Amidst all the talk this year about the Eastern Conference being back, the Orlando Magic just got beat down by the Lakers so bad in Game 1 and looked so over-matched that it's hard not to think that the Eastern Conference was a bit of a sham this year. And shame on us for not realizing this sooner, after all a team like the Suns didn't even make the Western Conference Playoffs, while I don't even want to get into the Eastern Conference Playoff race.This Magic team, which everyone conveniently forgot had their problems with the 76ers and were taken to the max by a worn down, beat-up Celtics team before they shot the lights out exposing the weaknesses of the Cavaliers last series. But all anyone remembered was the Cavs series, and believed they were undefendable. Looks like they can miss three-pointers after all.
Maybe Dwight can call out Stan Van Gundy again after the game. That is if he can finally stop talking about how butt-hurt he is he didn't get to shake King James hand. Maybe he should have spent a little less time reflecting about a missed handshake and a little more time worrying about the Lakers frontcourt - a little bigger challenge than the joke he used and abused last series.
So happy to see they didn't scrap the puppet commercials, instead we get a shameless, unapologetic, ineffective, revamped, pewch bunch of whiny commercials we have to sit through. Thanks Nike, you continue to be a classy company.
This Magic team is still good, they can't win this series but hopefully they can heat it up a bit and at least make the games more entertaining - if they don't make this at all competitive their defeat of the Lebrons will end up being a bigger blow to the NBA than initially thought.
So much for just the media over playing the non-handshake. You seem to be all over it in this post also. All that needed to be said was it was classless. End of story.
ReplyDeleteWouldn't say I'm all over it in this post, touched on it and ripped Dwight a bit, probably a little undeserved, but he did have just 1 field goal...and I am still hearing about the "handshake incident" today thanks in part to Stern fining Lebron...which he admitted wouldn't have happened if not for the media firestorm fueled at leas tin part by Dwight's reaction. But I guess it's beating a dead horse at this point...no matter who you side with I think we can all agree that hopefully Dwight finds a way to get more production down-low and the Magic start stroking it a bit better, because last nights game certainly didn't gain the NBA any fans...hell I hate hockey and I turned it to Versus to watch the Stanley Cup at one point for a bit.
ReplyDeleteHell the Braves game got rained out and I still didnt watch either of those. Instead I watched as Erestes Estrada stumbled over all of his words, and point out the fact that he was Randy Johnson's first strikeout on BBTN.
ReplyDeleteEstrada is so brutal it's good TV. I made the comment after finding out the Stanley Cup was on Versus last night and seeing ESPN airing Baseball Tonight, "Is Baseball Tonight really going to pull in better ratings than the Stanley Cup for ESPN"..I know it's more complicated than that but I guess there is the answer.
ReplyDeleteWait, hockey is still being played. It's June. Pewch.
ReplyDeleteHockey isn't even a real sport. Fans of reality based TV should check out the new cowboys reality TV show. Mike Irvin and Jerry Jones spewing about how these NFL rejects are gonna resurrect their franchise serves as pretty entertaining TV.
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