east over the west

*in other news, i ACTUALLY watched olympic curling on msnbc; i wasn't watching to make fun of it, but the rules still confuse me a little; i guess it's a little like "darts on ice," where you're not always aiming to hit the bullseye, but a specific area in order to get a specific score. and you can knock your opponent's rocks out of the bullseye. but supposedly you get penalized if you knock some of yours. all the funniness from the game comes from watching those 2 guys sweep the floor in front of the rock trying to stop/slow it down. but otherwise, it really is darts on ice. strangely enough, the game was team usa vs team great britain*

but as for the nba all-star game...

all i gots to say is this...

the east would not have come back and gotten a win unless they played team ball and defense.

i said beforehand that i would like to see how good the east could get if saunders put all 4 pistons in and bosh and let them play. he put in pierce, but the effect was essentially the same. closed the gap, then made with a commanding lead. again, team offense, hard defense.

ykno, the strange part is that if dumars chose bosh over darko, we mightve seen 5 pistons play. then again, they mightve just chosen 4 again; remember that they didn't choose tayshaun, who's very incredible.

the 2 consecutive blocks by ben wallace got me up on the 2nd one. (i actually tuned in pretty late, so this was one of the few highlights i actually saw)

lebron and wade had some good brilliance. i really liked lebron's putback.

and vince carter should be ashamed of missing that reverse alley-oop from ai off the glass.

i'll end this post w/something i remember reading on espn:

the international team(most of the west all-stars are not usa ppl) would easily beat the americans(most of the east all-stars). but the pistons would beat the international team.