Comments on: Playoff “Quarterbacks”: Rajon Rondo or Tom Brady?

By: Mac Toney

Mac Toney — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 02:36:51 +0000

I enjoyed this post / article. Good job!!! Rondo IS quickly becoming an elite guard though. Still would give Brady the Boston edge. 3 Super Bowls is still amazing!

By: hk

hk — Tue, 25 May 2010 08:54:12 +0000

Typical Pats fan. Neil, "you're better than that". ;)

By: KevinG

KevinG — Mon, 24 May 2010 22:50:34 +0000

That cross-over he laid on Williams should be illegal.

By: Jason J

Jason J — Mon, 24 May 2010 20:41:59 +0000

I think part of the reason that Isiah was such a truly horrible announcer was that he hated Jordan so much, but he announced in the 1998 season, which everyone treated as a farewell tour to MJ where no one was allowed to do anything but gush over how Mike was the greatest thing since sliced Gatorade. It must have been constantly galling. "Michael's going to use his brains and his strempf, to back his man down to where HE wants to be."

By: P Middy

P Middy — Mon, 24 May 2010 20:00:37 +0000

"Michael Jordan is like an old man in the park, using his stempf against the younger players."
--Isiah Thomas

By: Ricardo

Ricardo — Mon, 24 May 2010 17:38:44 +0000

Oh, and Magic had an excellent bad call at the start of his broadcasting career: when Clyde Drexler made a move to get through a double team, NBC showed a replay in which Magic said, "And here's Clyde with the (beat) splits 'em." Followed by awkward silence.

By: Ricardo

Ricardo — Mon, 24 May 2010 17:36:08 +0000

I still don't know what "hand down, man down" means.

By: P Middy

P Middy — Mon, 24 May 2010 17:12:33 +0000

Jackson also said that the Magic had "no pressure on them" coming into game three. Probably the dumbest thing said by a non-Walton announcer in the history of the Playoffs. I mean, when Dick Stockton says dumb stuff it's because he's too old to tell the players apart and can't be bothered to see what the call the ref made actually was. Then again, Magic Johnson and Isiah Thomas announced during the Playoffs. Probably a safe bet they beat out Jackson at some point.

By: Neil Paine

Neil Paine — Mon, 24 May 2010 17:00:44 +0000

Of course many of these Triangle guys were point guards in name only, but sometimes it's tough to make that distinction without being arbitrary. Here I defined a team's "primary PG" as the leading playoff assist man on the team whose primary or secondary career position was PG. Technically, they were all point guards, and that's all we're really going for here anyway.

By: Jason J

Jason J — Mon, 24 May 2010 16:49:29 +0000

Ron Harper and John Paxson were point guards the same way that Byron Scott was a point guard. They were the smallest guards in the starting lineup and thus matched up against the other team's point guards except when they didn't (like against the Lakers). Michael Jordan played point guard for Chicago in 1989, and Pippen did every year after that. And that is a scientific fact as proved by Sir Isaac Newton in the pages of Cracked magazine. Look it up.