I was all set to title this piece ‘GET BACK TO EVEN Night’ but one of the teams didn’t want to cooperate. There were 3 games & all involved higher seeds that lost at Home in their 1st games. Thus, if the loser teams all won last night, it would be 1-1 in their playoff. Get it? Even. Ahem. Well, the Raptors & the Clippers got my memo & won their games (although the Raptors were thisclose to digging a hole not even a real Raptor could leap out of) but the #1 Celtics lost. I feel so bad for Isaiah Thomas & his team that it’s heartless to criticize. Whether the team that ALL the TV talkers wrote completely off back in JANUARY could have beaten the #1 Eastern seed* without the tragedy that befell Isaiah’s family last Saturday will never be known, but the Bulls are definitely outplaying the Celtics right now & with the next 2 games to be played in Chicago & the shock wearing off for Isaiah to be replaced with abject & lingering grief, I’m not too hopeful for Bill Simmons’ fave team.
* Let me state that the only reason the Celtics are the #1 Eastern seed is because
a) LeBron & the rest of the Cavs scoff at the easy road OR
b) The Cavs partied too hard when they pounded the Celtics at their home arena on that 2nd-to-last road trip & thus were in no shape to play YET ANOTHER BACK-BACK set against the Hawks OR
c) the loss in that 2nd Hawks game where they were AHEAD BY 26 POINTS AS THE 4TH Q BEGAN & somehow lost the frickin game. This is kinda like having 5 lottery tickets & not matching even one number – a seeming impossibility when Sweet Pea is on the floor (well, at least till he egregiously ‘fouled out’ HAH! during OT). Can I just say that the SPURS were ahead by more than 20 & lost earlier this season & even the Superteam Villains were ahead by 22 near the end of the 3rdQ back in an early January game & they didn’t lose in OT by a point, no, they lost by 14 & yet the TV talkers did NOT spend all the next damn day & night accusing the Warriors of having no stinkin defense or that they would be “lucky” to get into the Finals once again. Ok, I feel better now. 🙂
And in NBA-related news, Carmelo & his wife apparently did NOT separate because he impregnated a stripper. I’m betting that Phil’s voodoo hexing “Be gone Melo, be gone!” is the real cause.
Question – (I saw this on SC last night), if you were going to bicycle around Cuba for 50-some hours straight & could ONLY listen to one song, what would it be? I thought WHO better to ask than the guy who knows more songs (of the past 4 decades!) than anyone else I know? I’m going with Tusk (Fleetwood Mac) or Beethoven’s 5th. 🙂
huh huh. You wrote “duty”.
NBA update from your Couch Correspondent :
I was all set to title this piece ‘GET BACK TO EVEN Night’ but one of the teams didn’t want to cooperate. There were 3 games & all involved higher seeds that lost at Home in their 1st games. Thus, if the loser teams all won last night, it would be 1-1 in their playoff. Get it? Even. Ahem. Well, the Raptors & the Clippers got my memo & won their games (although the Raptors were thisclose to digging a hole not even a real Raptor could leap out of) but the #1 Celtics lost. I feel so bad for Isaiah Thomas & his team that it’s heartless to criticize. Whether the team that ALL the TV talkers wrote completely off back in JANUARY could have beaten the #1 Eastern seed* without the tragedy that befell Isaiah’s family last Saturday will never be known, but the Bulls are definitely outplaying the Celtics right now & with the next 2 games to be played in Chicago & the shock wearing off for Isaiah to be replaced with abject & lingering grief, I’m not too hopeful for Bill Simmons’ fave team.
* Let me state that the only reason the Celtics are the #1 Eastern seed is because
a) LeBron & the rest of the Cavs scoff at the easy road OR
b) The Cavs partied too hard when they pounded the Celtics at their home arena on that 2nd-to-last road trip & thus were in no shape to play YET ANOTHER BACK-BACK set against the Hawks OR
c) the loss in that 2nd Hawks game where they were AHEAD BY 26 POINTS AS THE 4TH Q BEGAN & somehow lost the frickin game. This is kinda like having 5 lottery tickets & not matching even one number – a seeming impossibility when Sweet Pea is on the floor (well, at least till he egregiously ‘fouled out’ HAH! during OT). Can I just say that the SPURS were ahead by more than 20 & lost earlier this season & even the Superteam Villains were ahead by 22 near the end of the 3rdQ back in an early January game & they didn’t lose in OT by a point, no, they lost by 14 & yet the TV talkers did NOT spend all the next damn day & night accusing the Warriors of having no stinkin defense or that they would be “lucky” to get into the Finals once again. Ok, I feel better now. 🙂
And in NBA-related news, Carmelo & his wife apparently did NOT separate because he impregnated a stripper. I’m betting that Phil’s voodoo hexing “Be gone Melo, be gone!” is the real cause.
Question – (I saw this on SC last night), if you were going to bicycle around Cuba for 50-some hours straight & could ONLY listen to one song, what would it be? I thought WHO better to ask than the guy who knows more songs (of the past 4 decades!) than anyone else I know? I’m going with Tusk (Fleetwood Mac) or Beethoven’s 5th. 🙂