Mike Leach and Friday Night Lights

It's too bad that episode couldn't have been filmed after the "fatty chaser" comments. They really could have gone some places with that.....

November 5, 2009 at 3:32 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Mike Leach and Friday Night Lights

Hilarious. That was pure Mike Leach.

November 5, 2009 at 2:54 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Brady Morningstar delivers open letter to KU fans

"Was Brady drunk when he wrote this? or does he need a personal copyeditor?"

"I don't believe my comment was douchey..."

Um, really?? It's 100% douchey. It catapulted so far past the line of douchey it may have actually crossed it twice.

Nice attempt at the 180 though.

October 8, 2009 at 5:49 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Stop me if you have heard this joke before.....

Um... this is an interesting conversation.

Gotta go with LA here, though. Sutton, you are a giant bag of crazy.

September 13, 2009 at 8:48 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Who's better: Kobe or LeBron?

So... how many championships does Calipari have?? Come now.....

Talking about winning is clearly an acceptable criteria, as that is what everybody who plays strives for. Thinking it's not is just silly and, quite frankly, delusional. Are you trying to suggest Kobe cheats? You obviously don't like the guy, but you're starting to get out of hand now.

It is also acceptable to bring up winning as the prime motivation in sports to someone who says:

"Basketball is about more than making shot after shot with defnders in your face..... if that's all kobe HAS..... then your foolish to take him.... and that is all i see him having"

Foolish to take someone who wins championships.... hmmmm....

Look, I think Kobe is a huge D-bag and I hate the Lakers (and I live in Los Angeles), but that has nothing to do with him as a basketball player. He wins championships so obviously he can play the game. If you're looking for someone foolish, perhaps it's best -- with statements like that -- to look in the mirror.

It's perfectly fine for you to believe LeBron is the best in the game. But to call someone "foolish" for being willing to take a 4 time champion who has held the league MVP is down right laughable.

June 18, 2009 at 1:18 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Who's better: Kobe or LeBron?

Well, that and four rings.

June 17, 2009 at 12:26 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Who's better: Kobe or LeBron?

d_prowess,

Yes and I did, and I fully expect a lot of people to disagree with me. But...

Pippen was a FAR better ball handler. Pippen was a FAR better shooter. Pippen was a FAR better defender. The only thing he lacked was that "take over a game" mentality, which he, of course, would defer to Jordan.

But I contend that Pippen is a better basketball player than LeBron.

LeBron certainly wins the hype award though. And that's why I will be swarmed for making the above argument. Propaganda is a powerful tool....

June 16, 2009 at 5:17 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Who's better: Kobe or LeBron?

My second to last sentence is supposed to read:

"If playing *like* LeBron played in the playoffs...."

Sorry about that.

June 16, 2009 at 5:11 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Who's better: Kobe or LeBron?

Now, as to LeBron, I don't quite understand this "dominates the game" argument. What does that mean?

Barry Bonds was a "dominant" baseball player (and forget about steroids, he was arguably one of the best ever before '98 when he started taking). He is the only 400 HR, 400 stolen base player ever... forgetting that he is actually a 500 HR, 500 SB guy. Yet he has no world series rings.

Dan Marino was arguably one of the most "dominant" QBs in the game -- certainly one of the most prolific passers -- yet he has no Super Bowl rings.

So what does dominant mean? I always thought to dominate something, you need to win.

Now, the argument on LeBron is that he has "no one around him." Funny that throughout the season when the Cavs were posting the best record in the League, I heard things like "this is LeBron's year. The Cavs have finally put pieces around him." I mean, they must have been at least a LITTLE good, otherwise they wouldn't have the best record in the NBA, right? But then they fell apart in the playoffs. And I don't blame LeBron's teammates.

I blame LeBron.

Against Orlando LeBron ran an isolation play at the top of the key on almost every possession and barely involved his teammates (scoring your team's last 32 points or whatever is simply bad basketball). Maybe that was poor play calling. But it was poor nonetheless. "Mr Unselfish" became the most selfish player in the game, and the Cavs suffered for it. And lost. They won 66 games in the regular season by playing as a team.

They lost by turning into "the LeBron show."

Kobe, on the other hand, continually involved his teammates. And now they are holding the trophy.

If playing LeBron played in the playoffs is what it means to be dominant, then I would take the "undominant" Kobe every time.

Of course, I would take Jordan, 'cause he can dominate AND win.

June 16, 2009 at 5 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Who's better: Kobe or LeBron?

If I had a chance to pick from guys on a play ground, it is quite clear from my post above that I would pick Kobe. And that, of course, was Matt's question: an opinion on who is the better player.

But to further my point on comparing players being silly, I think it's important to point out that I would gladly except LeBron; I would then look to surround him with different types of players than I would with Kobe.

There have been a plethora of different styles of players who have won championships, and all of them did so by having complimentary players. Scottie Pippen was a great compliment to Michael Jordan's game (by the way, if you were to compare players, you are probably better off comparing LeBron to Pippen rather than a Kobe or a Jordan; more similar style of play... and Pippen was exceedingly better, but that's another argument altogether). Kobe and Shaq complimented each other. Now Kobe and Gasol with a Bynum/Odom on the side. Pierce, Allen and KG are obviously a great combination, none of which I would call the "best in the game" (although my homeristic side would come out for Pierce while drunk in an LA bar). Yet they fit well enough together that they can win. And win convincingly.

My point is that this is, in fact, a team game. You put the right great players together and you get great teams. It's not necessarily the case that I would rather have a Kobe than a LeBron on my team (even though that's what I said above); I would take either then build the team accordingly. Personally, I would rather build it around Kobe for the reasons I stated in my first post.

Of course, I would say that I would take Jordan over anybody, but that's cause he is the greatest.... :)

June 16, 2009 at 4:34 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )