fyi, if you still think sheed's bad for the nba, i suggest you go to www.need4sheed.com, and click on the videos section. then watch the interview he did with stephen a. smith. you'll hear that he actually tries to cut down on the t's, it's just that the refs aren't allowing him to vent his anger in any way. give him a t for not talking, but just giving a dirty look? ok, so let's try something else; but now you're giving him a t for laughing it off? are you crazy?

(while you're there, if you're bored, you can watch sheed making fun of reggie miller prior to game 5(haha), or the interviews billups has w/best damn and stephen a. smith. i like how billups tells stephen a. to pick the spurs so that the pistons'll win this year(since he didn't in 04 and did in 05); stephen a was like "man, you're killing me, you're gonna make me look bad either way.")

btw, sheed's at it again... he made another declaration... i WANT to say it's guaren-SHEED, but i'm leaning more towards 70% it's guaren-SHEED.

some will say that what he's doing is cocky... i understand that, at the same time, i think he does it more to motivate his teammates; he puts his neck out there, knowing it'll raise his teammates' game; i mean, this discussion has been done in the past, on espn.com, during the year they had to play against the pacers to win the eastern conference crown, and again, against the heat to preserve their eastern conference crown.

btw, this is just an observation, but i think the cavs have done better against the pistons WITHOUT hughes. the times he was in, he sucked like crap. then again, i'm basically basing this upon 1 game. we'll see if it still holds true come game 4.

it was funny at first, but now it's just become milked to death how many people are making fun of the nike commercial saying "we are all witnesses" to lebron james growing up, but now getting beat by the pistons in games 1 and 2. i'm sure you've heard it; "of course we're all witnesses... witnesses to an ass-whupping"

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spurs should've picked devin harris instead of "futilely" trying to chase jason kidd. it's hurting them now. btw, game 3 was really, really good from what i heard.

i thought the number of sports fans still think detroit's boring and want them to lose, but the last time i checked, the espn poll asking what matchup would you want for the eastern conference crown had pistons against heat leading by a huge margin ahead of everything else. ppl still think the spurs are boring though(or maybe not boring outside of duncan, but it is becoming a bit annoying how ginobili repeatedly tries to sell himself to the refs, and bowen gets away with stuff no one else does). i still watch spurs games in good interest; to learn tim duncan's low post offense and defense, and get amazed by bowen's defense(or at least, try to figure out why so many people dislike him as a defensive player), and parker's slashing. i also like horry. but i'll admit, while i don't dislike ginobili and bowen yet, both are slowly starting to wear thin on me.

heat are SO... SO... streaky. they really ARE the lakers of 04. one game they're terrifying to play against, the next they wilt and lose by 20. i still believe they'll give detroit the biggest problems on their way back to the finals, but i am so confused as to what heat team is going to show up. do they play russian roulette in the locker room and then by those results decide whether to play hard to just give up a game? just go by a "spin the bottle?"