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April 29, 2006
JOE STEVENS: ``In the barn,'' ``off the hook,'' ``short!''
Heard a comment under the breath of a Clipper executive in Denver on Saturday night, and it was this: ``Too good to be true.''
For sooooo long, Clipper fans (and their executives) have hoped for some sort of success, any type of success that isn't just part of rebuilding. The most wins in Clipper history -- that's success. Winning a playoff series -- that's success again.
The Clippers are ``in the barn,'' and this ain't euchre. With the way the Denver Nuggets are playing, I don't know how the Nuggets are going to win Game 5 in L.A. But crazy things happen, and we might be in store for one of the craziest things L.A. pro basketball has ever seen -- a Clipper/Laker playoff series. Got one phrase to describe what that could be -- ``Off the hook.''
In other news, I realize that not many people in blog world may be interested to hear about the shooting feats of a mysterious man named the X-Man. But in his day and maybe even now, Dunleavy, Radmanovic, whomever -- they couldn't hang with the X-Man. ``Short!'' Yes, the X-Man yelled ``Short!'' after practically every shot. But they went in. He's still good. He needs an agent.
Posted by Joe Stevens at April 29, 2006 11:27 PM
Comments
Joe,
X-man as in Xavier McDaniel? The only other X-man out there playing sports is a relatively unknown golfer from the suburbs of Cleveland whose birth name escapes me right now. The comments sound much more like the antics of the latter rather than the former. Does X-man the golfer shoot hoops?
Posted by: Harry Minaki at April 30, 2006 04:39 PM
I think I have heard of this X-Man. If it is the guy I'm thinking of, he was one generation before McDaniel. I think he was in the same backcourt with World B. Free.
Great shooter, but I think his career was cut short by a bad toe. Is that the guy?
Posted by: Carlos at May 1, 2006 07:34 AM
The X-man I recall is good with numbers but is painfully weak. Not the guy you want in the paint.
Posted by: Anne at May 5, 2006 08:20 AM