Comments on: Admit It, You Voted Twice (Per Day)

By: bellasa

bellasa — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 15:10:13 +0000

Ted, what’s really remarkable about the whole thing is that the Spurs organization does little to nothing to promote their stars for inclusion in the All-Star game.

Pop doesn’t believe in trying to sell his team or players for a spot on the All-Star game. While he’s around, you will never see a Spurs produced video campaign for their individual players. It’s all about team.

By: Ted

Ted — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 00:04:15 +0000

Having traveled around the world for some time one can’t help but notice the incredible popularity of the Spurs.

Perhaps the All Star votes will open people’s eyes here. The Spurs players (Tim, Bruce, Manu, Tony) garnered the second highest total of votes. (#2 was the six players from Houston-Artest, Battier, Scola, T-Mac, Alston and Yao).

By: Juan

Juan — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 21:45:30 +0000

Wow, I said Camby is below average on DEFENSE. I hope everyone knows that was a mental typo.

By: J-Bo

J-Bo — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 21:12:43 +0000

Bruce Bowen is a bum! Boo.

By: dtm

dtm — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 21:11:09 +0000

“I’m waiting for the league to start tracking stats like forced turnovers (either bad passes or making the other player travel or something), charges taken”…

man, i wish they did have those stats so my fantasy league can net those with turnovers.

the game log would be like:
manu ginobili bad pass. (trevor ariza steals)
kobe bryant offensive foul.
(manu ginobili forced turnover)

net effect would be zero turnovers!

By: Timothy Varner

Timothy Varner — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 20:13:01 +0000

To the new guys, good to have you. We're only a few days on with the 4 letter network, but the comments have been excellent so far. Juan, you might be interested in this piece I wrote a month or so back.

By: Juan

Juan — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 19:28:14 +0000

I would loved the idea of Bowen and other defensive aces get more consideration. Most sports focus on offensive stats and basketball is perhaps one of the worst doing it. There is almost and infinite number of stats for offensive production and barely a few for defense and defensive specialist rarely get the respect they deserve unless they happen to be well above average on offense. I’m waiting for the league to start tracking stats like forced turnovers (either bad passes or making the other player travel or something), charges taken, stats-below-average-for-guarded-player (showing the difference a defensive player makes in the final score, in Bowen’s case it would be something like Kobe “only” scoring 25 points and needing more shots than usual to get them), tapped-to-teammate rebounds, pass deflections, altered shots, saved balls (like diving for them when going out of bounds and other hustle plays), etc.

Although getting an all-star berth this late on his career is definitely out of the question, I would have totally defend ( ) the idea of have him getting one during his prime. Something like Camby getting consideration each year when he is obviously below average on defense.

By: Mason

Mason — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 18:31:02 +0000

Considering how many people completely despise of Bruce Bowen, that’s pretty interesting. I know I never voted, as I could care less about a game where undeserving players such as A.I. are starters every year. But maybe bots were used in this situation, I don’t know.

By: Brian

Brian — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 18:12:18 +0000

Love me some Tim Duncan, and Tony P should make the expanded team.

But Bowen? That’s just a recipe for a big star to incur a season-ending injury in the all-star game, and no one not named Bruce Bowen wants that.

By: Petey

Petey — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 18:02:29 +0000

I’m very glad that you posted the France and Argentina theory.

I’ve spent the past day being thoroughly befuddled at what could possibly account for Bowen’s vote numbers.

By: dtm

dtm — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 17:34:33 +0000

i’m just glad that the world still recognizes timmy’s greatness!

substance over style!!

is it true that gp on tnt said that timmy shouldn’t be starting? is he nuts?

By: louis

louis — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 17:00:19 +0000

Allstar games are always a popularity contest…every year one (most likely more than one) deserving player doesn’t make it because they play in a small market team with a crappy record. Didn’t DWade make it after being out injured almost the entire season? The Allstar game is an over blown “pat yourself on the back” for the NBA. Players know it, media know it and the fans know it. Don’t see how that would raise any flags, whether they be red or not.

on a side note…one of the new converts from the True Hoop network merge. Don’t know where you’ve been but I am glad we met. Getting tired of having to still defend Horry from the still crying Phoenix fans. Finally able to talk about the NBA and Spurs with people that actually know what they are talking about.

By: Trey

Trey — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 14:43:09 +0000

I bet the Spurs had a bunch of interns voting on a bunch of different computers everday or something like that. I think it’s ridiculous that Bruce got more votes than all other west forwards except for 2. That’s so freaking obvious that a lot of other media around the country will start wondering how that happened. That is a major red flag.