Resurgence

The last post I wrote on here was titled "Lowry -- Solid Move". WTF was I thinking.  It's funny how opinions and sentiments about athletes, sports and teams can change so quickly.  I am going to do my best to keep blasting out my thoughts, since my personal Facebook and Twitter feeds have become more or less a blog of my opinion, posts of articles and interesting news stories I find on the greatest sport ever.  Basketball.  I am going to rehash the Twitter feed for this blog, and start slowly creating the right kind of noise.  Technology has evolved since I last spoke on here, and well, lets just say I could pretty much blog anywhere anytime now.  However, like the rest of is, I have a job, I have responsibilities, and seeing as this is a hobby more or less, I need to pick and choose concise topics to write about and somewhat bring to light.  

Thanks, catch you on the flip side.

@_bigkev_

@brokeanklesblog 

 

Solid Move - Kyle Lowry

In spite of the limitations of our squads ability to attract top FAs year after year, we managed to score a solid player in Kyle Lowry via trade this off season. I remember reading about Lowry as a SLAM Magazine Punk !! He's the type of player who has fought for everything he has achieved in the league so far, and his style of play, work ethic, and attitude will definitely be positive for this Raptors squad. From his time in Memphis, to his opportunity in Houston, Kyle Lowry has been a solid improving player year by year.

Essentially the Raptors are giving this young man the keys to the car and with that being said, his ability to lead will be seen first hand by our city. I am confident that Lowry will not only step up and embrace that role, but will show many ball heads around the L that he is no pushover. On the top of my head I see a projected line up of

Lowry
Derozan
Johnson (James or Amir) - D and toughness / ability to guard the 3 in the NBA
Andrea
Jonas (apparent 2nd pick in this year's draft according to my home @seankolenko)

I can live with that, and I think Lowry in either the run and gun or 1/2 court set will work well with a lineup like that. Having Fields/Davis/Ross/Gray/Quinn coming off the bench alongside Jose (if he's still here) or whatever backup PG could give us a decent competitive squad on the court for us...key word here is could. Lowry, should excel here and his play alone can hopefully bring some smiles and turn a casual fan into a solid follower all based on the way he plays the game. In Toronto, that sometimes means a bit more.

@_bigkev_
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Landry Fields.....

Yah the newest Raptor does have a smoke show for a girlfriend, and that's the only logical reasoning I can think of for bringing him on here to play. As of 12AM yesterday, he's an official Raptor because the Knicks no matter how much they liked the guy and his girlfriend sitting behind the bench, there was no way they were going to match that ridiculous offer sheet presented to him by the Raptors.

He had a solid rookie campaign, and that's all I remember about his game. 2 years ago the Knicks sucked pretty hard, so he received minutes, and made the most of his touches on a struggling Knicks squad that year. Last year his digression could be attributed to the influx of stars like Melo, and Amare finding their groove.....but when they were out another second rounder stepped up and played a solid 10 games and became the talk of the nation (ill get to that....). Fields wasn't the guy to step up, and had a pretty mediocre year.

In all honesty, ill say it cause nobody in the paid Toronto media has the balls to say it, but here it is. Fields coming to Toronto was a plan that back fired from our cliché GM who had his best years with the Suns and is trying to build God knows what here. 20MM bucks to an unproven, 2nd rounder, who had his best year as a rookie, and now is fighting with about ummm 3-4 players in Toronto for minutes......exhale.....doesn't make sense to me at all. BC wanted Nash here and thought by throwing that stupid money at Fields, he'd block the NY deal for Nash due to salary cap and sign/trade restrictions. WRONG, WRONG. That's the worst way to make decisions, your essentially gambling. If that's the case then I guarantee you any Trader on Bay St, would do a better job managing this team (cough, cough, cough....me, lol).

I'm pretty sure a guy like OJ Mayo wouldn't mind a deal like that, and would improve the squad immediately, if a swing guy is what you were truly looking at signing this off season if the Nash debacle didn't happen....i have no idea where this guy is going great to fit in and what be truly brings to our hometown team because none of us have seen what he can do. Given the opportunity, he may rise to the occasion or be another piece on a team with no clear cut direction or substance.

This is just the start of me spitting fire once again. Thank God for tablets. @_bigkev_ is back.

Follow, @brokeanklesblog peace.

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How Ya Like Me Now!?

Not a big fan at all in regards to this Miami Heat movement but unlike a lot of peeps I have always liked the villan,  point in case my obsession with The Rock when he was a bad Guy in the WWE.  This Miami Trio reminds me a lot of that WWE obsession years ago.  I mean you loved to hate him and that's the same case with these guys.  Nobody likes what they did and everyone has been against them since day one, but look at them now, in the finals and the consensus favorite to win it all according to Vegas.

I'm not for them but wouldn't mind seeing them take it all and pumping Kool Moe Dee, during the victory parade in the all white jump suits, that would be kind of dope and a nice slap in the face to all the haters including myself. Dont you think that would be a fitting way for these three jokers to end their run this year!?!

@_bigkev_

Road Teams Getting it Done

Round 1 has just started and there have been a few pretty noticeable upsets, Memphis over the San Antonio Spurs being the main one.  Earlier this afternoon another road team took it to the Lakers convincingly, the Hornets really played well today, despite injuries to David West and Aaron Gray.

Right now the Knicks are kicking some serious ass in Boston and are up by 10 in the second 1/2.  I am really enjoying this, the predictability and notion of you know who is gonna take it before a game has been played, so far is non existent.  I know its all too early to start shooting my mouth off but I needed to let this out quick before others start stating the obvious if this trend continues.  I am really looking forward to the Denver  and OKC series that's coming.on later tonight, I'm thinking OKC in this series, but again with the trends being as they are, you never know. So far the best bet is to get that road team to cover, I'm heading to Vegas this week and will keep that in mind when placing my bets and the various sports books on the strip.

@_bigkev _
@brokeanklesblog

Do you wanna see what a MVP looks like?

Yaaaaa boy.
Killed it this season, I don even know where to begin.  I will however show some love to Rose soon times.

@_bigkev_

1,2,3?

So the Lakes begin their journey to go for 3, once again.  Its going to be interesting to see how things shape up this season out west, cause I am pretty sure the east is a lot more dominant. 

The resurgence of Chicago has been great for me and all those 80s babies, to see the team we alkaline grew up cheering for dominant.  I just wanted to drop a quick line on this, reach out to our twitter and share your playoff thoughts @brokeanklesblog

@_bigkev_