Hope you guys enjoyed my post about NIU last time, I realize I might have been personalizing it a bit too much, that was my egocentric side coming out, perhaps. I personally was not affected, but I made the post about myself. I'm gonna try to improve on that, both in my personal life and in this post by making these posts for YOU, not about MY fantasy teams so much. ( Although I'm still gonna have a bit of bias toward some players just because of my ownership of them).
As I alluded to, big game in Phoenix tonight between the revamped suns vs. the revamped Lakers. I say revamped cuz i'm not so sure the suns are IMPROVED. That shaq deal, as you may guess from my previous post, I am not such a big fan of. Watching ESPN, and the suns really have a pretty awesome intro for the starting lineups. They got that gorilla of a mascot jumping up and down and a nice video montage running along with flames bursting out, basically a more elaborate version of a WWE entrance.
Haha, they introduced Shaq as "the Big Venetian." That as opposed to "the big aristotle, diesel,", etc. Btw, speaking of shaq, u might all remember kazaam, that movie about shaq being a genie that is widely heralded as one of the worst movies of all time, but a good movie that he was actually in is the lesser-known "Blue Chips," about college basketball recruiting with Nick Nolte. Penny Hardaway and some old NBA stars are also in it. Spend some time watching it, especially with these recruiting violations going on at Indiana University.
This Suns vs. Lakers matchup isn't just big cuz of Kobe and Shaq ( btw, it's his debut with the suns). The Lakers and Suns have had a rich history in the playoffs the last few years, all their games seem pretty interesting, and it's a BIG western conference matchup. Although, most Western Conference games seem like big matchups right now cuz of how stacked it is at the top. Heck, jason kidd is making his debut for dallas vs. chris paul and the hornets right now too. That might be an even bigger matchup. It might also be for all you non-lakers fans out there the first chance you see pau gasol, who's guarding shaq first.
Notes from tonight's action: Philadelphia absolutely CRUSHED the knicks at home. The game's 121-82 right now, and i'm pretty sure that's not the biggest lead. Wow. This is after the knicks won a come-from-behind OT game in washington last night. Philly's actually playing pretty well, they're an improving young team with a budding star in AI2, andre iguodala, and a veteran point guard andre miller, and a bunch of young guys. They need to develop, though, but in the meantime they have an outside chance at the playoffs despite being 10 games below .500, as crazy as the east is.
Back-to-back triple doubles for lebron james in 2 straight games after the all-star game. And he's not done yet tonight.
Nice win at home for the dinosaurs over the magic. Big game for chris bosh w/ 37 points. I think he's pretty much hit his peak after a few years w/ "budding" status, but his peak is pretty darn good, especially when he's healthy. He seems to be healthy now, although jose calderon's passing skills can make anybody's offensive game seem healthy. Speaking of the spanish flea, he had a very pesky line tonight w/ 1
Kobe BIG STUFF on Diaw! Wow! that's going on sportscenter. This game is going along awesome, should be a thriller. Turn on that TV and flip it on, peeps.
First game in New Jersey w/o their main man jason kidd. Seems like it's been a "taking-up-the slack-by-committee," as nobody has more than 16 points. That's actually a big game to determine the last spots in the Eastern Conference, sad as it is. Bulls have their normal lineup, finally, as gordon, deng, and others were out for a while. Watch luol's production the rest of the way: This was supposed to be another breakout year, but hasn't proved so yet. He might step it up the rest of the way w/o such high pressures, but the bulls as a team might hold him back. Not to say he's been that great by himself, but we're still only at the first game of the all-star game, so there's time.
Fantasize on, and Wach that Laker game,
Robert Yan
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