Kaman starts the second half with an easy bucket on a 6 ft lefty jump hook.

24 points, 10-12 from the floor.

looks great. Hair line is receding fast, though.

But the move where he went up lefty and switched to right in the 1st was a beaut.

He looks sooo German.

He does not look so German.

There is nobody out there like him, nor has there ever really been.

Damn, Kaman looks good! I’m watching the game right now (vs. Angola…I guess this is a rerun) and man, he looks very agile around the basket, making great passes and very mobile! If he can show these moves over the NBA season, and with BD at point, Clips are gonna be a fun team to watch (and even further help us forget about FElton)

Angola aren’t NBA calibre, obviously, but it looks like Kaman 2.0 is here to stay. He seemed even more svelte than last year. This article makes me a little uneasy, though:
http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/beijing/basketball/news?slug=aw-kamangermany071008&prov=yhoo&type=lgns
Sounds like Kaman believes it was the Clippers fault Elton walked.

is gunna be exciting. i predict kaman dominates as always and team USA gets upset after kaman drops 50, including a poster on kobe thats so preposterous, kobe decides to leave the game of basketball altogether

This might not be the right thread—the SurferTony fanpost on Kaman has the LATimes link and there might be more recent activity over there.

Kaman is classic, as always, and has found a way to get the worst possible timing for his big LATimes Mark Heisler feature. It’s a bit of a perfect storm: continuing the slow-moving response to dumb questions/issues of patriotism; trying to clear up his critique of the Clippers response to his request to play for Germany; and right after a truly lousy game against Greece.

Why couldn’t Heisler have done the interview after Kaman was superb against Angola?

As far as the patriotism aspect goes, it has been pointed out elsewhere that there are very few people who are more “American” than Chris Kaman. Every single thing about him screams Mom, apple pie, and the midwest, all the way down to gun rights and a trucking company. But he has somehow managed to fail to include that in his stumbling responses.

As far as saying that the Clippers “lied” and didn’t exactly smooth his path for playing for Germany, in this case Kaman is doing a little bit of damage control and making his point more clearly. Again, fairly typical stuff.

But it’s no surprise that the guy who has been playing great, who is going to carry a major part of the load for the new, improved Clips this year, flails his way through a pratfall as he gets his LA Times/Heisler feature treatment.

Fatso is a complete wreck. He’ll NEVER make it to the NBA. He’s so immobile and poorly conditioned right now, I can’t imagine how bad it was prior to fat camp. The ghost of Sofo 2006 is long gone.