Ep. 322: The Detroit Braves


The Basketball Jones — The Fix — Episode 322 (.mp3)

On today’s show, Skeets and I discuss: Yet another disappointing ending for the Pistons, whether ‘Sheed and Saunders will return, if Doc Rivers is the worst Head Coach in Finals history, Rip’s game vs Melo’s, and much, much more. Enjoy!

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By Tas Melas at 10:36 am on 06.02.2008 — Tags: Podcasts

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22 Responses to “Ep. 322: The Detroit Braves”

  1. Sari at 11:41 am on 06.02.2008

    Mike Brown went to the Finals last year!
    How can you guys not mention him in the “bad coach goes to the finals”.

  2. Lukbuster at 1:41 pm on 06.02.2008

    From an espn live chat today…

    “Bill Simmons: (1:16 PM ET ) Mike Brown/Gregg Popovich was the biggest coaching mismatch in Finals history.”

  3. Daddio at 3:41 pm on 06.02.2008

    Mike Brown is an interesting case. Offensively, he often appears to stink up the join, but defensively, he has created one of the best defensive teams in the L. One could argue that, even with Lebron, it was an impressive coaching achievement getting that motley crew into the finals.

  4. Zarik at 5:28 pm on 06.02.2008

    I agree w/the mention of Mike Brown. I was screaming him out when you guys seemed to be grasping for a bad coach.

    2 other notables:

    –Brian Hill
    –Paul Westphal (?) not sure because he hasn’t done anything of importance since then.

  5. J.E. Skeets at 5:31 pm on 06.02.2008

    Brian Hill, FTW.

  6. christoff at 7:00 pm on 06.02.2008

    loved hearing some Atmosphere today before one of the breaks… nice one JD.

  7. Bilal at 8:21 pm on 06.02.2008

    Tas, ain’t nothin wrong with wearing a beater. Matter of fact, I’m doing that right now. What’s your casual attire? Frilled collar and long sleeves?

  8. DC at 9:01 pm on 06.02.2008

    Way to give props and point out the reason an experienced, well rounded Pistons team lost the ECF in 6 games, on their home court, up 10 heading into the fourth. Deep down, in his crazy little world, Sheed wanted to lose. Paul Pierce who? Defense what?

    Two mentions of David Stern pulling some kind of string, a classic Kevin McHale reference and even a bit of Doc Rivers reader hate mail for good measure. Real classy way to break down that other team that the Pistons beat themselves to.

  9. murphs at 10:14 pm on 06.02.2008

    tas dog!
    where did you see that video of the reign man hooping it up??
    links?

  10. Gourmet Spud at 10:28 pm on 06.02.2008

    No mention of Whoopi Goldberg? She was a limo driver they pulled from the stands, for Christ’s sake!

  11. Matt D at 12:24 am on 06.03.2008

    What a difference a year in hoops makes. When Minnesota were playing Memphis on the last day of the regular season in 2007, do you think KG and Gasol had any thoughts of playing each other in the 2008 NBA Finals?

    Forget the David Stern conspiracies… this Finals matchup was orchestrated by Jerry West and Kevin McHale. A former Laker and former Celtic. Coincidence? Maybe.

  12. Tas Melas at 2:40 am on 06.03.2008

    Murphs, just a pic here. Sorry, brozere.

  13. Tyrone Shoelaces at 11:19 am on 06.03.2008

    Matt: Great post.

    So had the Bulls waited another few days, they could have had Flip instead of a Tom Collins?

    Paxson has screwed up things so often that Im not even sure they might not trade the top pick.

    My vote for clueless coach has to go with Sam Michelle, I dont care what you Toronna homers think.

  14. J.E. Skeets at 11:35 am on 06.03.2008

    Yeah, because Smitch has gone to the NBA Finals …

    By the way, Flip just got fired. It’s nice when we’re right.

  15. Devine at 12:27 pm on 06.03.2008

    It’s never fun to see anyone lose a job — well, anyone not named Isiah — but my sympathy at Mr. Saunders’ loss is severely mitigated by the fact that he’s a grown fucking man who still goes by “Flip.”

  16. Barry at 1:25 pm on 06.03.2008

    Any podcast today fellas?

  17. Papa Chango at 3:06 pm on 06.03.2008

    > Murphs, just a pic here. Sorry, brozere.

    Damn, he looks fit enough to have another dozen kids!

  18. Bilal at 5:07 pm on 06.03.2008

    J.E., were you seriously last in your fantasy basketball league on Yahoo? Rank 12 of 12? I just saw your BDL profile.

  19. Alec Wilde at 5:16 pm on 06.03.2008

    Bilal I saw that too like a month ago. I came in first and second in two leagues I was in :D

  20. Bilal at 9:37 pm on 06.03.2008

    Me first also.

  21. Alec Wilde at 10:23 pm on 06.03.2008

    Ok lets not get outta hand here with the bragging bub

  22. Justin at 7:26 am on 06.04.2008

    Devine: do you feel similarly about Ronald Murray?

    Tas and Skeets: I want royalties for the Detroit Braves concept. I emailed that to you a week or two ago. You read it aloud. Then Jon Barry mentioned it on the air. Now you’ve named an episode after it. So, please, royalties. Send me 1/18th of a Jones shirt every time this episode is played until I have one full shirt.

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