Serious Drama Brewing with Carmelo in New York; Psycho T Goes Off (Again)
Things are not good with the Knicks right now. They had a terrible Pistons team down 11 in the fourth and blew it on some poor defense, poor shooting and turnovers … After Carmelo went 2-12 from the field for a sad six points. the New York Times’s Howard Beck tweeted this after the game: “After his worst game as a Knick, Carmelo Anthony went straight to the bus, without speaking to the media. Second time this week.” That’s not to mention the fact that he reportedly didn’t even get off the bench during a timeout because he was pouting. Something bad is brewing already … Impressive win by the Spurs in Dallas as they beat the Mavs 97-91. Their Big 3 dominated as Parker had 33, Manu had 25 and Duncan had 22. It doesn’t matter who you are, if you let all three of those guys get theirs, you’re gonna lose … Ahh, one of the annual rites of spring that we always look forward to came to pass yesterday afternoon: Bruce Pearl gets the pantsed coached off of him in the NCAA Tournament. This time it was John Beilein and his Michigan squad destroying the Vols, 75-45, most likely sending Pearl to a TV studio for next season … Incredible stat from that game: Michigan is the first team in NCAA Tourney history to win a game without making a single free throw … The Villanova Wildcats lost to George Mason pretty much the same way they lost their final five regular season games: the wheels came off down the stretch. They could make shots, they couldn’t hold on to the ball, they couldn’t get key boards and they couldn’t get stops … This guy was a monster yesterday … Kyrie Iriving looked good as new in his return to the Duke lineup. He scored 14 as they murdered Hampton 87-45 … The Georgetown train of NCAA misery keeps rolling along after they got smoked by play-in No. 11 seed VCU last night, 74-56. In the last few years, the Hoyas have now gone down to VCU, Ohio and Davidson. Inexcusable for an elite program … Maybe the funniest tweet from yesterday came from ESPN college writer Eamonn Brennan: “Highlight of the day: Walking in on the half-dressed Zips mascot in the locker room. Human torso, kangaroo base. Startling.” … We’re out like Pearl.
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March 19th, 2011 at 2:29 am
quest??? says:
did I read right? Lebron threw 61 shots???
March 19th, 2011 at 3:51 am
Shotta says:
Bron Bron was 16 of 21 shooting. Courtesy NBA.com
March 19th, 2011 at 4:02 am
sadeye2507 says:
Yeah a lot of flak for that 61. Anyway the Pacers are on…pace! Good wins this week and the Pistons starting a 6’8 PG and a 6’11 SG that was hilariously effective lol
March 19th, 2011 at 5:24 am
arno says:
It seems the Nuggets cleverely concealed what Carmelo was really worth till trading him. They looked like the fools when they let him leave to the Knicks, but got the good side of the deal instead.
Why was everyone abused ? Because of hype and stats and top tens. But it’s a team game and the intangibles are much more important than appreciated.
The Knicks now have two expensive superstars that are defensive liabilities. So there’s gonna be some show at the Garden, but not many wins.
March 19th, 2011 at 5:50 am
Cearism says:
Wow! LeBrick made 61 shots out of 21 attempts?! Does the ball just go inside the basket without him trying to shoot it?
March 19th, 2011 at 6:29 am
K says:
wow so many typos and grammar errors in today’s smack..still hungover from paddy’s day guys??
March 19th, 2011 at 9:10 am
sans says:
at least when the haters hate they read their oen posts to prove they dint get dislexic on their own shti…a hurrah to proofreading!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OonDPGwAyfQ
March 19th, 2011 at 9:20 am
kicks says:
Dime, ever since AB left there have been more typos on Smack than ever. What’s up with that?
March 19th, 2011 at 10:03 am
JAY says:
@ arno: “They looked like the fools when they let him leave to the Knicks, but got the good side of the deal instead.”
Says who? If you visited Dime pretty often you would have seen the amount of criticism thrown in the Knicks direction when the traded 4 starters for Mr. Big Shot and Mr. Jack Shots. I’d say about 80% of the posts were calling it highway robbery by the Nuggets.
March 19th, 2011 at 10:05 am
knoc99 says:
AB gone??
March 19th, 2011 at 10:05 am
jdizzle says:
March 16th, 2011 at 9:55 am
jdizzle says:
Let us get that #1 seed up out yall Boston!
Smack were yall really expecting a good match
between Wall and Rose? We just Open Gym ’d
they ass last week didnt we? Props to McGee
for the trip-dub but the Wizards should send him
to Hakeem in the off season cuz his O is
atrocious. And everybody thats pissed that
Psycho T been giving teams buckets dont worry
cuz that ish comes to a screeching halt on
Friday.
So ummmmm……yeah….that didnt quite workout how i thought it would. Props to Psycho T
March 19th, 2011 at 10:21 am
jzsmoove says:
Friday was an absolute bonanza of basketball, both college and pro. NCAA Tournament games all day and a 12-game slate of NBA games had us locked in sitting in front of a TV from noon til after midnight …and i missed all of it. That is why I need Dime/ Smack.
co-sign kicks, Dime has to hire (i cant believe i am sayin this) Mr Austin Burton as special consultant before yall release daily dose of Smack.
March 19th, 2011 at 12:01 pm
QQ says:
To fools still repping Carmelo, yall still out there? Yall still gonna ask me the ‘Why do you hate Melo so much?’ bullshit? Never has been a leader, never has been a player with heart, ALWAYS a bitchass. And yall were saying ‘the Nugs not playing well again, how would Melo stay’…. HAHAHAHA.
The Nugs were playing like shit BECAUSE Melo was polluting the locker room with his whiny bullshit.
And watched the Celts game, and Tommy wrecked havoc again. He was literally SCREAMING out there. Has me thinkin ‘Poor old man embarrassing himself’. Respect that guy? No fucking way.
March 19th, 2011 at 1:20 pm
scotta says:
Really tired of the “Derrick Rose needs to get more assists” theme going around. First, he just isn’t that kind of point guard. Get over it. Second, the Bulls offense doesn’t generate a lot of assists – drive and kick means that Rose generates open shots without getting box score credit. Third, for whatever reason, most of the Bulls non-Rose scorers seem to hate shooting without moving or dribbling first. I don’t know why this is, but Rose loses several assists a night to this strangeness.
Summary – watch Rose play more. He creates many opportunities for teammates that aren’t reflected in statistics, and assists are a flawed / incomplete measure of play-making; don’t rely on it, especially when the difference between a pg who “doesn’t set up team-mates” and one who “is a great play-maker” seems to be only 2 or 3 assists a night. There are a lot of other factors at work.
March 19th, 2011 at 3:29 pm
jerkishbehavior.com says:
Who wrote this smack? Cuz clearly they just looked at the Bulls box score and didn’t watch the game. The Bulls were down 20 the whole gm and came back in the 4th to send it to overtime cuz of DRose who scored 19 in the quarter and bulls were down 3 with 1sec he got fouled shooting a 3 and made all 3 clutch free throws to send it to overtime No Memphis. In overtime, he fouled out and the game was over after that. And he got no help from his teammates hence why he only had 2 asts.
Psycho T was having his way with us on str8 hustle plays and wide open midrange Js and we didn’t play any D or rebounding til the 4th and that’s why we lost but so did boston so we’re still n 1st and DRose is MVP
March 19th, 2011 at 3:29 pm
King says:
Im trying to figure out why people expected Kevin Love to be an all star but are surprised when Tyler Hansbrough gets beastly every once in a while when he was one of the best big men in college for 4 years. Kid is avg. 17 and 9 since the allstar break.
March 19th, 2011 at 5:19 pm
Skeeter McGee says:
As a VCU student I just wanna say thanks to all the haters, y’all got us this far…
Shaka Smart for President 2012
March 19th, 2011 at 5:44 pm
Ben1en says:
http://sports.espn.go.com/los-angeles/nba/news/story?id=6236645 No mention of this?? Dude went into Staples Center with a butcher knife and stayed on the court for an hour with cops that had their guns drawn. DAYUMMM
March 19th, 2011 at 6:22 pm
TL says:
Anyone else notice the new game ball the D League uses? It’s on NBA.com front page right now. Looks like a new official NBA ball might be in the works…
March 19th, 2011 at 10:40 pm
cesar says:
psycho T!
March 21st, 2011 at 4:33 pm
sh!tfaced says:
yo JAY…
the fuck you were saying about Car’fuckin’Loser’ass’Melo’ again, man?! Hahahahaha
… just sayin’, man… LOL