The best series of the second round (for now) is going on in the West, and it’s a toss-up whether it’s Mavs-Spurs or Clips-Suns. Last night the Clippers evened their thingie at 2-2 behind a dominant performance from Sam Cassell, so we’re going with that one until the Spurs win tonight.
After the game, Sam Cassell reiterated his desire to be a head coach when the playing career is over, and it’s hard to argue against him being a good one. We tried and failed. You know how the old chant goes – we couldn’t do it, and therefore no one can.
“I’m going to be a head coach in this league some day. Coaching is a feel,” Cassell said. “I don’t blame Coach Dunleavy. I knew in Game 4 I was going to be in the fourth quarter a lot. I didn’t even worry about Game 3.”
The only question is whether he’ll be allowed to complain about his situation and switch teams every year. That flies when you’re a player, but there’s no way an NBA head coach will ever get away with being like that.
Oh – and Elton Brand is really good. It’s all over the news, for reals.
We don’t dislike the Suns. We really should love them – for their style of play, their scrappy attitude, and frankly, their likability. (Minus Tim Thomas, who should never be allowed to smile and/or taunt.)
Something about them really bugs us, though. Maybe it’s the faux-MVPness of Steve Nash, or simply the fact that they cheated the world out of Lakers-Clippers. Whatever the case, we better learn to like them – they went up 2-1 on LA last night, and did it without scoring a bagremlin points, which J.A. Adande will tell you (via that link) is a dangerous thing.
Lesson 1 in avoiding cliche – “bagremlin” = “bajillion”.
Lesson 1 in embracing cliche – “gay jokes”.
Sorry, for some reason Clippers-Suns Game 2 tonight bores the hell out of us.
Game 1 was awesome, fast-paced, and full of dramatic tension, but it looks like we might be suffering from a bit of “damn it, we wanted Lakers vs. Clippers really bad” fever.
It’s also possible we have the dreaded East Coast bias, despite living on the West Coast.
Whatever the case, what you see here pictorially is far more intriguing a creation than whatever comes out of this evening’s action.
Have you all seen that Kay Jewelers commercial where the kids sing “You’re – the – greatest – mom – in – the – world – Happy – Mother’s – Day…”?
If you haven’t, you should rent it, because it’s really nice, and whatever little kid band they got to jam for that is terrific. Normally, we’re not into little kid bands, but on the rare occasion when we find one we like, we follow their career through to adulthood.
This has never actually happened, but then again, we’re believers and optimists.
If we can get on-topic for a second, Steve Nash might be out tonight for Game 1, as MVP2 has an owie on his ankle. We careth not, as this series ain’t what it was supposed to be, anyway.
You see, the Clippers have the ability to do what the Lakers could not, and that’s play like the Lakers did in Games 2-3-4 of the Lakers-Suns series for a whole series. They can do it better, too. If you thought that was a little jumbled, you really need to listen when we tell you that we can’t write well.
As has been our Round 2 habit, we dropped a note on one of the participants. (Click it to read it.)
Heated Game 5 in PHX last night. First Raja Bell tried to remove Kobe’s head and got ejected. Later on, Kobe was frustrated with the new-look Lakers forgetting how they got up 3-1, which resulted in his ejection.
All we know is LA has to win this series. Now that we’ve been teased with Clippers-Lakers, anythiing less will be horribly anti-climactic. Suns-Clippers? Would anyone outside Arizona care? Somehow we get the feeling even the Clips would be disappointed if they don’t get Kobe and the rest of their roommates in the next round.
Hey, if you haven’t been following our adventures in double-posting everything we write at FoxSports’s Great American Sportswriter Contest, now’s a good time to start. We’re trying to start a movement to get everyone to categorize their posts under “Desire For Boobs” to get it to the become the top category.
5-Point Bucks has joined the fun in his own way, copying his own stuff, leaving himself 40 comments, and then picking fights with other bloggers at FoxSports.
The Clips are moving on to the second round after giving the Nuggets the boot last night, and contrary to what everyone knows is true, they claim they’re not thinking about the Lakers.
True or false or kinda true or whatever, let’s just take a moment and allow the Clips to bask in their glory.
Good, now that that’s finished, the Reggie Evans finally spoke out about his crotch-grabbing, which apparently is habitual.
“The tape speaks for itself without me saying it,” Evans said. “If I did something wrong, I would have been suspended. Let’s put it like that. [Chris Kaman] is entitled to say whatever he wants to say,” Evans said. “It’s America, freedom of speech.”
Clippers forward Elton Brand claimed it was a repeat incident by Evans. “Somebody said he did it in college,” Brand said. “They had tape.”
Whatever the case, you can be sure Reggie Evans will be fielding some interesting questions while exploring his free agency this summer. Questions like “What do you think you can bring to this team?” and “Are you thinking about my testicles right now?”
In all likelyhood, the Clippers are going to take out the Nuggets in LA tonight, and the big question is upon us.
No, not the Lakers-Clippers question. We’re talking about the Reggie Evans question.
We mentioned this morning that he actually grabbed Chris Kaman’s package during a game, but then we actually saw it on YouTube, thanks to the mighty mjd.
See, it wasn’t that big a deal when we read about it casually. Then you watch it, and you realize Reggie blatantly reached underneath from behind and…Sam Cassell weighs in, and it doesn’t make things any better.
“When I saw it on TV, it was like, ‘Wow,’ ” 13-year veteran Sam Cassell said. “I asked the referees about it at halftime, and Jess Kersey, who has been in the league for [29] years, said he’s never seen anything like it.
“You know what, Reggie is a good guy. I think he just lost it for a minute.”
He lost it? Lost what exactly – his heterosexuality?
Watch the clip – it’s necessary in order to have a full understanding of what went on, to hear Chris Kaman discuss it, and to see the TNT crew reduced to schoolboy giggling. We await Reggie Evans’s explanation, or retirement, or his hiding in a cave, or whatever he needs to do.
This is a travel day for us. We should be reaching our destination just in time for the start of Game 2 of Cavs-Wiz.
During our absence, please leave multiple comments regarding the following, so that we may discuss upon logging back on:
1) Why the Lakers will lose Game 2.
2) Bananas.
3) At what age we should finally vote for the first time.
4) How that guy got the nickname “Turbo”.
5) What LeBron’s line will be tonight.
Later – don’t dissappoint us – we want no less than 70 comments.
