While the biggest and brightest game of the night was obviously GSW-DAL and the Baron Davis Hamstring Saga, the lead-in to that was another good one from probably the most overlooked series of the first round: Utah-Houston.
After the Jazz win of evening the last, this thing is going 7 games…but nobody’s really talking about it. Some don’t even want it to continue any longer.
Now, that’s them and this is us. In our most private moments, we’re going over in our mind the positive and negative aspects of this series, and it always comes back to one thing, one man, one mission:
Tracy McGrady getting to the second round…for the first time. Ever – like, in his whole life and career. It’ll also be a first for Yao, and on the Utah side, it’d be a first for Carlos Boozer, Deron Williams, AK-47 (who needs to work on his jumper), Paul Millsap, and young phenom Hank Wilkerson.
Maybe that’s what makes this series so bland. There’s no history between the teams, no history (other than failure) among the players, and an overall sense of “fodder for the Warriors” for whichever squad moves forward.
Regardless, this is a game seven coming up tomorrow, so you all best become excited real quick-like. How you express this will be up to you, but we’d prefer you do it over at MOTTRAM’S FANHOUSE.
We have, as of this morning, purchased it, and are doing everything we can to drive traffic, even if it means ignoring that this is really on Yao if the Rockets get knocked out.
(Unrelated – Jason and Joumana Kidd – back in the A-OK!)
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Anyone else expecting that whichever team wins this series (porbably Houston) will knock out the Warriors in about 5? I’d rather be wrong on that however. Too bad it won’t be Suns-Warriors and Spurs-Houston/Utah, those would be much more entertaining match-ups. That said…Pistons-Bulls is going to be FANtastic.
Ha, ‘porbably’.
Pistons in 7.
Who in the Hell is Hank Wilkerson? No entiendo.
Umm…back-up shooting guard? Utah Jazz? Most hyped 3rd-year player in the NBA? Do you even watch the games?
I believe GSW has a winning record against both of UT and HOU. Let the magic continue.
…or do we all partially own the Fanhouse? I mean, is this what you’ve been working on “behind the scenes” for the last month while you’ve been leaving poor Cleveland fans in the lurch?
A Pistons’ fan would never leave others in the lurch… come TVBrain, support the Pistons like they would support you…
Pistons-Bulls is like Michigan-Notre Dame in college football.
If both teams can’t lose, I don’t care who wins.
How much did it cost to purchase Fanhouse? As owner, will you still be requiring their bloggers to post 4,000 times daily?
yo, the guys at fanhouse post an ass-load amount a day…
If you read some of them though, you can tell that most “teams” have watered down posts, unlike JackCobra.
You see, with JackCobra you’re getting quality. I don’t mean quality as in “quality time” as in sex (he doesn’t get any), I mean quality like he’ll give you maybe 20 sentences per post and he will post “Pre-” articles 5 minutes before he posts the articles he just “Pre-”‘d.
Nice JackCobra, keep it up pal. You make me want to jump on the Indians’ dugout and make me sing wild thing while reading your witty posts!
I’ll be requiring additional posting at the Fanhouse – we’ll need at least 400 posts per day total, each and every one linking to another post or four within the Fanhouse. Also, we’ll be having 6 separate “round-up” posts that will re-link to past Fanhouse posts, in case anyone missed anything. This is in addition to the round-up-round-up posts, which will round-up each of the round-up posts.
Has anyone suffered more under the best-of-seven first round format than TMac? First his Orlando Magic give up the 3-1 series lead against Detroit — in 2003, the first year of the longer first round — and now his Rockets go up 3-2 before dropping the final two games against Utah. Ouch.
you didn’t have to pay, you already owned me, babe.
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