Some comments about the Raps from ESPN feed Raps/Pistons

LieCheatSteal · Post #1 » by **LieCheatSteal** » Sat Jan 5, 2008 2:39 am

More tidbits:

Brown: "Cow"deron a smart player; in offseason, called Mitchell everyday to tell him how many shots he took in practice.

About Moon: a feel good story; carries a high school musical pink knap sack around filled with candy for initiation. Mitchell's story: he gets excited about $5000 dollar check from upper deck for rookie card.

Brown on Bargs: complete confusion about Bargs. Perplexed about 0 rebounds from 7 footer.

Shulman, very nice about the Raps: brought up missing Garbo, Raps a "forgotten team"

Problem with Raps, in regards with a mic'd up Parker urging his team to play d-fense, : "seems like the Raps have to convince themselves to play tougher defense"

Brown on Raptors: "good young nucleus that needs to stay together for a few years".

Brown on fourth quarter collapse: "the Raptors playing porous Dixon... defense". That's what I heard. Seriously.

LieCheatSteal · Post #2 » by **LieCheatSteal** » Sat Jan 5, 2008 2:40 am

BTW, ESPN (Brown and Shulman) both thought Mitchell is a good coach.

Joga_Bonito · Post #3 » by **Joga_Bonito** » Sat Jan 5, 2008 2:41 am

LieCheatSteal wrote:BTW, ESPN (Brown and Shulman) both thought Mitchell is a good coach.

Half of our board thinks otherwise!

Ackshun · Post #4 » by **Ackshun** » Sat Jan 5, 2008 2:53 am

Joga_Bonito wrote:-= original quote snipped =-

Half of our board thinks otherwise!

we watch every game.

they watch highlights

wade2bosh · Post #5 » by **wade2bosh** » Sat Jan 5, 2008 2:55 am

Charles Barkley loves SMitch too. Oh the ironing.

Garbo is underrated btw.

JD225 · Post #6 » by **JD225** » Sat Jan 5, 2008 2:58 am

They were hinting the entire game that we were just too soft. Basically a discussion on getting to the free throw line.

Hubie said something along the lines of our team is really strange, mainly the fact that we have all these great free throw shooters but are one of the worst teams in the league at getting to the free throw line. Said he has never seen anything like that.

elephunk · Post #7 » by **elephunk** » Sat Jan 5, 2008 3:00 am

Ackshun wrote:-= original quote snipped =-

we watch every game.

they watch highlights

They know Basketball.

LieCheatSteal · Post #8 » by **LieCheatSteal** » Sat Jan 5, 2008 3:01 am

JD225 wrote:They were hinting the entire game that we were just too soft. Basically a discussion on getting to the free throw line.

Hubie said something along the lines of our team is really strange, mainly the fact that we have all these great free throw shooters but are one of the worst teams in the league at getting to the free throw line. Said he has never seen anything like that.

They were also talking about the Raps defense too being soft. See one of my synopses.

KCAccidental · Post #9 » by **KCAccidental** » Sat Jan 5, 2008 3:02 am

Sorry, but who is Brown?

Joga_Bonito · Post #10 » by **Joga_Bonito** » Sat Jan 5, 2008 3:03 am

They also showed a clip of Anthony Parker motivating the Raptors to be aggressive and one of them commented on how it seems like the team needs motivation to play aggressively on both ends of the floor.

Oh yeah..Moon has a pink High School Musical bag lol

faze · Post #11 » by **faze** » Sat Jan 5, 2008 3:04 am

Listening to Shulman and Hubie was great. I'm glad we had some nice commentators on this game. Thanks to whoever put up the feed earlier.

Joga_Bonito · Post #12 » by **Joga_Bonito** » Sat Jan 5, 2008 3:06 am

faze wrote:Listening to Shulman and Hubie was great. I'm glad we had some nice commentators on this game. Thanks to whoever put up the feed earlier.

They were great. I love the analysis of Hubie..great teacher.

bstein14 · Post #13 » by **bstein14** » Sat Jan 5, 2008 3:16 am

I liked when they mentioned Moon being so excited that Upper Deck gave him $5,000 to sign a bunch of autographs on cards he couldn't believe they gave him so much money... he brought the check in to show Sam Mitchell hahahaha

Silk Wilkes · Post #14 » by **Silk Wilkes** » Sat Jan 5, 2008 3:22 am

faze wrote:Listening to Shulman and Hubie was great. I'm glad we had some nice commentators on this game. Thanks to whoever put up the feed earlier.

Did I miss something? Damn satellite screwed me over royally.

faze · Post #15 » by **faze** » Sat Jan 5, 2008 3:34 am

Yeah someone put up the feed in a thread earlier...it's a shame you didn't catch it.

KingClutch · Post #16 » by **KingClutch** » Sat Jan 5, 2008 3:39 am

elephunk wrote:-= original quote snipped =-

They know Basketball.

Owned.

Toxicity · Post #17 » by **Toxicity** » Sat Jan 5, 2008 3:46 am

Joga_Bonito wrote:-= original quote snipped =-

I love the analysis of Hubie..great teacher.

Yeah but he's a dead man walking...

Cross-over · Post #18 » by **Cross-over** » Sat Jan 5, 2008 4:33 am

I remember when the rookies had to carry Dora the Explorer backpacks.

That Other Guy · Post #19 » by **That Other Guy** » Sat Jan 5, 2008 4:39 am

LieCheatSteal wrote:About Moon: a feel good story; carries a high school musical pink knap sack around filled with candy for initiation. Mitchell's story: he gets excited about $5000 dollar check from upper deck for rookie card.

Thanks for the synopsis. I'm glad I'm not the only one walking around with this.

I remember last year seeing Andrea carrying a SpongeBob bag.

TheRaptor! · Post #20 » by **TheRaptor!** » Sat Jan 5, 2008 5:32 am

Raptor-holic wrote:-= original quote snipped =-

Thanks for the synopsis. I'm glad I'm not the only one walking around with this.
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I remember last year seeing Andrea carrying a SpongeBob bag.

Wasn't it Calderon with a Dora bag?