There Are Other Ways To Waste Your Time
Our podcast will be not be posted until a little later today. Sorry about the delay. In the mean time, if you’ve got a little John Hollinger in ya, head on over to The Peoples’ Statistic. The fellas behind this site are trying to find a consensus on how to measure a player’s overall value, taking in to account all statistics as weighted by you, the people. There has to be a way, right?
UPDATE (4:10pm): OK, just talked with JD. Everyone is fine, but it’s looking pretty unlikely that today’s podcast will be uploaded this evening. So, yeah, please don’t wait around your computer. We should be good to go tomorrow, though, and we’ll post ‘The Forgotten Episode’ as soon as we can. Enjoy the games. — Skeets
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Cotdang muthafuckas! How long I’ma have to wait fo yo shit!!
They’re probably having a hard time coming up with things to say about last night’s crapapalooza.
The shot clock operators in Detroit don’t think that the podcast is too late.
No, no, the podcast is already recorded — JD had something come up that he had to attend to. It shouldn’t be much longer, though.
Hope all’s well with JD and his. I’m sure hearing the discussion about last night’s scintillating batch of athletic horseshit will be well worth the wait.
Plus/minus (AKA “The Camby Stat”) needs to be tracked and given a starring role in player value calculations.
Defense is half the game and steals can be as indicative of a bad defender (e.g. Dwyane Wade - taking dumb gambles and leaving his bigs w/ a two-on-one) as a good defender.
I’m Jonesin for some Basketball
It was great how many ego’s got deflated last night. Ray Allen’s perma-sneer didn’t have any bite, Paul Pierce looked like he had been drinking heavily before the game, and Lebron…can’t blame those teammates for that one bud. Maybe you should have developed more to your game than driving to the basket- a little pull up J, midrange game, post up game perhaps. I knew it was going to be a bad night for “The King” when TNT cut to him in the locker room before the game and we were treated to the most awkward rendition of Jay-z’s Public Service Announcement ever caught on tape. We get it Lebron, you’re in love, but try to keep Professional and Personal separate
Maybe after last night Lebron will hold off for awhile on the 3rd person pats on the back he loves to give himself. What a performance. Legend
If you guys wanna see something sad/interesting to kill the time, check out the wikipedia page for former Raptor Keon Clark.
KIMBOOOOO!
Underneath the ground. Bam! Carrots. Albuquerque
Why does Dave have to be such a hater?
Interesting stat from ESPN’s Chad Ford podcast: Lebron, at 23 years old, has more playoff series victories than KG, Pierce, and Ray Allen combined.
Interesting stat from ESPN’s Chad Ford podcast: Lebron, at 23 years old, has more playoff series victories than KG, Pierce, and Ray Allen combined.
Interesting stat from ESPN’s Chad Ford podcast: Lebron, at 23 years old, has more playoff series victories than KG, Pierce, and Ray Allen combined.
It doesn’t get any more “interesting” the more times you post it Brooding.
F that game last night. I want more coverage of how Kobe pays for meals for his teammates when they go out or how idiotic Reggie Miller sounds on any broadcast.
Go Pistons, screw the Magic and stuff.
Q Dog
I like to see huge ego’s grounded Will, simple as that
Lebron’s massive ego, whining, flopping, and softness has turned me against him. He has the potential to be the best player ever but he hasn’t improved his game much since he’s been in the league. He’s like those kids who grow faster than everyone else in rec league ball and dominate based on their physical advantages but never develop their skills. Then everyone else catches up and they’re left behind. If he’d work in the offseason on his post up, back to the basket game, as well as his midrange game, he’d be unstoppable. Can you imagine if he could take a couple dribbles, pull up and sink it, how dominant he could be? Instead he just drives to the bucket every time. His 3 point shooting has improved but it’s nothing to get excited about. If he wastes the most God-given ability in NBA history it will be sad for all bball fans
The Celtics celebrating beating the Hawks like they’d just won the title turned me against the majority of them. Watching them taunt the Hawks was just a bit pathetic. KG is still the man
So that’s why Dave’s got to be such a hater Will.
You ain’t seen nothing yet Will, I haven’t even started on the cheating, whining, dirty Spurs and Tim “That’s a foul Wef” Duncan.
I’d like to translate that post into one short sentence:
“Why can’t any of these damn kids today hit a mid-range jump shot?” (Shakes fist, chases neighborhood kids off the lawn.)
… starting to get a little worried …
Glad to see the update that everything is at least OK. Now I’ve gotta listen to music at the gym today though. And that is not OK. On the plus side, no TBJ podcast while on a treadmill means the likelihood of me falling off while running drops significantly.
Dave is like a message board-Robin Hood… except in this case, riches are egos and stealing is derisive posting.
No podcast today leaves an empty spot located where my soul used to be…
Hope everything is ok in the Jones world
I can be positive as well Brooks. Check this out:
Chris Paul is amazing and the Hornets are a great example of quality ball from a young team. Kobe winning the MVP is a travesty of epic proportions but now that he’s got his token MVP we won’t have to deal with another ‘race’ like this (where the best candidate doesn’t win) until the Presidential Election.
But back to Paul; I’m pretty sure there isn’t a more watchable player in the league right now, or a player that makes his team better and drives his team to victories like Paul. Kobe is very good, but look at who he is playing with, look at his coach for God’s sake. Paul is winning with Byron freakin Scott as coach.
You’ll see who is more important when the Jazz knock the Lakers out and the Hornets sweep the Spurs.
Speaking of the Spurs, is there a more unlikable team in sports? I defer to Bill Simmons, who makes a great point:
“Maybe the Suns didn’t win a championship, but we’ll remember them 100 times more fondly than the brutally efficient and hopelessly bland Spurs, who taught everyone over the years that the regular season doesn’t matter, transformed the NBA playoffs into a flopathon, revived the vile and fan-unfriendly Hack-A-Shaq strategy and did everything short of sending Bruce Bowen out on the court with a chainsaw and a taser. If the Spurs were the Team of the Decade, no wonder ratings dwindled until the league’s big comeback this season. The real shame is that all the mugging, acting, eye-rolling, flopping, rule-bending and hysterical shrugging obscured what should have been remembered as a throwback sports team…”
Well said Bill.
And as long as I’m making huge posts I better give Kobe a ribbing for his huge, doesn’t fit in this universe ego. He’s suuuuch a great teammate though- bullshit, check out the Youtube video of him trashing Bynum. Kobe is so good at basketball yet so bad at dealing with people and being human that it isn’t that big of a stretch to wonder about his true origins. The Government created him, Alien, etc…. He’s such a prick it’s unbelievable. Lebron is alot of things, but at least he’s not a prick like Kobe
This post was made possible by killing the last few minutes of the work day
I’m pretty sure I saw a news story about a guy named Ryne Nelson who comitted suicide.
jk Ryne!
Man, if you guys aren’t going to have a show every time JD has a kid, you’re going to be down to 3 times a week. Someone sit that man next to a microwave!
I just started www.fireJD.com
I just started www.SariGetADamnLife.com
See? See how testy everyone gets when there isn’t a show?
Bilal search your name and get this www.failatlife.com
What the hell. Mine is an actual site…
That should be my site.
You’s a whore for that one Alec Wilde. I thought we were cool but that shit was elementary. www.StopHatingOnTheNameOfTheOnlyColoredPersonWhoListensToThisPodcast.com
-Yo, salut les Jones! There’s no rush posting that Forgotten Episode, that fugly Cavs/Celtics game was meant to be forgotten.
The only thing more uncomfortable to watch would be Dandy Don Cherry french kissing Ron Mclean (and you know its coming).
-@JD: Dont forget: Its wipe, clean, cream and THEN diaper. The order is not interchangeable.
-Swirsky had a voice that sounded ’strip joint DJ’ fake, a great delivery, good knowledge of the game, how to setup his analysts and had a face made for radio. WTF.. did he have one facelift too many?
>Paul is winning with Byron freakin Scott as >coach.
I’ll buy Doc Rivers as the accidental tourist with Thibodeau and KG on board this year (Rivers only previous achievement was winning COY for taking a team to .500) but two Finals with NJ and now this year with NO is pretty hard to attribute to just luck.
>This post was made possible by killing the
>last few minutes of the work day
Posts on the company dime get extra karma pts.
As does the British Open for their Boss Button: http://www.sportsline.com/golf/tournaments/britishopen/video/
Can you install one of those fake spreadsheet things on this site as well?
meh Alec, that search got me www.bilalistheonlyguywhocancrackajoke.com
Since someone else named Dave as started posting comments that are way more interesting than mine, I wouldn’t want people to mistake me for him. So there you go, Dave.
Byron Scott > Doc Rivers
To be honest your name keeps reminding me of a middle eastern guy.
To be honest your name keeps reminding me of a middle eastern guy.
MTL Dave
That is an amazing gesture on your part. I will meet you halfway since I believe we are both worthy of being the one and only “Dave.” I’ll call myself Knox Dave, describing the city where I reside- Knoxville, TN. Before anyone starts hating me for being a Tennessee Volunteer- which, let’s face it, is more than a valid reason- let me say that despite being an Alumnus of that *cough* esteemed University I absolutely loathe the sports teams. Football, basketball (is there a bigger phony and more annoying person than Bruce Pearl) are practically religions here and I hate them with a passion. Could be the color orange, but more likely it’s the mouth breathing inbred redneck contingent that are permanently wearing orange colored spectacles, preventing them from ever seeing anything fairly. The student body is made up of frat boy/sorority girl clones and athletes who are worshiped and pandered to at a ridiculous level. They get cars, get grades, get apartments- people bitch about college athletes getting taken advantage of by the NCAA money making machine but obviously they haven’t seen the treatment the Vols get.
Anyway, today’s rant is sponsored by a short lunch break. Over to you MTL Dave
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