and that, my friends, is how you can REALLY start emulating reggie miller

like i dunno, nailing clutch shots...

wow...

82-81, pistons; rip nails the jumper as time expires

who gets no love in football?

football's a team sport.

but have you ever wondered who on that team NEVER gets any real appreciation for?

the offensive linemen that protect the qb.

in almost all other cases, the player is recognized.

let's be fair; in a lotta cases, the star of a football team is the qb and his favorite wide receiver.

but in a lotta other cases, other players receive acclaim.

like defensive positions; sapp, or linebackers like bruschi. or good defensive players on the side that contain to and the likes of him.

on the offense, any qb and his targets are good acclaim. so are the runningbacks.

even the KICKER gots love sometimes; adam vinateri, ackers.

but never the offensive linemen.

these guys are responsible for making sure the qb never gets sacked and yet when they do their job enabling the qb to find his favorite targets, it's always the qb or the wr who gets the spotlight.

then again, when the offensive linemen do their job, so do the qb's, and the wr's, etc. but still...

just some thoughts.

btw, marcus vick and vt are looking like michael vick and vt of old.

indiana did not disappoint me

that's why i love jermaine o'neal and the pacers with their deep bench and strong d.

but it surprised me how close the game was...

even WITH shaq gone out...

ditto w/most of the game, when shaq was in...

so i guess miami really is for real; the former all-stars on this team know they need to play roles, not superstar stuff; payton knows like alonzo, his role is as a defensive stopper. etc.

one more thing before i go to sleep

dennis rodman was on best damn sports show period, and he was kind enough to give a demonstration of how he rebounds so well.

so pay attention; i'm writing down what i remember. it may not come out exactly like he said it and showed it, but i'll try.

basically, he gets near the baseline, on the side away from the shooter. tries to get further and further away from the opponent ie towards the baseline.

then he tries to read how the ball lands on rim; ie will it come to him or not.

if he thinks he's got a chance to rebound it, he'll come in on his opponent(the one guarding him or boxing him out), and then put his arm under the opponent's arm, the arm closest to him(remember, he's trying to be on the baseline), and then levers up on their armpit or upper arm area, something like that.

by doing this, he can box out the opponent, even when they had better positioning beforehand. physical i thought, but then after thinking about it, there is no soft in rebounding.

so i'm sitting here and thinking about that; it sounds like it could work really well on the offensive end, but it's not a good idea on the defensive end; you want to be on the inside, getting positioning; if you play like a big man like i do, and do that on the defensive end, lingering on the far baseline, you leave the bucket wide open. also, it might not be that good of an idea all the time even on the offensive end; dennis was a pure rebounder. not saying that's bad, but if you're trying to play a well-rounded game, you're not always going to be lingering near the baseline.

noo, the tekken 5 p1 side's broken!

i was looking to finally playing it after all my midterms were finally done for a while...

and then THIS!

but the mu has a good arcade staff; i'm sure they'll fix it.

tekken 5 seems to pull in a lotta ppl at their arcade anyways, so they would lose money to not do so.

btw, vf5 looks like it's gonna be hot stuff

-no more juggling; combos are still in, but it looks like it's gonna be more like sf-style linking. prob not as broken as some sf games.

-graphics look VERY good; they should never really play into how good a fighting game is, but this is sega we're talking about; they're really good.

-just hoping the u.s. masses will actually play this game.

based upon their 1st season game...

i like what flip's done for the pistons' bench and their offense...

if delfino, darko(yes, he played darko in the 2nd quarter, and again in the 4th), and carlos step up the way they did tonight, against the top teams, and not just the crappy teams like the sixers tonight,

they could be THE eastern team, or maybe even THE team for years to come...

at the very least, we could be seeing a lotta more spurs and pistons final matchups than once thought.

i mean, it seems like the pistons have basically changed nothing in terms of additions, only getting maurice evans from the kings and dale davis from the pacers.

but flip has really given the bench some abilities now. it's not just mcdice and carlos.

pistons could rank up there with spurs as having one of the best benches in the league.

suddenly, joe dumars is looking a LOT like the genius who dropped grant hill for ben wallace again ;D

can't wait to see pacers and heat tomorrow. bc i'll be FINALLY done w/1st wave of midterms for 2 weeks or so...

that can of whoopass that the hornets opened on the kings was all that was necessary yesterday to make me smile

what defense? waitaminute, you're the kings, nevermind... former gsw speedy just torched them, combined w/j.r. smith.

what offense? oh, you mean that floater that the birdman just sent right into the crowd, and your low 20s shot percentage? not to mention all those turnovers?

speedy claxton dunked yesterday, btw...

no doubt kings aren't going to play THIS bad for a long time, and call me sadistic, but i enjoyed it...

i LOVE it when a basketball team which solely relies upon its offense just suffers and can't shoot the ball at all, can't defend.

indiana shot poorly in game 6 of the eastern conference finals vs detroit 2003-2004 season, but they made a game of it defensively. so you can't say that once you can't shoot the ball, you're out of the game.

but this is the kings we're talking about.

denver-spurs looked like a mavericks reunion. no doubt both teams are going to be good in the west, but the spurs look REALLY loaded on their bench.

reggie miller's now a tnt commentator.

sixers-pistons tonight; i'll be enjoying that... while i eat dinner in haste *stupid genetics midterm grumblegrumble* pistons bench looks SLIGHTLY stronger this year; they got davis, and if one of the other players steps up like darko, carlos or delfino, they could be the best team in the east. i'll also like to see if flip does more of the stuff he did in minnesota like throw double teams on d at the sixers all the time, or leaves it like it is, and lets detroit do their 1-on-1 d(which i've grown to love)... also, wonder if they're gonna be a little stronger offensively.

and indiana-heat tommorow; i'm definitely looking forward to that, cause i want to see how good the heat are, and i've liked o'neal a bit.

heh, you know what would've been funny?

on halloween: indiana jersey w/o'neal on the back, no 7, pacers shorts, nike shoks, yellow headband, two armbands, two boxing gloves.

amazing how closely related the bible and its layers of prophesies are related to the layers of expression behind genetics

like genetics, the bible is LAYERED with meaning; prophesies and words left and right can combine together to spell truths we may not even truly realize, foretellings of the future not yet realized by the common man; for instance, how jesus actually died on wednesday and not friday. or whether the rcc really is the antichrist. genetics is in a like vein, so complex it's mindboggling. 95% of the human genome is JUNK DNA, and yet it probably plays a lot of roles not yet understood. the human genome was already sequenced, and yet, people still don't know what areas of the genome play what roles.
both are not yet fully understood by the common man; there's what everybody understand, and then there's stuff beneath that.
one is archaic and yet fully trustworthy, yet not thought to be so in this modern day. the other is modern and considered to be fully trustworthy, when we have just cracked the iceberg on it, and really don't have a clue as to what it's all about, and in fact probably supplements the other topic more than the other supplements it.

and i am intrinsically seemingly destined to be tied to both.

halloween

i wanted to write something about it, cause i remembered learning something bad about its connotations about last year, but it'll take too long, and i have a midterm to look after, so this is more like a self-reminder.

i will say this though for now; it is tied to roman catholic roots, and the most primative form of halloween involved voluntary human sacrifice or losing a child(the trick or treat), similar to baal worship during biblical times.

this is sorta one of the reasons why roman catholicism should be frowned upon.

it did not resurface in the infant usa because the pilgrims banned it, knowing its devilish roots; however, once the potato famine occurred in ireland, flocking roman catholic irishmen brought the tradition of halloween into the usa.

vf4 series thoughts

ETEG(or E-DTE-G) is used primarily to counter linear attacks. it is nice that it can beat throws, but it will only beat the two strongest throws your opponent does; the throw escapes are only used to partially cover the weakness of a dodge; if you predict a throw, it's much better to go for reverse nitaku; even a low punch would be better. it's sorta like how people key throw escapes in after a reversal; they don't do a RTE in order to escape throws.

i wonder exactly what box step's useful for. seems useful at -3, but when and where should one use it? what does it beat, what doesn't it beat?