Wednesday, June 11, 2008

NBA Finals Thoughts With A Little Celtics Bias

Paul Pierce, you grew up in Inglewood and now are playing in Los Angeles for the NBA Championship and you decide to play like that in Game 3?!?!? After Game 1 & 2 it looked like, in the words of Brother Ali, "The Truth is here," but that obviously wasn't apparent in Game 3 in L.A. Vlad Radmonivic getting in foul trouble actually helped the Lakers as Pierce has been playing well against him with a clear bulk and quickness advantage. Kobe played a lot more on The Truth and Pierce as a result really never got it going. However, with Pierce playing as poorly as he did, the positive is that the Celtics stayed in the game throughout. More about Paul real quick. I like his shoes, no one else in the league has them and you can't find them anywhere really. Also him and KG refuse to show the NBA logo on their socks by folding them down much like many of the Pistons players have done for quite some time. Lastly, I wish Paul had a better beard. I would feel more comfortable if he had a Baron Davis-esque beard instead of one that doesn't even connect the goatee to the sideburns. A fresh line up wouldn't hurt either.
Hi my name is Kevin Garnett and I am 6'11 and I should square up Pau Gasol everytime I get it in the post take two dribbles and dunk on him. He is a boy, I am a man, and a very intimidating one. Sure he knocks down jumpers pretty often, but he can get by Gasol everytime or at least draw a double and kick it to open shooters. He bizarrely missed two seemingly routine dunks, one of which would have been an "And 1" after Gasol hacked him in the third. He caught fire a little bit at the end of the quarter, and I didn't mind him shooting jumpers then because they were obviously falling. But when he gets it on the block or extended post, nothing angers me more than him turning around and taking fade-aways, OMG!! Square him up and dunk on Gasol or Odom or go to the line you jerk face. Couple style things about Kevin. The number 5 finger sleeve he rocks on his right hand looks like it is about to fall off and just looks stupid in general, get rid of that Kev. Also his limited NBA Championship Trophy sneakers that they make 8 pair of every game and go for $1,000 each, are not that fresh, who's buying those? Kevin though does often look quite fresh in his dress code apparel be it a sweater vest or suit ensemble, he always is on point. Props to you on that KG.
Bennett Salvatore and Joey Crawford are two of the leagues worst officials, who both think they need to everyone to recogonize they are there and everyone does because they are awful. No one realized who the other guy was, I forget his name already and that is a good thing, no? To put them both on the court for an NBA Finals Game was a travesty, an embarrassment. They quickly made up for the free throw discrepancy in Game 2 by flipping it in the Lakers favor understandably. However, in Game 2 the Lakers were getting foul calls, the Celtics were in the penalty pretty quick in the second quarter, the Lakers just didn't take it to the basket. Kobe made sure to do that in Game 3 and got his calls, yet missed a lot of free throws. The Celtics in the first half weren't getting any calls in their favor, weird travel calls and offensive fouls, and were attacking the basket, unlike the Lakers in Game 2, but not going to the line. Leon Powe did nothing as a result of this. Again very understandable because everyone made so much of the numbers in Game 2 however misleading they really were. The second half was evenly officiated for the most part, which was good and they let them play at the end, no problem with that.
Kobe you have an amazing Nike shoe and clothing line, but you can't wear this awful suit to a NBA Finals press conference. This is the second straight game you decided to wear a black dress shirt, WHY?!? Game 2's suit was even worse with a black suit on top of a black dress shirt. Your ties are horrible (Game 2's was red), and how are you not putting it in a Windsor Knot? Embarrassing.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

justin, you are hilarious. i laughed out loud at least three times.

Anonymous said...

p.s. this is amanda and i am not a random stalker. in case you were scared.