tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15982458293935339992010-07-14T09:44:34.929-05:00A (Mostly) D-League BlogScotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14697911617374593746scott.schroeder@ymail.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1598245829393533999.post-53858852139229336192008-10-26T21:21:00.003-05:002008-11-06T19:38:54.812-06:00

Looking over at my favorite forum, OurSportsCentral, I saw some people looking for what this years draft picks are doing.  Knowing that each team only picked 30 players, figured this was a task I could handle.  Knowing the majority of the players will wind up in either the D-League or overseas as they did last year, I'm assuming the majority of the nothing yet's will probably hear their name

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Today, Matt, the main writer over at the other blog I write on, RidiculousUpside, had a post on how Nick Fazekas didn't deserve to get cut.  It was backed up pretty well, citing Dave Berri from Wages of Wins, letting readers know how he was the most underrated player in last years NBA draft and backing it up with a bunch of statistics that don't mean much to the average person.  Really, he "

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"Why Schenschational?" is a question that has come up a few times.  Easy answer: Luke Schenscher, what else.  However, since I've had 300 visits to my website already (That's an average of 13.6 visits PER DAY!), I figured I'd take a little time to explain myself.  I root for the underdog.  Growing up, I was a Packer fan in a state full of Vikings fans (after the couple of Super Bowl wins, the

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Knowing my affinity for big white scrubs (Luke Schenscher and Les Jepsen among them), my biggest accomplishment is probably meeting Paul Mokeski.  This Summer, upon learning I was getting the chance to intern for the Vegas Summer League, I called former Wizards coach Dean Martin to see if he could find a good cheap hotel for me close to UNLV, as I didn't really want to pay too much to go down and

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EliteXC, home of Kimbo Slice and little else (so basically nothing), has finally shut down today, according to Josh Gross at SI.com. Good riddance. It was the first MMA promotion on regular cable, and though this should have been great for the sport, they found a way to ruin the integrity Dana White's UFC has worked so hard to achieve.  Using Kimbo Slice and his youtube bumfights as viral video

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Since this is Ridiculous Upside, today I'm looking at the players that got cut today in favor of guys with (the opposite of Ridiculous Upside?).Today, the Chicago Bulls cut Darius Washington and Elton Brown, the Milwaukee Bucks cut Ron Howard and Kevin Kruger, and the Philadelphia 76ers cut Antywane Robinson. Though all of these cuts were expected, it's disappointing for it to have happened, as

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So, I didn't watch this game last night (LSU-South Carolina), but just came across this play, and loved Deadspin's comment about it.. If Ed Hochuli and Tim Donaghy had a baby, this guy would be it...I'm not quite sure how this is legal, or even makes sense, but it kind of makes me wonder how many refs are legit...

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Tonight, I went to the Timberwolves-Nuggets game tonight in Bismarck, North Dakota. As expected, Blake Ahearn did what he does, close out games. Tonight, however, it wasn't from the line. Ahearn came in for the last 4 and 1/2 minutes of the game, and played at the 2-guard spot, alongside Kevin Ollie. Blake's played the point pretty much all the time, but both in Vegas at Summer League and

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Now that we know the draft order, and Matt's thoughts on how ridiculous the process is, lets look at how important the draft even is. In most sports, a good draft can turn a team around, but in the D-League, if you draft a couple NBA call-ups with your first couple picks and don't find any sleepers later, come mid-January, your team could look terrible, losing it's first couple picks either to

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Taking a page from former D-League baller Rod Benson, who played here in Bismarck a season and a half, I'd like to further inform players about how great the nightlife in Bismarck is.Wednesday night, "Ladies Night", at Bucks (the bar in town you go to if you're into hanging out in large crowds, not being able to have any conversations due to very loud rap music, and like watching your average

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I decided to put this together as a look at what fringe players that played in the D-League last season have a shot at the NBA. I included some of the assigned players, but most players that were assigned will probably stick with their team this year as well, thus already knowing what this season has in store for them. Boston CelticsPatrick O'Bryant - The Notorious P.O.B. will likely stick with

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Sitting at work today, already having gone through every site that I have on my google reader and looking for stuff even more random, I decided to check out Basketball-Reference.com, one of my favorite sites of all time. While there and trying to become unbored, I see the link on the site entitled "Frivolity". I didn't think was a word, but it seemed to be the perfect way to waste the remaining

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I'm going to work on doing profiles for most of the players that I remember from the last two D-League seasons, being as these are the only 2 seasons that I've followed the League. I'll start with the more highly acclaimed and work my way through the rest of the rosters..First Team All D-League, 2007Lou Amundson - Amundson was a midseason call-up to Philadelphia and played in Philly last year as

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One Season is something I just found about through a blog post from CNBC's Darren Rovell this afternoon. It's an interesting concept, explained on the OneSeason.com website as such:OneSeason.com is a virtual sports trading platform with social features and content for sports fans. The system provides sports enthusiasts with a way to compete, interact and have a vested interest in their

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This is an old story I wrote about 2 years ago, but I've edited it and did some revisions. Enjoy?For some background, I'll give you this: As per requirements to get my degree, I had to do a 90 hour practicum in sports. Somehow, I got a hold of the General Manager of the Dakota Wizards, Tom Wagganer, and was able to work with them over the extremely long Bemidji State Christmas break. Nothing

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A couple sites (Bleacher Report, MMARated, MMAJunkie) are reporting that Ken Shamrock is out tonight with an injury, reportedly a cut over his eye. After taking the beatings he has in recent fights, I believe he cuts easily, but this is a little ridiculous.If there was anyone that didn't think EliteXC resembles WWE more than UFC, this pretty much confirms it. I wouldn't be surprised if it comes

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With the lull in basketball (don't ask why I picked that word... Every key on this keyboard works except the sticky 'L' key and I need to type 5 L's in 6 letters with this heading... Ridiculous), I've decided today to blog about another favorite thing of mine: Mixed Martial Arts. MMA is rapidly growing, due in a large part to the 18-35 males who like seeing people get the crap beat out of them

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Today, when visiting my favorite site, NBA.com/Dleague, I saw that they had the media day photos of some of the D-League guys in training camp. While scrolling through, I saw the good (Birdman Chris Andersen sporting many tat's, including one on his right wrist that I gather is probably a tribute to Vince Young... Nice that crazy people stick together), the Bad (the Notorious P.O.B. trying to

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