EPISODE #72: White Hot Scattershot!
We heard you, everyone. You want to hear some basketball talk on FreeDarko Presents: The Disciples of Clyde NBA Podcast.
And we aim to please. Except when we don’t. But for now, we do, and this episode is so chock full of basketball it practically bleeds orange leather.
Dan is joined by Joey Litman, FreeDarko contributor, author of Straight Bangin’, and, as will be clear from listening to this episode, a Knicks fan.
I tried to map out exactly what we talked about and how we got there, but I ended up with a weird looking diagram with a dozen arrows on it, several of them pointing to the Knicks. So instead let me give you some highlights:
- Danilo Gallinari, not a bust?
- Andrew Bogut, probably not a bust.
- The 2005 draft!
- Andrew Bynum and this year’s Lakers and Celtics
- White guys!
- Andrea Bargnani, definitely not a bust.
- The intriguing Raptors
- 2010!
- Michael Beasley, and the non-story so far in regards to his summer problems
- Conflicted feelings about the Heat
- Rookies!
It’s wide-ranging, free-flowing, and circles back to the Knicks pretty often.
Put on your safety goggles and protective headgear. You’re about to have your face destroyed by our basketball-ness.
Songs from the episode:
“Losing Out” - Black Milk
“White Elephant” - Volcano Suns
“You in Color” - The Black Angels
“The Color of Tempo” - Prefuse 73
“House of Flying Daggers” - Raekwon
Tags: Disciples of Clyde NBA Podcast, FreeDarko, Joey Litman, Straight Bangin
November 13th, 2009 at 11:34 am
I thought I wanted you guys to talk more about the Bucks but the more you do the more I feel like you really don’t understand them. I guess it’s natural because they get virtually no press.
As a Bucks fan I’m more than happy having Bogut out of that draft. Sure I’d rather have Chris Paul or Deron Williams but Bogut has done pretty well and seems like a guy that will stay in Milwaukee maybe his whole career. Bogut’s the blue collar anchor on this blue collar team. He’s the not-quite-a-star type that feels perfect for this team.
November 13th, 2009 at 1:06 pm
I think our point was that Bogut is quite a good player.
However, if you had to do it all over again you’d take Chris Paul a thousand times out of a thousand. Andrew Bogut will be a very good piece of the puzzle for some time. Chris Paul will be in the Hall of Fame.
November 13th, 2009 at 3:16 pm
I just gotta say that I got into basketball as a die hard kings fan and you guys mentioned Jwill briefly and it kills me to see him regress so far. I understand that he is over 30 years old now and that his knees aren’t what they used to be 10 years ago, but Hubie Brown really toned his game down and he has never been the same since. He showed a bit of flash with the Heat when he had that game against the Mavs in the playoffs where he went 11 for 11, but in the last 3 years, his level of play has just dwindled down. I still have hopes that he can provide some backup mins for Nelson and having both VC and Jwill (the best two rookies of 98-99) on the same team, I can only imagine what they could’ve done if they were on the same team 10 years ago…..
Again, thanks for the podcast and keep it up!
November 13th, 2009 at 5:20 pm
I’ve enjoyed hearing about up-and-coming white guys from two up-and-coming white guys. Keep up the white-hot work!
November 14th, 2009 at 12:41 pm
Sublime
November 14th, 2009 at 4:54 pm
Dan,
Listened again and aside from your, “Bogut would be a 6th or 7th man on a better team” comment I’m not sure what I was disagreeing with you on. So yeah, carry on.
The point I was making about the draft is that this isn’t one I’d look back on with regret. Sure, the Bucks missed out on a great player but you can say that about every draft and I’d rather bitch about the Joe Alexander or Yi Jianlian picks than second guess the decision to take a guy who has been really solid.
November 14th, 2009 at 6:06 pm
I made one mistake: I said CDR was in this draft class. He wasn’t. It just seemed that way because I love him and because he didn’t do shit last year. My bad. Sorry.