Comments on: Approval Ratings – Cedric Maxwell

By: Jon

Jon — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 16:00:38 +0000

A few things:
-Cornbread’s fued with Larry is assinine.
-Bill Russell was better than Bird. Conversely, Bird was better than Cedric
-Cedric Maxwell was one of the most under rated Celtics ever
-Sucking up to Ordway is wrong and no one should do it. Ever.
-His schtick will never be as annoying as Tommy Heihnsohn or Jack Edwards.

By: jreils

jreils — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 17:41:50 +0000

the ultra buffoon.disapprove mainly because of his anti larry bird comments.bird was the greatest to play the game.max played the game and continues to suck up to the big fat o.

By: Boston Dan

Boston Dan — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 20:07:03 +0000

NBA Audio League pass is a completely free service. You all should check it out next season.

Maxwell, hands down, is the best radio “color man” in the business.

Grande, on the other hand, is kind of a joke. So much contrived excitement, too many cliches, too many useless stats. He is a wanna-be Mike Gorman that takes Gorman’s flaw to a entirely new level.

During the playoff run, after every Celts home victory(going back to round one) he would call out the people that were at all worried about their road performances for being “bandwagon jumpers”. Huh?

By: Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 12:02:12 +0000

Thanks.

By: Jason Coyote

Jason Coyote — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:31:15 +0000

Looks like Grande is getting ripped more here than on his own approval poll last month.

So both Max and Grande are divorced? I’ve only heard Max drone on about his marital woes during some of the game broadcasts.

I actually approve of them both, they generally make a good on-air tandem.

By: Siggy

Siggy — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 17:39:24 +0000

While we’re on Grande: we’ve had guy in this town for 30 years whose signature phrase when a basket is made is “Got It!” I’m talking about Mike Gorman. So why does Grande come to town and steal the “Got It” from Gorman? Why not steal “Yes!” from Marv Albert, or “Bang” from Johnny Most? Very annoying.

By: Ironhead

Ironhead — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 16:07:34 +0000

That’s a great point.

By: Phil

Phil — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:16:02 +0000

An enthusiastic Approve.

Max’s color work is a welcome interruption of Grandious Grande. As far as the Larry schtick on the Big Show, the blame is firmly with Ordway. Ordway will play the card early, baiting the morons who will call. It is tedious and somewhat amusing since the same dopes will call and Max will patiently listen, reply, and then expose them with “I was there.”

By: JayCee

JayCee — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 14:08:56 +0000

Approve. God bless him for interrupting Grande’s pompous, over-rehearsed spiel. If John Sterling had used an idiotic phrase like “the game’s original monarchy” after a Yankees WS win EEI would still be playing the cut and jeering at it.

By: Tony

Tony — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 14:00:53 +0000

A big element of that was the fact that Max had had arthroscopic knee surgery during the Winter of ’85, presumably to clean out some minor damage and get him ready for the playoffs. But the effects of the surgery lingered and Max was pretty much rendered unusable for most of the ’85 playoffs, which saw the C’s fall 2 wins short of back-to-back titles primarily because of depth issues. The Celtics, and especially Auerbach, felt that Max got lazy and didn’t rehab the injury diligently enough, especially since Denver’s Fat Lever had pretty much the same surgery during the playoffs that year, and came back 10 days later to drop a near-triple double on the Lakers in the Western Finals. Red didn’t forgive Max for that for YEARS, until he finally gave in to having his number retired a few years back.

As for the Walton trade, I’m not sure if Max’s name was in the discussion right away, or if Bird wanted Max gone. All I know is that when Walton called Red after the ’85 playoffs were done, and said that he wanted to play for the Celtics, Bird told Red to “go get him if you can.”