The Finger Wag – Athletes using Twitter and Social Media to their Disadvantage

Now I respect Dickie V and what he has done for college hoops. I also respect that is basically an ambassador for the game and tries to promote it whenever he can. That being said, this is just silly.

Dickie was on Mike and Mike saying John Wall, in his opinion, has what it takes to be an all time great point guard in the NBA.

Let’s review a list of all-time great point guards, picked by ESPN:

Magic Johnson
Oscar Robertson
Isaiah Thomas
John Stockton
Bob Cousy
Walt Frazier
Jason Kidd
Tiny Archibald
Steve Nash
Gary Payton

Now, that’s some good players there. Here is the question though how many championships between those guys?

17

17 World Titles between the best 10 point guards of all time. The
average is less than two per. Now let’s take out the number one best of the current three-point era of the NBA and the number one best of the non-three point era – Magic and Bob Cousy.

6

Now we are down to six titles between 8 of the very best 10 guys to
ever play the position in the history of the game.

My point here is, the difference between Jason Kidd and BJ Armstrong is that BJ Armstrong is an NBA Champion while Jason Kidd is not. It’s not that BJ Armstrong is any better than Kidd, in fact he much worse, the fact of the matter is that point guards don’t make a tremendous difference on your ability to win a championship. Playoffs? Sure, they can get a team there. The issue at point here is the all important ring and unless a guy is going to be Magic Johnson you shouldn’t risk your franchise in order to get or keep them. In fact, I would argue paying a max contract for a point guard does nothing more than hurt your team in having money to get a second tier guy to work with them.

All this being said, you have a proven point guard at a relatively low price for the next few years thanks to the extension. You should never, under any circumstances trade him for an unproven (at the NBA level) talent, unless you know 100% this guy is the next Magic Johnson. On that note, even Magic Johnson couldn’t win Boston a title next year when Pierce, Allen and Doc Rivers leave town.

Welcome back to another fun filled Monday morning.  It was a fairly big weekend in sports so here are some bullet point highlights of what
went down.

Donovan McNabb to the Eagles

Yes I have to agree trading McNabb within the division is probably not a smart move but take a second and look at the Eagles draft picks for this year:

- 1st Round
- 2nd Round (Skins)
- 2nd Round
- 3rd Round (Seahawks)
- 3rd Round
- 4th Round
- 4th Round (Browns)
- 5th Round (Browns)
- 7th Round (Comp Pick)
- 7th Round (Comp Pick)

If Kevin Kolb is anything near a serviceable quarterback in 2 years
time the Eagles should be stacked for a long run of playoff
appearances.

As for the Redskins, I had this to say last night via @TheFingerWag

The Golden Girls of running backs plus an aging Quarterback behind a high school football teams offensive line does not seem to add up to a deep playoff run.

NCAA Tournament

This weekend we had the Final Four games with Butler and Duke
advancing.  The Butler game had 2 entertaining minutes while the Duke game bested them with 0 minutes of watchable hoops.

I plan on doing a post later today or tomorrow on the 96 game
expansion (everyone else did, why not ScottiePP7?) and in it I will
explain why I can’t respect college sports.

For now though, I am going with Butler +7.5.  Just saying.

NBA Playoff Push

So while I was watching the Duke game I ended up switching over to an entertaining Bulls and Bobcats game in Chicago.  The Bulls ended up winning with a late game comeback and are now just 1 game back from Toronto who chocked away a game with Golden State in OT despite Bosh’s 42 points.

The Milwaukee Bucks who were also looking to position themselves for the playoffs saw their dreams shattered along with Andrew Bogut’s arm on a gruesome injury that occurred when Bogut landed on his arm after a dunk (and a slight push from Amare Stoudemire

Amare has this to say…

Well ok then, all is well I guess.

Coach K

Amid his NCAA Title push and the playoffs approaching for the NBA rumors are circulating that Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov is willing to pay Coach Krzyzewski up to 15 million a year to coach the New Jersey Nets.

Yes Jeremy, damn those rich Russians.  The country that made bread lines famous.

If you haven’t heard the story of Stafon Johnson by now you are behind the times. If you ever lifted weights this story will hit home. Stafon was listing 275 pounds when the bar slipped out of hand and landed on his throat.

His throat.

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It’s ironic that Green Day’s “Longview” is Pete Carroll’s song of the day because it’s actually written about USC fans and their reaction to pictures of their own quarterbacks.

So for the fans, turn on some Green Day and take a gander…

Personally, I like big ugly lineman knocking people over.  But people like football for different reasons I suppose.