A common theme among recaps of yesterday’s Suns-Spurs Game 1 will center on Dirk Nowitzki’s upcoming MVP trophy presentation.
Because we love a good cliche, we shall go the same route, and note that while Dirk was sitting home lasterday, the other main candidate, Steven Nash, was simultaneously trying to get back into a tight game and bleeding to death.
After taking a Crushing French Whammy from Tony de la Parker late in the fourth, Steve had to sit, while the trainers did their best to put 47 band-aids on his nose at once, his face looking roughly like someone tried to bite it off.
Dude needed stitches – Spurs win. Overall, a fantastic game – even the Suns bloggers can’t complain too much in terms of basketball quality.
I came to really respect the Spurs this game. They and the Suns are both class organizations, both have really classy players on the team and both teams are absolutely awesome. Tim Duncan is unstoppable. He knows how to play the game and when to take his shots.
Yep, looks like this is pretty much the NBA Finals in terms of quality of play and also quality of play. Expect the quality of play to also be phenomenal.
As for Nash’s nose, the only update we know of is that it looked gross and it wasn’t broken – the problem was vertical and horizontal cuts, which apparently are hard to make close.
In other words, our harsh feelings about Spider-Man 3 have been met by a large amount of agreement, based on the emails we’ve received.
Our only hope is that after reading the detailed critique we’ve sent out to those who requested it, is that you not expose us as “knowing a little too much about Spider-Man and his history.”
We weren’t going to write anything on Cavs-Nets Game 1 until tomorrow morning, but Killbane, ESQ emailed us before the game to inform us of the following:
My excitement level can be summed thusly: at tip-off, i will be persuing the wares of rag-pickers, alleyway junk stealers, and turkey-jurkey vendors at the kane county, illinois flea market.
while i would never have planned to miss a game, it occurred to me when the schedule came out (and my plans had already been made) that this team hasn’t given me a single good reason — at they’ve had 80-some chances — to organize my life around them. i have the sinking suspicion i’m making the smart play.
i hope i’m wrong. and i hope your post-game musings are so incisive and thoughtful that it’ll almost be like i watched it.
Well, your hopes are correct and your fears are wrong, old friend.
LeBron and Co. did their thing, ie looked atrocious on offense, yet played aggressively effective on defense, thus resulting in a win.
We couldn’t help but get a little caught up in the proceedings in the fourth quarter, even yelling “FINALLY” when LeBron actually drove to the hole once. ONCE. (He says he was sick with a cold.)
A win is a win – we’ve accepted the fact that we just have to accept that fact, even though at one point in the 2nd quarter, CLE was getting their butts handed to them by Richard Jefferson and four CBA guys.
The 81-77 final score was surely spit-worthy for Coach Mike, who has at least admitted he hasn’t really worked on the offense in two years with the team. We stick to our prediction – Cavs in six.
(We don’t know if ABC broadcaster Hubie Brown meant it like we took it, but he described watching this game as being like going to the dentist and having 22 wisdom teeth removed. Or something like that. IE PAINFUL.)
We’re out again today, and we are truly sorry about that.
We could talk about Golden State-Dallas all day long. Quickly – we haven’t been that engrossed in a game we had no vested interest in since…Detroit vs the Lakers in 04. Yes, we were rooting for the Pistons to take down Shaq/Kobe/Gary/Karl back then – that version of those guys had a certain underdog, hard-working charm, much like Nellie’s Band of Bay Area Lunatics.
Anyway, while it would’ve been cool to see them take it in five, it’ll be even cooler to see them take it at home. The arena may very well blow up. And they are taking it – DAL got lucky as hell in winning last night, and the fact that the Warriors came back on them like they did isn’t gonna clear the German’s head at all.
Moving back to the Pistons…anyone who can explain what this is all about from Marc Stein’s ESPN chat yesterday wins a birthday cake to be determined later.
OSICK (CLEVELAND): I am so sick of hearing how bad the East is from Hollinger and yourself. I can’t wait till The Cavs, Stones or Bulls win this thing and you all have to cry about how the best team(s) didn’t win it. That being said, GO CAVS!!!!!!!!!!
Marc Stein: That’s fine. I’m so sick of hearing that STONES stuff when people talk about Detroit. It is the most ill-fitting nickname in the NBA.
We’ve been admittedly absent and disinterested for awhile, but we feel like we would’ve caught some wind of what this “Stones” thing is with regard to DET.
It sounds suspiciously like something that could renew our venomous feelings toward the more pretentious of the Pistons fans and, of course, the pretentious Pistons themselves. So what’s it all about?
(One other quick thing – thanks to Becky for this link regarding the potential of NJN-CLE. We feel better now, although we love how “lethargic” is just a natural association for the Cavaliers. We’d just assume get this thing started – the more they sit around, the more likely they are to think it’s already summer.)
While AwfulAnnouncing wonders whether Vegas’s mayor will be pulling out the KKK robes this weekend, everyone else is just trying like hell to get out of playing in the All-Star Game.
Jason Kidd was the latest to drop out – he plans on using his newfound separated marriage as an excuse to indulge in sluts for the majority of Sat/Sun and the latter hours of Friday, which leaves little to no time for any type of basketball playing activities.
That’s fine though – there are plenty of other guys who can both indulge in sluts and play in the game within the same 3 day period – some even do both at the same time.
Indulge in sluts, indulge in sluts, indulge in sluts, indulge in sluts, indulge in sluts, indulge in sluts, indulge in sluts, indulge in sluts, indulge in sluts, indulge in sluts, indulge in sluts, indulge in sluts, indulge in sluts, indulge in sluts, indulge in sluts, indulge in sluts, indulge in sluts, indulge in sluts, indulge in sluts.
GO HAWKS!
(One of the new things we do when writing a post is figure out if the ALL-NEW TRUEHOOP, PRESENTED BY ESPN will get slapped on the wrist for linking to said post. On a scale of 1-10 we’d rate the probability of this one being non-linkable at an 8, mainly due to the subtle use of the phrase “indulge in sluts”.)
We had this while post written up about the Clippers being average, and it wa somehow wrapped around how they sent Danny Granger to the hospital yesterday in their loss to the Pacers.
When we had finished, we looked it over and realized that our Clipper knowledge wasn’t really all that deep, but moreso that the Clippers being average simply isn’t interesting, even though JA Adande says the Clips’ Coach Mike should maybe be canned.
Part of our inability to write a compelling post on this topics stems from our purchase last week of a massive bag of bananas from Costco. It was four POUNDS of bananas for $1.37.
We remember standing there in Costco contemplating whether to buy them or not, and it took like 10 minutes, at least. On one hand, they’re $1.37. On the other, we don’t really eat bananas, so what’s the point? We even walked away once and then came back to think it over some more.
Ultimately, we bought them. The bananas were large, cheap, and bagged.
Like, what kind of farmer grows his bananas in such a way that he then must bag them – these things seemed so serious. Even the Costco employee noted upon checkout, “Ay, those are some big bananas,” to which we responded, “Yes, I agree.”
Anyway, it’s a week later and the bananas have gone bad. We threw them away just now, and we can’t help but think that years from now we’ll look back on this and somehow wonder how our personal Banana Era went so very, very wrong.
We can’t remember now where we got this pic or if this is being used for anything during the All-Star Weekend, but the NBA gave the Roundie a little make-over for the party.
The buffoon James Dolan gives Isiah a “you’re safe for now” statement, mostly to appease Eddy Curry. For real – after reading that article we linked the other day, anything Dolan does is kinda shady and/or weird to us.
Ricky Davis nailed a wide-open baseline jumper at the buzzer to send the Celts to their 18th straight loss. We watched this live, and in a shocking development, we were cheering for Boston to lose.
We were also surprised to find out the Cavs have won four of their last five, just like Terry Pluto. (Seriously, the way we talk, you’d think they were the Celtics.)
The Basketball Jones celebrates their 100th show – it’s worth a listen just for the “Skeets intros Tas” mixtape. Good work, Les Canadians – that’s what we’re talking aboot!
Remember that semi-creepy post we made awhile back about how strangely similar we are to Gilbert Arenas in pretty much every area except race and basketball skill?
His addictions are many and, Arenas admits, “pointless,” including bad DVDs, vintage jerseys and his latest, crappy basketballs. Arenas is collecting the synthetic balls the NBA unveiled and dumped this season after players complained about cutting their fingers on them.
We have three, which we’re guessing isn’t as many as Gil has. Either way, we say cool. Hey BOG – any chance you can ask him about this for us?
With that, it’s 11:18pm and we’re up way past our bedtime.
If you remember, our sister screwed this up a couple weeks ago, and thus the untimely nature of it. Couple notes here – we did this on our own over X-Mas vacation at home, so this is officially “guy messing around with video camera”.
Screw it – we wanted this in Quicktime and embedded, but we’re not gonna have time to figure it out and our team of scientists is not around. Don’t worry, we’ll hire someone for WSM? to make sure it’s all nice and shiny.
This does look like ish on YouTube, though – that resume is gold, but you can’t see it on here (this was shot in hi-def). Alas…he’s back.
Since our return last week, we’ve fielded the following type of questions via email:
1) Where is the Orange Roundie?
2) Did you happen to have way too much fun messing around with a video camera when you went home for Christmas?
3) Did that fun involve an epic Orange Roundie adventure?
4) Did you change the width of the main column because you were going to show a beautifully embedded Quicktime movie in said main column?
5) Did your sister recently do anything to upset the balance of the Roundie’s epic adventure which may or may not have been the beautifully embedded Quicktime movie?
All of your answers are below.
This is from the sis:
Dear readers of Yaysports,
I’m very sorry to say that yesterday I accidentally erased my
brothers new Roundie movie from the computer. It was a super neat
movie that my brother worked very hard on and now it is all gone. It
had super cool [redacted], [redacted], and lots of other really cool things
that would have been neat for you guys to see. I actually cried after
it happened because I felt so bad. So my deepest apologies to the
Orange Roundie, the [redacted], and all of you neat people who read my
brothers basketball stuff everyday. Just so you know, my brother’s
not letting me watch Step by Step reruns all week because of this.
Sorry again,
Kristen
So yeah – we’ll try and piece that thing back together – we have all the raw footage, so that’s a plus.
Also, this is the form footer on all the emails from our sister’s company. We sometimes send it out as a blanket response whenever she emails us asking for things, like…when the BDP is visiting again.
“As a Team we will work in unison to provide the highest level of
service to our guests. Reinforcing to all our Associates that we are
One Team with One Purpose: to Exceed Guest Expectation and create an
environment of pride and respect.”
Oh, and just so we’re all clear – erasing the Roundie movie is bad unison teamwork that does not create an environment of pride and respect!
There are few things more exciting than a disgruntled superstar disgruntling all over his struggling team.
We missed one of the great stories of this nature (Allen Iverson) due to our December sabbatical, so seeing Jermaine O’Neal begin his campaign to get moved away from the Indiana Pacers has us fairly glee-filled.
He’s not out-and-out demanding a trade yet, but that’s not how a good citizen like Jermaine does these thing, you see. You start small…you build doubt within the organization by talking about taking a look at the situation after the season, which in turn causes more losing.
Then your uncertainty can just roll into an earlier (than this summer) request to be moved.
“If I can’t take this team to another level, I truthfully believe we should go our separate ways at the end of the season,” said O’Neal, who added his first choice is to remain with the Pacers. “I’m saying in general, the bottom line is you play to win. If we don’t have a system set to win a championship, if we don’t have the crew to win a championship, then what are we doing?
“I’m getting to the point, I’m in my 11th year, I don’t want to play 82 games and then exit to watch somebody else pop champagne…
Easy solution there – just become a fan of another team. Play for Indy – root openly for Detroit. It can only help you get moved sooner, pal.
Really, though – if Jermaine O’Neal goes on the block, is there any team in the NBA who’s not trying to get some of that?
Maybe San Antonio. Possibly Orlando, but our guess is Darko would be on the table in an instant in a case like this.
Personally, if we’re Indy, we’re very quietly shopping him around to Boston, although the longer Danny Ainge plays “watch our young talent grow”, the more that game converts into “look at our average, still semi-young vets”.
Sorry to take a pot-shot at the Celtics out of nowhere, but it’s Sunday and we’re semi-giddy over this whole situation. Plus, the Cavaliers are winning and becoming semi-watchable again.
If you think that means we’re all “Cavs are gonna be the #1 seed – no doubt” again, you’re wrong. Last night we uttered the statement, “Well, at least they can lose all seven games of this Western swing and still be over .500.”
NOTE: Indy’s win over NO/OKC last night isn’t really a story – Jermaine says until they win at least 3 in a row, nothing counts.
A common theme among recaps of yesterday’s Suns-Spurs Game 1 will center on Dirk Nowitzki’s upcoming MVP trophy presentation.
