Saturday, May 31, 2008

5/31: Celtics/Lakers, Jim Calhoun, etc.

  • Boston moves on in impressive fashion in Detroit.....The Celtics came from 10 down in the 4th on the road last night to put away the Pistons in their own building...pretty impressive stuff.....a couple things stood out to me....one was that KG made a couple incredibly athletic ball-handling/slashing plays that went unnoticed by the 3-man announcing team (which has been atrocious).....another was that that Paul Pierce 4-point play...mhm i mean....offensive foul was the 2nd worst call I've seen in these playoffs behind the Pierce/Lebron block-charge in the last round....it could've conceivably been a traveling violation...but not an offensive foul....Ray Allen is alive again, and I'm starting to believe that Cleveland just did a really nice job on him and he lost a little confidence....he looks like the old Ray Allen minus a step...and that's okay....same goes for Chauncey Billups who some people buried earlier in the series...he was huge in the last 2 games....and one last thing....if you didn't know that Paul Pierce is the unquestioned go-to-guy in Boston...you know now....
  • That brings us to the widely yearned for Boston/LA NBA Finals which has reports of the possibility to "save the league"....#1) I have no idea what that really means.....and #2) It may save the TV ratings to a more reasonable number than last year's debacle....but the league doesn't need saving...it's in great shape....That said, I'm going to pick the Mamba in 6....put me on the record
Now to non-NBA material.....
  • Royce Ring should have never been on the Braves 25-man roster....and thus shouldn't have been allowed to give yet another game away.....Jay Bruce seriously looks ridiculous....he went 4-5 in the same game...
  • My prayers go out to Jim Calhoun who is battling yet another bout with Skin Cancer.....good luck sir
  • There's apparently a bit of a smoking gun in the OJ Mayo case stemming from an official credit card that Rodney Guillory apparently used to buy him things.....keep an eye out
  • Both Williams sisters lost at the French Open in the same day....I don't know that anyone cares....And that's not a shot at them...it's a shot at the sport's relevance
There's a basketball lull until Thursday so it may result in a slight decrease in content volume here...but I'll try and keep things moving

1 comment:

Ryan said...

I'm starting to think that there is someone after OJ Mayo..everything I read about him has less info and more opinion..