Smack / Jan 9, 2012 / 12:12 am

Ricky Rubio Makes Magic Again; Washington Is Embarrassing Themselves Right Now

Ricky Rubio

Ricky Rubio, Dime #43

The Wizards are SO depressing to watch, and it’s not even because they can’t win a game. No one seems to care. JaVale McGee gets stripped in the lane and stands there looking all depressed like someone just jacked his all-black matte truck as the action takes off past him. Nick Young only seems to be into it when he’s scoring. The crowd seems like they’re listening to an opera instead of watching a basketball game. It’s not hard to figure out why this team is struggling. Damn Washington, you might suck but you should at least be exciting to watch. They took an uppercut to the chin from the best 3-5 team in the NBA yesterday, losing by 21 to the Wolves. We feel terrible for John Wall (10 points). The T-Wolves run and move the ball for easy buckets on one end, then on the other end the Wizards just stand around and whichever jacker is dominating the ball just throws up a shot. It’s terrible. Andray Blatche, Nick Young and Jordan Crawford are all playing poisonously right now. Wall already looks like he just went through a day of on-the-job training with Alonzo Harris. Rashard Lewis also reportedly “decided he didn’t want to play” yesterday after getting into an argument with Wizards’ assistant coach Sam Cassell. Lewis was listed as being out with a sore knee, but apparently that’s not true. Things can’t get much more dysfunctional for Washington, and we could be approaching a tipping point if players aren’t listening to Flip Saunders and the team’s highest-paid player, a veteran, is squabbling with an assistant coach and giving himself a DNP. Stay tuned for the fallout … It’s starting to drive us insane that Rubio isn’t the starter yet. Ridnour does a decent job, but as soon as Rubio comes in, the entire game changes. He racked up 13 points, 14 assists and six rebounds. He still played 30 minutes (to Ridnour’s 31), so it’s not like he’s not getting minutes. But they’re so clearly better with him as the guy, it must be making Minnesota fans berserk. Not sure why they now feel the need to ease him along this slowly. Start ‘em and let Rubio and Love (20 points, 16 rebounds) build towards great things … Jan Vesely made his pro debut in the first quarter and proceeded to air ball his first free throw (the second one just barely hit the front of the rim). No girlfriend smooches for him last night … We wonder who wants to shoot more: everyone on the Wizards, or everyone on the Kings? Marcus Thornton was probably hyped when Tyreke Evans went out with an ankle injury because it meant more shots. Evans eventually came back in to score 28 points, but Sacramento still lost by seven to the Magic. Amazing, because Dwight Howard (five points, four rebounds) didn’t have a single point or rebound in the first half. Read that again. In Howard’s first eight minutes on the court, he already had four fouls. He was bad, but Jameer Nelson was probably even worse. He’s never looked so lifeless. No aggressiveness at all… just skipping the ball around the perimeter. If Sacramento wasn’t so busy fighting each other for shots, they could’ve won this one … Our vote for the NBA’s worst soccer mom is definitely going to Ryan Anderson‘s (19 points, 11 rebounds) mother. Supposedly, she loves taping games just to rewind and sometimes watch her son’s buckets four-plus times. Then yesterday, they showed the Anderson crew on the JumboTron after an Anderson bucket, and sure enough the Mrs. was taking a picture of the big screen … Bill Walton was calling the game. Here are some of his gems: He said Big Baby (20 points, eight rebounds) could be like Charles Barkley if he lost a little weight, and also said J.J. Redick wasn’t a “speed merchant” … OKC blew out San Antonio 108-96 in a game that was over by the second half of the third quarter. Kevin Durant had one of his better all-around games, dropping 21/10/7 in a cool 28 minutes. For the Spurs, if Gary Neal leads you in scoring (18 points), that’s probably not a good thing … If you had any questions about the Thunder’s togetherness, every time the rook Reggie Jackson (playing because Eric Maynor is done for the year) did something good, the entire Thunder bench jumped up faster than House of Pain Keep reading to hear about the Lakers’ big win over the Grizzlies …

Pages : 1 2
Related Posts with Thumbnails
  • mario

    bnews – honestly i love you man, but maybe you should try something to stop the hate. change your name and start again. dont tell us its you. after you write something go away, take a walk or something, come back and read over it. maybe read it out loud to your mom, see how she reacts. if she still loves you, hit submit.

    i might be a bit slow with this, but people notice you can vote for joel anthony in the all star ballot? hilarious. i will be voting for him for fun, and also as howard doesnt deserve my vote.

    joel is possibly the least skilled starter in the nba.

  • QQ

    QQ da boss. The league is conspiring against Dwight.

    Peekachu – u gay homay

  • beiber newz

    ^joel anthony makes chuck hayes look like dennis rodman.

  • beiber newz

    ^@ post 51

  • First & Foremost

    Tell em why you mad, Austin

  • http://Dimemag.com Panchitoooo

    Lol@ QQ da boss sounds like beiber the guru. Stop stroking you ego son and post some legit comment about basketball rather than just hating on your elders.

    Yo i posted it on the tail end of smack a few days back but did anyone else see the homo hug between kobe and pau when they played the warriors? I swear pau closed his eyes on the embrace…lol… Wish i could find a link to it… Get on it beibs

  • http://Dimemag.com Panchitoooo

    I like tebow but i like the broncos defense even better. Cant wait for madden 13 to scramble with tebow. I remember in madden 07 using Vick to run almost every play. Only bad part is that if Vick got hit he’d either get hurt for half the game or fumble the ball. Eventually i stopped playing with Vick, no matter what the year, because of that reason.

  • Three Stacks

    http://twicsy.com/i/cLUb4

    I remember watching this during the game and being uncomfortable, but Pau gave Bynum a similar hug a couple days ago, I think. I think Pau decided during the off-season to finally man-up and give out man-sized hugs whenever he feels like it. Just in case we though he was soft.

  • Big Island

    Austin – Because Jay Cutler is a roodeepoo. Seriously, QB’s get all the love and all of the hate. They are protected like nobody else in the game, even though receivers get protected pretty well, by the rules. They get hit maybe 8 times a game. We’ve seen Big Ben, Romo, Leftwich etc… play through stuff I would have cried my way out of the stadium with. So when a QB has something that isn’t on his throwing arm, he’s gonna get mocked. A lineman hits a 300 pound man every single play to hopefully hit a 200+ pound man running at him. If they get hurt, they can’t really alter their game like a QB who can sit in shotgun and hand it off. I’m not saying Cutler wasn’t hurt, or even that it’s fair, but it’s how the world turns.

  • http://www.psychodrama.com Chicagorilla

    Im not impressed by players that play through injuries by using pain killers (which they all do). I watched my BM give birth to my daughter with a smile on her face because of pain killers. So it’s not impressive if they are out there playing while on pain killers.
    I just heard that Kobe gets a bunch of pain killers before each game to deal with his wrist. So that means he’s barely even feeling anything while he’s out there. No wonder he was able to play with his hand swollen like Hell Boy.

  • LABaller

    Leave it to rilla to find any reason to not be impressed w Kobe.. I mean I got my own reasons but it really feels like every post u put about him has your biased towards mj n how badly u want them to never be compared

  • beiber newz

    THANK YOU LABALLER. wow, the hate is just spewing. like , he doesn’t even try to do a good job to conceal it

  • beiber newz

    guarantee if that lady had to give birth 5 times in a 7 day week, or give birth 3 times in 3 nights, she’d be poppin em pills like skittles.

    now, in no way am i comparing child labor pain to a torn ligament, frankly i believe giving birth is worse than a bullet wound from what i hear.

    but tha point is that, when you have to go to work consecutively, it is much easier to ignore the pain when you know it’s one night of pain like child birth.

  • bosh

    my wife is due very soon. i will be showing her the above comment as i am sure she will find it consoling to know she will not have it as bad as kobe with his wrist. i will say it as she is giving birth. ‘you think this is bad? kobe plays consecutively. at least you can ignore this pain’

    lol. come on. kobe fan boys are amazing.

  • control

    bosh

    How you expect the kid to relate to child birth? Hes never even had relations with pussy, cept when he looks in the mirror…

  • http://www.psychodrama.com Chicagorilla

    @bosh

    hahaha, you should actually try that shyt. WOuld be hilarious. Of course you may get cussed out but for the comedy factor it’ll be worth it.

    @LABaller
    Of course I think it’s blasphemy to compare MJ and Kobe. But I don’t get all bent outta shape about it, I know its going to happen because of some of the similarities between the two.
    And that pain killer comment was in reference to @Big Is’s comments about the QBs playing through all that pain.
    Before I typed that, I was reading some NBA article about how Kobe has to pop pain killers. So i used Kobe as a reference point since he’s the only person playing through injury right now…or at least thats what you’re lead to believe.

    You guys want the Lakers and Kobe to always be talked about, but only under your circumstances. It doesn’t work that way. You gotta take the good with the bad homie.

  • Bosh’s wife

    Oh holy crap. You are seriously comparing child birth to Kobe’s wrist?! For real? You are forgetting the months of extreme morning sickness and physical pain that women can go through prior to giving birth you idiot.

    And many women do all this without popping pills because drugs affect the baby.

    Also, it’s not uncommon for women to tear their vagina apart and have it sewn back together after child birth, so keep that in mind with your ‘one night of pain’. It takes months for a woman’s body to recover from a pregnancy.

    Yes, that’s right, it is unwise to provoke a hormonal pregnant woman with such ignorant comments.

  • beiber newz

    hahaha even though i said child birth is the worst pain in the world. hahahah show you three stooges don’t read, i officially hate you three and will step outside my box and show you 0 respect…u hav pushed my last nerve. i resisted for far too long. this should be fun.

  • LABaller

    @rilla

    trust homie as a true laker fan I’ve been taking the bad and lovin the good when it comes to Kobe. I’m the dude who hated him for shaq’s departure cause I thot it was a shit trade for the TEAM. I’m not a Kobe fan, I’m a laker fan. But being able to go to these games n see the dude in person… Just like last night after he’s injured old crippled goin thru a divorce and probably is in therapy for his psychotic belief that he’s still the best player in the game.. Hats off is all I’m sayin. Gotta respect dude for all he is and does. If everyone had that dedication towards their work I’m guessin shit in the world would be a lot better. Other than that tho.. Lol I know you think it’s blasphemy for them to be mentioned on the same breath but there are definitive reasons for it.. Mj wasn’t the nicest dude either.. You take the asshole no nonsense dick for what he is if he’s puttin in work where it counts.. That was Jordan and that’s Bryant too. And trust I ain’t sayin they’re the same.. They aren’t.. But they gotta be the only two who have that plus the skills to back it up more than anyone so they will always be linked

  • Bosh

    Beiber – literally my second post ever. Step back in the box bro.

  • http://www.dimemag.com Austin Burton

    @Panchitooo — Took the words right out of my mouth on Vick. Me and my college roommate spent HOURS playing whichever Madden had Atlanta Vick on the cover, and he fumbled about 40% of the time he got hit. I think that was their way of making it fair because he was so fast. I eventually stopped using Vick and found that Kordell Stewart was almost as good a runner without the fumbling problem.

    @Big Island — I know that’s the way it is, it just sucks. And don’t discount the pain Cutler would feel in his knee every time he had to take a snap, pivot and hand the ball off. Or every time he had to drop back. If I recall, those Bears didn’t run a majority of their plays out of the shotgun, so to just entirely change the offense like that for Cutler’s injury probably would have been worse for them than just rolling with the backup.

-->