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April 21, 2004
One for the road.: The Bucks surprised the Pistons with a 92-88 win, the first time a road team has won a game in the 2004 NBA playoffs. Playoff observations, chatter and rumors welcome inside.
posted by dusted to basketball at 10:27 PM - 5 comments
Didn't see any of tonight's game, but last nights Mavs/Kings game was a heartbreaker. But it was cool sitting in a bar with 45 other half drunk (at least when the game started) Mavs Maniacs screaming and sighing together. Stupid late starts. That said: Big props to Eddie Najera who was either out or on the bench for most of the year and came in to keep the Mavs within striking distance. Odd that such a low-scoring game was still so close between those two. I'd love to chalk it up to good defense, but it was mostly poor shooting and sloppy play. Still entertaining though. I'll be at Monday night's game! I did see the last 1/3 of the Knicks/Nets game. That was a brutal one. K-Mart seemed almost out of control, but Thomas and Mutumbo were def. looking for it. I'm glad these two matched up. If the Knicks can improve just a bit more, we could have one hell of an inner-city rivalry when the Nets move to Brooklyn. That'd be fun.
posted by Ufez Jones at 11:02 PM on April 21, 2004
I can barely watch the Queens, even though I love watching Dallas play ball. It goes something like this: Adelman folds his arms and glares at the officials, Vlade looks at the officials in disbelief, Webber pouts and cries to the officials, Christie raises his arm and looks uglier than usual at the officials, while Stojakovic asks the officials for shaving advice. Then they toss the jump ball and the game can start. Seriously, does any team whine more?
posted by dusted at 11:33 PM on April 21, 2004
A coworker of mine, who is a minion of Satan*, and I exchanged an e-mail that went something like this: Doug Christie's evolution of the arm-raising: 1) Makes game winning shot 2) Makes three-pointer 3) Makes a long-jumper 4) Makes a layup 5) Teammate makes a three-pointer 6) Misses free-throw 7) Doesn't spill Gatorade on Vlade while sitting on bench 8) Locker room shower reaches perfect temperature 9) Reporters in locker room don't ask about wife 10) Hits three green lights on drive home from Arco 11) Wife has spot of tea and funny pages ready upon arrival home 12) Marmaduke steals snausage from butcher shop. That crazy mutt! *He's a Spurs fan. Bastard bastard bastard. Seriously, does any team whine more? Well, nobody outside of Cali anyways.
posted by Ufez Jones at 11:43 PM on April 21, 2004
Bender's gonna turn into a 7 foot McGrady for the Pacers. The West better watch out.
posted by chmurray at 12:54 AM on April 24, 2004
Did anyone catch Tim Thomas threatening Kenyon Martin? Yo Tommy, you might want to leave Gomp! (scroll to April 7th) alone, at least until you're sure he's taken his meds.