HQ Rookie-Sophomore Game Recap

personally I don't find these types of games entertaining. Street ball one on one play. AB lack of aggression showed up big time when compared to the other players. Lots of watching. Moon looked to have a good time.

These games are really boring, I was really excited to watch it with moon and bargs but after the first half i got really tired of it.

Didn't understand why Charles was in love with Yi's game....heres a conspiracy theory for you: the nba told charles to say good things about Yi to make the massive number of chinease ppl and chinease government happy....all i could come up with because his game is nothing spectacular yet especially when compared to some of the guys playing on the court.

However I don't think you can blame the commentators too much for their comments, they hardley get to see these guys on a regular basis so they probably base their opinion from stat lines, what they read and what they hear...its not right but its probably the way it goes.

Nice to hear Kenny Smith say the raps are one of the best kept secrets in the league.....then i thought about it and wondered why that with so much publicity any team in the league could be a "secret"?

oh well heres hoping kopono and moon can bring two title to Toronto.

As much as I love the general commentary of Barkley and the TNT crew, their ignorance at times is downright fustrating. With all the information and blogs available on the game of basketball, it seems Barkley would rather show off his fancy golf swing than due his homework. And how does Kenny refer to any NBA team as a "secret". I know that I read about the NBA for just a few minutes a day and I seem to have a fairly good knowlege of where all teams stand. All Charles has to do is watch "NBA TV DAILY" for a week to know that Calderon is an allstar, Andrea doesn't just shoot jumpers and Jamario definetly has a chance at winning the dunk contest. Am I biased towards my team? of couse...but it's like TNT thinks they play in another league!

Sean Williams is worth the price of admission!! Le Freak Elastique can FLY. As long as he stays out of trouble, he can be a player in the 'L'. I think that the TNT crew are right in their assessment of the raps as a team under the radar, and in fact its true- and is to their benefit. Barkley is one that always goes on random rants about who he thinks is best in his extempore fashion- never does his homework. Funny to see he acted like he didn't know Jamario Moon was from Bama'. Psyched to see Kap and Moon tonite, have no idea what Moon has under his sleeve, but it should be JAMtastic.

It's easy to say that all commentators should know about every team, and in a perfect world they would, but the truth is, when you're talking about former players, you're not gonna get that. Guys like Charles Barkley have many other endeavors to attend to in their day-to-day life, on top of the very demanding schedule put on them by their analyst jobs, thus to expect them to sit down and read blogs for every team out there is not reasonable.

The solution to this would be to get very knowledgeable observers, people who can invest 100% of their time in this job. The problem there is that these kind of people are less interesting to the average fan. Would you rather listen to Joe Basketball-egghead or a bombastic and genuinely charming and entertaining hall of famer like Charles Barkley? I actually would probably go for the former, but I've accepted long ago that I'm a different kind of fan than 99.9% of sports fans, so I take what I can get and try my best to appreciate the fun of the Charles Barkleys out there, while doing my best to take in good nature that they couldn't name you the starting 5 of the Charlotte Bobcats if you spotted them 3. Like it or not, if TNT announced tomorrow that they are replacing Kenny Smith and Charles Barkley with John Hollinger and Rod Thorpe, most people would laugh at them, and their ratings would tank. Even I'm not convinced they would make for a better show anyway.

Besides, there are few things more enjoyable than hearing an out-of-town announcer who's never heard of him incredulously repeat how impressed they are with "this Jose Calderon fellow" when the Raps come to town. =P

I don't take it personal when some Yank talking head disses a T dot or Canadian team, it's always been that way and always will.

But I really don't find Charles that funny, he's become quite boring.

He was a better player than studio dude or whatever...was that considered commentary last night?

Breaking News: Mike Bibby traded for a tv dinner.

Actually it was for shelden williams, anthony johnson, tyrone lue, lorenzen wright and a second round pick.

Not the ideal pg for the hawks as he is still a bit too much shoot first pass second however it is a massive upgrade over what they've previously had and I wouldn't be suprised if they were able to catch the Wizards which will be very important because you really do not want to play the Pistons or Celtics.

The Hawks desperatly need some depth now.....wonder if they'd be willing to part with marvin williams for some of the raptors depth? (Wouldn't want Josh Smith, I hear he's a bit of a headcase although he's probably the best player on that team)

maybe we should get barkley to work with bargs for a while, teach him how to rebound.