Daily Links: Where Robin Lopez makes a funny...sort of

by Seth Pollack on Aug 7, 2009 3:41 PM MST in Phoenix Suns: Daily Links

Interview with Suns Center Robin Lopez - Bethlehem Shoals - The Baseline - Sporting News
One of the better interviews I've seen with Robin...
Basketball Prospectus | Articles | The New NBA Schedule
Basketball Prospectus does some number-crunching to see who got schedule-crunched.
The Tuurrible Ten: Who Are The Worst NBA General Managers? | Sir Charles In Charge | An NBA Blog
Hey, Suns fans, is Kerr on it? Isn't he? Should he be? I vote no, but check it out anyway.
Candace Parker steps up for the Sparks at the end - Los Angeles Times
On the one hand - yippie, the Storm lost but on the other - uh oh, the Sparks are finally starting to look like the team everyone picked to come out of the West. Candace Parker had 13 and 12 and is returning to form. Despite their bad start the Sparks are only 1 or 2 games out of the playoffs...I have decades of reasons why a Phoenix / LA 1st round playoff match up scares the &$%* out of me
Storm + Mercury + Key Arena = The Perfect Way to Market the WNBA to NBA Fans
Free Darko or Free Sancho?
Pistons bring back Wallace - NBA - Yahoo! Sports
Three years after leaving Detroit, veteran center Ben Wallace has agreed to a one-year deal to rejoin the Pistons. - National Basketball Association news

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The Pistons bring back Ben Wallace…. Gotta wonder whether we could have done the same?

Whats up doc?

by RottPhiler on Aug 7, 2009 3:55 PM MST reply actions

Thanks

I saw that earlier today but forgot to clip the link

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by Seth Pollack on Aug 7, 2009 4:06 PM MST up reply actions

We could have done the same, with about the same result (to realise that he’s past being an NBA player)

The title should be “The Pistons waste another $1.5m”
I say “another” because they already have Kwame Brown…

by Chucko667 on Aug 8, 2009 1:52 AM MST up reply actions

where was the robin (sort of) funny?

i read the whole thing…and didn’t really find it.

by Trevor Paxton on Aug 7, 2009 5:06 PM MST reply actions

this was sort of funny

Yeah. I’m up to it, if you’re asking me. Well, I mean, as far as nonsensical quotes go, I don’t know, probably.

for Robin…

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by Seth Pollack on Aug 7, 2009 5:10 PM MST up reply actions

ah, gotcha.

i wasn’t sure which one it was. haha.

but, i agree…for robin, who has had a terrible start to his career (as far as interviews go), this one wasn’t too bad.

by Trevor Paxton on Aug 7, 2009 5:12 PM MST up reply actions

haha except

for the part where Lopez was acting all paranoid at the interviewer about MJ lol

by willthehawk on Aug 7, 2009 7:46 PM MST reply actions

Classic quote:

As far as I’m concerned, Brezec is just Dwayne Schintzius minus the mullet.

I like Robin a little more after reading that interview. He’s got a very dry sense of humor that borders on prickish. I like it.

I’m very surprised Kerr didn’t make the list of worst GM’s. Not that I think he deserves to make the worst, but I think on paper, looking at the moves he has made, one could easily think he’s an idiot. But he’s not an idiot. He certainly isn’t in the top 5 or 10 for that matter-the jury is still out, but I think this off season was either a B- or C+, taking into consideration the constraints he’s under and the team he inherited.

by Wil Cantrell on Aug 7, 2009 9:40 PM MST up reply actions

The Worst GMs

I don’t agree at all with Sam Presti. The author isn’t realizing at all that Sam Presti basically inherited a lot of junk, a team whose “superstars” were an aging Ray Allen and Rashard Lewis. He’s done a fantastic job of rebuilding that team. It’s been a slow rebuild, but a core of Kevin Durant, Jeff Green, James Harden, and Russell Westbrook should be able to compete for years to come, once they mature.

by jburning on Aug 8, 2009 7:46 AM MST reply actions

Not to mention

that he turned Kurt Thomas into 3 1st round picks…Presti on the list made the list not worth paying attention to

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by Seth Pollack on Aug 8, 2009 8:20 AM MST up reply actions

Turrible Ten

If Presti, Smith, and Dumars belong on there, so does Kerr. Reasons:

Dumars won a chip
Presti pulled Kerr’s pants down
Smith made a Finals

April 29, 2008 Total Eclipse of the Sun. Is the sky falling?

by Hawk42 on Aug 8, 2009 8:55 AM MST reply actions

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I guess that was better than some other Ro-Lo interviews, but still kind of strange. I just think he is kind of a weird dude and somewhat socially awkward. Kerr should easily be on the list imo. I’m not here to hate on Kerr, because everyone else does enough of that, but just judging from the record before he came and the record after, the numbers speak for themselves. He tried to change the staple of Phoenix Suns Baskeball, which was his major downfall.

by Sunsfan221 on Aug 8, 2009 4:29 PM MST reply actions