Sports Vegas, Baby…And Oh Yeah, We’ve Got a Coach Now
posted by on July 6 at 10:14 AM
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NBA Summer League starts today, which is great news because I am growing a little weary of all this talk talk talk and missing actual ball action. Get excited: Today at 3 p.m. is your first chance to see Kevin Durant (and Jeff Green!) in action in a Sonics uniform and 7 p.m. will be the first opportunity to see Greg Oden in the red, white, and black. All games are available for viewing on nba.com’s live video webcast; full schedule here. My friend informs me that the games won’t air until 9 p.m. here on NBA tv, so I’m trying to find a place to watch. Sport at Fisher Pavilion, anyone?
In other related news, the Sonics officially hired P.J. Carlesimo as head coach. I have little to say about this and can’t pretend to have any real insights on what this means. I am also trying to remain hopeful. When I asked my friend Brian for thoughts, he mumbled something to the effect of “sucky.” Like most people, the only thing I really know about P.J. Carlesimo is that, when coaching Golden State, he was choked by an angry Latrell Sprewell (one of my favorite players from my all-time favorite NBA team, the 99 Knicks) in reaction to Carlesimo commanding him to “put a little mustard” on a pass. I also know Carlesimo has never won an NBA playoff series.
To me, the most disturbing aspect about hiring Carlesimo (who has spent the last five years as an assistant coach to Gregg Popovich) comes from the mouth of our GM Sam Presti:
“What we’re trying to do here is create a team in Seattle that will pull from some of the core values of San Antonio…”
Shudder.
Carlesimo is atrocious.
We need to mount a large stuffed Sprewell on Key Arena to scare him away.
Fuck the Sonics and their homophobic new owners! Have fun in Oklahomo motherfuckers.
another brick in the wall of the eventual exit. carlisimo has all the excitement of a mudede post without tits or ass.
i thought presti was supposed to be smart.
PJ is a good friend of my dad's from Scranton, PA. What do you want to know about him? He is super nice. I know this b/c the last time the Spurs were in town, he left me some will call tickets along with passes to go down onto the floor after the game where I made an Eva Longoria spotting!
Kareem was available. Abdul Jabbar should have been made coach loooong ago. The NBA fears him and I dont know why.
Durant is too exciting to be leading a Spurs like team. We should be thinking of building a Bulls of the Jordan era team, with Jeff Green being a poor man's Scottie Pippen. All we need is a white boy that can shoot a 3.
What do we need to know about PJ Carlesimo? Hmmm. He coached a team called the Warriors when they sucked up the bay and he was fired. He will be here 2 years and if the Supes move they will hire a star coach.
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SeMe, Kareem is busying being special spiritual advisor to Andrew Bynum. And I suspect this is why we fear him:
http://freedarko.blogspot.com/2006/04/from-distance.html
There is no defense for that jacket. Maybe he was wearing a jacket that was given as a gift to him by the Navajo nation after he spent a year coaching a native american girls team.
Kareem knows the game and if he leads them to a championship than the jacket can be forgiven. We (humanity) forgave Pat Rileys' gelled hair.
We gave up on the next 3 seasons, here or not, when we lost Ray and Rashard....Those two with Durant would have meant playoff runs until Ray Ray decided to hang em up! We are FUCKED!
@ 4:
what does "super nice" have to do with coaching self-centered glandular freaks into actually trying hard?
i fail to see how PJ is an upgrade from Bob Hill.
Seattle sports fans are so fucking annoying.
Seattle sport fans are so fucking annoying.
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