Posts tagged ‘chris paul’

Hilton Armstrong spent his first three-plus seasons playing with the New Orleans Hornets and Chris Paul. So naturally, his brain would be a good one to pick heading into tonight’s matchup between the Wizards and Hornets. Here are his responses on a couple issues we discussed:

On defending Chris Paul and the pick-and-roll:

“The guard needs to try to stay attached to him, which is obviously very hard to do … because easier said that done. But just try and stay up to him. When the pick comes, jump up, and the big has to be aggressive. You can’t just lay back and wait for him to come for you. You need to shrink the court on him and try to make him uncomfortable, and try and get the ball out of his hands. He likes to control the game, control the ball. If we get the ball out of his hand early and have weakside there stunting on for everybody, and if need be, have a full rotation, or whatever. But as long as the ball is out of his hands, we’ll be pretty good.”

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I managed to catch up with LeBron James in the visitor’s locker room before tonight’s Wizards-Heat game. He had plenty to say, on topics ranging from the Orlando Magic, to Justin Bieber, and even Yao Ming.

His most interesting answer was just one word — two letters. When asked if winning games will ultimately change people’s perceptions of both LeBron and the Miami Heat, LeBron responded:

“No.”

Well, I guess not everybody loves a winner. What can he do? What should he do?

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A D.C. pic, commentary and links …

[Seeing D.C.'s Chinatown - K. Weidie]

Michael Lee has a good feature piece in the Post about Hilton Armstrong.
[Washington Post]

Armstrong also spoke with us on Saturday about the differences between the offense he participated in with Chris Paul in New Orleans and what’s been developing here with Flip Saunders and John Wall in Washington; and he compared Wall and Chris Paul a bit. Here’s video of that:

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Remember last year? I do. I blogged about it and all. In fact, I’ve been blogging about this Wizards team solid since October 2007. And what have I learned most? Curb your enthusiasm. Now, I’m not here to sell you a glass half-empty today that I purchased half-full yesterday. I do, as just about anyone involved with the Wizards, from within the organization to outside, from media to fans, have hope for a better future (thanks to, namely, John Wall and Ted Leonsis).

It’s just that being entrenched in D.C. sports and getting hype for what may lie ahead no longer go hand-and-hand, at least for me. I’m not sure if this feeling has existed within me the whole time, it’s just now I’m older, wiser. Or if the whole Gilbert Arenas gun ordeal last year (as the topping on other D.C. sports futility), which at one point had me contemplating ending this whole blog … briefly, has created a faintly apathetic feeling toward hope (or a hatred of false hope).

My point: Donovan McNabb comes to town and I shrugged my shoulders (and thanks to Mr. Irrelevant, I’ve also been cautioning people that we’ll likely see Rex Grossman start for a couple games). The Wizards land the No. 1 pick in the 2010 draft (okay, that was bat-sh*t surprising), and take Mr. John Wall … more shoulder shrugging (sort of).

Don’t get me wrong, I’m more than thankful that I’ll get to cover Wall, but right now, he’s just a fresh-faced kid who happens to wear the jersey of the NBA team I’m close to.

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[Editor's note: Check out the debut of new TAI author, John Townsend. Read more about that John at the bottom of this post, but first, check out his piece about another John. -Kyle]

America always seems to need an enemy, whether they’re found in politics (terrorists!) or in sports (referee Dan Crawford for Mavericks fans).  Sure, there are times when our criticism of these villains is justified (British Petroleum), but just as often it is not (Steve Bartman).

The most celebrated, captivating products and people are the most polarizing as well.  We should expect this, especially considering the amount of time, money, and hopes being invested.  This all brings me to John Wall – savior or setback? The question was never will the Wizards select John Wall, but instead what will happen when they do.

photo courtesy of thomasbeisner's Flickr

The debate over whether or not John Wall is the answer in Washington, DC is groundless.  John Wall is one part of the solution to a greater basketball challenge.

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When I first saw the above video of Brendan Haywood training, I thought, ‘Hey, he and JaVale McGee both like to workout to the mellow sounds of Drake, Lil’ Wayne, and Trey Songzzzzzz just wanting to be successful’. Don’t believe me? Just watch … (well, until some facist decided to disable the audio on McGee’s workout vid because they probably believe in protecting the money going towards more Lil’ Weezy face tats and Drake eyebrow waxings more than they believe in an open source world … oh well).

Then I watched Haywood’s Workout Part II: Jump Shots Juice from Concentrate …. and said, ‘Hey, I recognize that workout guy, he’s The Hoops Whisperer’.

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Went to the Wizards-Hornets game last night … thanks to KJ the ticket provider, my boy Adam and I had a chance to catch the bedazzledry (word/not a word?) of Chris Paul. Didn’t have a chance to get home and DVR the game, so Bullets Forever will not feature a game blog.

But….I did twitter at the game, which is what all the babies, babies’ mommas and babies’ momma’s mommas are doing.

So, below is the lazy twittering man’s game blog, featuring tweets from the proprietors of NOLA blog, Hornets Hype, ticktock6 (purple) and mW_ (red).

Enjoy…..or not.

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First of all, I’d like to thank all who participated in this the 5th round of NBA blogger MVP/ROY voting, the first of 2009. I’m honored to have been the host. Second, the esteemed panel:

• College Wolf from TWolvesBlog.com
• J.D. Mo from The Bob Boozer Jinx
• Fish from DallasBasketball.com
• Matt from Hardwood Paroxysm
• Jared from Both Teams Played Hard
• Dave from The Dream Shake
• Daniel from LA Ball Talk
• Don from With Malice
• James from Dino Nation Blog
• Mookie from A Stern Warning
• Jonny from The Lakers Nation
• John from Red’s Army
• RockKing from Waiting For Next Year
• Wyn from Canis Hoopus
• Ben from Blazer’s Edge
• Royce from The Thunder World
• Kyle (Me) from Truth About It

Previous Rounds:

• Round 1: Hoops Addict
• Round 2: Upside & Motor
• Round 3: The Dream Shake
• Round 4: Raptors HQ
• Home Base: Brew Hoop

Without further ado, here goes……

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Well, I’m not doing a game blog for the Wizards-Hornets match-up……which was soooo last year……because I actually attended the game. I’m down South visiting family for the new year, and my pops lives a couple hours from New Orleans (he’s a Hornets fan), so it was natural that we attended the game.

So in place of a game blog, me and my amateur photography skills present a photographic slide show of what I saw:

Game Observations:

• Gilbert Arenas was on the bench during the first half……I can’t remember if he was there for the 3rd quarter or not, but he was definitely absent for most of the 4th and down the stretch.

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All of us NBA bloggers recently got off the couch and collaborated to vote on the 07-08 NBA season ending awards. We then got the beer out of the fridge and went back to our couches to send our votes in via an online survey tool. My first participation in the NBA blogger vote came in this 11th and final installment. The highest commendation goes to the team at We Rite Goode for their Bobby Thigpen-like performance in closing this out. While this post concentrates on the MVP award, I strongly suggest that you check out both links below for the full results.

End-of-season Basket-Blogger Rankings [Pt. 1 - ROY, COY & MIP]
Rankings: The 7th Man of the year (oh, and MVP, too)

The masses [of bloggers who read other bloggers] have spoken…..and Chris Paul is the people’s choice for the NBA’s Most Valuable Player [that being those people who blog]. Who knows if this vote of bloggers, and not the opinion of those who get paid to assess the game [as most in the main stream media have chosen one Kobe Bean Bryant for MVP], truly reflects the voice of humanity. I say yes.

2008 CP3 All-Star Campaign Poster – yup, those are C-3PO’s limbs

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