~Coming as no surprise to anybody the Suns lost last night because David Stern is a tool. D'Antoni made absolutely no attempt to rest his players and it cost them at the end. Nash Marion and Bell played practically ever minute of the entire game and the Suns blew and 8 point lead down the stretch mostly because they just stopped scoring. And he only really used 6 players the entire game, with James Jones the only one on the bench getting more than 5 minutes of PT. It's impossible to say what the game would have been like if they had Amare and Diaw the entire game, but me guess that they would have won. Now you can just pray that Amare leads them to a game 6 victory.~David Stern kept on harping that the rule is the rule and that he must enforce it and then said stuff like the rule my not be fair. You are the commissioner David, your job is to do what's best for the sport of basketball. By suspending Amare and Diaw, you sacrificed the iintegrity of a game in the most important series you will have in the entire playoffs. You failed your league this week, by failing to work outside the box and bend a few rules.
~Read Simmons article this week mostly his points about why the NBA sucks now. It's pretty much all true. Flopping is BS, no one would ever flop in a pick up game, and if you did you would not be invited back for future pick up games. In addition that putting the foot underneath the jump shooters feet move that Bowen does, that is blatantly dirty, I know I do that all the time, mostly to Grutt. The NBA is trying to suck away everything that makes basketball basketball. I'm not a huge trash talker but if someone is getting on my nerves on the court and I drain a shot in his face, I'm gonna let him know about it. ~To further my annoyance with NBA basketball that game didn't tip off until 10:30. No other sport tips off that late. The NLCS and ALCS first pitch is around 8:30 9, regardless of the coast. The Superbowl is at 6. The Tennis and golf finals are in the afternoon. The NCAA tourny with the exception of the opening rounds is done by midniight. This game tipped off after 10:30 and most likely lingered until 1 am. I can't watch that and not be miserable the next day at work.
~The Nets beat the Cavs cause Lebron got injured and no one cares. The Nets have no fans and the Cavs despite having Lebron are a completely uninteresting squad.
~Monday, I dropped Kevin Kouzmanoff who had plagued my fantasy team all year by hitting under .120, and what does he do has back to back multi-hit games. What a friggin ass bag. Last night he even had the wonderfully lame walk off walk.~JJ Hardy has surpassed his home run totals of any season in his major or minor league career, and it's May 17th. Find the logic in that one.
~I'm going to the Sox Yanks game on monday, so A) It better not rain and B) I better see better pitchers than Julian Tavarez and Matt Desalvo, cause that would suck big time.
~Oddly enough right now I'm pretty much just annoyed with sports. The NBA is a disgrace, the Yankees are difficult to watch and root for with how horrendous they have been playing lately, the NHL doesn't exist to me anymore because it's no longer on stations I actually get, and that pretty much sums up whats going on in the sports world right now.
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