Inside The NBA 1-5-2011

[nuraman00]

Chris Webber is a studio host today.

[nuraman00]

Shaq and Webber still like SA. They say they will be fine once he comes back.

They also say Dallas is still doing a "victory lap", and that these regular season games are hard to get up for, for that team.

[nuraman00]

During the play-by-play late in the 4th quarter:

Shaq: (When a Bucks shot goes up): Yak-Yak. (That's the sound a ball makes when going through the net, apparently).

Bucks miss the shot.

Webber: Boing!

On the coaching change:

Shaq: They needed new blood. Record was 51-120. Westphal understood the game though, and it's a shame that younger players can't learn from older coaches.

Webber: Cousins needs to play above the rim a little more. He's too tall not to play more above the rim. Six games is too few though to determine whether players weren't being developed. You can't determine whether players weren't being developed after six games.

Smith: He's ok with the firing, but it shouldn't be because of DeMarcus Cousins. There's only a few guys in the league that a coach can get fired over not being able to coach (Bryant, James, Wade), and Cousins shouldn't be one of them. He's not that good yet.

[nuraman00]

IMO, studio hosts almost always take the side of the coach. Not saying they don't have the right to take that opinion, but just an observation about them.