Around The League - Bill Walton passes from cancer at 71

Fotis St · Post #1841 » by **Fotis St** » Wed May 29, 2024 9:22 am

Euroleague put cameras on Finals referees chest. This is perfect !!! I wish NBA has this even in regular season games. Great footage and audio. The league can check how referees interact with players,coaches and themselves. Love it. It is honestly the best you can do to check the referees.

Watch on YouTube

jschligs · Post #1842 » by **jschligs** » Wed May 29, 2024 12:56 pm

I would love the NBA to do that, and all major sports leagues, but not a chance they'd ever do it because it would bring even more scrutiny their way. I'm surprised they even do the L2M report still.

Almost like the idea of the premier league removing VAR because they constantly get it wrong even with 100 cameras. Hell, one time the VAR guy said they wrong thing, but couldn't get to the ref in time to correct it. Just a nightmare.

SupremeHustle · Post #1843 » by **SupremeHustle** » Wed May 29, 2024 2:14 pm

Fotis St wrote:Euroleague put cameras on Finals referees chest. This is perfect !!! I wish NBA has this even in regular season games. Great footage and audio. The league can check how referees interact with players,coaches and themselves. Love it. It is honestly the best you can do to check the referees.

Watch on YouTube

As I was watching this all I could think about was "Play as the ref" would be a stupid 2K mode.

KidA24 · Post #1844 » by **KidA24** » Wed May 29, 2024 2:57 pm

SupremeHustle wrote:
Fotis St wrote:Euroleague put cameras on Finals referees chest. This is perfect !!! I wish NBA has this even in regular season games. Great footage and audio. The league can check how referees interact with players,coaches and themselves. Love it. It is honestly the best you can do to check the referees.

Watch on YouTube

As I was watching this all I could think about was "Play as the ref" would be a stupid 2K mode.

You're saying you wouldn't play as a point fixing, player tossing, coach antagonizing referee?

SupremeHustle · Post #1845 » by **SupremeHustle** » Wed May 29, 2024 2:57 pm

Presti admitting that grabbing Gordon Hayward was a mistake is interesting. Turns out a great target for them would have been PatBev.

emunney · Post #1846 » by **emunney** » Wed May 29, 2024 3:45 pm

I am far from a Luka hater and he's obviously one of the greatest passers in the history of the sport. I don't understand the hype around that lob to DJJ though. He saw that the Dunk Only guy was going to beat his man to the rim and threw it up there. This is a totally ordinary pass for Luka. This dude has hit multiple 3/4 court lobs this year.

Matches Malone · Post #1847 » by **Matches Malone** » Wed May 29, 2024 4:24 pm

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JayMKE · Post #1848 » by **JayMKE** » Wed May 29, 2024 5:32 pm

these coaching contracts are getting crazy

Gant · Post #1849 » by **Gant** » Wed May 29, 2024 5:48 pm

JayMKE wrote:these coaching contracts are getting crazy

For Steve Ballmer, $70 million is very little. $70 million to him is equivalent to under $500 for someone worth $1 million.

Now that's crazy. Go Microsoft!

MartyConlonOnTheRun · Post #1850 » by **MartyConlonOnTheRun** » Wed May 29, 2024 6:06 pm

Still can't believe bud only got $10/year

Matches Malone · Post #1851 » by **Matches Malone** » Wed May 29, 2024 9:27 pm

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tydett · Post #1852 » by **tydett** » Wed May 29, 2024 9:32 pm

Huh, wonder why none of these organizations are considering Adrian Griffin for their opening? He has the 4th highest winning % of all time and I've been told by the general board firing him for Doc was a mistake.

JayMKE · Post #1853 » by **JayMKE** » Wed May 29, 2024 10:03 pm

What’s Adrian Griffin even been up to since getting fired? Secured the bag, maybe another PhD?

AussieBuck · Post #1854 » by **AussieBuck** » Wed May 29, 2024 10:09 pm

If anyone can blow this series it's Kidd.

MikeIsGood · Post #1855 » by **MikeIsGood** » Thu May 30, 2024 12:53 am

Matches Malone wrote:

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ESPN wrote:Washington was 7-36 at the time of the change and went 8-31 the rest of the way.

Err...baby steps, I guess? :lol:

blazza18 · Post #1856 » by **blazza18** » Thu May 30, 2024 1:27 am

Wizards should've hired a woman as coach. Next to no pressure at all coaching such a bad team and would've at least given fans something to be excited about.

HKPackFan · Post #1857 » by **HKPackFan** » Thu May 30, 2024 1:44 pm

tydett wrote:Huh, wonder why none of these organizations are considering Adrian Griffin for their opening? He has the 4th highest winning % of all time and I've been told by the general board firing him for Doc was a mistake.

Perfect insert for Jeremy clarkson and Richard Hammond laughing gif.

Wonka · Post #1858 » by **Wonka** » Thu May 30, 2024 2:19 pm

blazza18 wrote:Wizards should've hired a woman as coach. Next to no pressure at all coaching such a bad team and would've at least given fans something to be excited about.

I mean, outside of some cheap marketing ploy, what would that accomplish?

randy84 · Post #1859 » by **randy84** » Thu May 30, 2024 2:38 pm

MartyConlonOnTheRun wrote:Still can't believe bud only got $10/year

Still can't believe we got rid of Bud for Doc.

chonestown · Post #1860 » by **chonestown** » Thu May 30, 2024 2:56 pm

I haven't said my piece on Bill Walton. This one really hit.

I guess his defining characteristic was a bottomless generosity. It was how he played the game and how he lived his life. You look to set others up and everybody benefits. You eat, we all eat. For all the hippie sht, it boils down to a concern extending beyond oneself. Spread love is the calculus.

Pasch put up a bunch of shared texts, Breen recalled the time Bill hosted his dying father and everybody who crossed paths with Walton had a story because he was a damn grist for happenstance tales. The one piece I wanted to share I couldn't find, seemingly another casualty of wiped archives or common negligence. Writing becomes content becomes a 404 gateway. We losin' recipes.

But here it is. Bill Walton in DC in the peak of the Wiz Agent Zero days, when the tumblers were shakily aligned for a moment. What stays with me is Bill breaking bread with Eddie Jordan's kid.

Then Eddie Jordan suddenly emerged from the tunnel with his son, Jackson. Jackson was wearing a Michael Jordan Wizards jersey, with Gil Zeros on his feet, and Nike socks peaking out above. Eddie put his hand on Jackson's head as they approached us.

"Can he say hi to you please?" Eddie asked Walton. "Shake his hand," he instructed Jackson.

Tiny Jackson Jordan and massive Bill Walton shook hands. Walton leaned forward. Sitting down, he was still about as tall as Jackson Jordan.

"My name is Bill, and I used to play against your dad," Walton said. "And your dad was not only one of the greatest players I ever had the privilege of playing against, but he's one of the greatest human beings. You are so lucky.

"And I know how tough it is for you, because I've got four children myself, and dad can't always be there. And that's the hardest thing for a young boy, to sit there and say, 'Oh man, everybody else, their dad can always come to their parent-teacher conferences, and they can come to the school plays, and their dad's always there to kiss 'em goodnight and tell 'em they love 'em.' Don't ever think for a minute that your dad doesn't think that. He has ultimate love for you, he'll do anything he can for you. But he has his job to do. And I know you're trying to be a ballplayer here, but what I want to say is sports is just a small part of your life. Education, that's the number one thing."

https://web.archive.org/web/20130220053955/http://voices.washingtonpost.com/dcsportsbog/2007/04/bill_walton_on_the_curse_of_le.html

https://web.archive.org/web/20130220065423/http://voices.washingtonpost.com/dcsportsbog/2007/04/bill_walton_on_gilbert_and_bob.html

Alright, that's what I wanted to get out there.