconfidence? If you hadn’t picked the Wizards, you may have felt more comfortable today justifiably criticizing Wizards fans for their lame crybaby t-shirts. As I told my Wizards-fan friends in my monday-morning-victory-lap-email, I have never seen a crybaby dominate a team so thoroughly!
a video podcast episode with the epic skeets-tas brawl i think is a necessity at this point. Maybe a few weeks after the NBA Draft when we are all in a bball lull?
from now on, whenever you two disagree on something, I think Tas can triumph by simply yelling “DO THE MATH!!!”
I wanna see Tas pull some crap out of his ass for tomorrow’s show. I have a feeling he is gonna own Skeets.
I always thought “Get Low” by Lil Jon was the “Skeets Symphony”
Note to J.E.: That opening line fits your player/coach nicknames. Sign me up for the Tas symphony in the opening headlines. And can we make J.D.’s Weekly Movie Review a regular Monday segment? Way to turn up the volume in the middle of the e-mail.
Sorry, not e-mail. I meant call.
Overall, funniest opening on the show. Ever.
I’m making ‘Team Tas,’ ‘Team JD,’ and ‘Team Skeets’ t-shirts as I type.
(No I’m not.)
Some thoughts on the home court advantage topic. For a basketball player and team, playing the game at the pace your most comfortable with is a huge factor in playing well. In general when you’re home, you’re definitely less worried and more relaxed with how you do things. You’re more confident returning home after a long trip somewhere as well. At least, this comes from personal experience living in Asia the last year and a half and returning home. Bottom line: home-cookin gives you a boost, but it tapers off over time.
Maybe if a team played all it’s games at home this effect would diminish, but the initial boost a team gets from playing at home is huge. You can see this in countless series where game 3’s are often blowouts, and after the road team gets more comfortable in the other city for a couple days game 4 is alot tighter.
re: the skeets-tas brawl, how about a re-enactment of the songaila-lebron “disentanglement?” - tas plays songaila, skeets plays lebron, complete with facial reaction, rubbing of the jaw, and a whole lotta restraint.
All of a sudden, the theme-song of my life has been “levon.” How fucked up is that?
I think the biggest thing about the home-court is the home-crowd abilities to help those runs (as Tas mentioned). I mean, does anybody really know why shots go in and out? There seems to be a lot regarding karma and energy (very scientific, I know)…and I think the mojo of the crowd legitimately helps that. Though I think baseball’s homefield advantage might be better, because its actually tactically advantageous.
Cavs in 6. I know its crazy, but I have no faith in the Celts chemistry or ability to deal with a player like Lebron in the 4th. I think it’ll be six tight games, with Lebron able to outplay Pierce.
Squeeky-voice Simmons sez:
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(And now that we have that settled, let’s spend the summer figuring out a way to get D’Antoni to Toronto. Jose Calderon, Chris Bosh and all those 3-point bombers dropping 114 points a night with the crazed Raptor Truthers cheering them on? Count me in! Maybe there’s life for the S.S.O.L. Era yet.)
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If its not too much of a hassle, could you guys look into making it happen for us?
Iron Man was one of the greatest things I’ve ever seen. Yes, things. Not just movies, not just people, it’s right up there in the upper echelon of everything.
Great show guys!!
i met you 3 days ago and it´s my favourite nba podcast! What do you think about gasol’s performance in LA??
From Spain
dani
pd:sorry for my poor english
The Lakers are going to sweep the Jazz, mark my words. The Jazz have been horrible (what with all those ‘take half a dribble and shoot’ plays?)against a weak Rockets team that wasn’t even trying, they don’t have a chance against the fired up Lakers.
Sweep!