rock on, squarepants!

japs have...
...waaay too much time.

i was like 0_0 after watching those last two heh

go warriors and bulls.

(and go pistons)

just... watch...

hahahaha

xzibit and tom green

i don't think that's the holy ghost

i love srk.com's official video thread...

i keep forgetting that you don't need a dominant big man to have a low post scoring threat in the nba...

like for instance, i keep wondering why people say the bulls JUST need that low post scoring option, and then they'll jump from being just a really good team to a contending threat. insert talks about possible trade rumors with minnesota or memphis. the dissent comes from the fact that not every team needs to be power forward or center-oriented to be good.

then i watched saturday's game where miami came to town(of course, not "came to town" = whupped them, glad that chicago won), and it suddenly dawned on me that NOBODY on the bulls can post up. at all; we're not even talking about ben wallace or pj brown, but gordon can't do it, deng can't do it, noccioni COULD do it, but doesn't right now. their offense is very fundamental; jumpers, driving and kicking to the open man. it's great when their jumpers are coming down and they're getting wide open looks, but the strength of being able to post defenders up means that you always have a chance of getting an in-close(hence easy) bucket. i guess maybe the suns might qualify, but really they just beat everybody else because they play at a speed no one else can match.

it made realize(again) that you don't need the low post option on an nba team to come from the 4 or 5. when jordan was on the bulls, they didn't have that dominant 4 or 5, but jordan near the end of his run as a bull had developed such a good low post game thanks to his unguardable fadeaway and the options that it created for him that if they ever needed that option, they allowed him to go 1-on-1 deep in the post.

my favorite eastern conference team, the modern-day pistons are also a case in point; while they did acquire rasheed for his low post offense, and he did turn out to be the missing piece, he rarely goes down into the paint to work unless it's really necessary. but chauncey is so bulky, that in many cases he can be the primary post offense for them; i might've been one of the few piston followers who is awed by chauncey's offense more for the fact that he can post guards up and just push them closer to the basket rather than his long range 3s.

you also have the beloved warriors, where baron davis, due to his bulk, is a great post-up player. there were numerous times during game 1 when they wanted to keep the lead, and just isolated davis on one side and let him work, pushing opponents like george and harris towards the basket.


i do though, still struggle with the thought of point guards and shooting guards posting people up though even if they are bulky, because you want to post people up to get a close, hence higher percentage shot. so it works in theory with big men, because they're already close to under the basket to begin with, and don't start the offense, so they can post up in a good position, then receive the ball, so they get a REALLY close shot. but point guards and shooting guards have to start further outside, and usually have the ball in their hands to begin with, not thrown down into them, so due to starting further outside, they have to shoot from further away, or have the entire team on the opposite side so help defense has less of a chance of flustering the posting player. plus, i see many 1's and 2's really liking the fadeaway off of a post, making me wonder why they posted in the 1st place, as they didn't really get any closer doing so.

pbs had a 1-hour program on how the bible came to be around 8:00 last night. i just got out of the shower so i missed a bit of it, but the part i didn't, i stuck around to watch; think william tyndale, martin luther, king james, etc. it was mainly concentrated upon william tyndale though, and gave only a cursory glance to king james, etc. it was interesting, but being the guy that i was, i took it with a grain of salt; i'm running low on internet time, so i'm gonna refrain from commenting in deep some of the stuff that bothered me. they seemed to concentrate upon how the main problem was that only the church could interpret the bible(ie it wasn't allowed for others to interpret), when the reality was more that the church misinterpreted the bible, could say anything that was in it or not or what was in christianity or not, and nobody could prove them wrong, due to an absence of bibles available in the native tongue. also, they referred to the church as the "catholic church," then only sparingly referred back to it as "the church." i thought that was wrong too, as it could lead to mistaken ideas about the church.

that's it for now; 16th notes on the hi-hat call for me.

while looking at the reviews for the 1994 nba championship dvd box set, i found this to be amusing:

"I'll let the Houston fans comment on how important it is to have this series released on DVD. Of greater interest to me is that Game 5, which occurred simultaneous to the OJ Simpson Bronco chase and had NBC switching away from the game to coverage of the chase while showing the game in a corner, is presented here completely OJ free. For the sections of the game where NBC broke away, Marv Albert and the rest of the announcers are silent, but you do see the game action continue to unfold without distraction, and I'm glad they released the game in this way that those of who taped it originally could not experience."

*sigh* but i SO want to see the bronco chase! what's the point of buying the dvd set if it's not going to be shown like the way it occurred LIVE?

btw, of all the nba championship dvd box sets, only the '88 pistons and the '06 heat include all the games of the conference finals; all the others only have all the finals games. my guess is because of those 2 championship teams, it took 6 games, not 4 or 5, to win the conference finals.