GSoM on the Radio: Olympicmike on At The Buzzer with Brian Doolittle on Sports Radio 1380 AM in St. Louis Talking David Lee and the Golden State Warriors

by olympicmike on Aug 11, 2010 3:45 PM PDT in NBA

This last weekend I had the chance to chat with Brian Doolittle on Sports Radio 1380 about St. Louis native David Lee and Warriors hoops in general. Brian is a very cool guy who recently started an NBA radio show in St. Louis of all places (I didn't ask, but who do folks in St. Louis follow? The Bulls? Pacers? Griz? Thunder? Take your pick I guess). Just goes to show that there are NBA fanatics all over the country whether or not they have a local team. I think it's very cool that Brian is reaching out to bloggers for info on teams around the league. A big thank you to him for having me on. It was a lot of fun and I definitely look forward to doing it again. Check out the audio after the jump and find out that while I may have a face for radio, it turns out I might have a voice for blogging...

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Very nice Mike Arnauldi.

"Everybody loves Basketball-Reference.com. Except the Kobe fans".- DubsFan408

by GovernorStephCurry on Aug 11, 2010 4:30 PM PDT reply actions

Thanks Kyle!

;-)

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by olympicmike on Aug 11, 2010 9:51 PM PDT up reply actions

When I lived in St. Louis

I followed the Warriors!

by Evanz on Aug 11, 2010 5:06 PM PDT reply actions

Well...

I guess you were our target audience! Too bad you moved.

Were there a lot of NBA fans there?

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by olympicmike on Aug 11, 2010 10:00 PM PDT up reply actions

no, it wasn't even much of a college ball town either

by Evanz on Aug 11, 2010 10:12 PM PDT up reply actions

Nice radio voice!

by dj fuzzylogic on Aug 11, 2010 5:51 PM PDT reply actions

Haha

I’m sure I’m not the only one, but I hate the sound of my voice when I hear it recorded. How can I sound so cool in my head, and in reality sound like such a dork? How does that work?

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by olympicmike on Aug 11, 2010 9:58 PM PDT up reply actions

Haha, nah.

Your’s was smooth like Steve Segal’s! I actually mean that in a semi-non-joking manner.

by dj fuzzylogic on Aug 12, 2010 8:09 AM PDT up reply actions

good work, olympic mike :)

PFortyy :)

'11 Champs!

by Potential on Aug 11, 2010 6:26 PM PDT reply actions

OMFTW

Great job, OM. You’re a natural!

Hm, seems like they could use some new blood at KNBR…

There will be no extra point!

by Sleepy Freud on Aug 11, 2010 10:00 PM PDT reply actions

You live in NYC, right?

How would you listen to KNBR?

"Everybody loves Basketball-Reference.com. Except the Kobe fans".- DubsFan408

by GovernorStephCurry on Aug 11, 2010 11:02 PM PDT up reply actions

A l’il place called the Internets.

Full disclosure: I almost never listen to KNBR online (except the replays of interviews posted here), but I could if I wanted to. For nostalgia’s sake, I do occasionally put on KGO to listen to Ray Taliaferro rant — he’s like the Bimbo Coles Experience of talk radio.

And of course I’d be lost without Joe Starkey’s calls of Cal games…

There will be no extra point!

by Sleepy Freud on Aug 12, 2010 5:28 AM PDT up reply actions

How dare you, sir!

I had never heard this Taliaferro fellow before so I looked him up on the ol’ youtube. I have to say, you’re completely off-base here! I am a way more inflammatory hardcore leftist than this wus! I’ll out-incredulous him any day of the week!

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by The Bimbo Coles Experience on Aug 12, 2010 11:21 AM PDT up reply actions

Haha

I love this post. Rec.

I haven’t listened to much Ray Taliaferro but just hearing him say his own name is entertainment enough for me. Something about his voice makes me snicker.

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by olympicmike on Aug 12, 2010 1:01 PM PDT up reply actions

Great Job

It was nice hearing a good analysis of the team without bumping heads (i.e. fanboys who take things to the extreme, etc).

by bimmercirem3 on Aug 11, 2010 11:29 PM PDT reply actions

Nice, love it

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by Doctor Kajita on Aug 12, 2010 10:06 AM PDT reply actions

Thanks for all the encouraging words!

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by olympicmike on Aug 12, 2010 1:02 PM PDT reply actions

Just curious, how did you get on this show? Do you live in St. Louis or somewhere near there?

"Everybody loves Basketball-Reference.com. Except the Kobe fans".- DubsFan408

by GovernorStephCurry on Aug 12, 2010 6:59 PM PDT reply actions

No I'm in the South Bay

He just sent us an email and we set it up. We actually recorded the segment over Skype, which worked surprisingly well.

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by olympicmike on Aug 12, 2010 11:29 PM PDT up reply actions

nice job – not easy being “on air” as it looks

you might recall we’d discussed adding David Lee a while back

http://www.goldenstateofmind.com/2009/3/16/798728/truth-hurts

"It’s frickin’ Sisyphean to be a Warriors Fan."

by hardcore on Aug 13, 2010 4:25 PM PDT up reply actions

Thanks

It’s funny, listening back I didn’t remember half of what I had said. I can definitely see how radio is a craft that takes time to get good at. Hopefully I’ll get the chance to do it again and see if I can get better.

That post is a classic. Lots of great conversation going on in there. It’s interesting to see how things have come along since then. Here are a couple of things I posted back then that I found kind of interesting:

PG: ? Will Monta do a reasonable job at point without hurting the overall efficiency of his game? That’s a question I’d love to have the answer to. Maybe we will have a better idea by the offseason. If he can make that transition then I’d be happy to draft someone like Lawson and call that position solid.

Well, I definitely have the answer to that question now…

So here is the thing. Even if all of the question marks pan out we don’t have that good of a team. We are at best "solid" (average basically). Unless one of our young PF’s turn into KG we aren’t going anywhere. We could compete for a playoff spot and maybe even make it past the second round if everything breaks our way in the next couple years but that is our extreme best case scenario. More likely we’ll be bit by the injury bug or be disappointed by the progress (or lack of progress) of our youngsters.

Dang, I wish that post wasn’t so prophetic.

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by olympicmike on Aug 13, 2010 4:44 PM PDT up reply actions

the injury bug or lack of progress

you and me both brudda! although I’d named Lee as a person of interest who we might have to move Randolph for, you hit both our major problems last year! uh, jinx? no more prophesies for you mister

those old posts are interesting for several reasons – who predicted what, who was on the site then that are still here, and who’s long gone (or changed names?) and how much the site has blown up in just a few years

"It’s frickin’ Sisyphean to be a Warriors Fan."

by hardcore on Aug 13, 2010 4:57 PM PDT up reply actions

Uhmmm ......

Good radio voice & very clear. Honestly, very nice to listen to but too often saying “uhmmm”.

by srsrs on Aug 14, 2010 5:52 PM PDT reply actions

Cool stuff, olympicmike.

I’m here in St. Louis, and I’m a Knicks fan. I’ve been trained from birth to hate teams from Chicago and Detroit, so NY was an obvious choice back in the 90’s.

"He's the straw that makes the drink go."

by Thelonious Dunk on Aug 17, 2010 6:18 PM PDT reply actions