This video just depresses the hell out of me. Bayless, Matthews, Batum, 2011 Aldridge, Oden......That is a very good team. Bayless would have thrived with that group
Wow! Not only did the ref not call it the first time, he didn't even get a flagrant? He should have been ejected. There is no fucking way a player can punch another player with a closed fist, twice, and not get ejected, is there? Hmm, I guess there is.
I'm dreaming of the day LaMarcus clocks Garnett. Of course, he'll get ejected, but it will send the message. That day will be the changing of the guard, the day LaMarcus establishes his ownership of the NBA.
First off, KG is a punk ass little bitch. Ok, now that that's out of the way, I don't think the "barking" was that big of deal. I don't actually think he was taunting. I think he was trying to basically hide from the inbounder and or Bayless and surprise them and steal the inbounds, but then again, I wasn't there and didn't see it live, just its brief glimpse on TV and the replays.
I remember it appeared to be more of a taunt than anything. He was smacking the floor. I don't think he'd do that if he was trying to hide.
someone should have beaten the shit out of garnett a long time ago. fake tough guy. hopefully next time he plays orl he get punch drunk from a dwight howard elbow like big baby. garnett is 100% douchebag.
I expected at least a 10 game suspension. By far the most unsportsmanlike action I've ever witnessed. This league is an embarrassment under Stern.
I remember watching that, and my blood pressure sky rocketing into my head, and wishing Bayless would bounce the ball as hard as he could off the floor and right into Garnett's face. Guess I can be a bit of a hot head, LOL.
I know it's a year later, but is there a link, or was this just on the radio? If radio, why hasn't Quick written a prominent article about this? Because he's only interested in tearing down his own team? Why can't the Oregonian spend its anger on players on other teams, instead of on Blazers like Sheed, Bonzi, etc.? I might like their moral cruasading if it were against other teams, but it's always been against their own team. They have destroyed the trade values of Sheed, Zach, etc. Wow, again, I'd love to read about this, though I know it's an old link. If you don't have one, can you at least tell me who the players were? I probably read it at the time, but forgot because no one has mentioned it since. This is a memory we should keep alive.
i believe that value was lowered by their technical fouls and criminal records. The Oregonian cant hide their faults. both teams played hard my man.
The Oregonian was on a religious mission to bring down the Blazers as constituted. You can't deny that, if you read their stuff at the time and saw how prominently they placed it on the page, and pushed it in the faces of fans who wanted to like the team. Because our hayseed city paper magnified every tiny detail, the slant was read in all cities and affected trade values. In Seattle, Sonic Rashard Lewis was busted for speeding on a narrow bridge in the middle of the night. No one cared. The media reported it once and didn't harp on it, so no one there or nationally remembers. That's how a non-hayseed media covers such things. He then signed a $100M contract with Orlando. We got nothing for Zach and little for Sheed because of the Oregonian.
This made me laugh out loud. Thanks you for posting it. I think he was trying to confuse the Blazers, making them wonder why there was a barking dog on the court. This makes more sense, since the next game he did the caterpillar while Jose Calderon was bringing the ball up the court. [video=youtube;ZpWATMtTPkk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpWATMtTPkk[/video]
That's because even after leaving the Blazers, trade values continue to be damaged by past Oregonian campaigns. For the same reason, some writers still call us the Jailblazers. 100%. Why, are you saying he did anything wrong there to get traded? The NY media hated him because of what they'd read in the Oregonian. No other reason.
That's the problem with little provincial places like New York. They subscribe to the big city paper (the Big O) and they just parrot what they read there trying to look intelligent. Oh, the times in American when people were proud of being part of a small town, when the put a stake in the ground and pitched their tent and proudly said "it might not be big and luxurious like the Governor hotel in Portland, Oregon, but it's my house and my town, damnit".
You don't seem to know how the Associated Press works. A local paper writes and prints an article, which includes local bias. "AP picks up the story," which means, they shorten it and send it over the wire. When you read a full AP article about the Blazers in small local papers around the country, you are usually reading a reprint from the Oregonian (shortened). Of course, this doesn't include when the Blazers play in a city and the local media there writes their own game article. A few exceptional papers depend less on AP, and the New York Times is one. But most New Yorkers read other papers, and even Times writers must be influenced by the stream of AP articles they read, originating with the Oregonian. Now I read a couple of national NBA writers who think Pritchard is God, and I know they've been influenced by the Portland media.
