Hello,
I so enjoyed the Lakers losing yet again last night, this time they were beaten down by the Golden State Warriors. I love Marc Jackson's dismissive attitude towards the Lakers after the game. The Warriors lead the Lakers by 4.5 games, so there's for them to be intimidated by the Lakers. What I wonder is when will ESPN and the NBA join Jackson in a less than impressed attitude towards the Lakers? Many people think the Lakers would have a better record if they had had less injuries. That makes me laugh, especially since their record is something like 0-7 when they have Nash, Bryant, Howard, Arrest and Gasol starting.
On their ticker ESPN kept on flashing that the Lakers lost despite 36 points from Bryant. Well since he's a one man team of course he scored a lot of points. Besides Nash, who else would the Lakers get scoring from? The incredibly slow Pau Gasol? Gasol exploded for 7 points last night in limited action. The not very good offensive player Dwight Howard? Howard only hit half of his field goals and only half of his free throws, scoring all of 11 points in 37 minutes. That low production isn't going to win you many games from one of your key players. And poor wittle Ronny hurt himself. The injury was a blessing in disguise for the Lakers. That saved them from another 5 for 14 shooting night by Arrest.
Howard says he's going to get back at David Lee for Lee bloodying his lip. I'm sure Lee is shaking in his boots Dwight. Is Lee scared that the soft marshmallow man is going to come after him? Please! Of course now that Howard said something, he won't be able to do anything. Howard mouthing off to the press will put the NBA on guard and make sure that the refs are vigilant in preventing any retaliation when they next play on April 12th. Here's an idea Dwight, why don't you stop your yapping and go and practice your free throws.
News flash to all the so called NBA experts, the Lakers are poorly constructed and quite simply not very good. I said they were done about a month ago, at that point I didn't even think LA would make the playoffs. I've changed my tune just a tad, now I think they will make the playoffs as the 8th seed. However that's not due to their greatness, that's due to how bad the 3 teams chasing them are. Dallas and Portland are too inconsistent to catch the Lakers. And the Jazz, well it's a good thing they played a team that cares even less than them last night. That way they were able to get a late season meaningless win. As a Jazz fan I can't wait until their season ends. Honestly I don't think anyone wants that 8th seed, it's quite likely that team will be swept by the Spurs. It's not like the NCAA Tournament where a team can come out of nowhere, say Wichita or Fort Myers, Florida, and knock off a much higher seeded team.
I wish ESPN would stop showing LeBron James dunks over lesser players and glorifying them. And LeBron stop acting like such a fool. Dunking on Jason "Cargo Plane" Terry isn't that impressive for an athlete of your stature. And then last night you dunked on a player that had his back to you and then you gave him the staredown. Really? What was the point of that?
Oh and I saw something about a video of Tim Legler talking about who the Knicks would match up the best with in the first round of the playoffs. I had to laugh, does it matter? The NBA's Eastern Conference is Miami (Snow White) and the 7 dwarves. As of right now the Knicks would play the Bulls, that's a team that could beat New York in the first round.
College basketball remains so much better than the NBA. I'm so excited that the two March Madness games I want to see the most Thursday and Friday I'll be able to see. I'm looking forward to "my" Shockers taking on the Explorers of La Salle Thursday night. Tim Tebow stop bothering the Shockers, I know you are desperate for publicity. Then on Friday night I'm looking forward to the continuing Cinderella story of FGCU. Just by reaching the Sweet Sixteen as a 15 seed is already amazing. I'm sure they've already overshot all their goals and now are just enjoying the ride. I'm glad I can watch their battle with Florida Friday night. Go Shockers and Eagles! (Also I'll be cheering for Michigan St. to beat the Puke White Devils Friday night!!)
Speaking of March Madness, although a much more muted form of March Madness, congratulations to the BYU Cougars. They defeated Mercer 90-71 last night and now advance to the the third round of the N.I.T. round. They'll play Southern Mississippi on Wednesday night in Hattiesburg, Mississippi.
Also yet another rant about my formerly beloved Cowboys of the great city of Dallas. Jerry Jones, who loves attention even more than Dwight Howard, says the Cowboys are close to signing Tony Romo to an extension. When that dreaded signing becomes official, that will put yet one more nail in the coffin of my love for the Cowboys. Since Romo has failed so many times in crucial situations, why does the Cowboys "brain trust" think that Romo will all of a sudden come through in the clutch? What is it that they see, that many other Cowboys fans and I don't see in Romo. (Thankfully when the Cowboys kill my love of their team, I'm so thankful I can switch my allegiance to the 49ers. A team that's run so much better and thus has much more success than the Cowboys.)
Because of Jones legacy of terrible player decisions, the Cowboys are only about $105,000 under the salary cap as of right now. They don't even have enough money to sign players. They have to reach agreements with players that they'll sign them once Dallas frees up some money. That's one of the reasons they are trying to sign Romo to an extension so they can count less money towards this seasons cap.
I just wish the Cowboys would take the cap hit this year for Romo and Anthony Spencer. Soon Dallas will be freeing up $2 million since they made Marcus Spears a post June 1st cut. Then they can also cut Doug Free and save themselves $7 million more dollars. That's $9 million to sign all the players they draft and bargain bin free agents. Then next year they'll have more cash to spend. At that point they could decide if they want to resign Romo or not. For instance, if he actually produces in the clutch this time. If Dallas then didn't sign him, that would open up over $16 million for them to go after the quarterback of the future. Of course they should have been looking for that a few years ago. Next season they'll no longer will have that $5 million dollar penalty count against their salary cap. Of course that would suggest the Cowboys look towards the future, which has never been a trademark of Jones. He's all about win now, no matter how bad the team and coaches are that he puts on the field.
I keep on wondering how bad will the Cowboys get before Jerry Jones admits he's an idiot? Yeah I know if it hasn't happened by now, it will never happen.
Finally under the department of why do people hate the Dallas Cowboys so much: Dez Bryant thinks he can be the first person to get over 2,000 receiving yards. This is hilarious on so many fronts. First of all, Bryant is a head case. There's no telling when he's going to do something stupid again. Second his quarterback is Tony Romo. And yes I realized that Romo threw for almost 5,000 yards last season. But still he's Tony Romo, the man that fails in nearly every crucial situation possible. He and Dez would have to perform at a high level all season for Bryant to reach his goal.
No wide receiver has ever had 2,000 yards in one season, not Jerry Rice, not Michael Irvan, not Megatron, not Larry Fitzgerald, not Lynn Swann. If those guys can't do it I highly doubt that Bryant will be the first.
Shouldn't he be more focused on team goals anyway? Sure Romo has great regular season numbers, but no fans cares about that. The only thing fans care about is how many playoffs your team has gone to and how many Super Bowls their team is won.
themusicaddict
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