Re: Golden State Radio Announcers

["I am. . . Anonymous" <ktoreed@yahoo.com>]

eh, eh, eh, calm down everybody.  The Celts are going
to make the playoffs!  Rememeber, you heard it here
first...  Kenny is back, Stith is going to break out
of his slump, Walker is gonna finish the season strong
as always, and Waltah is gonna break his leg!   Just
wait!


--- Alexander Wang <awang@MIT.EDU> wrote:
> At 01:17 PM 1/6/01 -0800, Thomas Murphy wrote:
> >The other comments concerned our favorite veteran
> all-star, Antoine (it
> >annoys me to no end that they pronounce Jamison's
> name the same way despite
> >the fact that it is spelled AntAWN). 
> 
> Evidently Antawn really is pronounced "Antoine".
> Don't blame the
> announcers; if anyone's at fault, it would probably
> be the parents for
> giving him a funny spelling. 
> 
> >Regarding Walker, they agreed that he
> >didn't make his teammates better. In fact, they
> thought his play at times
> >made it HARDER for his teammates to stay in the
> flow of the game, making
> >reference to a few instances in the 4th when Walker
> would get the defensive
> >board, dribble the length of the court and then
> call an isolation play for
> >himself. They also called Walker one-dimensional,
> by which I guess they were
> >referring to his selfish attitude rather than his
> physical abilities, and
> >noted that for the number of times he handled the
> ball he should have had a
> >LOT more assists. 
> 
> With Antoine it all seems to be where his brain is
> oriented. When he's in a
> bad decision-making mode, which unfortunately is
> usually the case in crunch
> time, he hurts the team in obvious ways -- basically
> by ball-hogging. He
> has an idea that when it's close late in the game,
> he has to "take over",
> and that means scoring in his mind. Given Antoine's
> talents, "taking over"
> should mean drawing the double team and hitting the
> open man.
> 
> >They thought he would be a far better player if he
> were on
> >a team with a couple veteran players (not
> necessarily all-stars but PLAYERS)
> >who could slap him down and allow him to develop a
> more team-oriented game
> >rather than constantly being the focus of offense
> and the oppositions
> >defense.
> 
> This is true. I've been thinking more about the
> structural problem of the
> team, which I'll write about in more depth in the
> future. But Antoine does
> seem like the type of player who would be better as
> a facilitating player
> on a team with better surrounding talent, rather
> than "the man." He's
> simply not a dominating scorer. That leaves Pierce
> as another go-to option,
> but he's got his own problems too. Just in general,
> right now in crunch
> time we have two "go-to" guys, neither of them
> dominating. And then we have
> three subpar talents -- Stith who is in a major
> slump, whoever's at point
> guard, and either Vitaly or Battie. I mean, Antoine
> and Paul should still
> pass out of the double teams, but I can kind of
> understand the pressure
> they feel to score surrounded by these guys. Last
> year at least Kenny was
> shooting well and could generally at the very least
> get to the basket when
> we were desperate, and Vitaly was playing pretty
> decently. This year, come
> crunch time, the other team turns up the defensive
> pressure and the offense
> just shuts down.
> 
> The question is, how to solve the problem? I've been
> pondering it for a
> while. I have to say that, since I really care most
> about having a
> championship team, that I've been gravitating
> towards a "blow it up"
> approach. I think Bird is one of the few guys who
> could get away with
> saying, "Everything's messed up; I'm going to blow
> things up. We're going
> to suck for a while but it's what we need to do to
> get banner 17." 
> 
> Alex
> 


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