NBA Blog

Year two of law school is winding down.  Finals are bearing down on me as we speak, so that is the reason for the few-and-far-between postings.  So I’ll hit you up with some random thoughts that I’ve had over the past couple of weeks.

Please go read Paul Shirley’s NBA blog at NBA.com.  The word ‘genius’ is used far too frequently, so I will just say that it is comedically ‘gifted.’  If you’ve got nothing better to do with your workday, read that blog that is updated at a rate much more frequently than this is, and follow it up with an afternoon of the Sports Guy on ESPN Page 2.

The Warriors have won eight in a row, and Baron Davis has been THE key ingredient to their success.  I’m not saying he was pulling a Vinsanity in New Orleans, but he’s playing like the B.Diddy from three years ago when I was calling him the best point guard in the league.  Remember he and Mashburn carried a thin Hornets squad through the playoffs before Magloire developed. 

I would like to thank the Los Angeles Lakers for participating in the 2004-2005 NBA season.  Seriously, can the gentlemen who lambasted me for discussing the holes in Kobe’s game please stand up.  Are you still willing to call him the best player in the game?  Because last time I checked the best players in the game don’t regress when it gets important. 

Speaking of fantastic players, Kevin Garnett is trying his best to keep the Wolves alive.  Last night he went for 31, 14, and 7 on a knee that is in really bad shape.  Seriously, he’s injured a lot worse than the Wolves organization is letting on. 

Why is Kevin McHale coaching the Wolves if he has absolutely no intention of EVER coaching in the NBA?  I don’t think the choice to coach this team is going to help his job as the general manager. 

Watching the Knicks today made me wonder if Grant Long, Michael Cage, and Armon Gilliam could come out of retirement because the Knicks don’t have nearly enough undersized power forwards on their roster.  Kurt Thomas, Malik Rose, Jerome Williams, Maurice Taylor, and Michael Sweetney just nearly are not enough guys to fill the power forward/center spot.  When Tim Thomas is your tallest player, and he plays small forward, I don’t think the guy in charge is doing a good job.  Hey, at least the creator of the Bad Boys got them out of salary cap purgatory…OH WAIT!

Manu and Duncan aren’t playing against the Warriors.  Right now Nazr Muhammed, Glenn Robinson and Sean Marks are on the floor for the good guys.  Ummm, that ain’t good folks.  At least Rasho is hurt right now, so he won’t give me a headache. 

Sean Marks never saw a jumper he didn’t want to take.  He’s on pace to beat Stephen Jackson’s five-year old record of shots per second that he set in his first year with the Spurs.

The Spurs last two wins came against the Clippers and the Clippers.  Not really liking that statistic.

I would hate to be the Warriors color-guy when Zarko Czabarkapa, Nikolos Tskitishvilli, Mikael Pietrus, and Andris Beidrins are in the game.  That’s a lot of enunciation to do.  Then again, I would just hate to be the Warriors color guy.  Up until last week, that had to be one of the least exciting jobs on the planet.  “Get on your feet Warriors fan.”  And I’m not going Jim Rome and calling an entire group with the singular noun, I’m referring to the  entire fan club.

Denver is scary hot.  I can’t wait for the Spurs to face them in the playoffs and watch a freshly activated Tim Duncan dominate Kenyon Martin to the point that Martin loses his mind and turns into Rasheed Wallace from the late Portland years.  If you don’t know what I’m talking about, go back and look up K-Mart’s statistics and technicals when the Spurs won the 2002-2003 title.

The first full week of the baseball season is in the books, and the only things I really know is that the Pirates and the Royals are officially out of the playoff race.  Well that and my fantasy baseball team has a combined era of 15.00 right now.  Not good times for Rose’s Rallying Redbirds. 

The Minnesota Twins have a phenomenal farm system.  Every year they lose one or two players and just throw in some new talent that they have cultivated.  Their entire lineup, aside from Shannon Stewart came from their farm system.  And Justin Morneau is injured right now.  That is just sick. 

If Bob Wickman has to pitch to Matt Lecroy will he have problems pitching against his twin brother?

Don’t ever watch Closer.  Seriously, I mean NEVER, EVER, EVER WATCH THAT MOVIE.  It was beyond terrible.  My girlfriend and I are splitting the costs for Netflix, so every once in a while, I have to watch some stupid movie that she queued (Not a clue how to spell that word) and subsequently suffer through it.  Two nights ago that was Closer.  Not only was it terrible, there wasn’t even any nudity to salvage the plot.  As a completely disinterested male, I have one question that they all want to ask about the film.  How can a movie that is solely about infidelity, where everybody is sleeping with everybody’s significant other, and one of the main characters is a stripper, have absolutely no nudity?  I think there may have been one gratuitous breast shot in the “nightclub” but I was probably asleep by that time.  There was absolutely nothing entertaining about that film.