Hey, it’s Doc, again. We found a the guy who you all should listen to speak about Victor Wembanya’s basketbal endeavors and the San Antonio Spurs. He actually knows a few things about the game … … …
He thinks, reads and speaks well … … probably from being around all those nerds on the campus of Standford? I will bet, he even writes well …… .
Mitch looks like ‘A Small Bblessing’ to a big young man, Victor Wembanyama ( and the Spurs team) , after Pop’s unexpected sudden health issues … … … . It’s good to be in a GOOD group of people.
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Doctor ‘Cricket-Dunkenstein’ Grasshopper Teachings
A few years ago, after I returned to planet earth from a sabbatical, I began to become bored with the game of basketball as it was being played in the National Basketball Association (NBA). The Euro League games had more appeal to me.
The game had changed since the good old days when I was hoopin’ on the planet of Pluto. I was changing too … … … .
Sure, I thought the NBA players were great, extremely skilled, the best of the best. I liked to tune in and check these guys out. However, after a couple of quarters of an NBA game, it became boring to me.
Sometimes, I’ld check on the score and tune back into a game if it was close in the end. I enjoyed watching the three Stooges: Larry, Curly, and Mo ( Shaq, Kenny, & Charles ) present highlights scores and talk about the games. I personally knew these three ‘cats’, and had some basketball experiences with these guys. They were so likeable, funny, honest and knowledgeable about the NBA professional game, I enjoyed their show of entertainment – especially when they drove poor Ernie crazy. I would make an effort to tune in to view them on TNT in order to keep track of the games. But watching all 48 minutes of a regular season NBA basketball game did not appeal to me , at least not like it did in my good old days playing on Pluto, … …
I mean, back in those days, I loved watching all the players and teams, … Wilt, Kareem, Karl, Bird, Magic, Kobe, Shaq, MJ, Isiah , The Admiral, Timmy… all of them … from the 70’s to the 90’s …into about 2010, hundreds of ’em. I liked watching them play basketball. The games they played fascinated me and fulfilled my fix for the sport of basketball.
But the thrill was gone! By about 2017 the boredom set in … … … B.B. King singing, ‘The Thrill Is Gone” was more interesting than a complete NBA basketball game.
Then, one day, I was watching Euro Sport on the satellite in my crib, and I saw this skinny baby face kid playing basketball. There was something in his ‘Moves‘ on the basketball court … … …, he was interesting to watch.
He looked like a cricket jumping around all over the basketball court … … . I soon found out he was a ‘Frenchy’, just a young baby croissant hoopin’ cricket. He was fun to watch as he tried to swat everything in the air with his long skinny arms. He had the energy and the jumping skills of a cricket. Long legs and arms …
A few years later, there was this same kid, ‘The Cricket’, playing for the San Antonio Spurs NBA. He was only 19 years old the first time I watched him in the NBA. He looked to me as if he was much younger … …
Back in the day, some people said watching the Spurs was boring basketball, but not to me. I loved watching the Spurs play basketball in the NBA back in those championship years. Those ‘Pop’coached Spurs were my kinda basketball team. I watched most of those guys in college. So, I found it interesting that the Spurs organization was gonna select this kid from France. The ‘Cricket’ was the first over-all in the 2023 NBA of the San Antonio Spurs. That made a lot of connection sense to me, but , oh boy, … … lots of potential issues could arize, …
The word about this kid was already out by 2020-211. Tony had him under his wing … in France … … and the baby face , skinny as a rail, floppy, cricket jumping kid wasn’t even 18 years-old.
There is always a very high risk of financial investment by any NBA organization when placing a high draft selection – not to mention the increase risk with number one draft selection – into any 18 year old young man.
I thought This young cricket basketball player would be an added risk, due to the inherited God given stature and size, … …
Ability was not a big obvious risk and question, however, maintaining health in the NBA, a demanding Man’s Basketball League, was simply a questionable issue … … but the Spurs had hope and foresight because of the kids ability, potential was already on display.
I agreed with the Spurs assessment and draft selection. But remained skeptical … as I had watched a lot of NCAA Stars with his stature struggle in the NBA .
…. then I watched the cricket play in the NBA in 2023-24. My optimism grew, somewhat ….
…. … I watched in 2024-25, some injuries were surfacing. My optimism was tapering, , but my signals on potential skill and performance was growing exponentially everytime I watched ‘The Cricket’ play basketball in the NBA.
He still had lots to learn ,
and , recently 2025-26
Season
THE CRICKET BROUGHT BACK MY LOST LOVE OF WATCH NBA BASKETBALL
My Faith & Belief in twhat I thought of he game of basketball was restored …. Then, a thought
What if , … … yes, what if I could bestow all the knowledge of basketball from the planet of Pluto onto the cricket, Victor Wembanyama
Why not , …
I never met ‘Pop’, but I knew all about him. Are roots come from the same trees.
We were both Hoosiers, , Auburn and Merriville Indiana roots. I had played the Air Force Academy basketball team 8 times in my career. L knew, if Pop want to draft the Cricket #1, he was on the right track.
But then, …. unexpected, Coach Pop had health issues … what would happen to the Cricket?
I didn’t know anything about Mitch,
R. C. was fazing out … upward in the organization further from the court, closer to more paperwork …
I knew 9 a little ) about Buford from way back to our days at ‘He’s NOT Here, at U.N.C. , Dean Smith Basketball School
What was going to happen to Wemby -Cricket?
And who the heck wants to hear anything about basketball from some old, (Pseudoym Named Author) , ‘ Doctor Cricket Dunkenstein’ …
especially not Wemby
But I had a history with the ‘Zem Master’ Phil, in Chicago,
so maybe a little- somthin’ somethin’ would help Victor, he was young , help, would help, would it not?
Curley - Moe - Larry
Round #2 in San Antonio – Thursday March 5, 2026 … it’s the: ‘who got smarter game rematch’ …
Chief Mitch! A pretty smart Indian … those Stanford books had words … ( You missed Seattle 1984,Chief, did Pops tell you about Chambers? )
I’m over at the Texas Rodeo road Trip Page … … join me. The top notch E.S.P. commentary experts remain in the studio, a couple of substitutes … … … you just gotta love ’em!
BIG NIGHT! One more Texas two step needed boys. Don’t overlook your dance partner tonight. Don’t let your eyes wonder unto all the other pretty girls .. Pay attention to your dance partner.
Moody Center
Austin, TX
Saturday
Feb 21
7:00 PM CST
Yeap fellas, it’s Doc, they sent me ahead to scout the Detroit Pistons. I’ll post my report tomorrow. First, do that dance thing again tonight in Austin Texas.
Let me tell ya, man, those Pistons are good, many. G-O-O-D players! … … They are goin’ to kick your butt, UNLESS: #1: You stop them from OFFENSIVE rebounds.
Gotta get all five of you hit the ‘D’ Boards, … no cherry pickin’ in Detroit allowed … … gotta block ’em out on every shot. Gotta win on the boards.
Can’t have a mistake, filled, high turnover night in Detroit. Those Pistons know how to cash in on mistakes.
Somehow, you need to slow down, Caden and Jalen. Both I suggest, you try to limit Caden’s touches, before he gets the ball. Hard to do, let me know ‘what kinda-gym he is chewing’ , get face close. Deny, deny, and deny him. Of course that means less help . And no second shots.
Jalen is all inside … 63% , Field Goal Percentage , all inside, gotta keep him off the boards, You gotta, play great between the lines,
Victor, get your footwork right, on Defense, thinks block second, stop first, then block,
That’s my Detroit Pistons scouting report. Boy those Pistons are tough cookies, no sissy boys on this Pistons team! Get your big boy pants on! …
Doctor ‘Cricket-Dunkenstein’
Doctor ‘Cricket-Dunkenstein’ & Curley Barkley from The Nitwit Network E.S.P. Live Reporting from the NBA Allstar Weekend.
Hey, man, listen up. They wouldn’t allow me to participate in the DUNK contest at the Allstar weekend festivities. Why, you may ask? It’s because I am the Doctor of the Dunk and it would embarrass the fellas … . Nevertheless, I got the Lockerroom clips of the Joker and Wemby … see below
JOKER: “I want the alien”
WEMBY: “Say less.”
Nikola Jokić asks Victor Wembanyama to draw an alien after he signs his NBA All-Star jersey! pic.twitter.com/rTMKA7K3rV
Chris ‘I Can’t Count to 5 Timeouts’ (ooops, technical foul) Webbster joins the E.S.P. Crew. Now there is a top intellect.
Plus, loud obnoxious Stepen A Smitzh … tremendous basketball knowledge.
Stephen A. Smitzh has claimed he received a basketball scholarship to Winston-Salem State University (WSSU) and, after a stellar tryout, had his career cut short by a serious knee injury in his first year. He has variously stated he played one game or no games at all, contradicting reports that he played in nine games during the 1990-91 season.
The Texas Rodeo Road Trip Update:
The Date: February 16, 2026. The All-star break is over, it’s back to work time … … time to dance!
The San Antonio Spurs have a 38 win to 16 lose game record.
Hey, it’s Doc, again. We found a guy who you all should listen to speak about basketball. He actually knows a few things about the game …
Victor: Based on
what I think you wanted to say:
… … … , you are likely looking for
coddled (past tense of coddle), which means to treat someone in an overindulgent, pampered, or overprotective manner. It can also refer to cooking food, such as eggs, gently just below the boiling point.
Cajoled: Past tense of cajole (to persuade with flatter
ADVANCED COURSE 305 LEVEL ENGLISH GRAMMAR LESSON
… … you are a good student Grasshopper!
The Doctor Dunk is on the clock … nothin’ better than seeing ‘POPS” on a basketball court, again!
There he is, teaching ‘Grasshopper’ something about the ‘bump and shoot’ philosophy?
Yes ‘Grasshopper’, you are correct ‘IMPECCABLE”
Pop is of behavior, performance, or appearance in accordance with the highest standards of propriety: faultless. He is impeccable. Yes, there is such a word Grasshopper. He that seeks word knowledge shall pave a more enlightened path.
Cooper, however, is not yet, impeccable, young for such a standard, but he has much time to achieve it, as you do as well Grasshopper. Seek IMPECCABILITY!
I’m gonna toss in my two cents of advice to Victor.
He is looking good, I mean, he is looking well. But I got a little somthin’ somethin’ for him …
Hey, … I’ve watchd four straight San Antonio Spurs games in the past two weeks. Tat’s (that’s) actuaaly the first time I have watched Victor play entire NBA game. …. just gettin’ back into watching … too cold for the beach.
Hornets, Orlando Magic, Thunder, & Dallas .
I’m gonna fire my big mouth out and then hit the beach … maybe watch Coop on , what day? Sunday? Well ..
POST MOVES ! & THE WALL EXERCISE!
The game is a dance, you gotta watch the feet, nobody watches an entire game just watching 20 feet on a basketball court in a game. However, they should, … … try it sometime, just only watch the feet in slow motion for 20 minutes … that’s all
IT IS ALL ABOUT FOOTWORK> PRECISE FOOTWORK!
I’m ‘The Big O’ – Oscar. Do you know why they call me ‘The Big O’? It’s cuzz (because) I gots (have) OPTIMAL footwork on the hoops court! And good balance from doing the ‘WALL DRILL’ building my leg muscles for proper stance. That’s me on the dance floor with my optimal FEETS!
Oscar starts thinking out load: ummm .(2 Feet = 4? Foots, ummm or is my feet = 2 foots) Anyway my footwork is impeccable.
Hey Victor, it’s me Doctor Dunkenstein. I got some top secret information for you about your road trip. so listen up, you dig, man?
This is your secret weapon! You need to take a cowboy HAT with you on the road. Your secret weapon to winning is in the bend of the rim of the hat, , yeap, that’s it “A BIG BEAUTIFUL TEXAS COWBOY HAT”!
… … with a perfect bend!
Maybe get a few extra, to give out as gifts. Ya know, who doesn’t love getting a cowboy hat? Everybody loves a stylish cowboy hat.
Doctor ‘Cricket-Dunkenstein’ Grasshopper Teachings
You’ve arrived On The S.A. Spurs Game Reviews With:
“Doctor Cricket Dunkenstein”
Doc’s NBA FLOW VIDEO BOX
Doctor ‘Cricket-Dunkenstein’ Purchases The Nitwit Network E.S.P.
Doctor ‘Cricket-Dunkenstein’ & The Nitwit Network E.S.P. Are Now At His New Studio Location For Spurs Game Reviews. EVERYONE is joining the E.S.P. Network. Doc is tossing out contracts and tossing the old rubbish of the network into the trash bin.
BREAKING NEWS: THE THREE FAMOUS BASKETBALL COMMENTATORS: Curly Smith, Larry Barkley & MOE O’Neal , along with Ernie Johnston will NOW be hanging with the crickets.
Now straight from the studios of E.S.P (extra super perceptions), after moving from the TNT network, the dynamic group will provide their deep introspective on the active San Antonio Spurs basketball games, while adding commentary based on voluminous educations.
Doctor Cricket Dunkenstein IS ECSTATIC TO HAVE THESE PROFESSIONAL ACTORS AS NEW MEMBERS OF THE BROADCAST TEAM.
Curley Howard
Curley Howard 1918
Curley is a basketball genius. He played at U.N.C. … in 1918. yeap, that’s true, … there is his actual real basketball player photo … and there is a team photo too, … from his playing days.. He says he was great at passing the ball to Michael Jordan and Hakeem ‘The Dream’ Olajuwan! That part is true, he did know how to pass a basketball, really well.
Moe know HOOPS! Yeap and Moe O’Neal is gonna (going) give ya (you) that big tough guy talk, with his annotating style which involves using his voice in a “gravelly,” “gruff,” “guttural,” or “slow-soft-deliberate” manner. Intended to command his audience and convince them that on-line degrees are the road to his great high level intellect and success, not the NBA salary money he raked in playing bully ball, next to the best active player on planet earth.
Moe is Oscar award material made for TV.
His deliberate and sometimes harsh delivery is often directed toward Curley and Larry, seldom upon Ernie. Letting everyone know he is a diesel truck with an engine full of basketball knowledge, … …
,,, BUT ‘THE DIESEL” RUNS OUT OF FUEL AND STALLS AT AND BEYOND THE FREE THROW LINE, AND SOMETIMES NO FARTHER THAN FEET FROM THE BASKET.
Moe is really a soft sweet hearted teddy bear playing a TV character.
Curley - Moe - Larry
The Larry Barkley review is coming soon. P.S. Boy we have a lot of material to work with when it comes to Larry, the basketball genius …
Larry Barkley
Chris ‘I Can’t Count to 5 Timeouts’ (ooops, technical foul) Webbster joins the E.S.P. Crew. Now there is a top intellect in operation.
Mr. Fat Hat
We made an executive decision mid -way into the 3rd quarter. In order to maintain our audience viewership and to avoid the boredom, we switch the broadcast to more defensive minded competitive game, the 2018 NBA all star game. which was the 148 pointnrs to 145 points defensive top battle.
Spurs 135 – Lakers 108 …. 108 really, explain how they broke 100, please explain to me, I’m just a cricket …
Midnight
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They call me “Midnight Cricket because I am a late night owl, awake and ready late into the night. But that was a snoozer for me …
You are suppose to be at the Junior Varsity Team by lots of points, but who said you get to be sloppy … …
Mr. Fat Hat is the New Executive Producer in charge of creative input …
Hey, Man, join me at my new location … things were gettin’ heavy over there,at the FOUR LETTER NETWORK, so I bought the Nitwit Network E.S.P., and I am brin’ Larry, Curley and Moe with me to the new studio… Just click to join us … … Oscar is coming with us . The crickets are sign under a new contract.
Hey, Man, Oscar is flying in to town tonight and should be with us tomorrow. I gave everybody a 1 million dollar contract. All the crickets are now under contract to appear, right here, on the San Antonio Spurs Doctor Cricket Dinkenstein Game Reviews.
Willie & ‘The Doctor of Dunk’ are going … ‘On The Road Again’ with the Spurs! Come on follow along
Hey Victor, it’s me Doctor Dunkenstein. I got some top secret information for you about your road trip. so listen up, you dig, man?
This is your secret weapon! You need to take a cowboy HAT with you on the road. Your secret weapon to winning is in the bend of the rim of the hat, , yeap, that’s it “A BIG BEAUTIFUL TEXAS COWBOY HAT”!
… … with a perfect bend!
Maybe get a few extra, to give out as gifts. Ya know, who doesn’t love getting a cowboy hat? Everybody loves a stylish cowboy hat.
San Antonio Spurs Game Schedule QR Code
The Date: February 9,2026 (A.D). Next week will mark the mid-season All-star break. This is a welcome break to all players and teams in the NBA. This highly anticipated will not provide relief to the Spurs.
The San Antonio Spurs have a 32 win to 16 lose game record. That is 48 games completed in a 82 game regular season schedule. the team stands second in the Western conference standing. Four wins behind the 2025 World (NBA) Champion first place Oklahoma Thunder – who the Spurs have already beaten three (maybe four?) times this season – and the Spurs are currently tied in total wins with the Nikola Jokic led 2023 NBA Champions Denver Nuggets. However the Nuggets have 19 loses at this point in the season. The Spurs are now playing at the ‘big boy table’. Can they maintain their seat at the table. Both Oklahoma and Denver have strength their respective rooster post Championship years.
The San Antonio Spurs are embarking on a two week road trip with All-star weekend smack in the middle of this long road trip. Their basketball savvy and moxie, as a young up and coming NBA team is about to be put to a test.
We have decided to join the Spurs on their journey. Follow along for the next few games as we provide updates and analysis. Joining us on this adventure will be Texas’ very on Willie Nelson and the famous ‘Doctor Cricket Dunkenstein’.
You’ve arrived On The S.A. Spurs Game Reviews With:
“Doctor Cricket Dunkenstein”
Doc’s NBA FLOW VIDEO BOX
The Doctor Dunk is on the clock … nothin’ better than seeing ‘POPS” on a basketball court, again!
There he is, teaching ‘Grasshopper’ something about the ‘bump and shoot’ philosophy?
Yes ‘Grasshopper’, you are correct ‘IMPECCABLE”
Pop is of behavior, performance, or appearance in accordance with the highest standards of propriety: faultless. He is impeccable. Yes, there is such a word Grasshopper. He that seeks word knowledge shall pave a more enlightened path.
Cooper, however, is not yet, impeccable, young for such a standard, but he has much time to achieve it, as you do as well Grasshopper. Seek IMPECCABILITY!
MY NAME IS SLIM-SHADY.
Nah, I’m just joking . Spoofying ya’all(s), man, just being a joker, … … That ain’t my name.
My Name Is: Doctor Cricket-Dunkenstein!
They call me ‘Cricket Dunk’
or Doc, … … or sometimes they call me Doc Cricket-Stein.
Whatever suits your cup of tea, man. whatever you dig, fine with me. Just don’t call me Slim-shady!
If you want to improve, I’m still that guy. So, listen UP! Dig it?
I’m here to help you, man. it’s FREE!
[Be VERY cautious when someone says to you, I’m from the government, I’m here to help you.] See that’s free help advice already.
Hey cats, dig this, I’m one of the baddest (best) Cricket basketball players to ever walk the earth on four legs. Now I’m gonna tell you ‘What’s Really Goin On’, (like Marvin Gaye, you hear that), What’s going on in your ‘Hoops Game‘, you dig that, man.
I was first team, All-Planet Pluto 2010. Top ALIEN defender too! … I was Neptune World Champion, in the NCBL in 2016, (Neptune Cricket Basketball League).
I can DUNK from the foul line, yea man, the opposing team’s foul line, 79 feet away from the basket. MJ never had nuttin’ (nothing) on me man, … … I’m the real ‘AIR ‘ Doctor, Doctor Cricket-Dunkenstein.
You all got ‘game’, but hey cats,dig this, all you Spurs, listen up, you gotta get better. I am going to tell what I see, the good and the bad, THAT’S ALL.
So, Tun-A IN, OR TUN-A OUT! [(tune in, tune out, you can do bof (both)]
TUNE OUT & BE A CHUMP!
P.S.: You can always base that game response on Curley, Larry & Mo from E.S.P. Those guys (think they) know everything, and they do for TV basketball. You can win an ‘Oscar Award’ following their advice. But you do want an NBA trophy, right, not an Oscar trophy?
they’re below, Curley, Larry & Mo given hoops advice to the SPURS … .
Victor: Based on
what I think you wanted to say:
… … … , you are likely looking for
coddled (past tense of coddle), which means to treat someone in an overindulgent, pampered, or overprotective manner. It can also refer to cooking food, such as eggs, gently just below the boiling point.
