Sunday, May 31, 2009

Breaking News on Stan Van Gundy's Mustache!!

:-) If Jameer Nelson returns for the NBA Finals that would be so fucking cool. I don't know if he'd be good, but he is more consistent than Rafer Alston & he destroyed the Lakers when the Magic beat LA in LA in the regular season.
:-( If you are interested, my boring prediction is the Lakers will win in 6. It pains me to say it & I hope I am wrong even though I have rooted against the Magic for three straight series. The Magic are pretty cool I have to admit. It just seems way too difficult for the Magic to win three straight at home and it's unlikely they will win if LA if the Lakers play like they did in Game 6 against the Nugs.
:-) Varejao & Ben Wallace are better defenders than Bynum & Gasol, but Big Z was pretty terrible & slow, so it will be interesting to see how Dwight fares in the Finals. The match-up problem everyone talks about that Rashard Lewis creates should be interesting. If the Lakers play Pau & Odom at the 4 & 5 to match up with Dwight & Rashard that leaves the Dwight-Pau mismatch. If Bynum & Gasol play 4-5 there is no way Pau can guard Rashard either. But Rashard can't guard Pau. But 3 points are worth more than 2. I don't know what is going to happen with this, that is why everyone including Charles Barkley is taking about it. If I'm the Lakers I play Pau & Odom and double off Rafer or Courtney Lee (whoever is playing) and make him beat you. The Magic hopef won't play Rafer in the 4th and rely on the Lee, Pietrus, Hedo, Rashard & Dwight lineup, which the Lakers will counter with Fish, Kobe, Ariza, Odom & Pau. Pietrus did well against LeBron, so that should carry over against Kobe. The Magic have to dump it in to Dwight to take advantage of the biggest mismatch on the floor even if he cries after winning the Eastern Conference Finals and cries that LeBron & Kobe get too much attention and cries that Stan doesn't allow him to touch the ball enough.
:-( LeBron walked off without talking to the media or congratulating the Magic. Everyone is making a big deal out of this. He did the same thing to the Celtics last year. I don't care that he did it either time and understand it because he does every interview after halftime and games every time and always says the right thing and what the media wants to hear, so why are they complaining now?

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