G.A.C.O.L.B.

Major brain fart: dude in the 90's had the same deal, what was his name? He had some lame, forgettable, classic American name but changed it when he converted to Islam. I can't remember either of them. IIRC he played for the Nuggets. And I don't think he stayed in the locker room for the national anthem, I think he just refused to stand up for it (which is even more disrespectful in my opinion).

Wtf Melo. You taking fashion advice from Westbrook now?

Lmao. There's nothing better than preseason favorites and circlejerks becoming cluster****s (the Seahawks are another example)

Even a blind squirrel finds a nut once in awhile. For those who missed it Anyway, me thinks Demarcus is all grown up now http://youtu.be/ulxxrs0a0uo Great fallback plan if KD changes his mind about coming home

Looking at his game log from last year, he never even had TWO consecutive games in the single digits http://www.basketball-reference.com/players/h/hilarne01/gamelog/2014/ His first season here though he had a couple of instances with three consecutive single digit games http://www.basketball-reference.com/players/h/hilarne01/gamelog/2013/ Of course he battled injuries throughout that season so that probably doesn't bode well for us now. I mean he's basically a 7 footer that weighs closer to 300lbs than 200 and he's 32 years old. So...yeah

This is just mental now. You know Toronto owned us last year. You know they're arguably our top competition. It just feels like it's time to step up and take control. You feel it so much you start playing outside yourself and you look like compete **** as a result. Basically the definition of choking.

The great thing about sports is that at the end of the day, there is a winner and a loser. We ultimately get an answer. The results speak for themselves. Pop is a champion. He is probably the greatest coach not named Phil or Red to ever live (and it can probably be legitimately argued he's greater than them). So yeah, Pop wins, /debate.

Exactly. Because Gil set the clown culture and made it possible for us to draft them. You know I was as big of a Gil supporter and fan as anyone back when, but as time has passed, as I get further away emotionally from those teams, as I experience a legit contender with legit professionals on it, I've soured on Gil more and more.

So what happens to Baltche and Swaggy P if they had been drafted by, say, the Spurs?

This. I was thinking how to phrase my reply (NBA, ESPN, TNT, etc = "marketing team") but you got there first. Thank you sir.

Oh I disagree with that. Ernie is definitely at fault for not taking charge of the situation but Gil is the one who set the tone for that team.

I love the NBA I guess Barkley is going to start fasting on Sunday and has vowed not to eat until the Lakers win a game. That could get hilarious

Temple is the perfect example of a glue guy that contending and championship teams are filled with

Ahhh ya, I actually vaguely remember that in the MLB thread. Damn. Hope it's not a permaban. I...actually...miss him. (I'm going to go puke now.) As for twa, just looked him up. Active Posts 3,896 That's in 11 years. But you're right. I can't recall ever seeing one of his posts in the Stadium either.

Sorry to be quoting myself. Just didn't see an answer. Does anybody know? I miss talking **** to him. And there's so much **** to talk right now.

Always appreciated Booker. Wish we could've kept him but not mad about it. And is it just me or does he not look right in a Jazz uniform? Don't know, just seems off.

http://m.espn.go.com/wireless/story?storyId=5790863&i=TOP&y=1a29q Looks like I was wrong about Magic being one of the two that got a triple double at a younger age. Looks like I got it mixed up with number of games to get it. Also his 9 steals in his third game, the home opener, tied a franchise record.

Damn just heard on 980 that LeBron and Irving got into in the locker room after the game the other night, "causing Irving to leave early and not talking to the media". I love it

Absolutely. That was a clown team. Gil, Swaggy P, Baltche, Pierre. And you can't WIN, REALLY win, with clowns. Then Jamison was supposed to be the veteran presence, team leader, but he never ****ing talked, never showed any emotion. Not sure what the hell he was leading. Like I've said before, looking back on it now, that squad was utter bull****, the epitome of false hope. We've just been irrelevant for so long, so deprived of a legit team, that we lied to ourselves, saw what we wanted see.

You're absolutely right. 9 steals.

I believe the ENTIRE team had six. And I was listening to some syndicated generic sports show a couple of nights ago on 980. Were talking about Waiters. He plays 27 minutes and passed the ball a total five times. Not five assists, five PASSES. Where is BS? He on some type of ban?

Wasn't the first game against the Sixers the home opener? I was at that too. Actually won tickets from 106.7 lol. So yeah I was like 5 rows behind the Wizards bench. Cartier Martin hit a 3 at the buzzer to send the game into overtime and IIRC Wall had a triple double, the third fastest to ever record one. I know Magic was one of them, can't remember the other. And yeah, Evan Turner did absolutely nothing. Proved right then and there how dumb the debate was. And yeah Chad and Lavar were the worst. All you gotta do is listen to Cooley talk football and you realize why Lavar was a bust. Night and day. Chad Flukes is still horrible. And he screwed me out of an internship at the station. Petty, insecure ****.

Evan Turner still sucks ass. Is he still in Boston? Still sucking ass I presume?What a bust he's been. I remember leading up to the draft, 106.7 trying their hardest to push the idea that there was a debate on who we'd take #1, Wall or Tuner. Had a commercial spot where it was callers arguing for one or the other. "Wall needs to be the pick. He's going to be a stud." "Evan Turner all day. He's mature and knows the right way to play. We need a sure thing like him." **** like that. I always assumed that the Turner call was the ONE guy who called in pushing Turner. God I hate 106.7 (this, listening to it leading to to the draft, was right after the antenna got broken off the car and it was the only station I could get. Went a full year like that. Hell, pure hell. No choice but to listen to Lavar and Chad Flukes. No lie, there was many a times I was stuck on 66 and I would turn the rafio off, roll down my windows and listen to bumper-to-bumper traffic. THAT beat the hell out of Lavar and Flukes)

Btw, last night, who watched the game on CSN and who watched the game on ESPN? Personally I went ESPN. Buck and Phil are gods to me (especially when you compare them to Larry Michaels and Bob Carpenter, though I thought Carpenter got better this past season) but I always love hearing the national media on our Wizards. Gives you a good sense of how we are viewed. Like someone once told me never watch/read news from your country. (Think it was my bunky at the prison in California. Dutch they called him, because he was...Dutch. Got caught at LAX trying to fly back home with, IIRC, a bunch of coke. He was awesome And me and him were literally the only two white guys on the entire floor;like 100 to 200 people. It's why tbe guards bunked us together. He was big too, and I don't mean fat. Writing to him later on, told me that about a week after I left they had a riot. Always been kind of bitter I missed that. And that concludes GACOLB aka Colin's Story Time of the Week.) But yeah, said watch it from outside. It's the only way you'll get the true story (why BBC World News on PBS is the only news I watch). Same deal.

I thought Hibbert didn't make a single FG last night? And didn't he have multiple games in our series against us last postseason where he didn't score a single point? I know he had the one game where they focused on getting him the ball and he blew up, but I thought he sucked the rest of the time? Anyway, as someone mentioned last page, Toronto is the one we really need to show up against. They absolutely owned us last year.