Mike Breen & Doug Collins are basketball persons

(This is a picture of Zack Morris from his new lawyer show on TNT. Who thought that hair looked lawyerly, we don’t know. He plays a DA – would the city let him look like that?

Also, instead of the rest of the actors they hired, we would’ve used the entire cast of Saved By the Bell. Do you know the ratings that show would get? Good ratings, that’s what kind.)

Well, Team USA beat China lasterday, and it was a really fun game to watch.

In fact, the most fun part about it was actually being able to note the exact moments when LeBron would turn it on and off.

Scoop Jackson wrote an article the other day about this team not having someone whose game can just scare the hell out of the opponents on a kind of baseline/instinctual/animalistic level. (He says this person should be Amare.)

We’d say Lebron has that ability…he just doesn’t use it all the time. Whoever told him he needs to pace himself in everything he does did the world an awful disservice – we blame Shaq.

Fun as the game was, the best part was having Mike Breen & Doug Collins commentating. One more gae of those ESPN guys yelling “YIPPPEEEE!!! SLAM DUNKER!!!! WHEEEE!!!” and we might have gone to the Brazillian team, like LeBron is negotiating to do.

The saddest part of these Olympics? Poor Jim Lampley, all alone in that studio. We read somewhere that they don’t even give him a cameraman – he has to run over and push the button himself.

Here are the latest additions to the movie list(s) – enjoy:

The Kingdom, Reservoir Dogs, Four Rooms, Jackie Brown, Kill Bill Vol. 1, Kill Bill Vol. 2, Death Proof, Saturday Night Fever, Look Who’s Talking, Look Who’s Talking Too, White Man’s Burden, Get Shorty, Broken Arrow, Phenomenon, Michael, Mad City, A Civil Action, The General’s Daughter, Domestic Disturbance, Houseboat (re-ranked)

As you see if you look at the list(s), we had to create an additional list for movies we know we saw but have zero recollection of. No plot, no impressions, no idea if we liked it or not. These will be listed in alphabetical order, since we have no idea if we liked or disliked them.

Interesting that the two on there right now are both late ’90s John Travolta movies. This was the post-Pulp Fiction period when he would literally be in anything, milking his second wave of stardom for everything he could. He made a staggering number of bad to average movies during this time.

We also re-ranked Houseboat. You have to understand, our mom made us watch Houseboat when we were really young, and it was super dumb.

We remembered certain dumb things about it so vividly though, that sometime last week, we came up with the idea for an incredibly dumb/fun sequel to it. This necessitated a re-watch.

It was just as dumb as we remembered, but was actually so dumb that it was funny, so it got bumped up the list.