Podcast: Talking NBA with ESPN Radio’s Mark Neal
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Mark and I delve into the Warriors, Spurs, Cavs, the playoff picture coming into focus, and the fallout should the Clippers, Thunder, or Cavs fail to meet expectations.
I think these NBA segments are a nice compliment to our Sunday night podcasts which are much more Cavs-centric.
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OKC is garbage… SAS is awesome. That is all.
Biyombo was a gret pick up for the Raptors.
Wake me up when the Browns are relevant, otherwise I’ll continue to spend my Sunday’s doing other things. I don’t care who they draft or who they pick up in free agency.
On another note, I’m calling Johnny Manziel the biggest NFL bust of all time. Not only did he go down in flames, but with the Browns’ inability to re-sign their own starters, he dragged the entire franchise down for years.
(I place Brian Bosworth at #2)
Come on man. I don’t even think he’s the biggest bust in Browns history. I mean Gerard Warren: while he played in the league 10 years, you have to look at the 30 some pro bowlers and multiple hall-of famers they passed on to take him. I’m not even sure that Johnny Football can be called a bust, in that most of the league thought he never had the tools to be a good QB to begin with. Just was a terrible draft pick, and he might not even be the biggest Browns’ bust that year, because, Justin Gilbert… I… Read more »
Gerard Warren . . . Mike Junkin. Whatever. They’re defensive players. Even if they became Pro Bowlers they wouldn’t have turned the franchise around. Courtney Brown came out of college more highly touted than Warren.
Also Ryan Leaf is the biggest bust of all time. There are light years between first and second place.
Ryan Leaf is the leader in the clubhouse. JFF wasn’t taken high enough to ever qualify as ‘biggest bust’. Basically the Browns took a flyer late in the 1st round on a known bonehead, and it didn’t work out. (I’m not a Browns fan at all, and I’ve always thought JFF was a clown, but I don’t really blame them for taking a chance – there was at least a 5% chance that he’d be able to play, and they have been the garbage bin of the NFL for QBs for about two decades)
Ryan Leaf was only getting on the media’s radar his senior year at the powerhouse Washington State. He ended up being the second QB taken (after Peyton Manning). He did well in college and was physically a prototype quarterback, but never won Heisman and rarely the lead story on Sportscenter. He never made it – like a lot of top quarterback picks never did. He never achieved what Manziel did in college and his notoriety was never within a lightyear of Manziel’s. The tv show that called him the biggest bust was wrong. Maybe he was in the top 10.
Michigan’s Brian Griese beat Ryan Leaf’s Washington St in the Rose Bowl his senior year. They put up 16 points. Think about some of Vince Young’s colleges performances and how he did in the pros. (1st QB. 3rd pick.)
The fact is that Leaf was the 2nd pick in the draft, and he was nearly the first pick. Manziel, bad as he is, has had a better career than Leaf. (Leaf just recently got out of prison, btw) Manziel was an ESPN/ college sensation. He still was a bottom of the 1st round pick, though. David Klingler was a far bigger bust than JFF – Akili Smith was a far bigger bust.
JFF could have easily been a top 5 or 6 pick, had he not been a screwball in college.
I don’t think Manziel was in the front office not re-signing the starters.
No he just made the Browns organization look so much like the Keystone Cops that nobody in their right mind wants to play here. He wasn’t only a bust himself. He busted an entire franchise. I’ve never seen anything like it.
But on the topic of our current front office. I had a little excitement about them in the early going. At this moment it doesn’t seem like they have much of a clue. Just sayin’. They can turn it around. But up to this point . . .
The Brown’s front office made themselves look incompetent, because they are.
Here is some Cleveland sports news I like. The Indians have been kicking butt in the early preseason, but today were almost “perfect gamed”. But with one out in the 8’th, newly signed vet Mike Napoli worked a 12 pitch walk. Then with two outs there was a double to break the no hitter, and a single to break the shutout. Way to hang in there, guys!
I don’t know if I’m being typically Cleveland about this, but I have high hopes for this team this season. Hopefully Lindor has a big, big season.
There’s a reason to be optimistic when people are saying they have a top-5 starting pitching staff.
The Spurs and Dubs are both undefeated at home. Apparently no team has ever had an regular entire season UDAH. So maybe there will be two.
Better yet, maybe they will both go UDAH through the first three rounds of the playoffs. Then, the first six games of the finals go to the home team, and the Cavs win the seventh game to end the string (and win it all!).
I actually think the Spurs can come away with it in a 7 game series with the Dubs. Call me crazy but I’m putting my money on Pop when he’s got a team THIS talented. I dont even think the last three games the warriors play against the spurs will even give any information. Pop will hold back until the playoffs.
I always listen to these… Not much to disagree with…
Kaepernick wants to play for the Browns….
Did no one listen to this, or want to comment?
It’s Friday, Holmes. We’re all livin’.