Comments on: Knicks Morning News (Monday, Oct 22 2012)

By: jon abbey

jon abbey — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 22:04:14 +0000

Bruno Almeida:
“I don’t have much respect for the world of academia in general” goes a long way to show how incredibly arrogant you are.

I’m definitely arrogant, but I stand by that statement. academia is insular, self-reinforcing, and generally unconnected to the real world. much like most of Dave Berri’s analysis, actually. :)

thanks, Brian and ruru! here is a pic from Saturday’s homecoming football game just after we all got introduced on the field at halftime, that’s me with the finger which is the same one we used back in the day:

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8473/8106976833_c9482e5aae_b.jpg

By: Bruno Almeida

Bruno Almeida — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 21:50:06 +0000

jon abbey: also, I’m operating under the assumption THCJ isn’t even a full professor until I see proof otherwise. I don’t have much respect for the world of academia in general, but even they have standards. :)

your comments are normally below average, but this one hurts my eyes, I'm sorry. "I don't have much respect for the world of academia in general" goes a long way to show how incredibly arrogant you are.

By: ruruland

ruruland — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 21:24:27 +0000

Brian Cronin: Yeah, congrats on the HoF induction, Jon. Very cool.

thirded.

By: Brian Cronin

Brian Cronin — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 20:38:13 +0000

Yeah, congrats on the HoF induction, Jon. Very cool.

By: jon abbey

jon abbey — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 20:37:29 +0000

thanks! it’s obviously a low profile sport (we got more attention this week than most of the time we were in school), but the basketball equivalent would have been the Larry Johnson/Stacy Augmon UNLV team which easily won a NCAA title then returned everyone, but in our case, add in a recent-Kentucky-type recruiting class and the fact that we actually repeated as national champions, pretty sure it was the best collegiate fencing team ever and I was co-captain both years.

also, I’m operating under the assumption THCJ isn’t even a full professor until I see proof otherwise. I don’t have much respect for the world of academia in general, but even they have standards. :)

By: Z-man

Z-man — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 20:31:44 +0000

I love it when abbey and jowles go at it at the hissyfit level. PS congrats on the HOF induction, jon, even if it doesn’t translate into skill as a b-ball analyst nearly as well as Jowles’ Ph.D.

By: thenamestsam

thenamestsam — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 20:08:23 +0000

jon abbey: Jerome James, you mean, and that is a good example. to me it looked like Hill turned a corner, but you’re right that if everyone’s healthy, he probably won’t get so many minutes to show it since most other teams play so small these days.

Blargh, Jerome James. Immediately before I posted the comment I was like oh wait...Jerome Jordan was actually the Jamacain dude from last year. Then I thought about it, remembered it was Jerome James, and somehow still typed the wrong name. Which I also almost did about 3 times in writing this comment. Those two names are just tangled in my brain.

By: jon abbey

jon abbey — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 19:55:19 +0000

you probably still think Fields is a better player than Shumpert, don’t you?

By: jon abbey

jon abbey — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 19:50:21 +0000

heh, let me fix that for you….

“I’ll continue to post about the statistics that produce lists that look like they were created with a dartboard, and you continue to praise Shumpert like he’s the most exciting rookie NY has seen in decades.”

By: The Honorable Cock Jowles

The Honorable Cock Jowles — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 19:45:06 +0000

Good. That makes both of us! I’ll continue to post about the statistics that occasionally produce an “outlier” target for criticism, and you continue to fellate Shumpert like he’s a hybrid Gary Payton/Clyde Drexler… only better.

I’m confident that a team built even naively on WP48 would crush your eyetest team, and I’m only sorry that we won’t get to see that happen. But the Nuggets are close enough, and it’ll be fun to see them tear up the West, so long as George Karl doesn’t somehow trade for Al Harrington and ruin their potential again.