One day hockey and the next, basketball. How I love April and the sign of the end of the insignificant sports. This of course dawning a shining light on the next four months of Americas game! And my Twins are rolling. Problem is, so is the Phillies. Can they lose? I submit that they cannot.
So before I give my NBA picks I have to comment briefly about T-Mac's impending retirement. Oh you haven't heard of it? Well he just released a statement stating how if he couldn't get back to top notch form then he would rather retire. Ladies and gentlemen, introducing the beginning of the end of the high-school-to-NBA era. T-Mac will lead, and Kobe, Rashard Lewis, Kendrick Perkins, KG, Tyson Chandler, and Eddy Curry will soon follow. People do not understand that these guys started playing when they were 18-19 years old. Long before their bodies had even fully developed. Now those knees have taken 13-15 years worth of constant running and grinding. None of these guys will last to age 35, and they shouldn't. Now we'll truly see if not going to college will be a help or a hindrance for life after the NBA. Remember, unless they invested well, this League money won't last forever. So happy trails T-Mac because there is no way you are regaining anything close to NBA Starter form. Sorry. But thanks for the memories.
Here we go....
So I had started to write an entire breakdown of the match ups and life got in the way. Considering now that it is Monday and games have started I figured the NBA just gave me a mulligan. Seeing that most of these first round match ups are complete yawners (Magic-Bobcats/Jazz-Nuggets) unless of course you are a fan of said teams, analyzing outcomes seems like a better route. So again, but on a different route, here we go....
Ooohh did you see Garnett miss Q Rich with that elbow. I didn't know that missing with a punch constituted a suspension. And how do we know he was even going after Q? That seemed more like a defensive swinging elbow that could have connected with anyone nearby. This was not at all the sliding J. O'Neal full connection that we had in the Pacers/Pistons scrap. Being that it caused a mini Knicks-Heat mid 90's circle jerk helps me partly understand the suspension, but as I heard millions of times like it was a top ten pop hit the geniuses have deemed Garnett the "Emotional Leader" of the Celtics. If that's the case, shouldn't we expect this. And if you are billing a guy for that mantra shouldn't he deliver. I guarantee if Garnett would have walked off and little Nate would have gone all Napoleon on an opponent, Nate would suddenly be re-deemed crazy and would be out the rest of the first round, and Garnett would be "smart" for walking away. How does this add up? Chalk it up to KG being a veteran? I guess. Celtics are still winning this series. Just probably not the next. DWade made it apparent that he couldn't do everything himself.
Oh man the Bobcats almost beat the Magic. They won't get this close again. Clean sweep.
No Kirilenko means what you just saw this weekend. Melo is gonna average 40 with no D on him. Boozer, Millsap, and whomever else are all too slow. AND they just lost Okur. That equates to another clean sweep. Well, maybe Day-ron can provide an unbelievable game to get them one in Salt Lake. But that's it.
The other series don't matter so we'll revisit in round two.
In something I have to add simply because this is the most random entry yet, the Niners added Ginn Jr. to complement Crabtree. So this is how you answer your receiving problems? Add an unproven college star opposite the exact same thing? Hmm. And this happened because Ginn became expendable when he decided to suck dick his first two seasons in Miami. He ran terrible routes and couldn't catch or get seperation when he did finish one, further proving to be no kind of offensive threat. How do I know? I had him on my fantasy team last year. Every week he gave me nothing. The week he did do something (returned two kicks back; both over 100 yards), I sat him. Screw Ginn. Good riddens.
Two people let me know two very different view points that this brings up. First, my good pal Arthur, a man for whom I consult on all hilarious 80's movie trivia quotes (BTW, how funny, and utterly unbelievable is the ice block breaking scene in Karate Kid 2!) and underground hip hip comparisons (Yes, I heard Skills '09 rap-up, as solid as the others), and is a true Niners fan, calmly summed it up by stating "I can't believe we signed this loser! We already have an underachieving WR." My sentiments exactly. Secondly, Abijah states that the Dolphins losing Ginn, yet gaining Brandon Marshall, coupled with the Jets two year revamp, compounds the fact that the Bills have only gotten worse, as everyone else in the AFC East has vastly improved. Are we the new Lions? God I hope not. Vick/Tebow '10. PLEASE!!!!
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