i can take on average more than half an hour to pore over 1 single chapter from revelations

and i gun for two everyday of this break...

good thing i've got about 2 weeks to finish it off thoroughly before school starts...

so i thought to myself that perhaps true strength is being able to resist striking back when you want to

but then i thought of people who would actually be a lot more afraid to strike back on fear of losing the war that follows(not necessary physical contact; just afraid of anytype of conflict)...

so then i came to the conclusion that

true strength is doing what you are not comfortable with doing...

and righteousness would be:

doing what is right regardless of whatever you feel comfortable with it or not

if this was last nba season

and the suns met the heat in the nba finals, i would've rooted for the heat...

now i'm not so sure...

i still like dwayne wade, and i respect shaq's game. as well as pat riley's coaching brilliance.

but i have huge question marks towards antoine walker, jason williams, and possibly james posey. prior to pat riley's mark on the team, this team plays no defense outside of wade and possibly shaq and payton. and though there's no particular player on the suns i really like outside of amare and possibly marion, i'm starting to respect how they're emphasizing defense, and rebounding; the things great teams need to do.

basically, it feels like heat are pulling a 2003-2004 laker team all over again; let's throw as much talent together and see if it works.

while having arguably the best duo in the game and nothing else might get you shafted say one of the all-stars gets injured(wade in this case last year vs detroit), IMO, that is no reason for the heat to plan TOWARDS THAT rather than the regular case(having a healthy shaq and wade ready to go); i'd take last year's heat team(which i actually liked) with riley coaching them rather than this year's heat team w/riley. i mean, that's like saying for the spurs, hey, td might get injured so let's trade away half our roster which clicked with him to get some other all-star JUST IN CASE he gets injured. all great teams have to take that risk of their all-star getting injured; if you think about it; the risk they take is actually a LOT smaller than planning for that risk; pistons have the best starting 5, but if one player gets injured, they usually get outta whack(notice what happens if rip or billups gets injured). does that mean something's wrong? no...

that is, it's not bad to have a total of 3 all-stars on your team. i believe it's bad to have beyond that. basically, when it seems like you're just throwing talent together, you're doing something wrong. maybe that's why i have so much respect for what joe dumars did with detroit.

(this may be why i still don't feel too great about fantasy basketball, because this would never fly in an actual so-called fantasy basketball league if it did happen)

but don't mind me; i'm just AsianMadBlog DOT COM right now...

lastly...

wing commander 1's a great abandonware game

you should try it

ykno, honestly, this is what makes me tick

kobe goes for 62 pts and the lakers win...

so now you probably got casual fans going OH WE WANT TO SEE THAT AGAIN!

but that's probably the exception, and not the rule.

yes, things like this can happen; a superstar going off and the team winning.

but it's not going to happen often.

just a side note, if kobe actually HAD played 4th quarter, i believe he would've broken the record for most points ever scored in an nba game. sam's right; if kobe ever went off like tmac, he'd probably break the scoring record.

surprises me how many pts he scored, but then, avery johnson DID get ejected; maybe after that the mavs lost some defensive leadership?

i seriously wonder though, why kobe amongst all the talented guards that can score, has the hardest time getting others involved?

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again, spurs are confusing me with the loss to the bucks. i KNOW, i KNOW, they're not shooting for 60+. but we'll find out whether the best in the west or the best in the east is the best team come xmas day.