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I know there are people out there reading this who think they’re Spurs fans. You go to some games, you own a Spurs shirt or two and maybe even a jersey, you cheer good plays, you read some articles. (And you obviously haven’t taken the SpursDynasty Purity Test.) Let me break this to you gently: If the Spurs are eliminated from the playoffs tonight by the _allas motherfucking Mavericks, it’s…
It was a great game last night … Should Dallas win again, fans might be disappointed to see the series end. Expectations have been building since it became obvious in December this would be a second-round matchup, and four games later it’s close to being a classic. This was the third one decided at the end, the first that required overtime. It’s been exhilarating to watch the two best teams…
Last year I read an interesting book by James Surowiecki, “The Wisdom of Crowds.” In it, he offers an accessible, entertaining “introduction to applied behavioral economics and game theory”: If four basic conditions are met, a crowd’s “collective intelligence” will produce better outcomes than a small group of experts, Surowiecki says, even if members of the crowd don’t know all the facts or choose, individually, to act irrationally. “Wise crowds”…
Even more interesting than the news that Tim Duncan woke up at 6am on Sunday and had one of his best offensive performances of the season, was this bit about Bruce Bowen: With a little more than two minutes remaining, Bowen took a pass from Parker and buried the go-ahead 3-pointer. It was the only shot the Spurs made in the last 5:21 and one of only three 3-pointers they…
There’s no question this would make me run away in fear. Well, Bessie, bring out the gimp and take the red-headed stepchild out behind the shed! That was an LAPD-style, can’t-we-all-just-get-along, royal rectum-ripping the likes of which Bramlet has never seen in 18 years of watching Spurs playoff basketball. Absolutely breathtaking. (By the way, now I guess we know where Manu gets his strange athleticism: his Spider-Man underwear. But I…
Here it is, the thing you didn’t know that you’ve been waiting for (but trust me, you have – the bug I planted in your brain tells me so): the first installment of “Bramlet’s Giblets,” a new series of posts about miscellaneous Spurs and NBA tidbits and other random viscera that I intend to put up when I don’t have time to work on something more substantial. Here is a…
That loss to the Sonics was hard to swallow, considering that the Spurs went on a 9-0 run in the last couple of minutes to take the lead, and all it would have taken to win was a timeout by Robert Horry. I hate losing to Ray Allen. I feel like kicking him too, Bruce, just as I feel like kicking everyone who gives the Spurs trouble. But you should…
To Kenyon Martin and Bill Simmons: I cannot abide these slanderous words and brutish actions. I demand satisfaction, Sirs! That’s one big-ass gauntlet I’m about to throw down. I’m goin’ Aaron Burr on yo’ asses. What has provoked the fury of the Bramlet, you ask? Kenyon “so many insulting nicknames they have to be footnoted” Martin* is once again acting like a punk-ass bitch: With the Spurs down 61-48 in…
Hola Amigos, Been a while since I rapped at ya. Many thoughts to share, so maybe we should do it player by player: Tony Parker – during the preseason, I was playing some NBA Live and noticed that Parker can pretty much score at will on the move unless you jack the CPU defense up a lot. Pretty much like real life, except of course being Le Penetration is a…
These exchanges between Jim Durham and Bill Walton were overheard during last night’s Spurs-Nets game on ESPN: DURHAM: So, if you shoot it better than anybody else, and you defend it better than anybody else, what’s left? WALTON: The championship. DURHAM: [Laughter] There you go. WALTON: Which they already are. And they’re a better team this year. The addition of Finley, the addition of Van Exel, the maturation of Nazr…
