{"id":96324,"date":"2026-05-11T10:52:55","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T17:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=96324"},"modified":"2026-05-11T17:17:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T00:17:28","slug":"fanview-5-11-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=96324","title":{"rendered":"FanView: 5\/11\/2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_89497\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-89497\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-89497\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/OSCAR-300x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/OSCAR-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/OSCAR-70x70.jpeg 70w, https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/OSCAR-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/OSCAR-144x144.jpeg 144w, https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/OSCAR.jpeg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-89497\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joe T., always working hard&#8230;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>By Joe Torosian<\/p>\n<p>Kick it!<\/p>\n<p>Wemby getting bounced for throwing an elbow doesn&#8217;t make him a dirty player, but it confirms that you need to be physical with him.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;ll mature, learn how to channel it, but, for now, if I&#8217;m the Timberwolves, I&#8217;m running dude after dude after dude at him to induce another meltdown.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I remember playing pick-up ball, and there was a guy named Eddie who was really good but loved to argue about everything. So I made him argue everything, even when I knew I was wrong, I kept arguing until he was gassed, my team won, and we got him off the floor.<\/p>\n<p>Make Wemby argue and react.<\/p>\n<p>The Knicks&#8217; road blue is an excellent look. It&#8217;s going to look even better when they play OKC in the finals\u2026and if you&#8217;re in the NBA, you should be desperate for a Knicks-Thunder final.<\/p>\n<p>As a fan, I am.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know how Philly just rolls over and dies the way they did at home to New York. In a situation like that, somebody on the 76ers should have thrown an elbow or two.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking as a fan, the most brutal NBA playoff booth this postseason goes to Kevin Harlan, Candace Parker, and Dwayne Wade. No problem with Harlan, he&#8217;s always solid, but Wade and Parker operate at Beth Mowins-Mina Kimes level.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, what an insult to Beth Mowins!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m good with Stetson Bennett being QB#2 for the Rams in 2026.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re getting the Cowboys-Giants, again, on Sunday night in Week One. Since neither team is competing for a Super Bowl, the NFL should have sent them to Australia to open the season.<\/p>\n<p>Last Add NFL: What if Kyler Murray doesn&#8217;t win the QB1 job with the Minnesota Vikings?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"RamView: 5\/11\/2026 (LA Rams Football)\" width=\"520\" height=\"293\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZFSpomNgr_8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Saying Caitlin Clark is the third most marketable player in the WNBA is like saying Natalie was hotter than Blair in The Facts of Life.<\/p>\n<p>I talk a lot of WNBA trash\u2026and fairly so\u2026The league brings it upon itself, but that didn&#8217;t absolve me from watching the opener between the Dallas Wings and Indiana Fever.<\/p>\n<p>If the expectation were for the women to play the game below the rim rather than hyping them as talent that can play above the rim, there would be less negativity toward the league.<\/p>\n<p>What I noticed:<\/p>\n<p>\u2014If any league shouldn&#8217;t have a foul-out rule, it really should be the WNBA.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014I thought Page Bueckers looked heavier, and it was confirmed that she put on 15 pounds during the offseason. I think it&#8217;s a good thing for her game.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014No problem with Bueckers, what I do have a problem with is the ridiculous praise given to build her up.<\/p>\n<p>Rebecca Lobo attributed Buecker&#8217;s excellent passing for leading to a Wings&#8217; basket\u2026three passes after Bueckers gave up the ball at mid-court. That&#8217;s like me taking credit for Los Altos&#8217; Mike Smith making it to the NBA (Via BYU) because I boxed him out in a high school game.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014I saw my first NBA game in the spring of 1973, and I don&#8217;t think I ever saw two &#8220;5-counts&#8221; being called in the same game on an inbound pass until Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014The Wings-Fever wasn&#8217;t great basketball, but it was competent and highly competitive. They played like women who know the WNBA&#8217;s economics is a joke and were doing their best to make a good impression.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014In the end, I had to ask myself if I&#8217;d be as critical if it were Team USA with Cheryl Miller playing the Soviets?<\/p>\n<p>I wouldn&#8217;t have been, so I watched and enjoyed the game.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s not a blanket endorsement of the WNBA, but they have a handful of players who can make it compelling.<\/p>\n<p>Note: A&#8217;ja Wilson&#8217;s not one of them.<\/p>\n<p>No homers in his last 46 at-bats? I&#8217;m surprised some Dodger fan hasn&#8217;t created a &#8220;TradeOhtani&#8221; hashtag.<\/p>\n<p>Do you realize each team in the National League Central is over .500? The Cincinnati Reds are 22-19, five games out of first, and in last place.<\/p>\n<p>#42\u2014May the San Francisco Giants rot and lie stinking in the earth\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Washington, in the NBA, won the draft lottery and will get the first pick in this year&#8217;s draft. In 2010, they drafted John Wall. In 2001, they drafted Kwame Brown. Maybe they should move back a slot or two and see if they can find another Phil Chenier.<\/p>\n<p>The Dude abides\u2026<\/p>\n<p>1,288<br \/>\nGalatians 1:6-8<br \/>\njtbank1964@yahoo.com<br \/>\n\u201cRamView\u201d M-W-F<br \/>\nFollow Joe on X: @joet13b<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Joe Torosian Kick it! Wemby getting bounced for throwing an elbow doesn&#8217;t make him a dirty player, but it confirms that you need to be physical with him. He&#8217;ll mature, learn how to channel it, but, for now, if I&#8217;m the Timberwolves, I&#8217;m running dude after dude after dude at him to induce another [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fanview"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=96324"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96327,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96324\/revisions\/96327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=96324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=96324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=96324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}