interesting

to be honest, i kinda thought about it too... but never really said it outloud.

i do agree though, that game 6 will more-or-less decide what type of a coach flip is.

you have to realize though, that flip is a laid-back coach. while being laid-back has its benefits, ultimately, i'll take a strict coach over a laid-back coach.

phil jackson's the only exception.

"Harris went missing in action early in the second half. After diving over the Phoenix bench to save a loose ball, the Suns didn't make room for him to return, forcing him to walk all the way to the Dallas bench to find an opening."

That's low man...

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We are all Nowitznesses now...

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For those of you who were the same generation as I was and maybe older, I hope you enjoy this throwback cartoon

I grew up watching mainly TMNT.

To be honest though, in fair analyzation, the cartoons back then weren't necessarily better; all of us old people keep saying that's the truth, but that's only because we were raised on it, not because the young kids these days are idiots. Ppl really need to wise up; if we were raised on new TMNT, we'd swear up and down that the old TMNT looks like crap. I've seen both versions of TMNT, and i can see redeeming qualities of the new TMNT on FOX that makes it in some ways better than the old. Fight scenes are a little better(as opposed to the old where they just run into people basically and fall down), the turtles look a bit buffer, not like the skinny ass things in the old cartoon and their lines aren't as cheesy(although, this IS TMNT; lines are supposed to be cheesy). The redeeming qualities of the old TMNT though is that the storylines and plot are a lot better. I think.

Like I said, don't ever say what you watched back then is miles better than what is shown today. Sometimes I look up various episodes of shows back then I mightve watched, and then I go, "I watched THAT?!?!?!??"

(Although I will admit yu-gi-oh and pokemon is a BIT out there... that's my main pet peeve with today's cartoons)

ykno, playoff-wise, the pistons are looking a lot like the suns of the east in a lotta ways. ie the balance and depth, and arguably the defense at times is thrown out the window.

and what's surprising me is how the offense this year in the playoffs has almost single-handedly been carried by tayshaun alone.

bad, b/c they really need rasheed, billups, and rip to really beat everybody. i'm really surprised billups is not outstanding outside of the assists and free throws this year.

but at the same time, b/c tayshaun is my favorite piston right next to ben, it's really something to watch this guy. his gamestyle doesn't really stand out like other superstar players like dwade slashing all the time, but it's like you watch the game, he's playing solidly, not really exerting himself or demanding the ball, and then after a few minutes go by you're like "wow, he scored how many points?"

(btw, anybody else notice that tayshaun played with a red wristband on his left elbow for a FEW minutes during the 4th yesterday, then take it off again? weird... tayshaun plays with none of the sweatgear stuff or rubber bands)

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and yes, i'm still in shock ben wallace blocked shaq's dunk, and put him to the floor. notice how every miami heat fan on youtube.com commented "that was so a foul." hey, i may be a pistons fan, but i know a good block when i see one.

and yes, it's on my cpu right now. man, it's so fun to watch pistons block shots.

disgusting... i want to find a video of this on the web RIGHT NOW... i saw it during the replay after the game on espn.com and was totally blown away. it's stuff like this that made me like ben wallace so much.

"Prince had a steal and a dunk, then on the ensuing possession Ben Wallace brought the crowd to its feet.

Just when O'Neal was about to throw down another one of his backboard-shaking dunks, the 6-foot-7 Wallace leaped and stunted O'Neal's slam -- forcing a jump ball, and putting the 7-1 O'Neal on his back.

About a minute later, Wallace's three-point play -- yes, he made the free throw -- gave the Pistons a 60-53 lead."

he did it one-handed... against shaq going two-handed... dis... gus... ting...

alpha collection for ps2 comes out on june 11. 29.99. contains all versions of street fighter alpha, includes street fighter zero 2 alpha(can play as cammy, evil ryu, sunburnt sakura and various sf2 versions of characters), a special customizable version of sfa3(adds guile, evil ryu, fei long, t hawk and dee jay as well as a ton of customizable options), but most importantly, including an actual arcade-perfect sfa3. all previous versions of sfa3 were not arcade perfect, which meant unless you broke the law by dling emulators and roms or bought an actual arcade cab, you couldn't practice for any tournaments at home. now it's possible.

using charge characters, you can speed up the time you can fire off specials by doing precharged specials. in example, using guile, his sonic boom is b 2 seconds, f+p. now, do it as b 2 seconds, f~b~p or f~db~p. get it? this even works on the ssf2t, which is how daigo made his balrog look so scary against john choi in evo 2k4(i have the match video on my cpu).

i don't play mvc2 or really watch it anymore, but i still enjoy videos of duc do playing. nobody else uses spiral quite like he does. no one even USES anybody as a main outside of the top 4. but he does. and it's crazy.

ssf2t does not enable you to do "rapid-tap specials" like chun's lightning legs by the piano motion(short~forward~roundhouse~short~roundhouse); in fact, of all the sf games that are still played, only cvs2 allows you to do this. you need to press the same button quickly(in 3rd strike, you press the same button 4x before 2 seconds are up). however, you can double-tap twice on a button 2x, and that should do it. like use your index and middle finger to drum on forward 2x. unfortunately, it's quite difficult to do any rapid-tap specials without needing to buffer it first. chun-li could be so much higher if you could do it right straight out.

spd(spinning pile driver) does not require a full 360 motion. it only requires a 270. this is actually common knowledge. in fact, debatably you only need a 5/8th of a circle(so rotate from forward to up-back), but i believe the shortest way to do a 720 super is to do a 360+180, and since supers in capcom games are usually "double-pumps" of a special, i'm guessing you need to do a 270 as a regular 360. i'm still in amazement of those who can pull off "standing 270" in ssf2t, so maybe you do need to do a 5/8, not 6/8(270).

if i don't get a ps2-to-usb adapter that actually works with the joystick i got, i will have wasted 20 dollars for plunking down something for approx 1 year. i plan to EVENTUALLY get a ps2 so that i don't waste the money i used to get vf4evo and ttt, but i dunno how long til. i still WOULD like to play with a joystick on my cpu, so that i can actually practice for st and a3, since both are still played at sunnyvale golfland.

i really don't know whether to say the pistons are the model for the nba anymore... they might even be the ANTIMODEL of the league.

ok, yeah, they have the best starting 5 in the nba. that's an organizational success on joe dumars' part.

but as of late, the way they approach games is very kobe-shaq laker-ish...

-act like they can just turn it on when it matters(i think they blur the line between confidence and cockiness way too often; i don't see the sense of urgency at all until they're muddled deep)
-rely more upon their offense than their defense to win
-maybe try to rely too much upon getting calls?
-i want to say this is part of flip's doing, but i think flip knew what the pistons needed to work on, and so strayed away from the 1-on-1 lockdown D THINKING that the players would always know how to play it. it's probably both sides' fault; flip for not emphasizing it and urgency, and the players for not doing it.

even if they win tonight, will they carry that same sense of urgency into miami? or that sense of cockiness?

that said, even if the pistons get knocked out, they'll come back the next year. i expect it. and san antonio too. they just need a reality check.

that being said, maybe it IS good that the pistons get knocked out; i really need to finish the rest of this quarter strong.

YouTube - Senior Mutant Ninja Turtles

tha-rooooowww-back...

well, not really...