Ep. 307: Yesterday Is The New Today
The Basketball Jones — The Fix — Episode 307 (.mp3)
On today’s — er, yesterday’s show, Skeets and I discuss the not-so-attractive game between Boston and Cleveland, if Mike D’Antoni is a fit in Chicago and why the Kyle Korver trade was a win-win. We also take a couple calls that mention Karl Malone as the 2nd best player ever, and Manu Ginobili as Iron Man. Enjoy.
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Great show, except for the Tremors 2 slighting… everyone knows the only thing better than 1 super worm is numerous medium-super worms. You’re better than that.
You have OBVIOUSLY never watched Tremors II. It’s fucking garbage.
We should stop doing shows. People comment WAY more when we don’t.
Kevin Bacon really made Tremors.
Right when I hung up the phone, I knew you guys would call me out on the Brazilian women faux pas! So maybe Ginobili’s not a hit with the women in Brazil, but he definitely is the NBA’s Iron Man! =)
Run Around is a perfect closer today–its like I didn’t get any basketball news for two days in a row.
I posted this elsewhere but I want MTL Dave to see it
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
Just wanted to mention I enjoyed today’s (yesterdays) podcast as usual guys. Was worth the wait. I was also wondering if there is an archive of past shows that I can download. I took a roadtrip recently and downloaded as many old Jones shows as I could find and it made the trip so much more enjoyable. I also took the opportunity to turn my dad onto the Jones and he’s a fan now.
Just wanted to add to my above rant about the Vols. One of my beefs with the fanbase is their Johny-come-lately devotion to basketball. Fuck you bandwagon jumpers, I was there in the lean years with Kevin O’Neil, Alan Houston, Steve Hamer, and Buzz Ball (the Buzz Peterson years), when tickets were falling from the sky. I love how everyone is an expert and number 1 fan now. The devotion to the shittiest player in history-Dane Bradshaw- was affirmation of how clueless this fanbase is.
I once saw Bruce (read up on his antics trying to get Illinois in trouble, he’s a scumbag) and Dane Bradshaw out with a bevy of young talent hanging all over them. Bruce was looking extra greasy, wearing a button down shirt with half the buttons undone, showing his moobs and chest hair. All that was missing was the gold chain and pinky ring. Bruce is a well known womanizer with no shame, but there’s just something really disturbing about watching him trying to get laid, fishing from the same 18-24 year old pond that you are.
Anyway, just wanted to debase the myth that is developing around Pearl. He’s a snake and a phony, don’t let body paint and ‘enthusiasm’ (since when is screaming hysterically for 40 minutes a good thing, he’s a good motivator, but in game he is an awful coach) fool you. He’s still hated by the majority of college coaches, for good reason. But hey, that’s college bball for you, some sleaze like Pearl can be successful with the magic combo of smooth talking recruits and screaming. Yet another reason why I’ll take the League over college any day. That and because I prefer to watch players and teams that are actually good
Anyway, keep the shows rolling Tas, Skeets, and JD, they are gold
@ Knox Dave: you sure know how to make our hearts feel good. To find old episodes, you can:
1. Find us on iTunes (most of them are there).
2. At the bottom of a given episode, click on Tags: Podcasts and then you can scroll through all 307.
3. Or, use the search bar at the bottom of the page to enter in a specific episode number, ie. “ep. 206″
don’t diss vegemite!
Ironman: Ricky Davis? Deshawn Stevenson?
Man! Best intro EVER. Death to the hu-mans. I mean humans.
Sucking on my titties, motherfuckas.
yeah tas, pretty shit on your behalf about the paying out the vegimite! its sooooo fucking good on toast!
It was established yesterday on the liveblog that Tyson Chandler was Iron Man. Matt Moore explains:
“beaten down, gets shrapnel in his heart in chicago. Goes to New Orleans and has a suit of armor built around him and is a superhero.”
Everyone seemed to agree.
@ Knox Dave: I like when things are clear. And on the plus side, you won’t be mistaken for a French Canadian guy from Montréal, so that’s always a plus. Peace, bro.