So just to recap: in honor of Greg Ostertag's impending triumphant return to the NBA ( http://www.nba.com/dleague/news/ostertag_legends_q_and_a_2011_12_29.html), NVE and BSR are submitting their favorite Ostertag video of all time, where it will be commemorated in the KBA blog and probably go straight to the National Library of Congress and translated into 110 languages.
Okay okay, I know the contest was the SINGLE best Ostertag video. But try as I might, there is just too much good stuff out there...TOO MUCH I SAY! So I cheated...sue me. I know a comedy gold mine when I see one. It's all Ostertag, all day baby. Is it only fitting that today is Friday the 13th?
So without further ado, here is #3 of Ostertag-palooza
This one snuck into the top 3 on the sheer strength of production value. I imagine some 40s-ish Utah Jazz fan in his basement, wearing John Stockton shorts and a tweed sport coat game-worn by Jerry Sloan procured off Ebay, lovingly putting together this montage while making wistful sighs all the while: "Those were the days...they just don't play basketball like that these days! [sobs]" The only thing better than the video production is the accompanying soundtrack. WHAT?! You say Greg Ostertag and Barry White DON'T go together...bite your tongue!!!!
A couple other observations:
1) Jeez, Jazz fans...we get it. You hate the Lakers pretty much as much as you hate the Taliban, and you looked for every possible highlight against the purple and gold to put in this video. I'm surprised the three Kobe airballs from the 1997 playoffs aren't included here.
2) Stockton, as much of a little shit (sorry, Mama Beheshti, if you are reading this...welcome to the KBA blog!!) as he is...was the man. Seriously, he made Greg Ostertag look good, if only for a few moments here and there. That alone would have gotten him into the Hall of Fame. I wonder what he could have done with Kwame Brown, but I digress.
3) Notice that all of Ostertag's "highlights", especially on defense, come against the biggest collection of sorry-ass stiffs you'll ever see. I have, in no particular order: Elden Campbell (total goaltending, by the way), Vitaly Potapenko, Anthony Mason, BRYANT "BIG COUNTRY" REEVES, we even have a Laker Samaki Walker sighting, for God's sake!!!! Even more pathetic is the cheap "block" on the guy (Antoine Walker?) who's collapsing to the ground and throwing the ball up just to avoid a travel.
Check out the 2nd comment under top comments section...that about sums up my experience while watching this video.
Well, there you have it...#2 to follow.
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