Happy Friday everyone, and happy NBA Appreciation Day! This week I’ve got an excellent video for you: Court Cuts, the best of 2010/11! For those of you who may be unfamiliar with Court Cuts, let me give you a brief description. Court Cuts are little highlight segments put together by The Score, a Canadian sports network. They come with the original commentary and include all different types of great plays. When it comes to highlight reels, Court Cuts are the Rolls Royce. See for yourself…
Didn’t watch the Clippers? Now you see what you were missing. I think my favorite highlight of the season might be DeAndre’s alley-oop on Jon Brockman… it gets better every time I see it. Shout out to Javale McGee, too… he was all over this video.
Credit to CripWalkinK of Niketalk.com for finding this and posting it.
Can’t get enough of the video? Check out the ’02/03 version. Ricky Davis comes through with the greatest post-dunk swag of all-time around the 4:10 mark…
Well, maybe not the greatest ever… Shawn Kemp has to be all over that conversation… but maybe my personal favorite.
JR Smith scored 20 points, including the walk-off triple…
Update: I found a second angle of the shot…
Euroleague
FC Barcelona 93, Unics 65
Former Memphis Grizzly Juan Carlos Navarro scored 19 points in 24 minutes for Barcelona. The sharpshooter went 3-8 from downtown. Nathan Jawai proved to be about as useful as he was in the NBA, scoring 7 points on 3-5 in 13 minutes for the losing squad. I will give him this: he had a pretty nasty poster over a pair of defenders. Barcelona wore bright pink jerseys in this game–I shit you not.
Fenerbahce Ulker 90, SLUC Nancy 86
Thabo Sefolosha got off to a quick start and scored a team-high 19 for Fenerbahce Ulker. In doing so, he helped his team go on a 17-0 first-half run and build a rather sizable lead. SLUC Nancy would make a 23-point comeback in the second half, but it wasn’t enough. Nicolas Batum had 22 points, but he also had a whopping NINE turnovers. Jesus Christ Nic, hold onto the goddamn ball! James Gist gave Sefolosha and company a boost with 13 points and 3 boards (had a pretty sick putback dunk in crunch time). Former Craptard Roko Ukic had 2 points on 1-4. Stud.
Maccabi Electra 88, Real Madrid 82
Jordan Farmar dropped a game-high 27 on 9-11 for Maccabi, and Sofoklis “Baby Shaq” Schortsanitis pitched in with 16 of his own. Madrid has Sergio Rodriguez, Serge Ibaka, and Rudy Fernandez, but none of them did a whole hell of a lot. Ibaka had 9/8–not bad I suppose–but Rudy and Sergio combined to clunk 7 three-pointers.
Bennet Cantu 78, Bizkaia Bilbao 69
Never heard of a single player who participated in this game. Next.
Partizan 91, Belgacom Spirou 81
Former 11th overall pick–another bad one by the Hawks–Acie Law dropped 26 big ones for Partizan. He also dished 7 dimes, some of which probably went to Minnesota Timberwolf Nikola Pekovic, who scored 21 on 9-13. Remember Jiri Welsch? He scored 10 points and took an L.
Anadolu Efes 62, Emporio Armani 54
Stanko, yes, Stanko Barac scored a game-high 16 for Anadolu Efes. The Machine scored 12… on 13 shots. Former Memphis Grizzly Terrance Kinsey had 13 points, including a big dunk down the stretch. I still think he’s NBA material. Danilo Gallinari went 2-10 for 12 points.
Unicaja 79, Brose Baskets 78
Casey Jacobsen sighting! He notched 7 for the losing squad. No one of note really did anything for Unicaja.
Guangdong 83, Zhejiang Guangsha 80: Former Clipper/Wizard James Singleton posted 19 points and 16 boards to lead his Southern Tigers past Wilson Chandler’s Lions. Ill Will also had a double-double with 16/12, but he missed the potential game-tying three-pointer…
Euroleague
Caja Laboral 81, Olympiacos 79: Washington Wizards big man Kevin Seraphin made seven of his eight shots and scored 15 points to help his team get a narrow victory. Golden State Warrior Reggie Williams had four points on 2-2 in eight minutes. It seems that Williams started the game, so I’m assuming he must’ve gotten hurt. Seraphin beasted down the stretch, scoring three consecutive buckets in the fourth.
CSKA Moscow 89, KK Zagreb 47: I’ve never heard of KK Zagreb, nor have I heard of a single player on their roster. They shot 29.7% from the floor and lost to powerhouse CSKA Moscow by… a lot. Andrei Kirilenko and Nenad Krstic combined for 29 points and 12 boards.
Montepaschi Siena 103, GS Medical Park 77: Former Rocket, Raptor, and Hornet David Andersen scored 13 points and grabbed 6 boards for the victors. Former Wizard Darius Songaila went 3-8 with 3 turnovers for the losers. What the hell kind of basketball team is called GS Medical Park?
Union Olimpija 70, Asseco Prokom 62: San Antonio Spur Danny Green was this game’s leading scorer with 23 points. Green knocked down five of seven triples, but didn’t really contribute in any other category (although he did contribute big to a victory). His counterpart, Cleveland Cavalier Alonzo Gee, went 0-7 from two, but 3-5 from three. He scored 13 points and grabbed 7 boards.
Zach Randolph will have to wait a while to try and show the Clippers that it was a mistake to trade him for peanuts. Mark Jackson will also have to wait to show us whether or not he’s capable of coaching an NBA team. Had the Lakers gone on the road to visit the Warriors, it would’ve been his first game as a head coach–and you know what that means–he wouldn’t have been unable to call the game for ESPN (praise the basketball gods)! The first half of the ESPN double-header? That was supposed to be the Heat and Knicks facing off at Madison Square. Who’s jersey was Spike Lee going to wear? Now we’ll never know. In Washington, young Wizard Jordan Crawford would begin his quest to become greater than former Wizard Michael Jordan. Will he succeed? Who the hell knows when we’ll find out.
A total of 13 games were supposed to be played today, along with 3 more last night. David Stern has already shot down the possibility of an 82-game schedule, and while we will undoubtedly see each one of these match ups eventually, these particular games are all gone for good.
Looks like I’ll have to create my own Clipps/Grizz game.
Grizzlies down two… seat belts fastened… five seconds… four seconds… three seconds… Zach Randolph for the game…………..
Clippers win!!!!!
Please, end this lockout. The CBA is cool, and Euroleague is alright… but goddamn, man… there’s nothin’ like good ol’ NBA basketball.
This morning, Wilson Chandler scored 19 of Zhejiang Guangsha’s 34 first-half points and finished up with 36 points in 35 minutes as his team lost by 3 (72-75). Chandler also grabbed six rebounds and shot well from both two-point and three-point range. Although the translation may have come through a little shaky, it seems that Chandler said something along the lines of “I need to not only score the ball, but find a way to get everyone else involved.” To this point, Wilson’s 36 is the highest total posted by any of the three big names (Chandler, Smith, Martin) who signed in the CBA this offseason.
Wilson was coming off of a good game. He scored 28 points and grabbed 7 boards in a narrow victory yesterday morning. It appears that he posterized a fool in one of these two games.
In other CBA news, Kenyon Martin scored 18 points and collected 14 boards yesterday, but his Xinjiang Flying Tigers lost by 8. Former LA Clipper and Washington Wizard James Singleton also played yesterday, and so did Stephon Marbury, but I can’t find their numbers. The coverage of the preseason is awful over there. The CBA’s website still had last season’s standings on their front page until yesterday night, and I still can’t find any box scores for these games. They’re still yet to release the regular season schedule, too. Once the regular season finally begins (I’ve read that it should be some time in mid-November), information should be easier to come by.
One would think the CBA would step their game up for the biggest season in their history. I mean, sh!t, at least get some highlights, a preseason schedule, and some box scores on your website. Provide an English version, too.
Most of you probably remember this one–it was an instant classic from about three years ago. I’ve never been the world’s number one Vince Carter fan, but this is still one of the greatest (and one of my personal favorite) regular season games that I’ve ever seen. A 129-127 overtime thriller with one hell of a storyline. This sh!t was a man vs a nation, and the man won. Unfortunately, the video I have here only covers the highlights of the fourth quarter and overtime. Oh well, that’s when the game got really crazy anyway.
I kind of forgot about the barrage of insane three-point shots that set the stage for Carter’s famous alley-oop. Chris Bosh hits a stepback triple with 10 seconds left in OT? I remember thinking you’ve got to be sh!tting me! CB was actually the game’s leading scorer with 42… I forgot about that, too. What I will never, ever, ever forget, though, is VC’s f@cking indescribable swag after the reverse alley-oop finish. Dude styled on an entire country; sent the entire Air Canada Center home to cry in their beer (that’s a Bill Walton line). Absolutely EPIC.
My scouring of the internet has turned up a few more CBA videos, including one which proves that Gerald Green in still one of the highest flyers on the planet. Watch him throw down a between the legs jam, jump over a man (small Asian guy, but still impressive), and complete an off-the-side-of-the-board dunk similar to the one Blake Griffin put down in last season’s dunk contest.
Fresh pair of Air Jordans he’s got there. The XIIIs; red, white, and black. Swag.
I also came across this Kenyon Martin highlight reel from his first preseason game with the Xinjiang Flying Tigers. He played 24 minutes, scored 12 points, and recorded 3 rebounds.
Apparently the reporter thought Martin would be a little disappointed in himself after posting those pedestrian numbers. In typical K-mart fashion, he firmly told that dude he doesn’t care about anything but the W. Good ol’ Kenyon. I see that he’s puttin’ hard fouls on people already.
LOL @ the word bubble that pops up at 1:11. I imagine that it’s supposed to depict his foul mouth.
Oh, I also found a third video showing a variety of highlights and lowlights from CBA veteran Stephon Marbury. It’s from the same game as Martin’s video…
NBA247365.COM, your english-speaking source for CBA info, all winter long!
Hello and welcome to another edition of TBPYNSB, my personal favorite variety of post on NBA247365.COM! This edition will actually include 14 plays as the featured video is a countdown, so I suppose you can consider it special. It includes some very interesting highlights, and I fully expect that it will satisfy your daily basketball needs. I’m trying very hard to step it up as the NBA and it’s players continue to disappoint all of us. I refuse to allow the ball to stop rolling!
Kicking things off will be Anderson Varejao. Observe this extraordinary facial on Jermaine O’Neal, and take note of his braids…
I’ve got to give my friend Kumquat from the Insidehoops Forums some credit for unearthing this doozy. Fantastic find! As for Anderson’s braids… that is quite possibly the unmaliest hairdo I’ve ever seen on an NBA basketball player. For a second I thought he was that Brittney Griner chick from Baylor. They should feature Anderson in one of those “man up” Miller Lite commercials.
Next up is all-time great highlight maker Jason “WHIT EBOY” Williams with a pass that resulted in a Tony Massenburg brick. One of the greatest almost assists ever…
I really do wish League Pass came with a Spanish commentator option. Those dudes love to BRR like Gucci Mane. BURR!
For the featured video I present to you the top 10 alley-oops of the 2002/03 season. It’s probably the only alley-oop compilation you’ll ever see where Shaq throws more than he catches…
Note the Stromile Swift sighting at #3. When’s the last time you saw a guy cock a lob like that? My main man busted out his jet pack that day.
Next on the docket is Shawn Kemp, a frequent feature in these posts. On this particular occasion he stifles a Dominique Wilkins shot attempt, then goes down to the other end and jackhammers one home…
Notice how the Clippers defender hightails it the hell out the vicinity as Shawn winds up to throw it down. He wanted no part of what the Reign Man had in store, leaving the rim as the lone casualty.
Lastly, here’s Lamar Odom cramming on a prime Theo Ratliff, who was blocking upwards of three shots a night at the time…
Andre Miller shows you how to hit a man in-stride. Such an underrated point guard.
The first time I ever saw Nicolas Batum play basketball was in the 2007 Nike Hoop Summit. I watched him score 23 points in 28 minutes, and by the end of the game I was well aware of two things: Firstly, this dude is really strange lookin’. Secondly, this dude is gonna be a player. Since that Hoop Summit, Batum has become an integral part of the up-and-coming Blazers. He contributes at both ends of the floor and continues to improve each season.
While Batum is certainly capable of putting some points on the board, he’s not the man you’ll see with the ball in his hands down the stretch of tight Blazers game. For his Euroleague team (SLUC Nancy of France), though, he’s apparently that guy. Watch Nicolas almost single-handedly turn a 72-71 game into an 85-71 game over the final 2:40…
Very impressive to say the least. He showed us everything but the kitchen sink! That last three-pointer was from f@cking JR Smith range, and the finishes at the rim were strong. The only two points he didn’t score himself were equally as astounding as his own buckets; what a setup!
For his herculean efforts, Batum was given Euroleague’s week two MVP.
LOL @ #11 getting excited and hugging the coach at the 3:48 mark.
Why yes, I’d love a stuffed bunny! Thank you, Stevie Franchise!
I came across this funny little photo while browsing through images of Kenyon Martin and JR Smith playing in China. Maybe I’m easily amused, but this pretty much made my day. Hope it makes yours too!
