Merry Christmas!!! Before we get to the Blazer game, some thoughts I’ve accrued sitting on my bum watching hoops all day. Yesterday I thought Christmas Day was whoring itself out to the NBA. Turns out it was a great turn of events for Christmas Day. Basketball all day? Come on now. You can’t beat that. Thoughts:
#1 = HOW CAN YOU NOT LOVE RUDY?!?!??!
- What the hell was Jason Richardson thinking? Seriously. WTF was he thinking?? You are up by 2. Make Tony Parker make a tough two point shot over Grant Hill and go to overtime. That’s ok. Clap your hands and huddle up. But to completely sag off Roger Mason who was solely in there to hit an open 3 was ridiculous. I mean…it’s one thing to help early and recover but to help, JUMP IN THE AIR and then watch Mason shoot. Come on. Come on. Come on.
- I kind of want to see what Joe Alexander could do in the Slam Dunk Contest. Even though Rudy stole the commercial every single time….I think Joe is a freak of nature.
- Sidenote….Suns fans are absolutely haunted by the Spurs. Haunted. Saw VII should a be a straight-to-DVD release of the Spurs eeking out wins over the Suns. That might just be me.
- Commercial alerts.
- The LeBron commercial is overplayed, I’m tired of seeing the fake B-Roy and the real LaMarcus and Lil Wayne pretending he doesn’t like white powder.
- T-Mobile recovered with their D-Wade/Charles series. The Yao one was money, ditto with the ‘Old School’ one. Well done.
- I think the ‘House of Hoops’ commercials are like tryouts from Nike to see if you have any charisma. Kevin Durant failed. After his story I felt like yelling ‘Cool story, dude!’ and walking off.
- Adidas disappeared after a strong start. WTF.
- Luke Walton = X-Factor? I can’t stand when Pau Gasol flexes/celebrates. I mean…if he dunks on someone fine. But if you make a left hand layup off a poor rotation after getting ripped and getting knocked down by Rajon Rondo…lets not beat our chest in.
- Was it just me or was Kobe and Magic’s chairs incredibly close during that halftime interview. They were almost touching legs. I know they had to have had a moment similar to that of sitting in a middle seat between two dudes. You want to increase your leg room but you don’t want your legs to touch him. I know their legs touched I just want to know who pulled their leg back first.
- I bet Magic went to ESPN so he could steal the show/sound the smartest. Not that hard around Jon Barry. Also can someone tell ABC to just show some sort of highlight video to get people hyped. You don’t need to get supercute with the Christmas carolers. That was worse than the Pussycat Dolls and Justin Timberlake combined.
- Can we put the Dwight Howard Superman Shirt in the ‘good idea, bad execution’ territory? When I saw this picture I got excited. Then when I watched the game today I was disappointed. Come on Orlando, step it up. PS, did anyone ever find that Dwight as Tyrone Biggums footage?
- Loved hearing Doris Burke and Nancy Lieberman. I thought it was the WNBA for a second. Not insulting…just saying. I’ll go to bat for both of them anyday because Nancy can still hoop and Doris is still leaps and bounds better than Jon Barry.
- New Orleans got dominated. I hate Chris Paul’s little mean-mug/I’m angry face. With a passion. It makes him look like such a brat. He has to get rid of that. Has to.