The talk about the new roundie has died down quite a bit – mostly in favor of bitching about the refs.
More and more, the guys are just playing with the thing, realizing at last that it just isn’t that big of a deal. (Moreso, they’ve probably realized David Stern isn’t budging on this one.)
In fact, last night the lil’ guy actually got a little bit of backhanded praise.
Vince Carter hit an unlikely shot that sent the Nets/Wizard game to OT – an OT that New Jersey would dominate, thus winning the game.
Afterward, Vince and Jason Kidd gave thanks to the mighty glowing object of synthetic power.
Would the old [roundie] have gone in on Carter’s last-gasp tying shot?
“If it would’ve hit like that? Heck no,” he said. “No way.”
“It didn’t rattle. It just stuck,” Kidd said. “The old [roundie] maybe just hits the rim and bounces out. But you’re going to see a lot of those [roundies] maybe get stuck and roll in or get stuck and roll off. We were very fortunate that it stuck and rolled in.”
Even we’ll admit it looked a little odd, but in this case, “odd” worked. (At least for the Nets.)
Since we have nothing else to say about that, allow us to offer up this plea for help:
See that ad at the top of this column for the sportbook place? (Click on it while you’re taking the moment to check it out – send some traffic over to the sponsors, eh?)
We don’t see it. There’s some setting on our laptop that keeps up from seeing it. Similarly, we don’t see ads on the main page of MSN DOT COM or on myspace (DOT COM!!!!).
Anyone have any idea why this is? It’s not really a big deal, except that whatever it is also blocking us from seeing NBA League Pass on our computer. (We think it has something to do with Flash-based things? Dunno – that’s why we’re asking.)
It’s not a huge deal, except that if we could get that running, we could have a game on TV and one on the computer, thus bringing us one step closer to a seizure, something we’ve always been curious about.
Whoever can fix this gets a free Who Shot Mamba? shirt of their choice from the YAYsports! Store of Purchasable Goods.
Email or comments section is cool – thanks in advance.
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ha, ha , ha .
to think that vc is one of those who hates the ball. he predicted that scores will low ‘coz of the new ball .
the nba shd. have intro’d this ball earlier .we wld. have won the raptors-philly series years ago lost on vc’s last sec missed shot !
How will the new orange roundie help/hurt the WNBA? That’s the real question.
I clicked on your gambling link. I have no problem giving them my credit card number. I put a bet on #08 to score a touchdown. (But you don’t get that joke, ’cause you can’t see the banner.)
That’s not flash, it’s an animated gif. What browser are you using? Is it Firefox with an adblocking extension? The league pass thingy uses windows media player.
Thing is, the ads don’t show up in IE or Opera either. It’s something deeper – it’s been like this since I got this machine. (sad face!)
ahh three columns
drool…
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