That Was Better, But Still Not Good Enough: Cavs 113, Pistons 101
by Packey on Mar 17, 2010 12:54 AM CDT
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Well, that ended as the game thread title implied. Detroit actually found effort on their flight home from Boston last night, but unfortunately, it wasn't enough to beat the beasts of the East (and their friends with whistles).
Six Pistons scored in double figures, the team shot 64% from three-point range, and the game was tied at 94 apiece with 4:44 left in the fourth quarter. Then the Cavs finished on a 19-7 run.
Listen, I could hammer out monotonous drivel about what happened and why the Pistons fell apart late (and bicker a lot about the refs, which is usually not my thing), but that would be no fun for anyone -- we all get it, the Pistons are 23-45 and, in words, 'not good.'
Instead, let's have some fun. I've been lurking the comments on DBB for years and I know you're all smart, creative, and funny people. When I came across these two pictures (LeBron from NBA.com & Kuester from within SB Nation's system), I instantly wondered what kind of reaction they would get from the DBB community. So in lieu of a traditional recap, I ask for your captions for these two pictures (below). LeBron screaming like a school girl, and Kuester about to sneeze his face off. Those are the elementary interpretations, at least. Let's hear story lines, Haikus, etc. Maybe best one as voted by your peers will win something? Recap privileges for Friday and/or Sunday's game(s), perhaps? Have at it.
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Lebron
“These are the best refs money can buy!”
I'm just like a sports reporter, but without the insight or money.
Q-ster
“At least there’s always next season, provided JoD doesn’t trade Stuckey for a bag of magic beans.”
I'm just like a sports reporter, but without the insight or money.
lebron: Its going to be so fun when delonte, mo and jj come over and my mom makes us pizza roles and we get to stay up late and sleep in our sleeping bags!
kuester: you know how many shots you have made in the last 20 games ben gordon? this is how many!
multipass
Jonas Jerebko : Pistons :: Skippin' Bail, Dippin' Jail, Whippin' Tail and Sippin' Ale : MF Doom
laughton wins. everything. forever. a buh-gillion recs.
if the whole judeo-christian mythology about the pearly gates is true, you can present this picture as a VIP entry pass.
Jonas Jerebko : Pistons :: Skippin' Bail, Dippin' Jail, Whippin' Tail and Sippin' Ale : MF Doom
dude
no jerebko in red? laughton, i expect mastery out of you, your reputation is paved in gold bricks guy
Jonas Jerebko : Pistons :: Skippin' Bail, Dippin' Jail, Whippin' Tail and Sippin' Ale : MF Doom
My final one that has nothing to do with this, I am drunk.
insert aussie stereotype here
by Laughton on Mar 17, 2010 3:43 AM CDT reply actions 5 recs
lebron schadenfreude
it would have been nice if the gods had thrown the pistons a bone last night. instead they threw the cavs some help to beat the mighty pistons. i hate lebron because he is a bad sport. because he gets calls all the time but complains bitterly on the rare occasion that he doesn’t. yes i have been rooting for him to get injured for almost three years now and that is sick, i admit. so i will downsize my schadenfreude to may he lose in the finals on a chauncey billups goaltend that isn’t called.
by andyfrombrooklyn on Mar 17, 2010 6:45 AM CDT reply actions
* and *
But I remember—
when it seems all hope is lost:
Jonas Jerebko.
by -PS- on Mar 17, 2010 9:43 AM CDT reply actions 2 recs
Caption Contest
Lebron (in his best Sinatra): NEWWWWWW YORK, NEWWWWW YOOOOORRRRRK!
Kuester (in response to Lebron): Wait, what? Lebron is headed to New York? TAXI!
Jonas Jerebko once killed a charging female rhinoceros in heat protecting its young with nothing more than a hook shot.
caption haikus
Lebron:
I am basketball
nothing slows my immense skill
what the fuck, no foul?!
Kuester:
Excuse me kind sir
I need clarification
how much to buy calls?
by the89oracle on Mar 17, 2010 12:23 PM CDT reply actions 5 recs
Rec'd
Jonas Jerebko once killed a charging female rhinoceros in heat protecting its young with nothing more than a hook shot.
no one mentioned the dick move by Mo Williams
So I will. Anyone catch the totally unnecessary blind-pick by Mo Williams in the backcourt on Tayshuan Prince?
It’s not like Prince was all up in LBJ’s junk either. He was just staying in front of him while LBJ got down the court. Mo sets the blind pick and Tayshaun crashes into him blindly. Next shot: Tayshaun grasping his back in pain.
I mean, it’s not like Tayshaun missed 1/3 of the season with a back injury, or that he was playing after being pulled out of the game THE NIGHT BEFORE ON NATIONAL TV for a separate back injury.
Way to unequivocally prove you’re douche-baggery, Mo WIlliams. You’re now King D-Bag in the Kingdom of D-bags. Wear your crown with pride.
by Big Z in Orlando on Mar 17, 2010 1:10 PM CDT reply actions
yeah, i noticed that too.
fortunately the collision happened at like 2 mph, otherwise tayshaun might have been hurt more seriously
I’ll never object to blind picks.
They are allowed by the rules, they are part of the game. I blame Tay’s teammate who was covering Mo Williams for not being right there to yell and call out the screen.
Agree about help from teammates
I agree that someone should have told Prince the pick was coming, but I still don’t know what the point was. Williams wasn’t creating space for LeBron; there was plenty of space anyway.
I didn’t call the play illegal, I called it a dick move. It was. Totally unnecessary and had no bearing on the game other than to jar the back of someone who is having back problems.
by Big Z in Orlando on Mar 18, 2010 11:51 AM CDT up reply actions
I’m not sure it had “no bearing on the game.” If I’m Tay, and I just got hit by that type of screen, I’m looking over my shoulder everytime I’m running down the court. From that point on, Tay’s got one more thing on his mind while he’s guarding LBJ. I’d say that’s an impact that has direct bearing on the game.
Anyway, if MFWB had done that to LBJ, I doubt we’d be having the discussion on these terms.
i disagree. i'd protest anyone intentionally setting a back pick on someone with a back injury
ie. david west in the playoffs 2 years ago. it may be a part of the game, but maliciously going after someone with an injury is not called for. i’d protest any piston trying to reinjure anyone.
by the89oracle on Mar 19, 2010 11:24 AM CDT up reply actions
Wait a minute.
Mo Williams is a douche. I can’t stand him. But you’re accusing him of intentionally trying to further injure and already injured player.
That’s a serious accusation to make, and I personally don’t think the evidence supports it. Those kinds of screens happen all the time, all over the league.
I think the malicious intent would have to be extrapolated from the act itself. For instance, did he simply stand there or did he lean into it? Where were his arms placed? Were they crossed in front of him with his elbows protruding so the majority of the impact is distributed through the elbow as a focal point or were they at his side so that Tay impacts against Williams’ chest.
I don’t have a sound recollection of the play, but I do remember it pretty clearly. After seeing it happen, my immediate thought was, “he intentionally set that screen on Tay to aggrevate his back injury” based on the way he was positioned and the location of the screen but there is still a HUGE difference between taking advantage of another team’s weakness and maliciously trying to re-injure another player.
I would put this as worse than a team attacking a player who has just sprained his ankle and has to defend a possession and a flagrant 1.
Jonas Jerebko once killed a charging female rhinoceros in heat protecting its young with nothing more than a hook shot.
What's the criteria for deleting member comments?
There’s several that evaporated from this thread over the day.
"I didn’t even know Elvis was from Memphis, I thought he was from Tennessee." — Drew Gooden.
It was a mistake
I wanted to delete that Cavs’ fans’ first comment, but leave all the replies. His comment didn’t belong in this thread because he was responding to comments he knew were from the game thread; and in addition he sounded like a big douche with his italics, ellipses, and “I assumes” — all taking away from the fun of this thread. Anyway, I emailed the SBN head honcho to ask if deleting his comment would delete all the replies and he said that the system would ask me if I’d want to keep the replies (which I would then click: yes). Unfortunately, it didn’t ask me that and everything was ruined. I’m sorry to anyone who put time into writing comments to have them disappear. I assure you, it wasn’t my intention. :(
I’ll go back to sitting by the garbage can for the rest of the day and think about what I’ve done.
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my basic points
http://www.stampedeblue.com/2010/3/10/1366046/derek-anderson-takes-a-dump-on
this indignation from cleveland fans was hilarious since they are the only team i know of who cheered when one of their players got injured.
“The fans are ruthless and don’t deserve a winner,” Anderson said. "I will never forget getting cheered when I was injured. I know at times I wasn’t great. I hope and pray I’m playing when my team comes to town and [we] roll them.
that was bout it. oh wait, i advised them to organize a shamwow night to soak up their tears when the get bounced from the playoffs again. and i want to drink lebrons tears. it is the sweetest vintage.
Orlando
is our best hope to knocking LeB************* off in the playoffs. So here’s to Vincanity, Rashard Lewis, J Nelson, and even D Howard and even even J.J.
by Roll The Dyess on Mar 18, 2010 12:25 AM CDT up reply actions
I'll take the '09 Lebron's tears, my good man
erm yes sir, a fine bottle. it pairs well with the duck confit.
"I didn’t even know Elvis was from Memphis, I thought he was from Tennessee." — Drew Gooden.
Awe man
I’m trying to get my commenting stats up and you gotta go do something like that? Ha.
I root for the Tigers, Pistons, Red Wings and yes, the Lions.
Me in 140 characters
wait there’s commenting statistics? I wonder what my true shooting percentage is…
by Roll The Dyess on Mar 18, 2010 12:26 AM CDT up reply actions
It wasn't necessary
Granted, the post was annoying and it was written from a Cavs point of view, but I don’t think it crossed the line. There was no reason to delete it. It wasn’t attacking or profanity laced or anything. Its nice that your looking out for us, but you don’t need to delete every annoying post that comes along. We are largely able to police ourselves. There’s no need for you to censure different points of view, even if they are annoying.
yeah i think its kinda funny when fans from other teams show up and act exasperated at things that are said. people take things wayyyyy to seriously. that said, i will back off from my previous statements that i hope lebron gets terribly injured and amend it to “i hope lebron doesnt get terribly injured but if he did i would not be upset about it” i think theres enough cavs fans to cry about it for all of us.
I like I said before
We don’t go over to the Cavs, or any other teamblog for that matter, and talk shit (as far as I know..) you’re free to come here and express your point of view on the Pistons- but the jerkyboy who strayed over state lines was just trying to pick a fight. I was glad to give him one.
"I didn’t even know Elvis was from Memphis, I thought he was from Tennessee." — Drew Gooden.
I hear ya
And if I had to do it again, I probably wouldn’t have — especially since now I know all the replies go with it. But DB’s like that get off on being smart asses and causing a large stir – I basically didn’t want to give him that satisfaction. The fact that he picked up on comments in another thread and came to this thread with them just to basically say “hey look at me, I’m a troll” was the cherry on top. There is zero reason to allow him paint some of our more dedicated commenters here in a bad light and let him hijack what originally had the promise to be a pretty damn good thread of faux-captions. But you’re right, you guys do an excellent job of policing yourselves and I guess that’s why that comment popped my cherry in deleting comments (though I’ve hid a couple FanPosts/FanShots). I definitely don’t plan to make a habit of that at all.
Can I come out from sitting by the garbage can now, though?
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I just like to put those suckas on blast.
you do whatever it is you deem necessary, Pack
"I didn’t even know Elvis was from Memphis, I thought he was from Tennessee." — Drew Gooden.
Coach Q
“Hey Shaq, come over here and pull my finger.”
I root for the Tigers, Pistons, Red Wings and yes, the Lions.
Me in 140 characters
by ReichardZ on Mar 17, 2010 4:29 PM CDT reply actions 1 recs
SportsCenter Top 10
I didn’t see sportscenter last night or this morning, but whoever did please tell me Lebron’s goaltend didn’t make the top ten.
by Roll The Dyess on Mar 18, 2010 12:21 AM CDT reply actions
I'm late!
Q: Uhm, excuse me…SIR! I believe Mr. Gordon was karate chopped in the neck by Mr. Jame— No? We’ll I suppose I’ll take my seat then.
Bron: CURLY FRIES!
by JoeDip on Mar 18, 2010 5:16 PM CDT reply actions 1 recs
LeBron
I got a whistle, I got a whistle, I got a whistle hey hey hey hey…
Maybe
Lebron and Q-ster are having an O-face contest. I think Lebron is winning though.
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