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Message: [QUOTE="SWC75, post: 1262949, member: 289"] Carmelo Anthony played “his first game of 2015” scoring 25 points in London but the Knicks lost by 26 for their 16th defeat in a row. “There’s not going to win too many games this season.” Will there ever be an NBA franchise in London? “No. (the reception broke up for a moment here)…too much travel. Imagine you’ve come from LA to London for a game and now you have to go back to LA. It would be brutal. Besides they don’t want European pro basketball to suffer. The Cleveland Cavaliers “will get going. They are not a great team. They need LeBron playing. They will be a factor in the playoffs. “ Heidi called in and asked about Jim’s favorite reading material. He mentioned in an earlier show that he likes Daniel Silva and Patricia Cornwall. Does he like Emily Griffith? He’s a huge fan, especially the last one about the football coach. Emily went to Wake Forest and was a student manager for the basketball team there. . Heidi asked if Jim hands out books to his players to read, as Phil Jackson does. No he doesn’t. “They have enough to read with their course work.” They’ve lost 16 in a row so I don’t think they are reading those books. About Phil’s books: “Zen works if you have good players.” Al in Clay said that basketball is a “faster, more physical game than it used to be”. He wondered if there should be an increase in the number of fouls allowed? (I’d agree that it’s more physical but is it ‘faster’?) JB: I like it but it didn’t work when the Big East tried it years ago. There were more fouls. I’d like to see them widen the lane and have a shorter shot clock.” What did the coach think of the college football playoff? “It was good college football. Ohio State is really good. They have three top flight quarterbacks and plenty of young players. They will be even better next year.” “I don’t think that kid, (Jones) will start He played only those three games and may or may not get playing time. He needs more time in college. He’d be eaten alive in the NFL.” Matt noted that Dion Waiters never started but was a fourth overall draft choice. “Ohio State is so good they could probably give time to more than one quarterback. But not three guys.” What about Marcus Mariotta in the NFL? “Look at guys like Manuel, griffin and even Cam Newton who have struggled. Mariotta runs around. Can he make those throws. NFL quarterbacks are not running quarterbacks. You’ve got some big people coming after you. 320 pounds up front with agility. 260 pound linebackers with speed. One hit and you’re out.” “Ohio State is pretty good but if they’d beaten Wisconsin by a normal score they wouldn’t have gone. TCU would be in instead. They don’t need 16 but they need to go to 8. That would cover everybody with a legitimate chance to win.” He’s not worried about the number of games.” Only two teams play that last game and they wouldn’t trade the extra practice session and recognition they get to have played fewer games. If they are really worried about the number of games played, they’d shorted the regular season. They will go to 8. They’ll insist they won’t but they will.” He likes the Patriots over the Colts at home. “Brady’s still in his prime. They have the bets coach in football- maybe ever. But Seattle is pretty good- I think they’ll repeat. “ What does Coach think of the plans to speed up baseball? They are planning to put limitations on how long pitchers have to pitch in Triple A and Double A next year. Jim’s in favor. “It’s something you need to do”. But will they do it? I came across this from Keith Olbermann: [MEDIA=youtube]fMmt3YXjC34[/MEDIA] Apparenlty there is already a 12 second rule in place. It’s just never been enforced. Has Jim seen any movies this season? He usually sees them in hotels because his kids aren’t interested. He’s not seen anything that got nominated. This is where he mentioned “Birdcage”. I guess we can be glad he votes in the USA Today poll for college basketball teams and not the Oscars. [/QUOTE]

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