if the kings announcers weren't so stupid, i might actually like the kings a lot more...

bonzi and artest are players that contribute power to the kings on both ends... something the kings have never really been in the past.

i wonder how much of what bob said is true though; duncan really does not look like the low post monster of the past year. when he bangs, then spins and puts up a low floater, he's never right up on the basket as of late. without him light on his feet on both offense and defense, you turn spurs into a guard-oriented team(they always were, but in the past, when they got into trouble, they could always throw the ball inside to duncan and instantly solve the problem). and artest HAS been containing ginobili. so now from the spurs' perspective, the bulk of your shot-creation comes from parker, who is trying to become great in the postseason, something he hasn't really gotten down yet.

granted, he has an injury in his leg, but i think ppl forget the same year the pistons won the championship, rip played through a broken nose and rasheed played through an injured foot(game 4 brilliance vs lakers anybody?).

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other nba playoff thoughts...

i still love chicago... they have a great chance to upset miami. they're like a poor man's detroit; nothing fancy, just hard defense and efficient offense(and no, i don't consider that boring; you know that already). i really believe chicago is just 1 good post player away from becoming one of the top 3 teams in the east(so either get a good draft pick, or tyson gets JUST A FRIKKIN JUMPSHOT and continues to develop his good d). and they have the #1 draft pick thanks to ny. if they pick up tyrus thomas, and he turns into something, the rest of the eastern conference better seriously watch out.

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indiana... refuses... to... die...

kinda like chicago...

just incredible...

i continue to like indiana despite reggie miller gone, unlike most of the other non-native indiana fans i know. j.o. was sick in game 3. 80%?

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funny how la is on the verge of having both their teams face each other... but la's always been about flashiness... no doubt most of them will root for the lakers... i hope elton brand and chris kaman do david suh a nice favor and kick the lakers' asses.

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that's about all i can think of.

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ok, some other stuff coming to my mind...

i need another cd case to house my cds... i've been a dl-and-burn freak ever since i got 2 512 mb usb's and realized the cpu labs at uc davis have cd-rw hard drives. i'd say about 60 cds... but it's slowing down... i'm mainly trying to get rid of all the stuff on my desktop. and stuff i wanted to put on a cd, like emulators, roms, mods to games i have, videos of various fighting games... once i've put everything on a cd, i can defragment my laptop, and then it can run a lot faster.

i like having stuff on cd's for data as opposed to buying another hard drive(usb's aside), b/c then i still HAVE the stuff, but if i want to use it, i'll have to go through the trouble of looking through the cds until i pick out what i want. in that way, i can keep myself from being too much of a slacker, b/c i'll have to put some effort into finding what i want.

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still reading gipp's book concerning the bible. it's really great. i doubt i'll finish it by end of spring quarter, but i'm still going to buy a couple more books concerning the bible before i'm done; i'd like to have 6 b4 i graduate.

oh, and maybe sun tzu's "art of war." always wanted to own that book.

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i should brush up on my lead guitar skills sometime on wednesday... i'm planning on actually going over to zane and moises' apt on thursday, since i've always said i would, but never would.