Normally, Greg Anthony’s constant “Ball so hard”-ing drives me crazy, but it works pretty well here. Because, holy milk, Andray Blatche took one heck of a shot to the face from Kyle O’Quinn, right in the nose bone. Ouchie.
(via CJ Fogler)
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Video: Andray Blatche takes high-speed, point-blank pass to the face
Posted by Trey Kerby under Brooklyn Nets, Score Video on Jan 29, 2013
Jerry Stackhouse will fight you on Twitter
Posted by Trey Kerby under Brooklyn Nets, Technology on Jan 24, 2013
I am kind of nervous to even write this post, considering what we know what happened to Kirk Snyder. Nonetheless, I will continue apace, letting everyone know that if you criticize Jerry Stackhouse on Twitter, you should expect a response. And not a happy one, either — a real Jerry Stackhouse kind of response.
These come from The Brooklyn Game because Ol’ JerBear already deleted them from his Twitter:
@jkrugelhead get your followers up.. You’re not even worthy of a response
@BSchulzBKN Fans want interaction but when it’s not what you want to hear.. It’s rude and defensive.. Ok
@BSchulzBKN we’ll take pride in the fact your team is 11-1 this year! If I was 36-36 you’d still find something to complain about! Be Happy
@BSchulzBKN Thx! Educate me b/c I’ve never been a fan.. Always on the other side..
@baptiste718 @marshon2 neither one of us make that call. When our number is called we play our mins, if not, we support the other #teammate
@BSchulzBKN wonder if I came to your cubicle and critiqued your work and put it up for public consumption, would your view change??
@jkrugelhead Aren’t you a nets fan? Or just a Marshon fan? This is the best this team has been in loooong time!!
@alboboy98 @ed_boulanger I really don’t mind.. I like to argue sometimes! Lol
@BSchulzBKN I will… Shots come and go just like some “Fans”. I’ve shot 0-1 in 4 of the last 5 game. I’m really struggling? Gtfoh
So many great zings to take from this. Personally, I feel like “get your followers up” is going to be something that I incorporate in to my everyday hater patrolling. It just seems like a very good way to cut to the core of someone’s insecurities and I’m thankful to Jerry Stackhouse for dreaming it up.
Also, if you get Jerry really upset, he’ll send you a direct message explaining how his efficiency isn’t that bad.
If we’ve learned anything about Jerry Stackhouse during his 15,000-year career it’s that he loves singing the national anthem. But if we’ve learned anything else, it’s that you don’t mess with Jerry Stackhouse. Apparently, that even means over Twitter, which is pretty weird to think about when you consider the internet barely existed when Jerry first entered the NBA. I guess this is growing up.
Video: C.J. Watson flopped on J.J. Barea ‘to give him a taste of his own medicine’
Posted by Trey Kerby under Brooklyn Nets, Score Video on Jan 24, 2013
Does that look like a flop to you? It sure looks like a flop to me. And the broadcasters. And J.J. Barea, who would know a flop when he sees one.
Oh, and C.J. Watson too. He totally agrees it’s a flop.
As far as I can tell, this is the first flop zing since Nic Batum punched a guy in the balls during the Olympics. And considering there was zero fist-to-genitals striking involved in this incident, I’d say we’re growing as a society. Yes, it could cost C.J. Watson a few dollars to change the world — since admitting you successfully flopped on purpose just seems like something that could draw an automatic fine — but I think it’s worth it.
Less nut-punching in 2013. That’s the new motto.
(via The Brooklyn Game)
Video: Jerry Stackhouse hates this stupid jump ball stuff
Posted by Trey Kerby under Brooklyn Nets, New York Knicks, Score Video on Jan 22, 2013
We talked about this on today’s episode of The Fix but you have to see just how angry Jerry Stackhouse gets about this blown call. There’s literally no reason this is a jump ball, so I understand Jerry protesting the tip by not jumping, but Carmelo is lucky that his giggles didn’t get him the Kirk Snyder treatment from Ol’ JerBear. He’s not a man to be trifled with.
(via Oskar Jamtander)
Video: Nets learn Russian things, wear silly hats
Posted by Trey Kerby under Brooklyn Nets, Score Video on Jan 16, 2013
It’s kind of hard to put a price on it, but I think I’d pay about $16 to watch just Brook Lopez answering these questions. No offense to Reggie Evans and MarShon Brooks, who are great, but anything a Lopez twin says is automatically the best.
(via PBT/The Brooklyn Game)
The time Kirk Snyder thanked Jerry Stackhouse for beating him up
Posted by Trey Kerby under Brooklyn Nets, Dallas Mavericks on Jan 10, 2013
Jonathan Abrams alert, everybody. Grantland’s superb NBA features writer just dropped another excellent word bomb, this time on the very long careers of Jerry Stackhouse and Rasheed Wallace. As is the custom, it is recommended that you read the entire thing immediately after enjoying this first delicious taste.
It’s the behind-the-scenes story of the time Jerry Stackhouse beat up former NBA bro Kirk Snyder after a game, which is pretty timely considering the whole Melo-KG brouhaha. Here we go.
That first Dallas season also featured the defining Jerry Stackhouse, Tough Guy story. It happened after Utah rookie Kirk Snyder took a cheap shot at him under the basket during a game. Stackhouse retaliated with one of his own. Both men thought they were even. Nope. They bumped into each other a few plays later and … well, Stackhouse can explain the rest.
“Boom, he punched me in the stomach with an open fist,” Stackhouse said, incredulously. “I was like, ‘OK, I can go crazy right now and get suspended for two or three games and lose this money.’ The smart side of me said, ‘No, I’m not going to do that. But I’m going to get this boy.’ You don’t put your hands on me. I can deal with a lot of verbal stuff and wolfing and all that, but you put your hands on me, no. And I thought I had cleaned it up, but obviously I hadn’t.”
When the game ended, Stackhouse recalls asking the training staff for a warm-up suit, then waiting on the docks where Utah’s bus would depart. “I ain’t even shower,” Stackhouse recalls. “I put on some sweats, some sneakers, and I went and stood in the tunnel. As soon as [Snyder] came out, I fired on him. I got in a couple. That was it. I don’t know where all these security people came from. It probably lasted 20 seconds. Everybody pulled me off and that was it.”
And that’s how an NBA urban legend is born. Only, in this case, it actually happened: the time Jerry Stackhouse saved a few bucks by beating up Kirk Snyder after a Mavs-Jazz game. They ran into each other again the following year, after Snyder had been traded to New Orleans. Again, he approached Stackhouse in the tunnel. “He started walking to me,” Stackhouse remembers. “I closed my fists, wondering what’s this fool up to, thinking we’re about to go in. He just came in and opened his hand out to me and said, ‘Man, I really needed that.’” Snyder told Stackhouse that he had been struggling to get onto the court and wanted to impress his coach, Jerry Sloan. “I was just like, ‘Damn, next time just get my number. You want to talk to somebody, we can do that without me having to pay a $1,000 fine. But it was the weirdest thing I had ever witnessed. You get into some knuckles with someone and they come back and tell you, ‘I needed that.’”
And that, my friends, is why Jerry Stackhouse topped Tom Ziller’s list of the NBA’s most terrifying men and has beaten up so many people that he has his own top five list. Because he’ll save some money by beating you up after the game, then go out and sing the national anthem. If that happened today, it’d be a 30-game suspension.
Go read this whole thing, for stories like this, Rasheed Wallace warming up in a football helmet and Darvin Ham describing Sheed’s D-League coaching advice as “mental jewels.” It’s pretty much the best, just like having both of these guys in the league. So good.
Blatche returns to D.C. tomorrow, Booker hopes ‘he makes it out alive’
Posted by Trey Kerby under Brooklyn Nets, Washington Wizards on Jan 03, 2013
I am not sure how the whole id-ego-superego psyche portion of the dearly departed Knucklehead Wizards breaks down, but I do know that JaVale McGee was the silly side of the coin and Andray Blatche was the dark side. While we all delighted in JaVale’s antics, anything notable that Andray Blatche did was truly embarrassing. JaVale McGee tried to get triple-doubles, Andray Blatche got sent home because he was out of shape. You see what I mean.
And that’s why tomorrow’s Wizards-Nets game is such a big deal, because it’s Blatche’s first time back in D.C. Trevor Booker says he should be prepared. From the Washington Post:
Booker said he already knows what kind of reaction his former teammate will receive when he makes his debut in an opposing team’s uniform.
“Probably a lot of boos,” he said. “I heard they got extra security over on his bench, just in case somebody wants to throw stuff. So I don’t know how true that is.”
Booker then joked, “I hope he makes it out alive.”
Perhaps I am underestimating how embarrassing Andray Blatche was to the Washington, D.C. metro area, but I am going to guess that he will make it out of the Verizon Center alive. At the very least, he has the Predator on his side now, so the odds are in his favor.
Booing though? That’s going to happen. Ohhh, that’s going to happen. This is a fan base that booed Andray Blatche when he was on their team and one of their highest-paid players, so now that he’s been amnestied and the team is still paying a portion of his salary and he’s finally in shape and he’s contributing to a winning team, yeah they’re going to boo him. Loudly. Like super loud. Like turn up your TV so you can bask in the hate loud.
Personally, I can’t wait. It’ll be like we finished a movie about the Knucklehead Wizards and during the credits they’re telling us what happened to all those guys once they left the team. You know, like “Gilbert Arenas is out of the NBA” or “Antawn Jamison can’t get off the bench for the most disappointing Lakers team of our generation” or “Rashard Lewis is now in the rotation for the defending NBA champion Miami Heat.” It’s going to be great. Set your DVRs now.
