Nets podcast

Hey guys,

I don't know if you consider this to be spamming, but if you do, feel free to delete it. Personally, I consider this more of a plug.

I'm one of the hosts of 'The Crossover' - a Nets and Knicks podcast - which can be found in the iTunes music store and also on the show's host website - [url]www.thesportsstuff.com[/url]

My co-host (Pmac) and I have been doing the show for around a year now - touching on pretty much everything to do with the Nets and the Knicks. I deal with the Nets side of things, Pmac the Knicks - basically because we share a deep hatred of each-other's teams which can lead to some pretty heated discussion at times.

Anyway, just thought I'd give you guys the heads up so you can look for it in the iTunes store if you're looking for a Nets show.

Cheers.

rusty (venture), welcome aboard and i'd recommend putting up an old podcast episode so that people here can get an idea of what the show is like.

Thanks for the opportunity to gain more exposure for the show man.

Episode #33 (the most recent):
[url]http://thesportsfans.hipcast.com/download/fbba666a-9036-8477-44e7-cc5b8ee21158.mp3[/url]

Episode #32:
[url]http://thesportsfans.hipcast.com/download/777c66db-5c0a-d546-f917-6926344b2a00.mp3[/url]

cool. post more of them like the new ones after you are done with them :D

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You'll be able to listen to any past episodes as well - which is worth it for the 'Infamous Figures in Tri-State Basketball History' segments alone.

i listened to ep#32. pretty interesting.

one thing that i think is good to mention is that the shows seem to be free. i don't use itunes much, so when i heard the word "store" i immediately became less enthusiastic because i'm another internet junkie used to getting everything for free.


@rusty,
i have a little feedback for the first episode and will have more if i continue to listen. if you are indeed looking for feedback, i could post it either here or at [url=http://www.thesportspodcasters.com/boards/forumdisplay.php?f=296]your place[/url].

[QUOTE=gigantes]i listened to ep#32. pretty interesting.

one thing that i think is good to mention is that the shows seem to be free. i don't use itunes much, so when i heard the word "store" i immediately became less enthusiastic because i'm another internet junkie used to getting everything for free.


@rusty,
i have a little feedback for the first episode and will have more if i continue to listen. if you are indeed looking for feedback, i could post it either here or at [url=http://www.thesportspodcasters.com/boards/forumdisplay.php?f=296]your place[/url].[/QUOTE]
Yeah, that's a good point. All of our shows are completely free and you don't need an iTunes account to get them. It's just a matter of following that subscribe link (if you'd like), and having each new one delivered straight to your music library.

In terms of the feedback - I'd be more than happy for you to post it at my place.

Hey guys, episode #34 has finally been recorded and released. I've been flat-out busy with University stuff lately and haven't had the time to record a new show or hit the boards here as much. I'm hoping that's all about to change though.

Anyway, episode #34 is a Western Conference preview show with my buddy Dave Ang (the host of Run N Gun - a Phoenix Suns podcast). In this show, I give my predictions for the playoff teams to come out of the conference and also the teams that I think will really struggle.

Enjoy.

Episode #34:
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Episodes #35 and #36 have been recorded and released (a couple of days ago).

Episode #35 is our Eastern Conference preview show. As Pmac (my regular co-host) is still away gallivanting through Europe, my good friend Tarek stepped in to fill the void and he did an excellent job (I think anyway). In this episode, we discuss everything Eastern Conference EXCEPT the Nets and the Knicks.

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Episode #36 is our Nets and Knicks season preview show. Tarek again stepped in here to help me preview the season for both teams.

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Episode #37 has been recorded and released. In this episode, Tarek joined me once again to cover the pre-seasons for the Nets and Knicks to date, some disturbing injury news, and Eddy Curry's posterior.

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i keep meaning to start listening again.

[QUOTE=gigantes]i keep meaning to start listening again.[/QUOTE]
lol. It'd be great if you would man.

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okay, i listened to the last episode. btw, i don't use i-tunes personally and don't know much about it.

...

PROS

- the show has a casual but nevertheless energetic feel, basically lacking the usual over-the-top element and urge to produce sound bites that so many american shows suffer from. this is quite refreshing IMO.

- your voices and vocal delivery are smooth and enjoyable to listen to, sort of the exact opposite of people like steven a. smith, p.j. carlisimo and that strident ilk.

- you're obviously well-read and devoted to NBA news and NBA events. so although i presume you to be college age, and therefore young, you do come across with some significant authority and are therefore interesting to listen to.


CONS

- the opening montage seems to go on forever. you might want to cut that down some to avoid losing peoples' attention.

- with your aussie accent, "stuff" sounds more like "staff" to an american audience, so you might want to point that out when you read out your site name.

- the last show bogged down near the end by wandering over movie topics and such. it also got a little irritating hearing the phrase "looks like we're coming up on the end of such-and-such segment" so often. IMO it's okay saying that sometimes, but most of the time i'd just move on and have done with it.

...

just on general curiosity, it seems somewhat strange and amusing that you guys down under follow the NBA so avidly. but i suppose the NBA is well-followed all over the world because david stern's business model has worked so well.

meanwhole, i don't think i've ever met an american interested in aussie-league football, although apparantly our local american football team the eagles has a fantastic punter that came from down under playing aussie football... or was it rugby? name is sav rocca.

[QUOTE=gigantes]...CONS

- the opening montage seems to go on forever. you might want to cut that down some to avoid losing peoples' attention.

- with your aussie accent, "stuff" sounds more like "staff" to an american audience, so you might want to point that out when you read out your site name.

- the last show bogged down near the end by wandering over movie topics and such. it also got a little irritating hearing the phrase "looks like we're coming up on the end of such-and-such segment" so often. IMO it's okay saying that sometimes, but most of the time i'd just move on and have done with it.

...

just on general curiosity, it seems somewhat strange and amusing that you guys down under follow the NBA so avidly. but i suppose the NBA is well-followed all over the world because david stern's business model has worked so well.

meanwhole, i don't think i've ever met an american interested in aussie-league football, although apparantly our local american football team the eagles has a fantastic punter that came from down under playing aussie football... or was it rugby? name is sav rocca.[/QUOTE]
Firstly, thank you for not only the kind words, but the feedback in general. I certainly appreciate it.

In terms of those 'cons', I agree and see where you're coming from with all of them. Since I've edited the show (my regular co-host used to do that until he left to travel around Europe), I've thought that close to two minutes is a little long.

In terms of my pronunciation of the word "stuff", that's an excellent point and one that hasn't been raised with me until now. Obviously being Australian (as are all of my co-hosts), it's not something I would have thought of but in the next episode, i'll spell out 'stuff'.

In terms of the movie topics, yeah that last part doesn't normally get too bogged down. It was just a mini-rant there on my part.

When it comes to be being an NBA fan, well I have been for almost 15 years (I'm 22 now). The reason is that NBA games (during the glamor years of the league - otherwise known as the Jordan era) used to be shown on national TV here in the mornings and I could catch them before I went to school. I fell in love with the likes of MJ, Scottie, Sir Charles, Grant Hill, Penny Hardaway, and Nick Van Exel. I became a Nets fan after seeing a highlights tape that I borrowed from my local library and on that tape was Julius Erving and Derrick Coleman. I became a VC fan pretty much as soon as he got drafted and I saw footage of his unbelievable array of dunks and offensive moves in general. Then, when he performed "that dunk" in the Sydney Olympics, my man crush reached new heights.

And lastly, Rocca is a former AFL (Australian Football League) star; as is Ben Graham (the Jets punter), and Darren Bennett (the former Vikings pro-bowler). Matt McBriar (the Cowboys punter) was also born here and lived here until he was 16.

Anyway man, again, thanks for the feedback. Now, I think that's as long as this post needs to be :)

thanks for the good response, rusty.

one thing i forgot to mention from your show is being impressed with how much more serious it sounds like the knicks are. maybe not yet in terms of results, but the culture, work-ethic and dedication of the players sound like they have improved quite a lot under d'antoni.

whereas isiah would tolerate the laziness and slack attitude of players like james, marbury, randolph and curry, it sounds like (particularly of that group) that they've been forced to either start busting their asses or fall back into oblivion. it's actually a little scary to think of how dangerous the knicks could be a few years down the road when they've shed all those huge, worthless contracts and are left with a club full of talent and/or hard workers. especially being the team with the deepest pockets in the league.

in retrospect, teams like ourselves, the sixers and others should maybe be grateful for how long the bumbling isiah thomas regime went on.

[QUOTE=gigantes]thanks for the good response, rusty.

one thing i forgot to mention from your show is being impressed with how much more serious it sounds like the knicks are. maybe not yet in terms of results, but the culture, work-ethic and dedication of the players sound like they have improved quite a lot under d'antoni.

whereas isiah would tolerate the laziness and slack attitude of players like james, marbury, randolph and curry, it sounds like (particularly of that group) that they've been forced to either start busting their asses or fall back into oblivion. it's actually a little scary to think of how dangerous the knicks could be a few years down the road when they've shed all those huge, worthless contracts and are left with a club full of talent and/or hard workers. especially being the team with the deepest pockets in the league.

in retrospect, teams like ourselves, the sixers and others should maybe be grateful for how long the bumbling isiah thomas regime went on.[/QUOTE]
Yeah I couldn't agree more.

It scares the bejesus out of me that Donnie and Mike have the potential to un-do all the good (or bad, depending which way you look at it) work that Isiah, Steve, and Jimmy-D did.

Luckily, I think we're still a step or two ahead of them in our re-building and if all goes according to plan, we'll stay ahead of them for a while yet.

Episode #38 has been recorded and released. In this episode - the last before the season tips off - I was joined by guest co-host Dave Ang (of Run N Gun fame) to discuss the latest in the worlds of the Nets and Knicks.

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P.S. - keep in mind that this episode was recorded before it became known that JB would be healthy enough to play against the Wizards, and before the Knicks waived Patrick Ewing Jnr.

Episode #39 has been recorded and released. In this episode, I was again joined by guest co-host Dave Ang (of 'Run N Gun Podcast' fame) to discuss the first few games of the season for the Nets and the Knicks, the ongoing Starbury saga, the contract situations of a few Nets youngsters, and the Nets' luxury tax position.

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eheh, last show you used the american pronunciation of "stuff" at least once.

[QUOTE=gigantes]eheh, last show you used the american pronunciation of "stuff" at least once.[/QUOTE]
Lol. I aim to please.

Episode #40 has been recorded and released. In this episode, I was joined by Dave Ang (of "Run 'N' Gun Suns") once again to help break down the second week of the season for both the Nets and the Knicks. In doing so, we recapped the games played, some extraordinary individual performances, and a trade rumor involving the Nets and Warriors.

Note: This episode was recorded before the Nets' games against the Pistons and Pacers.

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i just rediscovered another nets sportscast that i had in bookmarks. episodes are available in MP3, itunes format and other, although it looks like the guy (michael senno) is still on summer break:
[url]http://www.njnetscast.com/[/url]

one thing that's interesting is to listen to the huge difference in styles between michael's and rusty's show. michael goes for that 'bigger than life american sports show' style with the energy, hyperbole and seat-of-the-pants feel, but to me it quickly gets annoying... partly because i'm not a fan of that style, partly because michael lacks training (and it shows).

IMO the very first thing you have to have if you're doing vocal work is to develop a smooth, disciplined delivery. you also want to make sure, from the engineering standpoint, that pitch isn't flying too high or too low, that the speaker is not too close to the mic, etc. rusty's show hits the ground running because IMO because it has those areas pretty-much mastered.

tonight i saw mythbusters tackle the question "do you run faster when you drop onto the floor with your feet pumping?", so i just had to work in that term. :]

Thanks once again for the kind words, G.

I've listened to NJNetscast for pretty much the entirety of its existence to date, and while it's obvious the knowledge base on the Nets that Michael possesses, he does try that little bit too hard and you're right - the professional touch isn't quite there. He seems to be a victim of the trap that so many sports podcasters fall into - one that makes them think they have to be the next Tony Kornheiser or Mike Wilbon. That was definitely something I was wary of - especially being in a situation where the show had two hosts at any one time.

Episode #41 of The Crossover will be recorded at some point in the next 24 hours and will be released shortly after that.

Episode #41 has now been recorded and released. In this episode, I was joined again by Dave Ang to help break down the week that was. As well as recapping game results, we got into some lively discussion about the Yahoo! fantasy 'ball Stat-tracker and NBA.com

rusty, re: last show's early discussion,
you might think about measuring the bandwidth usage of various activities, for example the bandwidth cost of watching a leaguepass game. i use a small program called "BM extreme" to measure how much throughput is consumed for stuff like watching TV shows on hulu or running P2P software, etc. that way i can budget myself, knowing what my monthly cap is.

btw, you could always switch your cable to satellite, right? that way you could get leaguepass over the TV instead of having to do it over the net. okay, that would probably cost a bit more though... maybe a lot more.

EDIT: looking forward to you rubbing the nets-hawks victories in the NY guy's face next show. :D

[QUOTE=gigantes]rusty, re: last show's early discussion,
you might think about measuring the bandwidth usage of various activities, for example the bandwidth cost of watching a leaguepass game. i use a small program called "BM extreme" to measure how much throughput is consumed for stuff like watching TV shows on hulu or running P2P software, etc. that way i can budget myself, knowing what my monthly cap is.

btw, you could always switch your cable to satellite, right? that way you could get leaguepass over the TV instead of having to do it over the net. okay, that would probably cost a bit more though... maybe a lot more.

EDIT: looking forward to you rubbing the nets-hawks victories in the NY guy's face next show. :D[/QUOTE]
Thanks for the suggestion man. I think I just need to use by brain a bit more next time around and not be so liberal with the amount of games I watch. When I got LP at the start of the season, I watched as many games as I could - not just Nets games. I think that was my downfall.

If I could get Satellite League Pass TV, I would, but sadly it's not available in Australia.

As for the wins against the Hawks, well I definitely wasn't as quick as Dave was to write us off before we played them! I thought we had a chance.

NOTE: Anybody that has an iTunes Music Store account (free to get one); could you review the show for me? It'd be much appreciated.

Episode #42 has now been recorded and released. In this episode, Pmac returns from his European vacation to talk all things Nets and Knicks - including the recent Knicks trades and what they mean for the future; and one of the best Nets wins I have ever seen.

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(The direct MP3 feed is not up yet, unfortunately)

[B]EDIT:[/B] The direct MP3 feed is now up. For those that haven't listened to it through iTunes, I apologise for the delay.
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Episode #43 has been recorded and released. This week, Pmac and I recapped the games that the Nets and Knicks have played since episode #42 and cover some soap opera-worthy story-lines from around the NBA. Whether they’re between King James and Sir Charles or Coach Pringles and Princess Starbury, the battle lines have been drawn!

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[B]EDIT:[/B] Unfortunately this episode was recorded before the Suns game.

Episode #44 has been recorded and released. In this episode, Pmac and I talk at length about the remarkable play of Devin Harris, recap the games played in the last week, announce a new competition, and preview the games in the week to come.

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Cool, I'm gonna listen to it while I finish my laundry and clean up and what not.

[QUOTE=ZHAKIDD532]Cool, I'm gonna listen to it while I finish my laundry and clean up and what not.[/QUOTE]
Haha. I'm glad to hear it man. :cheers:

Episode #45 has been recorded and released. In this episode, Pmac and I covered (in depth) the most recent game in the ever evolving Nets/Knicks rivalry. The state of Cuttino Mobley’s NBA career, the NBA coaching merry-go-round, and flaws in the All-Star voting system were also discussed.

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NOTE: This episode was recorded before the completion of the Knicks/Kings and Nets/Bulls games

Episode #46 has been recorded and released. In this episode, Pmac and I talk about Jerome James

Episode #47 has been recorded and released. In this episode - the last for 2008 - Pmac and I recap the games played since episode #46, talk about the latest All-Star game voting ballot returns, and preview this season

thanks, rusty. looking forward to catching up on episodes when i get back to the states.

Episode #48 has been recorded and released. In this episode (the first of 2009), I cover VC's dramatic week and discuss the latest in the Starbury saga with Pmac. We also recap the games played by both the Knicks and Nets since episode #47.

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EDIT: This episode was recorded a few hours before the Nets/Heat game.

Episode #49 has been recorded and released. In this extended episode - the last before the big 5-0, Pmac and I cover everything from extraordinary wins to mind-boggling losses; from injuries to trades; from old favorites to old foes. If it

Episode #50 has been recorded and released. In this milestone show, Pmac and I reminisce about some of the more memorable moments in previous episodes, recap the games that the Nets and Knicks played since episode #49, and bring back the “Infamous Figures in Tri-State Basketball History” segment for a special double-dose.

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Hey boys. Sorry I haven't been around as much lately. I've had a few things on. I should be back on a more regular basis from now on though.

Episode #51 has been recorded and released. In this episode, the first of a back-to-back, Pmac and I cover all things Nets (and only Nets) over the last two weeks. From game recaps to trade rumors, from All-Star voting to a preview of the week ahead; it’s all on this installment of “The Crossover”.

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In episode #52 (the second of the back-to-back), Pmac takes the reigns and drags me kicking and screaming through the last couple of successful weeks for the Knicks - possibly the only two weeks in the history of the show that the New Yorkers have been undisputedly better than the Nets.

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