Is anyone else having a problem with today's game feed on nba.com?

I'm getting a message saying the feed isn't available, but I thought all the games would be available through the website..

 

Yeah. I thought it was going to be on NBATV as well. But it isn't. They're showing the LA/Phil game now. I am disappointed.

 

<div class="quote_poster">Clif25 Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">Yeah. I thought it was going to be on NBATV as well. But it isn't. They're showing the LA/Phil game now. I am disappointed.</div>

I think there was a last minute schedule change on NBATV, because I double-checked this morning. Given the unavailability of the feed on nba.com, i'm wondering if there's a technical problem at their venue.

 

I click on the Watch-It tab for the Warriors game, but the Sixers game comes up instead. However, I think they also archive all games. Assuming that there IS actually a video recording of the game, maybe they'll archive the correct one later tonight so we can watch it...

 

I missed the game yesterday and waited until after 2 a.m. to finally watch the archived video. That's how crazy I am.

B.T.W. I got an acronym for P.O.B.'s game: WTF????

Dude keeps taking these long jumpers he has no business taking. If he wants to build confidence, get the stuff started inside.

 

<div class="quote_poster">custodianrules2 Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">
B.T.W. I got an acronym for P.O.B.'s game: WTF????
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Unfortunately, I think you're spot on. As much as I'm not crazy about Powell, he's hands-down outplaying the pastry chef. He just doesn't seem to have the fire in his belly and i just don't know that you can teach that.

It's kinda like "Hey guy, even if you don't care about winning championships and being all you can be, you can still make a crapload of money over the next 10 years if you just start putting forth some effort." response: "huh?"

 

<div class="quote_poster">DTKennedy Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">Unfortunately, I think you're spot on. As much as I'm not crazy about Powell, he's hands-down outplaying the pastry chef. He just doesn't seem to have the fire in his belly and i just don't know that you can teach that.

It's kinda like "Hey guy, even if you don't care about winning championships and being all you can be, you can still make a crapload of money over the next 10 years if you just start putting forth some effort." response: "huh?"</div>

Yeah. I know what you mean. I didn't mean to change the subject by the way... but this whole not watching it live, just made me think of how I'm probably going to stay up late and watch it on archived video like last night. So if the feed don't work, I'll just stay up late and watch it then.

I always say be patient with POB, but it goes right out the window when I see his shot selection and decision making. I can't be patient with POB if he's trying to take these really bad shots he thinks he can make or he's trying to make for the sake of cracking Nelson's rotation as a shooting big man.

He should take some pointers from Biedrins and just be ready for the ball near the rim and try to set screens for other people rather than trying to launch 20 footers that aren't even close. It's like watching Andrew Bynum at times. You see a big body oozing with potential, but there's no heart at times and no real fine tuned skills or brains for the center position. He's like old Adonal Foyle without the effort at times. He needs to change his mindset and stick to passing rather than trying to play Mehmet Okur.

 

Let's just say when it came to 3 shot attempts by POB last night, I'm really glad he's got this unique freakishly long wingspan for his size.

It will help to dislodge the head that's dug so far up his butt lately.

How much time we going to give this guy if he tries to keep doing the same stuff? I saw the same stuff in the first game too maybe once or twice. Because when it comes to POB, I smell lazier version of Pietrus in the making only at center. Guy is raw and he just doesn't have the natural instincts a raw guy like Ellis has to get away with it.

 

Seriously, I have mentally given up on O'Bryant. This kid isn't EVER going to pull it together in a warriors uniform. No confidence, no intensity, totally nonchalant. I mean his basketball instincts are ^%@&. (I won't cuss on this board but take a wild guess.) When he should box out, he jumps. When he should post up, he runs away. When he should move his feet, he jumps again.

Ironically I believe if we had kept Montgomery, he would have been twice as good as he is right now. Oh well, whatever, throw him in a trade for something we need.

Just to end this on a positive vibe, at least we have Wright. That kid definitley has more heart and talent.

 

<div class="quote_poster">upsidedownside7 Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">
Just to end this on a positive vibe, at least we have Wright. That kid definitley has more heart and talent.</div>

...and advanced post footwork for his age.... That's hard to teach and hard to do even if you do learn.

I've heard there were questions about Wright's intensity, but some guys are saying it could be Tim Duncan type quiet. I guess maybe scouts were looking for more nastiness like Kenyon Martin or Amare Stoudamire.

I heard the projections for Wright are actually something of a Shareef Abdur Rahim meets Chris Bosh. Maybe DraftExpress was the first to mention it. They feel like he is athletic, quick enough to play small forward, but he's got no range and ballhandling ability. He's got no weight to play the power forward spot in the West unless he gets somewhere to at least 230. So we basically get Bosh's shotblocking and maybe either of SAR or Bosh's out of position rebounding ability/post footwork/passing, but SAR's overall defense.

Maybe that's not too bad if he can prove he can play anywhere like those two and at a big man position full time. SF/PF tweeners are the worst kind to me. I'm hoping he's a prototype four man even though I expect his defense to never be that good. Blocking shots is at least something, I guess.

With POB, damn... I see a guy that needs a lot of training and I don't think Nelson has the patience nor time to see it get done. He'd rather send him down to nbdl rather than send him to a Pete Newell big man camp or to get Mully to hire some personal trainer to work with him. It also wouldn't hurt to get a center that's not named Foyle, to teach him how to play in a one-on-one situation.

 

<div class="quote_poster">custodianrules2 Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">I missed the game yesterday and waited until after 2 a.m. to finally watch the archived video. That's how crazy I am.

B.T.W. I got an acronym for P.O.B.'s game: WTF????

Dude keeps taking these long jumpers he has no business taking. If he wants to build confidence, get the stuff started inside.</div>

I love this description about him on Wikipedia:

<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">He plays center position and is known for his shot-blocking ability — he led the Missouri Valley Conference in blocks for two straight years — and is also a solid rebounder. His offensive game also features a skyhook.</div>

 

I missed the Warriors came yesterday because it didn't come in for me it went to the 76ers game I believe so all I could do is see the updates and stats on NBA.com

 

POB looks like the kid who HATES basketball but his parents dragged him to the summer camp anyway so he stands in the corner by the bleachers acting shy and dreaming of his XBox360

 

<div class="quote_poster">AlleyOop Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">POB looks like the kid who HATES basketball but his parents dragged him to the summer camp anyway so he stands in the corner by the bleachers acting shy and dreaming of his XBox360</div>

Agreed.

BTW, why does he shoot so many 18+footers? I swear I saw him shoot one from the three point line. I have never seen him make a shot. He is supposed to be good there, but I have never seen it. On defense he doesn't give full effort in his play to do everything he can to stop the opposing team/player. What it seems like he does is watch, make one attempt to make a play, watch some more, and then it's time to move to the other side of the court. On offense he just stands on the perimeter to set weak screens and never attacks the paint, especially for offensive boards. I see him walk around the court way too much. Honestly, the way he's been playing so far, he deserves to be in the D-League. With Pietrus you get effort. He may do some dumb things, but he tries to stop the opponents when he is on defense. He tries to be productive and get the ball in the hoop on offense. He even busts his butt to get rebounds. POB just seem like players who enjoy just being out there to give some effort but not out there to compete 100% of the time. I am not going to say he is a basketball player with no skills, and that he should never play the game again; he just don't have the competitiveness that you want in NBA players. Also I've seen him go Adonal Foyle way too many times this summerleague by missing easy tip ins and stuff around the hoop. I thought he was supposed to be money there?

 

<div class="quote_poster">NTC Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">I love this description about him on Wikipedia:

I love this description about him on Wikipedia:

<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">He plays center position and is known for his shot-blocking ability — he led the Missouri Valley Conference in blocks for two straight years — and is also a solid rebounder. His offensive game also features a skyhook.</div>

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Heh, maybe I should edit the wiki and say his offensive game also features a really bad impression of Todd Fuller shooting the ball blind folded.

Heck, in that draft there was little choice in who we got because would we have wanted Brewer over a possible dream center? The obvious choice of Rudy Gay was intercepted by the Grizzlies. I figure POB at least had a chance to be showing signs of being good by this time with his NCAA showing, but he's probably already faced that rude awakening when it came to facing guys his own size and weight or stronger. That's probably why he launches these ill advised shots because he can't go inside. And 2006 was a weak draft anyway so IMO it was still a good risk to get POB's upside.

Plus, we never know if POB might "get it" sooner than we think and become a different player. I don't think so based on his nature, but somebody has to believe in him. Before I take his nonchalant, apathetic Andrew Bynum type approach to the game as being misunderstood and Tim Duncan-like, he's got to grow some skills and play up to his size.

 

Sure you can grow as a player and refine your game, but like a summer league announcer said during a W's game, you pretty much are what you are. I mean, if you're going to be a great player, you're going to show signs of it, going to show that "spark," way before it's ever time to emerge.

I just think that basically, with POB, what you see is what you get. Sure he's a 7 footer with some fundamentals and a long wingspan. Sure, he could at some point grow and improve, but basically, if he was ever going to be a good NBA player, he would have shown SOMETHING by now. I mean, he just doesn't show much effort, you know? You can just tell watching the guy that there's very little spark in him, if any.

 

<div class="quote_poster">AlleyOop Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">Sure you can grow as a player and refine your game, but like a summer league announcer said during a W's game, you pretty much are what you are. I mean, if you're going to be a great player, you're going to show signs of it, going to show that "spark," way before it's ever time to emerge.

I just think that basically, with POB, what you see is what you get. Sure he's a 7 footer with some fundamentals and a long wingspan. Sure, he could at some point grow and improve, but basically, if he was ever going to be a good NBA player, he would have shown SOMETHING by now. I mean, he just doesn't show much effort, you know? You can just tell watching the guy that there's very little spark in him, if any.</div>

It's no surprise at all that he got buried in the D-League even though we only had one legit big. Can you imagine Nels tolerating him half-assing it through every practice??? Jeez, the man would have popped a blood vessel!

 

Lol I know -- what's hilarious is that at one time Nellie named POB the "future of the franchise." I REALLY hope he was being sarcastic...

 

<div class="quote_poster">AlleyOop Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">Lol I know -- what's hilarious is that at one time Nellie named POB the "future of the franchise." I REALLY hope he was being sarcastic...</div>

Well Nellie never said that the future of the franchise would be good or bad, did he?