Why is Ron Artest calling Ric Bucher a head?

[DJB]

A course, DPG. Now that you don't have Kobe ringless without Daddy yer lookin' for a fresh booger under our bed. So you've targeted Artest, hopin & prayin' he'll go nutty nuts and you can get off the snide. He may. But, it ain't goin' to erase Kobe riflin' that pass over to Fish and Fish, takin' out that scalpel and diggin' thru the innards of everybody m'fer agin' us.

What?

[mingus]

Ariza would've been a great guy to put on Manu Ginobili or Tony Parker in the Playoffs because of his lateral quickness, something Mr. Artest hasn't been able to provide for a while. he'll prove worthy against Melo and Pierce, but Manu Ginobili and Parker are an entirely different species.

good luck, Ron.

[Allanon]

Ariza would've been a great guy to put on Manu Ginobili or Tony Parker in the Playoffs because of his lateral quickness, something Mr. Artest hasn't been able to provide for a while. he'll prove worthy against Melo and Pierce, but Manu Ginobili and Parker are an entirely different species.

good luck, Ron.

Vujacic, the Manu Stoppa...Manu's already got his work cut out for him, he's first gotta show this Urban Legend isn't true

It's true, Ariza did a decent job on Tony Parker and I agree, Artest probably can't do anything with Tony. I think Phil's answer this year to Tony Parker is the Big Lineup previously mentioned in other threads. Although TP will be tearing up the Lakers as usual, Kobe will be tearing up TP on the other end.

I think the net effect of Kobe/Parker 1 on 1 would be advantage Lakers.

[mingus]

First of all, get Manu on the court before you start counting your chickens. Second, Parker gets his regardless, you can only slow him with good help defense from your bigs. You guys aren't making any sense. Kobe and Artest are top 5 wing defenders. In the famous words of D'Antoni... "we're good." Now that you no longer have Bowen, who do you guys have to guard the quicker wing players. Please don't say , cause its obvious he's in "First, do no harm mode." Hill is a back-up and not good anyways.

Artest and Kobe are great defenders, but Manu Ginobili and Tony Parker are good enough on offense to impose their will enough of the time on any defender in the N.B.A.

[mingus]

Vujacic, the Manu Stoppa...Manu's already got his work cut out for him, he's first gotta show this Urban Legend isn't true

It's true, Ariza did a decent job on Tony Parker and I agree, Artest probably can't do anything with Tony. I think Phil's answer this year to Tony Parker is the Big Lineup previously mentioned in other threads. Although TP will be tearing up the Lakers as usual, Kobe will be tearing up TP on the other end.

I think the net effect of Kobe/Parker 1 on 1 would be advantage Lakers.

good post.

it'll be interesting to see what happens, as both teams have the depth to put in some lineups, both defensively and offensively, that give the opposing team trouble.