jmard5
10-07-2006, 07:52 AM
I don't know if this has been requested. Can this link/story allowed to be posted in here?
I don't get it why some sites ask you to pay for something that should be freely read by anyone. The ESPN site is notorious with that; almost half of their links need Insider pass.
Mr.Bottomtooth
10-07-2006, 07:56 AM
I think spurschick has Insider.
trueD
10-07-2006, 10:07 AM
Bucks points and Duncan rootsposted: Thursday, October 5, 2006
Greetings from Milwaukee, where I paid a visit today to the Bucks after getting a fairly decent interview out of Ben Wallace last night at Bulls camp in which he didn't have much nice to say about former coach Flip Saunders. The story will be up on the site tomorrow morning, so check back.
Milwaukee is one of those teams that isn't exactly flying high on the national radar right now, but the Bucks are a pretty decent dark horse after going out and getting Charlie Villanueva from Toronto and trading Jamaal Magloire to Portland to make room at center for Andrew Bogut, while also positioning themselves to be $16 million under the salary cap next summer.
"This is easily the most excited I've been about the team in my four years here," general manager Larry Harris told me. "This is the most talented and the deepest, most athletic team we've had, and with the foundation we have, this isn't just a one-year operation."
Harris said he has tried to pattern his building plan along the lines of the way the Detroit Pistons and San Antonio Spurs were put together, a couple of major pieces put in place while the supporting parts were filled in around them. I chided Harris about the quality of the package of players he acquired for Magloire -- Ha Seung-Jin, Steve Blake and Brian Skinner, and he defended his move by saying he took the best offer available that also made long-term financial sense.
Coach Terry Stotts wouldn't put a number on the amount of victories he'd like to see (he also wondered who was the last coach who actually answered that question directly), but he did list a set of goals: "More than the 40 wins we had last year, a higher seed in the playoffs, and we need to advance."
The Bucks' downfall late in the regular season coincided with a decline in production from Bobby Simmons, whose injured foot and ankle are now said to be back to normal. Stotts said he wanted Villanueva to be more of an inside player than he was last season in Toronto, confining his comfort zone to 18 feet and in, rather than extending to outside the 3-point line.
The Bucks have a heavy international influence this season with Ha (South Korea), Bogut (Australia), Ersan Ilyasova (Turkey) and rookie Damir Markota (Croatia), but only Bogut will be a regular in a tight rotation that includes Mo Williams and Blake at point guard, Michael Redd and Charlie Bell at shooting guard and Dan Gadzuric and Skinner backing up the front line.
Folks in the Bucks' front office said the locals had already begun taking a particular liking to Ha, the 7-foot-3 fourth-string center who won a recliner at the league's Rookie Transition Program for showing the best retention skills on a test given at the conclusion of the four-day program. The Bucks were eagerly awaiting delivery of the recliner, which I'd reckon stands a good chance of being hijacked for permanent use in the players' lounge.
The Bucks let me hang out in there while Stotts conducted practice. They have a Ms. PacMan/Galaga video game in there set to free play, and I was well on my way to breaking Glenn Robinson's Galaga record of 999,060 points before I had to stop because Harris was ready to see me. The Big Dog's record lives on.
It occurred to me on the drive up from Chicago that today was the one-year anniversary of the day I filed my letter of resignation from The Associated Press, for which I was on assignment at this time last year in St. Thomas and St. Croix for a story on the Spurs holding camp on Tim Duncan's home islands.
My resignation was not well received, and I was told to get on the next plane home, clean out my desk and be gone. And the AP didn't even want the story. (Naturally, I stayed three more days in St. Thomas, didn't have to work and got acquainted with the local journalists, the members of that island's quasi-expatriate community and the eating and drinking establishments they frequented).
The shame in it all was that I had gathered some great stuff that I wasn't going to use from Duncan's home island of St. Croix, meeting the grade school teacher who had taught him how to use an old Apple II computer and who took credit for his famous love of video games. I also saw the pool where he swam competitively before it was ruined in a hurricane, visited his old house and his old church and stopped at a restaurant where Duncan, as a preteen, had swept the floors and helped out in the kitchen.
Duncan and fellow islander Raja Bell have their likenesses painted on the outside of the restaurant, and the woman behind the counter told us all about the nickname, a takeoff on one of her signature dishes, that she used to call Duncan when he'd ride his bicycle to her shop. Back then, the Big Fundamental was called "Fish and Fungi Man." Bet you never heard that one before. Call him that next time he comes to your town, and I'll guarantee you'll get a reaction from him. Don't expect it to be a good one, though. Duncan hates that nickname.
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Is this what you are looking for?
The link on the front page leads the reader to believe it's all about Duncan, but it isn't.
Zunni
10-07-2006, 11:12 AM
ESPN Insider always has a teaser that usually has nothing to do with what is inside. These asshats used to have their own site for free, and it wasn't any good then.
Umm, the link leads me to believe there will be something about how to get a bad reaction from Tim Duncan, and what do you know, there's something in there about how to get a bad reaction from Tim Duncan...
His secret is out.
Entire opposing crowds will now chant, every time Tim is at the free throw line, "Hey Fish and Fungi Man!"
We're all doomed. :(
G-Nob
10-07-2006, 09:43 PM
The world is gradually figuring out ESPN sucks.
phyzik
10-07-2006, 10:12 PM
what's ESPN?
Extremely
Smelly
P.......
Network
???
jmard5
10-08-2006, 01:50 AM
Is this what you are looking for?
The link on the front page leads the reader to believe it's all about Duncan, but it isn't.
Yes, this is it. Thanks. Appreciate it.
Sad that they ask people to pay for this kind of misleading stuff.
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