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I hate thinking up titles.
Pistons yeah-whatever Celtics
That's usually the part where I put the score of the game. But seeing as how I threw a hissy-fit like a two year old during the final minutes and turned it off, I don't really know what the final score was. This will be a quick rundown.
- Flip Saunders: What's funny about Celtics fans (aside from the fact that 85% of them died or retired from watching basketball after like 1993 and then didn't come back until roughly .05 seconds after the KG trade and pretended like they never fucking left..........OK you're right -- that pretty much sums the whole thing up. Never mind. I don't even remember what I was going to say.)
- Chauncey: Two totally different perspectives on the point guard play tonight. First, from Pistons fans, who saw Chauncey demanding a foul every time he made a move to the basket, and Rajon Rondo turning the ball over every other possession -- which drew a humorous "Human Turnover" dubbing from announcer Greg Kelser. And secondly, from Celtic fans, who somehow saw the exact same game and determined that tonight was Rondo's "coming out party". Wha...? I don't know. I think Chauncey played well until late when he lost his head a little bed, but in the grand scheme of things, I think that the mere thought of playing Rondo in a seven game series makes Chauncey's eyes well up with unimaginable glee. Seriously? "Coming out party?" I hate using those words -- really I swear I do -- but as I've read on a couple of Pistons message boards that were littered with drunken Celtic fans who had nothing better to do than find Pistons fan on the internet and shit talk like they just won the 2008 NBA title, there are people out there still saying such things.
- Rasheed: I just don't like when he has the ball late in a game. Maybe if he had even ONE low-post move that didn't result in a fade away I'd feel better, but as you might be able to tell where I'm going with this......................he doesn't!
- And in conclusion..........I'm REALLY trying not to be That Guy who flips out after one loss, because there's way too much of that bullshit out there. But when this team loses close games, it's almost always the same way: guys try to play that one-on-one nonsense and force awkward shot after awkward shot until the other team pulls away at the end. That horrible shot that Sheed took from just inside the top of the arch took at least 4 years off my life. I was in disbelief. The problem has always been than we've never had a guy that can consistently find space to get off his own shot except for Chauncey, but even with him he can only pull it off when he's on fire with his jumper. And if everyone is shooting cold, and nobody's moving around to open up a clear look at the basket.......yeah. You get it.
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Red Wings 4-1 Blues
Two game winning streak! If I had a TV show, this would be the part where we would cue the 60's footage of people in Detroit throwing papers and shit out of their office windows after the Tigers won the World Series. By the way, have I ever mentioned how much I hate the Blues? Couple points on this one:
- Rafalski's goal was amazing, and when they replayed it with the "X-Mo" thing, my mind was effectively blown. The puck whizzed by Manny Legacy's ear and only missed his helmet by about an inch, and he never even saw the puck. Not only that, he was essentially fouled on the shot and they should have let him shoot a free throw afterward. Then, he got in a fight near the end of the game which earned a ton of brownie points with me and the Wings' faithful. I missed that guy.
- I love Aaron Downey. He gets put in during the last 20 seconds to make sure the Blues don't get out of hand, makes a regular ass body check, and then the whole St. Louis team chases after him like he just ate one of their young. Not only that, he was smiling during the whole thing.
- The Blues have always had an inferiority complex when it comes to looking up at the Wings. Their fans, the media, even some of their players. That's OK, and to be honest, it maks me laugh a little bit. They're like the stereotypically less talented younger brother in that regard. A retarded brother, though. Like Eli Manning.
(Speaking of young Elias, I'm still in denial of what happened in the Super Bowl. There's just no way that an offense led by Eli Fucking Manning beat a Bill Belichick defense. Maybe if I see that miracle catch another 150 thousand times on ESPN I'll be convinced that what happened actually happened.)
I hate thinking up titles.
Pistons yeah-whatever Celtics
That's usually the part where I put the score of the game. But seeing as how I threw a hissy-fit like a two year old during the final minutes and turned it off, I don't really know what the final score was. This will be a quick rundown.
- Flip Saunders: What's funny about Celtics fans (aside from the fact that 85% of them died or retired from watching basketball after like 1993 and then didn't come back until roughly .05 seconds after the KG trade and pretended like they never fucking left..........OK you're right -- that pretty much sums the whole thing up. Never mind. I don't even remember what I was going to say.)
- Chauncey: Two totally different perspectives on the point guard play tonight. First, from Pistons fans, who saw Chauncey demanding a foul every time he made a move to the basket, and Rajon Rondo turning the ball over every other possession -- which drew a humorous "Human Turnover" dubbing from announcer Greg Kelser. And secondly, from Celtic fans, who somehow saw the exact same game and determined that tonight was Rondo's "coming out party". Wha...? I don't know. I think Chauncey played well until late when he lost his head a little bed, but in the grand scheme of things, I think that the mere thought of playing Rondo in a seven game series makes Chauncey's eyes well up with unimaginable glee. Seriously? "Coming out party?" I hate using those words -- really I swear I do -- but as I've read on a couple of Pistons message boards that were littered with drunken Celtic fans who had nothing better to do than find Pistons fan on the internet and shit talk like they just won the 2008 NBA title, there are people out there still saying such things.
- Rasheed: I just don't like when he has the ball late in a game. Maybe if he had even ONE low-post move that didn't result in a fade away I'd feel better, but as you might be able to tell where I'm going with this......................he doesn't!
- And in conclusion..........I'm REALLY trying not to be That Guy who flips out after one loss, because there's way too much of that bullshit out there. But when this team loses close games, it's almost always the same way: guys try to play that one-on-one nonsense and force awkward shot after awkward shot until the other team pulls away at the end. That horrible shot that Sheed took from just inside the top of the arch took at least 4 years off my life. I was in disbelief. The problem has always been than we've never had a guy that can consistently find space to get off his own shot except for Chauncey, but even with him he can only pull it off when he's on fire with his jumper. And if everyone is shooting cold, and nobody's moving around to open up a clear look at the basket.......yeah. You get it.
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Red Wings 4-1 Blues
Two game winning streak! If I had a TV show, this would be the part where we would cue the 60's footage of people in Detroit throwing papers and shit out of their office windows after the Tigers won the World Series. By the way, have I ever mentioned how much I hate the Blues? Couple points on this one:
- Rafalski's goal was amazing, and when they replayed it with the "X-Mo" thing, my mind was effectively blown. The puck whizzed by Manny Legacy's ear and only missed his helmet by about an inch, and he never even saw the puck. Not only that, he was essentially fouled on the shot and they should have let him shoot a free throw afterward. Then, he got in a fight near the end of the game which earned a ton of brownie points with me and the Wings' faithful. I missed that guy.
- I love Aaron Downey. He gets put in during the last 20 seconds to make sure the Blues don't get out of hand, makes a regular ass body check, and then the whole St. Louis team chases after him like he just ate one of their young. Not only that, he was smiling during the whole thing.
- The Blues have always had an inferiority complex when it comes to looking up at the Wings. Their fans, the media, even some of their players. That's OK, and to be honest, it maks me laugh a little bit. They're like the stereotypically less talented younger brother in that regard. A retarded brother, though. Like Eli Manning.
(Speaking of young Elias, I'm still in denial of what happened in the Super Bowl. There's just no way that an offense led by Eli Fucking Manning beat a Bill Belichick defense. Maybe if I see that miracle catch another 150 thousand times on ESPN I'll be convinced that what happened actually happened.)
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