Pro Sports Blogging » Warren Shaw http://www.prosportsblogging.com 24/7 Real Sports Talk Fri, 24 May 2013 03:16:40 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2 The Baseline Ep14: NBA’s Hot Topics http://www.prosportsblogging.com/2013/03/19/the-baseline-ep14-nbas-hot-topics/ http://www.prosportsblogging.com/2013/03/19/the-baseline-ep14-nbas-hot-topics/#comments Tue, 19 Mar 2013 21:19:04 +0000 Warren Shaw http://www.prosportsblogging.com/?p=98858
Cal Lee & Warren Shaw discussing the NBA’s hot topics of the week. We talk Kobe vs Dahntay Jones. We speak on the Tweets of the Week, give our Boiler Room Picks and go Full Court Press on the New York Knicks. Also we give our GameFacials of the Week!]]>

Cal Lee & Warren Shaw discussing the NBA’s hot topics of the week. We talk Kobe vs Dahntay Jones. We speak on the Tweets of the Week, give our Boiler Room Picks and go Full Court Press on the New York Knicks.

Also we give our GameFacials of the Week!

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The Baseline: with  Cal Lee & Warren Shaw discussing the NBA’s hot topics of the week: - Topic 1: Through the Twire (Rumors and news from the NBA twitter feed) - Topic 2: LeBron is on a tear, has he reasserted himself as the MVP? - Topic 3: New Orleans Hornets guard Greivis Vasquez nothced his [...]]]>

The Baseline: with  Cal Lee & Warren Shaw discussing the NBA’s hot topics of the week:

- Topic 1: Through the Twire (Rumors and news from the NBA twitter feed)

- Topic 2: LeBron is on a tear, has he reasserted himself as the MVP?

- Topic 3: New Orleans Hornets guard Greivis Vasquez nothced his first triple-double, how good is this guy? 

-Topic 4: The Atlanta Hawks are said to be shopping Josh Smith. Is he worth the max deal he claims he is?

- Topic 5: The two hottest teams in the league are the San Antonio Spurs and Denver Nuggets. What are the secrets to their success?

-Topic 6: We discuss the 3-point shooting contest and Dunk contest at All-Star weekend.

Check it out let us know what you think. Comments and questions welcome here or by using the hash tag #TheBaseline on Twitter.

]]> http://www.prosportsblogging.com/2013/02/09/the-baseline-episode-9/feed/ 0 The Baseline: Discussing the NBA’s Hot Topics Ep 8 http://www.prosportsblogging.com/2013/02/01/the-baseline-discussing-the-nba%e2%80%99s-hot-topics-ep-8/ http://www.prosportsblogging.com/2013/02/01/the-baseline-discussing-the-nba%e2%80%99s-hot-topics-ep-8/#comments Fri, 01 Feb 2013 14:15:18 +0000 Warren Shaw http://www.prosportsblogging.com/?p=98051
The Baseline: with  Cal Lee & Warren Shaw discussing the NBA’s hot topics of the week: - Topic 1: The Grizzlies, Raptors and Pistons completed a blockbuster trade centered around Rudy Gay. What was each team thinking? - Topic 2: What’s next for the Celtics with news of Rondo being lost for the season? Is [...]]]>

The Baseline: with  Cal Lee & Warren Shaw discussing the NBA’s hot topics of the week:

- Topic 1: The Grizzlies, Raptors and Pistons completed a blockbuster trade centered around Rudy Gay. What was each team thinking?

- Topic 2: What’s next for the Celtics with news of Rondo being lost for the season? Is it time rebuild or fight for the playoffs?

- Topic 3: Injuries and Returns: We talk about Dwight Howard, Glen Davis, and Andrew Bogut

-Topic 4: Allen Iverson turned down a job in the D-League will this hurt his legacy is he being too stubborn?

- Topic 5: Handing out mid-season awards for Rookie of the Year, Sixth Man of the Year, and Most Valuable Player to date.

Check it out let us know what you think. Comments and questions welcome here or by using the hash tag #Baseline on Twitter.

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The Baseline: with  Cal Lee & Warren Shaw discussing the NBA’s hot topics of the week: - Topic 1:  All-Star reserves were announced who was snubbed in the East and West? - Topic 2: NBA Trade Rumors (J.J. Redick, Rudy Gay, Timofey Mozgov and Dwight Howard) - Topic 3: Should Lakers Nation get off D’Antoni’s [...]]]>

The Baseline: with  Cal Lee & Warren Shaw discussing the NBA’s hot topics of the week:

- Topic 1:  All-Star reserves were announced who was snubbed in the East and West?

- Topic 2: NBA Trade Rumors (J.J. Redick, Rudy Gay, Timofey Mozgov and Dwight Howard)

- Topic 3: Should Lakers Nation get off D’Antoni’s back? NBA on NBC’s Kurt Helin thinks so (we discuss)

-Topic 4: Have the Celtics hit rock bottom and whats wrong with Paul Pierce?

 

 

- Topic 5: Handing out mid-season awards for Coach of the Year, Defensive Player of the Year, and Most Improved Player to date.

- Topic 6: Greivis Vasquez spoke with Warren Shaw in a recent Dime Magazine article about his future and play in New Orleans this season.

Check it out let us know what you think. Comments and questions welcome here or by using the hash tag #Baseline on Twitter.

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The Baseline: with  Cal Lee & Warren Shaw discussing the NBA’s hot topics of the week: - Topic 1:  The NBA’s MLK Day games including Nets @ Knicks - Topic 2: Suns part ways with Alvin Gentry…whose to blame? - Topic 3: Has Kevin Durant evolved to another level in his game? -Topic 5: Discussing [...]]]>

The Baseline: with  Cal Lee & Warren Shaw discussing the NBA’s hot topics of the week:

- Topic 1:  The NBA’s MLK Day games including Nets @ Knicks

- Topic 2: Suns part ways with Alvin Gentry…whose to blame?

- Topic 3: Has Kevin Durant evolved to another level in his game?

-Topic 5: Discussing the reserve candidates for the All-Star Game

- Topic 6: Who will finish as the NBA’s worst team this season?

- Topic 7: Ben Gordon on the move?

Check it out let us know what you think…

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The NBA All Star starters were named last week and for the most part the fans did a decent job of selecting the players who deserved to be there. It’s a flawed system so perfection can’t be expected. While the fans may have let biases cloud their decisions on a few players who will start, [...]]]>

The NBA All Star starters were named last week and for the most part the fans did a decent job of selecting the players who deserved to be there. It’s a flawed system so perfection can’t be expected.

While the fans may have let biases cloud their decisions on a few players who will start, the coaches will try to fill out each roster in democratic and deserving fashion.

Or at least so we hope.

In the meantime I offer my picks for the reserves on each roster without (too much) bias.

Picks for the Eastern Conference Reserves

Jrue Holiday: 19.2ppg, 8.9ast, 4.1rebs, & 1.5stls

Brandon Jennings: 18.6ppg,5.8ast,3.6rebs, & 2stls

Paul George: 17.2ppg, 7.8rebs, 3.8ast, & 1.7stls

Josh Smith: 16.3ppg, 8.2rebs, 3.8ast, & 2.2blks

Tyson Chandler: 12.2ppg, 11rebs,1blk & 67% shooting

Brook Lopez: 18.5ppg, 7.4rebs, 2.1blks, & 52% shooting

Joakim Noah: 12.2ppg, 10.7rebs, 4ast, & 2.1blks

Notable snubs: Kyrie Irving, Al Horford, Monta Ellis, JR Smith, and Deron Williams

Analysis: Holiday, George, and Chandler are no brainers as selections while the rest have a lot to do with their contributions to playoff contending teams. Irving might be worth of a selection over Jennings but with his team in the Central’s basement it just doesn’t feel right.

Picks for the Western Conference Reserves

Russell Westbrook: 23ppg,8.3ast, 5.3rebs, 2stls

Tony Parker: 19.7ppg, 7.3ast, 2.9rebs, & 52% shooting

James Harden: 25.9ppg, 5.4ast, 4.5rebs, & 1.9stls

Tim Duncan: 17.5ppg, 9.8rebs, 2.8ast, 2.7blks

Zach Randolph: 16.2ppg, 11.6rebs, 1.3ast, .8stls

David Lee: 19.6ppg, 10.8rebs, 3.7ast, & 52% shooting

LaMarcus Aldridge:20.5ppg, 8.9rebs, 2.5ast, & 1.3blks

Notable snubs: Marc Gasol, Greivis Vasquez, Serge Ibaka, Steph Curry, Al Jefferson, Andre Iguodala, Ty Lawson, and Jamal Crawford

Analysis: The West is just more talented and deeper than the East. Westbrook and Harden seem to be the only no brainers. The Spurs and Warriors need representation and its possible only one player from each will make it but I still chose Parker and Duncan from San Antonio and opted for Lee over Curry on Golden State. Aldridge sneaks in over Jefferson and I flip flopped multiple times on that selection especially with Utah having the better record currently. The Nuggets are a top team but they are too team orientated to give one player the nod over another on their roster.

Who did I miss?  We can discuss it here or on Twitter. Follow me at @shawports for the latest updates and opinions on all things NBA.

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The Baseline: with  Cal Lee & Warren Shaw discussing the NBA’s hot topics of the week: - Topic 1:  Lakers injuries. - Topic 2: Can the Minnesota Timberwolves sustain Kevin Love’s latest injury. - Topic 3: The return of John Wall - Topic 4: Rudy Gay being shopped by the Memphis Grizzlies - Topic 5: [...]]]>

The Baseline: with  Cal Lee & Warren Shaw discussing the NBA’s hot topics of the week:

- Topic 1:  Lakers injuries.

- Topic 2: Can the Minnesota Timberwolves sustain Kevin Love’s latest injury.

- Topic 3: The return of John Wall

- Topic 4: Rudy Gay being shopped by the Memphis Grizzlies

- Topic 5: Are the Kings being sold and moved to Seattle?

- Topic 6: Scott Skiles parts ways with the Milwaukee Bucks

- Topic 7: Melo vs. KG trash talk…was Melo or the league wrong?

Check it out let us know what you think…

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The Baseline: with  Cal Lee & Warren Shaw discussing the NBA’s hot topics of the week: - Topic 1:  10 NBA questions that will be answered in 2013. - Topic 2: Which Players coming off injury will have the most significant impact on their team? - Topic 3: Know Your Role – Players who are [...]]]>

The Baseline: with  Cal Lee & Warren Shaw discussing the NBA’s hot topics of the week:

- Topic 1:  10 NBA questions that will be answered in 2013.

- Topic 2: Which Players coming off injury will have the most significant impact on their team?

- Topic 3: Know Your Role – Players who are redefining the term “Bench Mark” in the NBA

- Topic 4: The Fab 5:  Power Rankings for the Top 5 teams in the Eastern and Western Conferences

- Topic 5: Gas Face of the Week…who in the league needs to get their act together?

Check it out let us know what you think…

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It has happened again. Another coach fired after his team hasn’t performed the way it should. This time it is Avery Johnson formerly of the Brooklyn Nets. It was reasonable to think Johnson would get the full season to try out the new roster assigned to him upon the team’s move to Brooklyn this season. [...]]]>

It has happened again.

Another coach fired after his team hasn’t performed the way it should.

This time it is Avery Johnson formerly of the Brooklyn Nets.

It was reasonable to think Johnson would get the full season to try out the new roster assigned to him upon the team’s move to Brooklyn this season. After all he signed on to coach when the team clearly had no chance of competing.

But standing at 14-14 and losing 10 of their last 13 games it was decided that Avery’s early loyalty while admirable was not enough to grant him passage the rest of the way this season. Never mind the fact he was NBA Coach of the Month for November.

The NBA is a systematic league. The same series of events seem to follow each other when a team doesn’t live up to the expectations the paper roster says it should have and the coach is always the first to go. Sometimes the sample size of perceived success is miniscule as was the case with Mike Brown and the Lakers but sometimes the sample size is just.

In this scenario 28 games seems to be fair. A 500 record wasn’t good enough for a team with the 2nd highest payroll in the league.  They currently rank 22nd in scoring at just 94.5 points per game with its top two offensive options (Deron Williams and Joe Johnson) having abysmal shooting years.

Johnson and Williams relationship turned a bit rocky this season

Williams made waves last week when he questioned Johnson’s offense saying that too much isolation was involved. Ironically the “Little General” who has a reputation of being a dictator of sorts sided with his point guard and began to implement more sets that Williams would be more comfortable with.

To me that signaled that Johnson had lost both control and confidence. On the other hand it could be said he was just trying to appease his star player and didn’t get the time necessary to implement the sets and right the ship.

But coming on the heels of some terrible losses and voiced frustration from role players like Gerald Wallace who said “It seems like guys are content with the situation that we are in, and I’m (expletive) pissed off about us losing, especially losing the way we are losing,” and the Nets were almost forced into making the move to relieve Johnson.

”The Nets ownership would like to express thanks to Avery for his efforts and to wish him every success in the future,” owner Mikhail Prokhorov said in a statement.

P.J. Carlesimo will take over interim duties while the team decides on what to do next.  The Van Gundy’s are out there, along with Nate McMillan, and of course Phil Jackson with a host of others should the Nets want a higher profile coach in charge.

The new coach will have to fix what Net’s management thinks Avery messed up but for now that responsibility will fall on Carlesimo. He will get some help from GM Billy King who said the team is always open to making trades but it has to be determined if there is a viable trade out there.

As for Johnson I am sure he will coach again and will probably land a T.V. job before the season is out.  Avery has always been a good coach but a good coach with a shelf life. The expiration date ran sour on his run in Brooklyn a bit sooner than most would have expected.

But this is the NBA, where failing to meet expectations will get you fired…happens.

A lot!

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The Baseline: with  Cal Lee & Warren Shaw discussing the NBA’s hot topics of the week: What’s up with the Boston Celtics? How good are the New York Knicks? Was Kevin Love wrong for his disparaging comments of the T-Wolves franchise? How much longer should the Kings wait on DeMarcus Cousins to mature? Who gets [...]]]>

The Baseline: with  Cal Lee & Warren Shaw discussing the NBA’s hot topics of the week:

What’s up with the Boston Celtics?

How good are the New York Knicks?

Was Kevin Love wrong for his disparaging comments of the T-Wolves franchise?

How much longer should the Kings wait on DeMarcus Cousins to mature?

Who gets the gas face of the week?

Check it out let us know what you think…

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