CELTICS ARE MAKING THE KNICKS LOOK BAD - SAME OLD SAME OLD

The NBA finals have been pretty predictable this year. The Celtics are cruising along according to plan tonight and are busy knocking out the teeth of the Knicks. Even poor old Spike Lee must find this one tough to take. The boys from Boston are a force to be reckoned with in the post season, as per usual. We expect these guys to go deep into the finals led by the steady play of veteran Paul Pierce. These guys are carrying the torch in Bean Town for sports fans with the BoSox struggling early in the season.

We are also watching the Bulls and Heats in the post season. LeBron is leading his SouthBeach crew and the Sixers are paying the price. AS EXPECTED !!! As for Chicago, the Bulls are counting on Derrick Rose and he has not let them down. The United Center has to love the play by this standout team. They are clutch players as a unit but Rose is the kind of MVP candidate who could lead his team the whole way. Skill is one thing but skill and heart are key. Rose has them in heaps and he makes everyone one around him look better.

The Lakers are also looking good. This team is not our favourite for the championship but anything is possible. The post season is totally different than the regular season. Kobe knows that and he will play 200% in every game. It is going to be interesting ; NO DOUBT !!!

GetRealHoops.blogspot.com wants to Expand our Blogger Roster

The team @ GetRealHoops.blogspot.com wants to expand our roster of bloggers. The group of bloggers keep growing and we expect to institute a new "co-op" platform for the blog starting May 1st, 2011.
The package will be based on performance. GetRealHoops.blogspot.com will be entering some new sponsorship agreements and joint venture partnerships which will allow us to monetize the blog.

GetRealHoops.blogspot.com is the starting point for the Get Real family of websites. The big picture behind the "Get Real" themed family of websites is quite interesting. We have secured 400+ Get Real themed URLs and we intend to build a network of sites which will all support a brand.
Some of the Get Real URLs we have secured include:

1) GetRealHockey.com
2) GetRealFootball.com
3) GetRealBaseball.com
4) GetRealBasketball.com

The "Get Real" brand will be worldwide and it will be the destination for sports fans who the "Real" info on their sports heroes and teams.
You can get a good idea of the Get Real theme by turning up this song.

http://soundcloud.com/getrealtickets/get-real

This is going to be a heck of a ride. If this goes as expected, we will be building a $100 million brand.

If you want to be part of the team, please email us @ getrealbasketball@gmail.com. The "co-op" platform will distribute 50% of the monthly net revenue between our bloggers. We will take all the articles written during the month and dole out the cash to the writers based on the percentage of articles that they wrote for that month. If you write 10% of the articles you get 10% of the net revenue. If you write 50% of the articles you get 50% of the net revenue and so on. In order for payouts to occur, there will have to a minimum of 15 articles written per month. Everyone will be given credit on the site so this will make it easy for writers to follow and track the potential payout.

This formula means that everyone wins. Traffic increases with content which in turn drives revenue. More content = more readers = bigger revenue= bigger payouts for writers.

GET REAL IS LOOKING FOR THE COOLEST BLOGGERS ON THE INTERNET

WELCOME BACK TO GET REAL HOOPS !!! TIME TO GET CRAZY !!!

We have recently changed management @ Get Real. The team is getting ready to brand the "Get Real" attitude .

We have locked down 400 plus URLs with the Get Real theme.

Get Real had a dry run in late 2010 and we are finally ready for re-launch .

You can catch some of the blogs under the Get Real name @

http://www.getrealhoops.blogspot.com/

getrealbasketball@gmail.com

http://www.getrealhockey.blogspot.com/

getrealhockey@gmail.com

http://www.getrealbaseball.blogspot.com/

getrealbaseball@gmail.com

http://www.getrealfootball.blogspot.com/

getrealfootball@gmail.com

and

http://www.getrealtickets.blogspot.com/

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The "Get Real" concept will be in your face and be cutting edge.

Get Real is going to be all over the place:

You can catch our theme song @ http://soundcloud.com/getrealtickets/get-real .

Daybi has also put down a really cool Get Real track @ http://soundcloud.com/getreal/preview .

We are looking for bloggers to join our family. Every author will be given credit. Get Real is working on a monetization strategy for Get Real. Once we assemble a team and they show the commitment to stick around, we will be in a position to pay writers.

This is your chance to get in on the ground floor of something big. Email us as soon as you can and we can have a call to see if there is a fit.

Have a GET REAL Holiday!!

Tis the season to spend time with friends and family and this is exactly what we at GET REAL will be doing this holiday season. Our team will spend their holiday resting up and preparing themselves for a hot new year in 2011!

We will be back with more of the GET REAL attitude- along with our opinionated sports articles on GetRealHammered.com - we will be bringing along some new friends like GetRealTickets, GetRealNutrition, GetRealTraining , GetRealSmashed and GetRealHotties

Check us out in early January!

See you in 2011

Happy New Year and Happy Holidays to all!!

Get Real Management

Andrew Bynum Is Back and Ready for the Triangle

With Andrew Bynum's long and attritional knee injury finally healed, the Lakers add a long and brawny weapon to an already dangerous arsenal.

At seven-feet tall and 285 pounds, Bynum is big, even by NBA standards. Which means Phil Jackson can pair him with seven-foot Pau Gasol at power forward, put a bulky 6'7" Ron Artest at small forward, have 6'6" Kobe at the usual two-spot and play a towering 6'11" Lamar Odom at point forward. With Bynum back in the line-up, Los Angeles is not only one of the most talented and well-coached teams in the league, it's becomes the tallest as well.

And while Bynum's debut seven points, four rebounds, two blocks and one assist last night weren't exactly spectacular numbers, his impact and significance within Jackson's two decade old triangle offense was unmistakable. His huge frame kicked an already well-oiled machine into high gear. And, according to Jackson, Bynum is "nowhere near 95-100%" and still has more than half a season to get ready for the playoffs.

At the risk of sounding too cultist about the triangle offense, depending on size and ability, each player in the NBA has a certain amount of "gravity" that helps defenders and creates small offensive opportunities for teammates. You can think of the triangle offense as a dynamic and reactive system of movements designed to maximize and capitalize on these opportunities. Moreover, with this system revolving around prolific scorers like Kobe Bryant and Pau Gasol (and Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen in the 90s), a player’s significance on offense can be less about points and assists than about the subjective spacing opportunities they create within the triangle.

For most of the players Phil Jackson has acquired over his career, and, in particular Bynum's, the triangle system waters down offensive weaknesses and augments strengths. Bynum may be slow and immobile, but he's large enough that he can't be given much space or allowed low-post positioning under the rim. Just mulling around the paint, he demands a huge amount of attention from a defense already scrambling to keep track of Kobe and Gasol. The result is that in the Lakers’ offense, Bryant won't capitalize on Bynum double teams, he'll capitalize on the extra foot of space created by his defender merely hedging on Bynum. Plus, when Gasol and Bryant do get double teamed, Bynum is big enough to catch a lob and can finish with power given the slightest window to the rim.

Like I said, the best team on the planet just got bigger, and a whole lot better.

High Basketball Player Suplexes Referee

Down in Desoto County Florida this week, a high school basketball player got a little annoyed with the referee over a technical foul involving some pretty blatant shoving with the opposition.

Here's how he expressed himself:



This is just kind of fire and competitive spirit we love to see in athletes. Because when refs make bad calls, or even good calls players might not agree with, they deserve to be pushed around and thrown to the ground like a rag doll.

Even though he'll probably be expelled, and maybe even arrested, this player clearly has a bright future in the world of basketball.

Derrick Rose is Good. With his Teammates, He’s Unstobbable.

The Bulls have won eight of their last nine games at home and now have the forth best record in the Eastern conference. Their most impressive win as of late was Saturday's cool 88-84 win over the Lakers. A few things became clear.

Not only does Chicago's roster look good, like two players short of being Boston good, but the strengths and weaknesses of the team's core players mesh in a kind of understated perfection. The Bulls' system revolves around Derrick Rose, a freakishly athletic combo guard who moves with controlled, almost violent energy. His athletic edge and offensive repertoire mean opposing teams have to constantly double team and rotate on help defence. This frees up players like shooter Kyle Korver on the perimeter where he's averaging 41% on three pointers, a cutting and versatile Luol Deng who's can draw fouls or power forward Joakim Noah under the rim.

Alone, these players are all pretty much inconsequential, but together they each represent a specific skill designed to capitalize on the kaleidoscope of offensive opportunities created by Rose. And now with juggernaut Carlos Boozer back from a hand injury, Rose now has his most unstoppable teammate yet wreaking havoc in his wake of disarray and auspicious momentum.

Only in his 3rd year, he's averaging 25.1 points and 8.1 assists a game Rose is putting up MVP numbers. Thanks to his teammates (and Bulls management) neutralizing has become impossible.

Will this be the NBA Photo of the Year? We Think So.

Depending on how everything pans without with the Heat, this could easily make NBA photo of the year. At the year least, it's a damn good depiction of what's been going on in Miami the last two weeks. The Heat have now won six consecutive games and swayed the fickle hordes of media jackals back on board. Yeah, GetrealHammered is right there with the rest of them, but with plays like this,

How can you not join the party? And the photo, well depending on how the next few years unfold, it could very well be one of those zeitgeist images that encapsulate the general mood of the beast, and where it's going next.

In the foreground you've got Dwayne Wade. Having left a pass for James to devour, has his hands outstretched kinda like a airplane ( a fitting metaphor) and kinda like he's saying 'This is what we can really do. See how easy we make it look? See what we're going to do this league, very soon?'. Behind Wade is LeBron James, about to crush his signature tomahawk dunk as he rises like Godzilla in space. Meanwhile, Chris Bosh is way in the back, out of the play, tiny and neglected. Just watching it happen.

This is Why they're Professionals. It was Game Winners Galore Last Night

Jesus. So this is what clutch looks like. Enough players accomplished game winners last night to make to make it all look like providence. And not a single one of them involved Kobe Byrant. Thanks to Derek Fisher.

Of the four buzzer beaters last, Derek Fisher's game winner was probably  the most impressive. With 3.1 seconds on the clock and the game tied, the 6'1,  36 year-old drove to the rim on the basis of an opening, that in the NBA, isn't <em>really</em> an opening at all. It's more like the illusion of an opening, or at the very least an ephemeral hole in the key that only a handful of players can physically cope with. 

Derek Fisher is not one of these players, in fact he is the opposite. And as a grizzled vet, you can be damn sure he understood how fast and hard the help-defense would swarm around his impulsive little plan. Yet despite the odds,  Fisher caught the inbound pass meant for Kobe, looked at the league's most clutch player gesticulating wildly for ball and beetled to the hoop like a groundhog. 

The tear drop was pure vet. The margins for failure were incredible. Fisher let the ball fly with 0.1 seconds on the clock, 6'11 DeAndre Jordan was a millimeter away from getting the block and Kobe, visibly mopping in the background, was pissed. 

Here's who else carried their team in a night that looked touched by the Man Upstairs....

The Knicks Are Actually Winning, and It's only Going to Get Better

While the season is still wet (we just passed the first-quarter mark last week) the Knicks are looking more and more like they've finally put their lost decade of failure behind them. With a win over the Timberwolves on Monday, the Knicks have won their last five games, including four on the road against the the Kings, Bobcats, Warriors and Clippers. The streak puts them at 13-9, a record strong enough to put them in the sixth slot of the Eastern conference playoffs if they started today. Kinda remarkable.

Hang around Madison Square Garden and you can feel it. New York City is finally breathing a sigh of relief. Gone is the city's perpetual squad of dysfunctional, overrated narcissists governed by weedy and myopic coaches. Here is something new, something refreshing. Something America's city of basketball can actually be proud of.

The Knicks rebirth can be attributed to a few key features. For starters, management's big-ticket acquisition of Amar'e Stoudemire is panning out perfectly. Stoudemire is averaging 22.6 points and 8.1 rebounds a game on 50% shooting. Just as critical, he's become a leader on a team accustomed to absconders and weak-kneed money mongers.  And, while Stoudemire won't be a true force until he learns to effectively (and consistently) create his own shot, point guard Raymond Felton will feed him the kind of passes he needs until he does. The North Carolina alum has stepped up this season and become a potential All-Star.  His 18 points per game and 8.5 assists make him one of the most underrated point guards in the league. As a floor general, he's calm and capable of controlling the tempo in a manner that suits the Knicks perfectly.

With new Coach Mike D'Antoni's blazingly fast and much questioned 'Seven Seconds or Less' offense, the Knicks are only missing a versatile wing man, a three-point shooter and a bulky centre. I know that sounds like a lot, but, with a core of Stoudemire and Felton, it's really isn't.

This is the start of something New Yorkers have deserved since Ewing became disgusting to watch: Victory and some decent jerseys to rock.