I hate the NBA but this post season has been pretty decent. The players seem like they actually care this time. There have been a lot of hard fouls and it seems like people are actually making an effort to win games. I was glad when GS beat the Mavericks, even though I'm a fan of Mark Cuban. He was a fan who got rich so he bought a team, which is pretty awesome. The Cavs-Pistons game, I don't see why people are mad that LeBron passed that. The guy was wide open, Bron-Bron wasn't shooting well that game, it was a good decision. That guy had already made 6 threes in the game. Good decision by LeBron in my opinion. Granted, people like Michael Jordan probably would've taken the shot, I don't think it was a bad choice to pass. The way the Pistons played defense shows how shitty Cleveland actually is. They basically shut down James by swarming him and left everyone else open. It apparently worked pretty well, showing how terrible everyone else is.
I'm looking forward to what the sports guy has to say about the NBA lottery. Hilarious. Thats about all I have for now, I should probably do some work today.
Wednesday, May 23, 2007
Tuesday, May 08, 2007
NBA playoffs 5-8-07
Check this out from today's daily dime.
Maybe no one watches the East playoffs. I understand the West is the much, much better conference (even though the top seed got knocked off by the eighth seed and two of the top four teams going into the playoffs are out). It seems people forget the past so quickly. Miami won the championship last year, and Detroit two years before that - with largely the same players as this year! Sure the Pistons have gotten older, but their style of play is a little bit quicker than what it was a few years ago.
The Pistons have scored over 90 points every game this post season, over 100 in two. They swept the Magic who are an up and coming young team with man-child Dwight Howard. The Bulls swept the defending champs in the Heat. Now the Pistons are making quick work of Chicago. If the Pistons can keep Chicago from winning one at home and close the series out on the road again, they begin looking like a tougher and tougher opponent for whoever comes out of the West.
One quick note: If you aren't watching the Golden State Warriors play this postseason, you should be. Their reckless style is the most fun I've seen in pro basketball. Rare isolation plays; fast breaks with any of the five players bringing the ball up the court; huge crowd-lifting (or killing) jumpers and threes. A playground style that's probably as much fun to play as it looks.
With Dallas out of the picture and the Spurs already seizing home-court
advantage from the Suns, San Antonio has to be considered an overwhelming
favorite right now to win the championship. Consider this: The Spurs played the
No. 2 team on this list, Golden State, twice after Baron Davis came back in
March. Keep in mind the Warriors are 18-4 in their other games with Davis since
then. But against the Spurs they lost twice by a combined total of 50 points.
Not that I needed any convincing after watching the Spurs methodically rip
the heart out of a very good Denver team last week, but the numbers back up what
I've been thinking since training camp tipped off -- this is San Antonio's
tournament to lose. And thus far, the Spurs don't seem inclined to lose it.
Maybe no one watches the East playoffs. I understand the West is the much, much better conference (even though the top seed got knocked off by the eighth seed and two of the top four teams going into the playoffs are out). It seems people forget the past so quickly. Miami won the championship last year, and Detroit two years before that - with largely the same players as this year! Sure the Pistons have gotten older, but their style of play is a little bit quicker than what it was a few years ago.
The Pistons have scored over 90 points every game this post season, over 100 in two. They swept the Magic who are an up and coming young team with man-child Dwight Howard. The Bulls swept the defending champs in the Heat. Now the Pistons are making quick work of Chicago. If the Pistons can keep Chicago from winning one at home and close the series out on the road again, they begin looking like a tougher and tougher opponent for whoever comes out of the West.
One quick note: If you aren't watching the Golden State Warriors play this postseason, you should be. Their reckless style is the most fun I've seen in pro basketball. Rare isolation plays; fast breaks with any of the five players bringing the ball up the court; huge crowd-lifting (or killing) jumpers and threes. A playground style that's probably as much fun to play as it looks.
Tuesday, May 01, 2007
New Blogger (It looks the same to me) = New Post
It's been a while (again). I've decided that more often I need to write things down when I think them. There's been quite a few times lately that the sports guy has stolen my ideas but I haven't had the hard facts to prove it. That changes now. And, it's hilarious to read past posts and see how prophetic they have become.
On the main page right now, two of my previous posts mentioned Brady Quinn as a possibility for the Texans. How close it came to being true! Only Houston would have been dumb enough to trade for Matt Schaub before the draft. I didn't think about this before, but wouldn't it make sense to see if you could land a QB with the 10th pick? If both Russell (who I would have loved to have had) or Quinn were gone, then start working for a trade for Schaub. Worst case, you end up with hometown boy Kevin Kolb in the 4th round or Heisman Trophy winner Troy Smith in the sixth! I might have bought season tickets to watch Sage play for the first half of the season and then Troy Smith for the second half. Schaub doesn't do it for me and it makes Quinn - for half the money - look like a pretty good investment.
Biggest winner? Not Cleveland. ESPN made too much about Quinn playing for his hometown team. He never said anything about it before the draft or after the pick - only when somebody asked him about it. After falling that far, he didn't seem all that grateful that somebody moved up to get him in the first round. Everyone could have let him fall right into the second. The biggest winner, in my opinion, was Troy Smith. He'll play for a pretty decent team and behind a quarterback that was a mentor to (2006 Rookie of the Year) Vince Young. Boller is in the last year of his deal and McNair is getting older. Smith should get a shot, but he'll have a couple years to learn the system with a QB that isn't bitter about training his replacement.
We'll see about all this. At least in a couple years, when I read a Simmons article about how Troy Smith was the steal of the draft, I can say I said it first.
On the main page right now, two of my previous posts mentioned Brady Quinn as a possibility for the Texans. How close it came to being true! Only Houston would have been dumb enough to trade for Matt Schaub before the draft. I didn't think about this before, but wouldn't it make sense to see if you could land a QB with the 10th pick? If both Russell (who I would have loved to have had) or Quinn were gone, then start working for a trade for Schaub. Worst case, you end up with hometown boy Kevin Kolb in the 4th round or Heisman Trophy winner Troy Smith in the sixth! I might have bought season tickets to watch Sage play for the first half of the season and then Troy Smith for the second half. Schaub doesn't do it for me and it makes Quinn - for half the money - look like a pretty good investment.
Biggest winner? Not Cleveland. ESPN made too much about Quinn playing for his hometown team. He never said anything about it before the draft or after the pick - only when somebody asked him about it. After falling that far, he didn't seem all that grateful that somebody moved up to get him in the first round. Everyone could have let him fall right into the second. The biggest winner, in my opinion, was Troy Smith. He'll play for a pretty decent team and behind a quarterback that was a mentor to (2006 Rookie of the Year) Vince Young. Boller is in the last year of his deal and McNair is getting older. Smith should get a shot, but he'll have a couple years to learn the system with a QB that isn't bitter about training his replacement.
We'll see about all this. At least in a couple years, when I read a Simmons article about how Troy Smith was the steal of the draft, I can say I said it first.
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