Arrival frustration
Posted February 5th, 2006 by Brian Windhorst
This is a term I have invented for the five or six times per season I arrive in a town for a road game and absolutely nothing goes according to plan due to the following: 1) moronic tourists; 2) moronic airline/car rental/hotel employees; 3) the entire setup in the NY/NJ metro area. This usually leads me to: 1) grind my teeth; 2) curse profusely; 3) openly mock the situation to complete strangers with sarcasm only to have it completely fly over their heads (see moronic tourist entry).
This, however, has nothing to do with the lessor known and more rare "arrival amusement," which happens when one is suffering arrival frustration and I witness and laugh at their situation. Most 
recently, there was the guy in Denver who was still holding on his suitcase by the handle from the curb as the rental car guy shoved it into a rack on the rental bus, pile-driving the guy teeth first into the steps. Also on Thursday when News-Herald’s Bob Finnan shook his fist at car rental employee to tell them the car he was given only had a half tank of gas and was informed that he was looking at the temperature gauge.
Which bring us to the events of yesterday, when I invented the term of "departure frustration."
So, let me say that I didn’t arrive at THE Q, this is way I’ve been instructed to refer to it, until there were 10 minutes to play in the Cavs loss to the 76ers Saturday. Could never tell by my insightful story, eh? OK, it is rubbish, read my Sunday Column it is better.
My idea was to stay an extra day in Florida, not a bad idea in February, right? So I hung out in South Florida on Friday and it stormed the entire day, flooding the streets of South Beach. No, the models 
didn’t float, sickos. So I show up at Ft. Lauderdale International Airport Saturday while it is still raining. My is that a wonderfully run and constructed facility let me tell you. Apparently, when it rains, which it apparently never does in Florida the way this was handled, only one runway can be used. Note from photo, several exsist. My 1 p.m. flight didn’t board until 4:30 (the plane was there much of the time but there was no gate for it) and I took off at 6:30 and it wasn’t even raining anymore! There’s nothing like tarmac time to unwind. We landed in a blizzard, nearly ran out of runway, at 8:45 yet I was in the arena by 9:15. Props please!
What, you want to read about the Cavs? Tough, this is part of my therapy.
From what I saw, there were thinking about how they’re all going to go to Detroit for the Super Bowl instead of playing the 76ers. Also, a week after Mike Brown did a great job of coaching in the over over the Suns, he fell flat. Why oh why do those Cavs chuck up 3 after 3 when they have guys that can drive and the second-best post center in NBA? I don’t have answers, but I will keep asking the questions. Also, anyone notice Donyell Marshall played 54 seconds in the second half? There are issues at power forward over playing time as I mention in Sunday Column (above).
In parting, while trapped on the Continental Airlines 737 for hours, I watched this movie called Proof. It was average, but I couldn’t help speculating that Jake Gyllenhaal has got to be the only actor to have filmed sex scenes with Jennifer Aniston, Gwyn Paltrow and Heath Ledger.
February 5th, 2006 at 11:19 am
You are mistaken. If you add Tom Cruise to your list, I’ve had sex with all of them, too. Besides, I don’t watch airplane movies. They always butcher the naughty bits out of it. What am I, some kind of a child? If I am paying $450 for the right to sit for four hours between a foreign guy that smells like spoiled milk on one side, and a big fat Rosie O’Donnell lookalike obliterating my armrest on the other side, then I am entitled to hear funny potty jokes and see awesome boobies.
February 5th, 2006 at 4:49 pm
And you continue to give Brown a bad rap when he deserves a hero’s parade.
Ferry has saddled Brown with no outside shooters and guys who drive with no place to go. Face it, Marshall and Jones aren’t in a shooting “slump,” it is who they really are. Their shooting percentages pretty much equate with their past. Look at their career shooting histories, you’ll see what I’m talking about. Marshall’s two years in Utah were a major aberration, and Jones’ one season with O’Neal and Wade was Jones’ gift from God to fool the bejezus out of Ferry. On that squad, even my father could have had sufficent time to patiently chuck accurate three-pointers with his two-handed set shots. And my dad has been dead for nearly 10 years.
So Mike Brown has been saddled with only three choices, Brian: (1) Tell them to lob it into Ilgauskas, and live or die with Z. Because he’s going to make the shot, he’s going to miss the shot, he’s going to get fouled, or he’s going to turn the ball over; (2) Give Jones and Marshall the green light to rain threes. Again, not much of an option; (3) Allow James to carry the team on his back however James sees fit.
You confuse their improved record with an improved team. No, they’re not. James has improved. THAT is the sole reason for any improvement, as well as their winning streaks.
You bust on Brown for making James play too many minutes, but what else do you expect Brown to do? Ferry has assembled a roster of poor shooters, a center that can neither pass nor move, a few guys that occasionally drive but can’t pass without turning it over, a tasty Pillsbury assortment of soft ticklish players, and players that wouldn’t even be in the league if not for excessive expansion. Without that unbelievable kid James, they’d be sniffing Hawk and Bobcat butts in the bowels of the standings. And that’s with or without the incredibly overrated local hype of Larry Hughes. The Cavs are the Lakers of the East.
Bottom line, Brian, I think you need to borrow Joe Tait’s spare glasses. Or maybe take a leave of absence from the Beacon Journal to gain a different perspective on the team you’re so close to. From where I sit, Brown deserves a statue in front of The Q. Maybe even his own giant billboard endorsing the Schick Quattro. The man has been given a thankless job.
And while I’m on the subject of Tait, I wish you could listen to his radio calls this year, because he has been having some major senior moments. But it’s pretty funny, because they could just as well be Freudian slips. He keeps referring to two of the Cavs’ lousy outside shooters as “Damon Marshall.” But even when Joe makes a mistake, he’s still right on the money.
February 5th, 2006 at 8:10 pm
Just finished your column for tomorrow’s paper…Actually, your points and facts are both very misleading and plain wrong.
Fact is, Marshall’s 3-point percentage was barely over 40% for the past two seasons, not three as you stated. I’m guessing you were misled by the way the NBA structures their stat listings to show his stats before and after he was dealt from the Bulls to the Raptors. Read it again, you’ll notice what I’m saying. Indeed, prior to the past two seasons, he was fairly awful from three-point range. His overall field goal percentage jumped *significantly* in Utah, but that’s only because Sloan doesn’t tolerate any three-point gunning crap. So he was ordered to shoot inside a LOT more. Why he’s loitering around the three-point arc now, I have absolutely no idea. I’d assume it’s just more Ferry reefer madness. His actual effective range is 10-15 feet. But when coaches let him go wild, Marshall is more than happy to oblige.
With respect to Jones, despite your very misleading statements about him purportedly taking a dive in three-point accuracy dating back eight seasons, in point of fact, his three-point percentage IS at his pre-Heat range. Don’t bother looking at his 1998-1999 season and the few games he played with Golden State in the 1999-2000 season, as there wasn’t a track record of numbers of shots. But when he got to Dallas in the middle of the 1999-2000 season, that’s when he started chucking ‘em up with reckless abandon. Review his three-point stats since. Literally 36-37% *every single season.* In Dallas, in Vancouver, in Detroit, in Sacramento, in Milwaukee. Without exception, 36-37%…EVERY SEASON. Except for the Heat year, which should be considered irrelevant because of the O’Neal factor. And what’s he shooting now from three-point range now? Yep. Sure enough. Round it off, and it’s now 36%. So I don’t know what the problem is with the fans and media whining about Jones’ purported nosedive. Jones is delivering EXACTLY the percentage he had been delivering prior to O’Neal and Wade made it easy for him to stand around outside and meditate prior to every shot.
February 6th, 2006 at 8:31 am
ALAN, good morning, are you kidding me? You said “Ferry has saddled Brown with no outside shooters” How can you say that? Honestly? We picked up the best shooters that the free agent market had left over. What else, or shall I say, who else was there to get?
I do not get you at all. Every post that I have read from you, which is like your own mini blog, is ridicules. You remind me of that guy that sits on the side of a high school basketball game and just complains the whole time and gives everyone his not wanted, “If I was the coach….” lines.
Are you a Cavs fan?? Honestly. Why do I ask that? Because you beat the hell out of them every day. Come on. No, LBJ is not Mike but look at his supporting cast that he had. Do I need to remind you?
Lakers of the East, joke. LBJ is not Kobe, he’s better. But, that is coming from the Cavs fan that I am.
Larry is a great SUPPORTING player to Bron Bron, as my mom calls him. He is not overrated. The only player that I can say that is over rated is you, wait….. no, you’re that “if I was in charge” guy.
P.S. Brian gets paid to do this, do you??
Go Cavs.
Brian, say “Hi” to that fat guy next to you on your next plane ride. I miss him.
February 6th, 2006 at 10:01 am
JMart, I hate to be the one to break the news to you, but the free agent market is merely one of several sources by which to obtain players for an NBA roster.
And actually, with respect to your other question, no, I am not getting paid like Brian, but Hal Lebovitz offered me a summer internship in the Plain Dealer’s sports department back in 1981. It was solely because Hal and my dad were acquaintances and my dad was on the Cavaliers board of directors, but that’s neither here nor there. My point is I didn’t realize what I could have had, and I foolishly turned Hal down like the dumb schmuck I was. If not, I’d now be writing about Ferry’s incredible stupidity in my very own newspaper column for a salary, instead of simply reading and replying to Brian’s writing for free. But I burned myself, this is very cathartic, and it doesn’t cost me $100 an hour. Brian says this is his therapy. Ditto here. Besides, therapy implies I could be crazy. With regards to Ferry’s inanity, I don’t think I am the least bit crazy.
JMart, put yourself in my Size 10s. I was a fan of the Cincinnati Royals, and when the Cavs were born, I switched. I have been living and dying with this franchise. I have been living and dying with the Browns. I have been living and dying with the Indians. I am so sick and tired of rooting for my sports teams with monumental morons behind every steering wheel. If I owned a handgun, I would have already tried to shoot myself in the head. And just like the Cavaliers’ millionaire marksmen, I would have missed.
February 6th, 2006 at 1:59 pm
Tucker, if I may call you that, you surprise me. I take you as the type of person that would jump at an opportunity like that. But I guess we all have things in life that we pass up only years later ask, why?
I can also say that your knowledge for this game impresses me, and like you, I have loved C-town sports for as long as I can remember. However, my oldest memories were from the day of Brad, Larry, and others. When you got that offer to be an intern at the PD, I just learned how to walk.
So, I take back that “If I was the guy in charge…” comments.
Post away, I’ll continue to read and continue to respond not only to your comments but Brian’s as well. I would like to thank Brian for this opportunity to sound off on a daily basis only to have no one care what I have to say, other then Alan.
Oh, Alan, for your next post - feel free to include how else the common NBA roster is filled. I’m interested.
Brian, also don’t forget to ask you flight attendant to pick up that fork you dropped on purpose, I did and it was nice.
JMART
February 6th, 2006 at 3:12 pm
Alan Tucker is nothing more than a hater. Brian Windhorst is the best Cavs beat reporter of the lame bunch we are forced to read. Tucker, you, on the other hand, are nothing more than a lame sicko who probably spends 40 plus hours a week researching and blogging about the Cavs. Get a life, or a job as a beat writer somewhere. You are nothing by a scrub. A Will Avery of bloggers. I could care less about DMarshall and Damon Jones shooting percentages. Anyone who watches the NBA knew those guys were nothing more than stiffs, just like you.
February 6th, 2006 at 3:30 pm
Alan Tucker,
I stand by what Dick “Snyder on the dribble drive” Snyder says about you. Although in going back and reading your prior entries I do detect some talent and cleverness
Brian, I understand the ABJ can’t even afford to give its reporters notebooks and pencils. How then do they seem to keep flying you all over the country? the Akron Beancounting Journal ownership should make you drive to the away games.
Also, Cavs. I’m waiting to come back and serve as the color analyst for the team. I’m way better than marble mouth Austin Carr. I promise I won’t poke Mike Reghi in the eye if he pisses me off. I’ll be on my best behavior.
February 6th, 2006 at 3:38 pm
Hey, I read in the PD where LeBron is thinking of building a 30,000 square foot crib in Westlake. Who needs a house that big? It would leave a lot of room for the coolers to keep Gloria’s 40s ice cold, though. Speaking of Gloria, was there ever a funnier headline than “High school hoop star gets hummer from mom for B-day.”
Sick
February 6th, 2006 at 3:54 pm
Jim Chones, why would you want the ABJ to make Brian drive? That isn’t very nice and we all, even Alan occasionally, try to be nice to Brian.
February 6th, 2006 at 4:39 pm
Hey, I am always nice. Just because I sometimes may inform a sportswriter that he is putting an extremely enthusiastic hometeam heart in front of a very good head certainly does not mean I am not nice. I am merely doing my duty as a professional sports cardiologist to point out the fact that one’s civic aorta can explode if pumped too hard.
February 6th, 2006 at 11:10 pm
Too much Alan hating going on.
Say what you will but his comments are always well written, interesting and valid whether you agree or disagree with him. You guys should be grateful that this hasn’t turned into a forum overrun with the type of people who post on the Cavs message board.
Dick snyder- just because Alan seems to be well informed on a subject he obviously cares for makes him a lame sicko? I don’t care about shooting percentages either but if I’m reading the blog of a team’s beat writer, I’m expecting to see some talk about that sort of stuff.
Oh and I like JMart, too.
By the way, Alan, I’m dying to know what you do for a living.
February 7th, 2006 at 6:47 am
First thing first, for all of those Caviler fans out there, we won last night. But I did not get the chance to see what DMarsh and DJones shot, anyone know??
Jim and Dick, wow, how harsh can we be? You talk about how Tucker needs to get a life, a job and then for some God only knows reason you follow all of those smart and well though out comments by calling him a sicko. That is a joke, ha ha ha, thank you for the laugh. I see that as jealousy because you did spend the time and pay that much attention as to what was going on.
Do me a favor, watch a Cavs game and then post your comments. Plus, Tucker is not a stiff, who is named dick??
I can’t believe I just spent 102 words entertaining your pointless post, but I am sure that I am not the sicko since I counted them all. I need a job.
Evander, that was one of the funniest things I have ever heard, a room for Gloria’s 40’s. GREAT. Did you see her on the news last night? I don’t think she was sober.
Travis, I like you too.
and LBJ closed out a game last night, good job. Late.
February 7th, 2006 at 8:08 am
JMart, Marshall and Jones shot their usual 1 for 8 from three-point range, 5 for 14 total. That Ferry is a talent-assessing genius. Too bad Jim McIlvane and Calvin Booth weren’t again available to sign to multi-million dollar, 30-year contracts, too. Ferry would have jumped right on it.
Why are people talking about me? This ain’t my blog.
February 7th, 2006 at 8:16 am
Alan, I think the reason they are talking about you is because the are, shall i say, intemadated by your knowledge. That’s why i don’t hate anymore, you put me in my place.
Thanks for the stats, you came through again.
Ferry is from Duke, he was a good shooter. Is he going to put on the wine and gold?
How does Brian feel about all of this?
oh Brian????
February 7th, 2006 at 9:03 am
JMart, absolutely nobody is intimidated by my knowledge. Or “intemedated,” for that matter. Besides, I’d be absolutely thrilled to become mentally retarded if I could only have Luke Jackson’s hair. I said hair. Not face or skull. Jackson has kind of a Cro-Magnon thing going on. But for his numbers of hair per square inch, I’ll become O.J.’s sidekick if that’s what it takes.
February 7th, 2006 at 9:19 am
But while I still have my own brain and before O.J. and I murder Luke in his sleep, I can’t get enough of listening to TV sports guys that mix their metaphors. I have the TV on in the background, and Len Elmore said a referee is “going to flow against the grain.” Hilarious.
February 7th, 2006 at 9:57 am
Just in case you were wondering, my turkey sandwich I had for lunch was great. Anyway. I lost my 4th grade spelling bee twice, don’t ask.
Since when does referee’s ‘flow’? But then again, I guess they will do anything you want if you pay them?
Sorry Pitts, that is what O.J. told me…
February 7th, 2006 at 11:08 am
You missed the point, JMart. The correct metaphor in the context of what he was talking about was “go against the grain.” There’s another saying that is “against the current.” And then there’s another saying that is “go with the flow.” But toss them all together like a madman, and Len Elmore came up with the malaprop of “flow against the grain.” It is not possible to “flow against the grain,” unless you live on a farm and your silo is flooded by Hurricane Rita.
February 7th, 2006 at 11:29 am
Long day. Too much thinking.
Len Elmore - Did you know that Len Elmore is also an attorney? Not only that but he also serves as a Director on the Board of 1 800 Flowers.com. Elmore received his law degree from Harvard Law School in 1987 and is believed to be the first (and only) NBA player to graduate from that institution.
Just a little history on a man that made a comment that, after it was broken down for me, made no sense. Sad for such a well educated man.
Only 37.5 hours left of research this week to get my 40.
Did I surprise you on that one Tucker??
February 7th, 2006 at 2:12 pm
I’m wondering what’s going on with Ira Newble. I’ve never heard of anyone being sidelined and in the hospital for a week with a facial abscess. I heard a report on the radio (WKNR) that Newble is actually being treated for an ingrown nose hair. That, my friends, is newsworthy. Did Brian have that in his notes? I called the Cavs and talked to a flak. He gave me a nondenial, denial, saying he heard that but that only the team trainer knows for sure. If it’s true, someone tell Newble this isn’t the NBA of the 1970s and 80s when John Drew and Michael Ray Richardson were getting down. This is the NBA of the 2000s when the players get down with designer brands of weed.
February 7th, 2006 at 2:20 pm
One other thing about the Milwaukee game that I found odd:What in the heck was Coach Brown talking about in the postgame when he said Milwaukee made a run late because the Cavs were getting caught up in “cross checking” situations? Is this hockey? Brown explained that LeBron, for instance, was checking Michael Redd, but being checked by a different Buck player while on offense. When the Cavs would miss a shot and have to get back on defense I guess they were all scrambling to find the man they were checking. Whatever happened to checking the man closest to you while in transition and then making switches when you get down floor? Brown is supposed to be this defensive wiz, but he says a lot of dumb things. Damon Jones is a great off the ball defender? C’mon. Give me a break.Damon Jones would have a hard time stopping Leon Bibb.
I also thought it was interesting how he kissed D. Marshall’s ass in the postgame after Marshall ripped the coach on WKNR for playing him 52 seconds in the second half of the loss to Philly.
February 7th, 2006 at 4:42 pm
Actually, Chones, the “Big Wind” did mention he was getting treated for an infected nose hair. Somebody who’s getting paid $3 million a year misses multiple games because of purported zit-like behavior taking place inside his nostril. If true, I would not expect Newble to be volunteering for a tour of duty in Afghanistan or Iraq anytime soon. The guy gives a whole new meaning to the phrase, “What a wussy.”
And this is completely off-the-subject, it has absolutely nothing to do with this blog, but the name Jim Chones brings to mind a great personal Jim Chones story. But then again, you’re Jim Chones, so you already know what I’m about to say - - Way back, I got to spend a lot of time with the Cavaliers behind the scenes. With the players, with Bill Fitch, Joe Tait, all those guys. My dad was involved with the business side of the team, a friend was a ballboy, and so on. Just a huge thrill for any kid to be able to hang around his sports heroes, right? Well, not so fast. True story: One day I was sitting inside the Cavaliers locker room shooting the sh*t with Jim Brewer and Austin Carr. I look up, and there’s Jim Chones running around wearing nothing but his birthday suit. HOLY COW, BATMAN! I am not exaggerating when I say you could lasso a herd of buffalo and put out Wyoming wildfires with that thing!!! I have never been so traumatized in all my life!!! So years later, it was no surprise whatsoever when I heard through the grapevine that Chones’ wife eventually gave birth to IDENTICAL TRIPLETS.
February 7th, 2006 at 5:46 pm
By the way, Jim, there was certainly no disrespect intended. So please allow me to correct myself: HOLY HORSES, BATMAN!
February 7th, 2006 at 6:10 pm
Meh.
Weren’t there any other Chones stories to share besides ones involving huge…members?
February 7th, 2006 at 7:12 pm
Since I played highschool basketball against his Chones’ sons I can tell you for a fact that he had triplets. Two of them were about 6′7. The third one was about 6′4. I think they ended up playing for a D2 school.
February 8th, 2006 at 12:54 am
I think J Mart and Tucker are dating.
February 8th, 2006 at 6:15 am
I love it when we all get along…. for now that is
February 8th, 2006 at 6:46 am
Tonight we face the Timber Pups. I look for KG to go off because he is a soldier and he’s bound to. All that pent up frustration has to be dispensed somewhere and I’m sure it will in the form of some posterizing dunks on slow-ass, non-leaping Z and the 6-11 beachboy Andy, who’s gaining a rep for being the best charge-taker in the league.
Minn. 98, Cleveland 91. I’m calling it here first. I also predict that LeBron will be caught nibbling on his nails by the TV camera at least four times and that Reghi will say the Cavs have “taken their road show to the frozen tundra that is the cities of Minneapolis-St. Paul.”
I’ve gotta run. I’ve got a rec league game. Jim Ard, Jo Jo White and Dwight Davis are playing. It should be some good run.
February 8th, 2006 at 8:36 am
According to Vegas oddsmakers, there is a 50/50 chance that Reghi believes Dwight Davis was the black guy that hung out with Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra.
February 8th, 2006 at 12:34 pm
i find it hilarious that some of you praise tucker’s “knowledge” when i have, numerously, smacked him around with actual FACTS, when all HE does is give anecdotal evidence based on his listening to a game on the radio!! and then he tries to write something mildly amusing. he usually fails on ALL fronts. he doesn’t really know much about basketball and it comes as NO surprise that he is a) old and b)cynical.
in fact, he is so old that his reactions have become pure knee-jerk. according to him, ANY cleveland team will suck for all-time and EVERYBODY who works or plays for ANY cleveland sports franchise is automatically stupid, inept, etc., etc.
btw, dmarshall is shooting a CAREER LOW FG%. that means this has NEVER happened before in his CAREER. got it, *ucker???
February 8th, 2006 at 12:56 pm
KJ, take your comments and read them to yourself. I would rather read a post from someone that has more morals than some “tool bag” like you. Do you feel better now that we all know that you’re just a big idiot? At least Tucker is someone you can carry on a conversation with, or at least want to.
What does age have to do with it?? Honestly, what or where does age have any effect on a person’s opinion, moron.
Praise never happened. Not once. Read the last three words of your post, it was meant for you.
February 8th, 2006 at 3:02 pm
Thanks, kj. And I am “old” enough to have attended the last Browns Championship game with my father back in 1964. I don’t remember it, but I’ve been told I attended it. But more to your point, you don’t think I have knowledge? Listen, kid, I was pulling pranks on Austin Carr long before you were even a gleam in your daddy’s eye. Carr and Jim Brewer would sometimes train at a place called the Executive Club over on Chagrin Ave. A lot of times they were too lazy to drive out to Richfield, and the Executive Club had a decent set of Nautilus machines. I don’t care what you say, kj, but getting into Austin’s locker and hiding his underwear while he and Jim Brewer were sitting in the steam room was damn funny.
I take no shame in admitting to you that much of my extensive sports knowledge was obtained by virtue of hiding a former professional basketball player’s underpants.
And with respect to Marshall, if you weren’t as blind as a bat, you’d come to realize that Marshall’s FG% is quite low simply because he has been given carte blanche to let the three-pointers fly from the forests like your ancestors. That’s why his FG% is bad - - It’s due to his shot selection, not because Marshall forgot how to shoot. Although, I do know diminishing skills when I see it, and after 12 NBA years, Marshall is most definitely beginning his descent down the slope. His three-point percentage has been pretty bad not just this season, but for the vast majority of his career. When Jerry Sloan shoved a rod up Marshall’s ass and directed him to take 10-15 footers, he had the best overall FG% of his career. If Marshall would act more like a power forward and less like Fred Hoiberg, his FG% would significantly improve. So all in all, I don’t know what your underlying point is about Marshall…That is, if you had any point at all.
But anyway, thank you for your cerebral personal attack, kj. You’re always such a warm pleasure to read.
February 8th, 2006 at 4:54 pm
well, well. touched a nerve with the “old” comment, eh? and what does age have to do with “anything,” jmart? umm, if you actually READ my post you’d see that i meant that tucker’s age meant that he was cynical and jaded and all his reactions to cleveland sports is of the “woe is me” knee-jerk variety. oh, hell, just go back and actually READ what i wrote, ok?
and mr *, you amaze me at your inability to understand even the most BASIC of points. let me quote you, if i may, “So all in all, I don’t know what your underlying point is about Marshall…That is, if you had any point at all.”
now let me quote you again, ” Face it, Marshall and Jones aren’t in a shooting “slump,” it is who they really are. Their shooting percentages pretty much equate with their past.”
umm. let’s see that would be…oh, what’s the word?? ummm, oh,yeah…WRONG!!! that’s my point, you moron! you say that and then i remind you it’s marshall’s lowest fg% of his career, so by definition his fg% this year CANNOT “pretty much equate with (his) past!!”
again, you’e just a sad old man who is incapable of objectively looking at a cleveland sports team. in your mind, they are ALL alike , all losers, all run by fools, yada, yada, yada…
go watch your browns ‘64 hi-lights on Super 8mm, ok?
February 8th, 2006 at 5:39 pm
Uhhh…Their shooting percentages DO pretty much equate with their past. Marshall is a very small fraction lower than most of his years, but it’s right there in his regular ballpark. And not counting the O’Neal season, Jones’ three-point percentage is indeed right in line with his past as well. To quibble over tiny fractions is to say there was any legitimate difference between your school grades of D and D-. Either way you didn’t pass the class, kj. What, do you think you were sitting in summer school because your mom wanted to be certain your asthma didn’t act up if you played outdoors?
And now that I stop and think about it, the Executive Club was on Chagrin Blvd. Not Avenue. If I can’t even remember that, then my memories of Cleveland are really starting to fade. Oh, well.
February 8th, 2006 at 8:43 pm
Hey, what’s the deal on this movie “Proof?” I was going to rent that very movie this weekend until I saw the cursory “average” review up above. But Roger Ebert gave it 4 stars. But then again, Ebert has been getting softer and softer over past 15 years, and his reviews have become increasingly far less critical for movies that might now otherwise deserve harsh criticism. So who am I supposed to believe, an NBA beat writer or an aging mellowed movie critic?
February 9th, 2006 at 7:15 am
oh, you’re right, *, ‘ballpark” is just fine when talking about numbers, right? anything to prove a point that is FACTUALLY wrong, right?
you try to come here with numbers to “prove” how dumb ferry is, then when someone calls you on it, well, then it’s just “quibbling” over “tiny fractions.” what i said is true, marshall’s FG% is the LOWEST of his career this year. so, if one does something one has NEVER done, then by definition, it CANNOT be a “typical” year.
am i speaking chinese here?