Author: Tim Russo (Page 58 of 89)

Lebron & Larry – MJ &Pip?

October 10, 2005 /

An ESPN reporter has been hanging around Cavs camp, and sounds just a little caught up in the hype…

In addition to hearing from the critics, Hughes has also heard from the supporters, those who believe he and LeBron could be a Michael Jordan-Scottie Pippen-type combination. “Everybody needs help and I’m here to help LeBron,” Hughes said. “That duo [Jordan and Pippen] did it on the offensive and defensive end and they also won championships. That’s what you have to do to be considered one of the best. I think last year I was part of the best duo [with Arenas], and this year it can be the same way with LeBron.” Actually, it could be much better.

This is starting to get scary.

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Bryant catching eyes

October 10, 2005 /

ESPN picked this up from, well, somebody…

“If he keeps growing up, [Cleveland] wideout Antonio Bryant could get some pretty nice action as a free agent next spring. He’s been productive since being traded to the Browns last year, and he seems to have a nice thing going with [Browns quarterback Trent] Dilfer right now.”

Heard from a scout, I guess.

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Cavs open pre-season tonight

October 10, 2005 /

Against the Wizards. Four games in six days…now that’s a grind. Mike Brown sounds a lot like Romeo Crennel.

“The preseason is a month long because it allows teams to get reps [repetitions], and we need reps,” he said. “We’re not good offensively. We’re not good defensively. We don’t know it yet. But the guys have gotten better. Every day there have been strides. As long as that continues, I’m happy.”

Why doesn’t every coach talk like this?

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Crennel’s sideline speech

October 10, 2005 /

Remember Romeo Crennel barking on the sidelines yesterday?

As the game lapsed into the fourth quarter with Chicago ahead, 10-6, Dilfer’s offensive line started failing him. L.J. Shelton and Joe Andruzzi had back-to-back holding calls, prompting a stern, though concise, lecture from Crennel on the sideline. “I just told them that I thought they were better than that,” Crennel said.

Keep barking, Romeo. It worked.

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Out of control Ravens next

October 10, 2005 /

With the Bengals falling to 4-1 after last night’s loss to the Jaguars, the 2-2 Browns are…gulp…contending? Next up are the Baltimore Ravens, a team which yesterday committed 21 penalties, 4 turnovers, and had 2 ejections in their 35-17 loss at Detroit. The Baltimore Sun is moved to say about the Ravens’ total meltdown, among other things….

The Ravens’ season, like their players, is spiraling out of control….

In perhaps the most humiliating performance of the team’s 10-year existence…

Ray Lewis was making excuses…does this sound like a team leader? (free registration required)

“It’s an emotional game. You can never determine how your emotions are going to go,” Ray Lewis told a crowd around his locker. Actually, championship teams determine exactly that. This team is 1-3, and it just played so out of control, you wonder how it got that one win. Lewis also was one of the primary finger-pointers, and the chorus he sang with Billick (“We have no structure right now in the league for me to comment on the officiating in an appropriate way”) and some of his teammates made for a sad tune. “You just hope [the officials] get critiqued the same way we do,” Lewis said.

The Browns new sense of professionalism looks like a perfect mismatch with the Ravens team they will meet in Baltimore next Sunday.

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