Comments on: USA Basketball Game 5: USA 106 – Germany 57 http://KnickerBlogger.Net/usa-basketball-game-5-usa-106-germany-57/ The NBA's indispensible, premier analytical blog. Thu, 23 May 2013 09:02:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: jon abbey http://KnickerBlogger.Net/usa-basketball-game-5-usa-106-germany-57/#comment-260993 jon abbey Thu, 21 Aug 2008 11:35:51 +0000 http://www.knickerblogger.net/?p=826#comment-260993 “It was just a joke. And not a very good one at that.”

it rarely is. and it’s a battery, not a condiment bottle.

http://static.boomkat.com/images/70750/333.jpg

]]> By: Thomas B. http://KnickerBlogger.Net/usa-basketball-game-5-usa-106-germany-57/#comment-260819 Thomas B. Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:27:10 +0000 http://www.knickerblogger.net/?p=826#comment-260819 two things:

1. There is only 1 ‘t’ in biting.

2. Jon, dont get upset. It was just a joke. And not a very good one at that.

]]> By: Thomas B. http://KnickerBlogger.Net/usa-basketball-game-5-usa-106-germany-57/#comment-260818 Thomas B. Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:25:15 +0000 http://www.knickerblogger.net/?p=826#comment-260818 For more nail bitting play by play, vist jon at http://www.angrycondimentbottle.com

News, notes, inside information, shameless plugs, and everything else that makes jon so indespensible to the world of basketball.

]]> By: jon abbey http://KnickerBlogger.Net/usa-basketball-game-5-usa-106-germany-57/#comment-260817 jon abbey Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:08:05 +0000 http://www.knickerblogger.net/?p=826#comment-260817 US on a 17-0 run, up 69-43 and Bogut is hurt, this one’s over.

two to go, Argentina or Greece, then Spain or Lithuania.

]]> By: jon abbey http://KnickerBlogger.Net/usa-basketball-game-5-usa-106-germany-57/#comment-260811 jon abbey Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:39:30 +0000 http://www.knickerblogger.net/?p=826#comment-260811 also, Snapper Jones told me today that he thought the Knicks would be surprisingly good this season. he’s a D’Antoni fan and he said that a “cloud has been lifted”. he also isn’t a Ricky Rubio believer, but I think that’s more because he thinks the Pete Maravich comparisons are absurd than anything else.

that’s my report…

]]> By: jon abbey http://KnickerBlogger.Net/usa-basketball-game-5-usa-106-germany-57/#comment-260810 jon abbey Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:28:36 +0000 http://www.knickerblogger.net/?p=826#comment-260810 Australia giving the US all they can handle so far, 33-28 US now.

]]> By: Brian Cronin http://KnickerBlogger.Net/usa-basketball-game-5-usa-106-germany-57/#comment-260787 Brian Cronin Wed, 20 Aug 2008 08:39:30 +0000 http://www.knickerblogger.net/?p=826#comment-260787

doesn’t that mean that the Toronto Raptors can sign him?

I think the Raptors would be considered part of the NBA, which is a US company.

The regs are striking in how broad they apply.

]]> By: Dave http://KnickerBlogger.Net/usa-basketball-game-5-usa-106-germany-57/#comment-260774 Dave Wed, 20 Aug 2008 07:22:34 +0000 http://www.knickerblogger.net/?p=826#comment-260774 Gosh, that was an awful half of basketball. Very tough to watch.

]]> By: jon abbey http://KnickerBlogger.Net/usa-basketball-game-5-usa-106-germany-57/#comment-260763 jon abbey Wed, 20 Aug 2008 06:28:29 +0000 http://www.knickerblogger.net/?p=826#comment-260763 hopefully your TV sets didn’t shatter, if anyone saw that.

]]> By: jon abbey http://KnickerBlogger.Net/usa-basketball-game-5-usa-106-germany-57/#comment-260762 jon abbey Wed, 20 Aug 2008 06:20:12 +0000 http://www.knickerblogger.net/?p=826#comment-260762 anyone watching USA now, the Spain/Croatia quarterfinal is about to start. I’m about to be on TV to the right of the anchor…

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