playoffs 1man juggalo army c'mon pistons, hold on get this win. i'd really like to see you guys win another championship, but if you can't, at least don't get swept. 050614 ... 1man juggalo army Good job, Pistons. First team to score 90 on the Spurs in a playoff game or a final (I don't remember which). Here's to tying it up. 050614 ... The Spork although i live in San Antonio, I wanted so see Phoenix and Miami in the finals... defense-heavvy basketball bores the bejesus outta me...well, that and i can't stand Robert Horry 050615 ... raze i doubt you'll see this, spork, because i don't think you've been around red or blue in some time now, but i have to say even though i'm not from san antonio i've come to really enjoy watching the spurs do their thing. when they're firing on all cylinders they make elite-level basketball look effortless. it was a heartbreak when they lost the NBA finals to miami last year in seven hard-fought games. that game six was insane. they had it in the bag, and then in the last thirty seconds ray allen hit that miraculous jumper and everything changed. i'll never forgive popovich for not fouling to protect the lead. "we don't play that way" is bullshit. when you've all but got the championship trophy in your arms, you protect that lead. but given how well tony parker and tim duncan are still playing in what has to be the twilight of their respective careers, and given that the spurs are hot right now with the best record in the NBA, i'm hoping they've got one last push in them to go all the way this year. it'd be nice to see the big three with rings on their fingers one more time. 140319 ... raze (should have mentioned pop's decision to sit duncan at the end of the fourth quarter in game six before that ray allen three. that still makes zero sense to me.) yeah. basketball is nuts, and it's not even second round action yet. i don't think i've done this much swearing at my television screen since that justin bieber / sean kingston song made me want to kill things. it's fun, though. 140428 ... e_o_i I looked at this and thought hockey - Montreal's team is doing well, a 4-game sweep into the next round, where they'll go against Boston. It's funny. I didn't watch any of the games, but I felt glad when I heard the results. 140429 ... raze i like it when canadian teams do well. :) in the land of basketball, the toronto raptors are tied in their current series 2-2, and i think there's hope for them to make a good run if they can get out of the first round. they've got some skills, those raptors. 140429 ... raze well, the raptors put up a good fight, but they lost a game seven that went down to the wire. here's hoping the nets will pick up where they left off in the regular season and knock out the heat in the next round. 140504 ... raze conference finals time. the nets had nothing for the heat, and i don't expect the pacers to offer much more resistance. but on the other side, we've got a rematch of the 2012 western conference finals between the spurs and OKC. that was some of the best basketball i've seen in recent years, and both teams are arguably deeper now than they were then, even without james harden's epic beard and stephen jackson's clutch three-point shooting. should be high quality stuff. 140516 ... e_o_i I watched part of the last Habs-Bruins game on Wednesday, mainly because my mother turned on the TV. Classic gender divide that evening - the men buy food and wash dishes, the women watch hockey. Surprisingly, the Habs won, so they're going to the next round, and I felt like shouting, "Yay Montreal! That's MY team!" as if I had anything to do with it. Sports are weird. Not as weird as art usually is, maybe, but still weird. Hockey, basketball, soccer: all with the same (very simple) goal concept, yet the strategy needed to play well is varied and complex. (I played soccer a bit as a kid. Not well, not badly.) 140516 ... raze the spurs are looking dangerous. for all the criticism they get for being boring and defensive-minded, they're coming on like an offensive wrecking ball right now. it's fun to watch. i smell a potential rematch with the heat in the finals. i smell revenge. i smell ... bacon. mmm. revenge bacon. 140521 ... raze the spurs obliterate the thunder at home, and then play like they've forgotten how to play basketball on the road. it's as if they're afraid of the building, and the fear of the building makes them afraid of the ball. i don't get it. 140527 ... e_o_i The Habs managed to hang on to the series with tonight's win - it's my sit-ups and my mother's shouting, I'm sure - and now it's Rangers 3, Canadiens 2. 140527 ... e_o_i ...So I hope they don't act like your basketball game and lose when they're in a different place. Because Thursday's game is in New York. 140527 ... raze i believe in the habs! they rhyme with "slabs"! 140527 ... raze i had a dream stephen jackson came back for tonight's game and took thirty one shots, and he made all but a few of them. come on spurs. knock the thunder back on their heels. the still-living spirit of stephen compels you. 140528 ... raze i meant tomorrow night's game. but it was tonight's game in the dream. yeah. that's my story. 140528 ... e_o_i Spurs rhymes with blurs! If they're not fast, then rhyming means nothing anymore! The Montreal Canadiens are nicknamed Habs because it's short for Habitants. That's about as specific as "people who live in a place." So the fans are basically cheering, Go people who live in a place! Go! 140528 ... raze so stephen jackson didn't magically materialize and score ninety points by himself. but the spurs remembered how to play spurs ball and won to erase the fear of 2012 happening all over again (when the thunder swept them the rest of the way after going down 2-0). every single game in this series has been a blowout for the home team. if that trend continues, it means the spurs win in seven and then OH MY GOD REVENGE BACON. 140529 ... raze we finally got a close game, but the spurs came out on top. so it's a rematch of the 2013 finals. i'll have my revenge bacon with eggs and orange juice, s'il vous plait. 140601 ... e_o_i Ah yes. On Thursday The New York Rangers ousted the Habs in a 2-1 game, and they'll be playing either the Los Angeles Kings or the Chicago Blackhawks, depending on who wins tonight. So no more Montreal, in fact no more Canaduckia at all, in it. Ah well. 140601 ... no reason i'm sad about the lack of canadians too, and i am a (long-suffering) leafs fan, but i do hope the blackhawks make it far, since i'll be in chicago around the time the playoffs would occur. it would be pretty neat to see that. 140601 ... raze had a dream the spurs went up 3-0 in the series and the heat were all but finished. in the real world, they lost a game 2 they should have won because of a few missed free throws and bad decisions, lost their home court advantage, and now it's tied at one game apiece. clearly my sports-related dreams are toying with me now. 140608 ... raze i think these guys are trying to give me a heart attack. they play brilliant basketball on both ends of the court, blow out the heat for the first half, have the best scoring efficiency of any team in a half throughout the history of the nba playoffs ... and then they get sloppy and let the lead slip. and get it back. and get sloppy and let it slip again. and get it back. and finally beat miami on their turf and take back home court advantage. maybe they could win the next one in miami too, go back home up 3-1, and give me a few less grey hairs to look at in the mirror. 140610 ... raze (best scoring half in the history of the finals, i mean ... close enough) 140610 ... raze they listened! now win game 5 and make revenge bacon a reality. 140612 ... raze they listened again! after a dodgy start, the heat got manhandled for the third game in a row (what happened to your "championship DNA" and refusal to lose, lebron?), and the spurs got their revenge bacon in the best possible way, with nothing but class and beautiful basketball, exorcising every single demon from the last few post-seasons along the way. that's some good bacon. now come back next year and do it all over again. 140615 ... raze the west is insane this year. you've got golden state looking terrifying, the memphis grizzlies looking almost as scary, james harden's beard giving the rockets super powers, the clippers trying to get a little respect, and the spurs doing that thing they do. it's gonna get interesting. 150430 ... unhinged lebron made me love watching the nba. then he left for miami. little bitch baby 150502 ... raze it's a little insane to think we might have already seen the most competitive, exciting basketball we're going to get in the first round, but i get the feeling that's what just happened with the clippers and the spurs. after seven games it came out to a one point differential. it doesn't get closer than that. 150502 ... raze i told myself i was done watching after my guys got knocked out, but that was just being flippant. so now i'm rooting for the clippers. if they're going to take out the spurs, the least they can do is make a deep run. 150508 ... raze man, fuck the clippers. they somehow found a way to choke away a 3-1 series lead, which hasn't been done much over the years. if they were going to shit the bed that bad, they didn't even deserve to make it into the second round over the team they beat, who at least went down fighting. 150517 ... unhinged my team is still scrapping it out boo ;) 150517 ... raze man, this ... isn't good basketball. hopefully golden state and cleveland can produce something better than this conference finals dreck. 150527 ... raze james harden just set a record for the most turnovers by a single player in a game in NBA playoff history. you go, bearded one! get down with your bad self! 150527 ... unhinged the cavs spanked atlanta in that last game. its almost like atlanta gave up... 150527 ... nr people ask me if i will/have become a blackhawks fan. i always say no, but it's tempting sometimes to switch loyalties to a team who may actually have a chance at winning the stanley cup. or at least occasionally advance significantly in the playoffs. 150528 ... raze no idea who to root for now. steph curry's cockiness turns me off just about as much as lebron's does. i guess i'll just hope it's competitive, whoever wins. 150603 ... unhinged cocky or not, steph curry taking his little daughter to press interviews with him is just about one of the cutest things i've seen in awhile. at the last one before the finals started, she got up in his lap and said directly into the microphone 'be quiet daddy' about five times before he put her down. 150604 ... raze here we go again. pretty much everyone seems to agree a western conference finals battle between the record-breaking, terrifying warriors and the quiet-but-deadly, hot-on-their-heels spurs is going to be the real NBA finals, assuming both teams make it that far, and whoever survives that is pretty much a shoe-in to win it all. and then you've got the cavs and the raptors looking like potential threats in the east. should be interesting to see how it all shakes out. i'd like to see tim duncan win one more before he retires. the big fundamental deserves it. 160414 ... unhinged my team better be sneaking their way in there. i'll start paying attention in another month or so. 160415 ... raze i don't know, man. i want to root for the raptors. i really do. but i'm starting to think they're total playoff choke artists. about the best thing i can say about them right now is at least they're not getting swept in the first round like they were last year. when your two best players turn into the two worst players on your team once the post-season rolls around, and the players who really are stepping up don't see the ball enough to make as much of an impact as they could, you're probably not going to make much of a run. your star guard scoring eight points against six turnovers in a pivotal, momentum-altering game four isn't going to get it done. and the guys who can't buy a bucket just go on jacking up one bad shot after another. i can't tell if it's bad coaching or just really low basketball IQ. at least there's some drama there, even if it's for all the wrong reasons. unless the rockets can steal another home game and make things interesting against golden state, every other first round matchup is looking like a complete rout. 160423 ... raze hey, boston's got some fight in them! look at that! we've got at least one competitive series there. good stuff. 160424 ... raze this injury stuff is getting bizarre. what next? a giant wasp flying around the court trying to poke out players' eyes? 160426 ... raze pretty embarrassing to be a spurs fan right now. they lost two games in a row they should have won, when they were in an excellent position to win, choking both of them away down the stretch with some of the worst late-game execution i've ever seen. sure, the officiating was abysmal, but that's no excuse. now they're getting creamed by the thunder in a game 6 they shouldn't have even had to play, and it doesn't even look like they're trying to stave off elimination. at least the raptors are showing some fight and hanging in there, even with their two stars playing like scrubs, and their best big man injured and maybe out for the rest of the post-season. the spurs can't even muster that much. the 67-win regular season and 40-1 home record is meaningless now. pitiful is what it is. 160512 ... raze well look at that. the raptors woke up, and OKC spanked golden state. it would be beautiful to see both teams pull the upset and flip the script on its head. especially after the shameful "draymond green totally doesn't deserve to be suspended for kicking the same guy in the nuts intentionally in two different games, even though we just suspended a guy on the cavs for doing pretty much the same thing, and we're totally not trying to give the two teams who are supposed to make it to the finals every break possible with shit like this and officiating that's beyond horrible." could it be any more obvious? you can't fix it for a team if they go ahead and get beat anyway no matter how many calls you make sure go their way. ha. 160523 ... raze KEVIN DURANT AND RUSSELL WESTBROOK: hey, we're up 3-1 on golden state. we've got this series in the bag. we're gonna pull off the massive upset. STEPH CURRY'S MOUTHGUARD: finally! put me out of my misery! DOLPH LUNDGREN: you will lose. KEVIN DURANT AND RUSSELL WESTBROOK: no, man. we'll just take a combined 157 shots in the next three games, miss 97 of them, and commit 23 turnovers, double-handedly killing our own team with some of the dumbest, most selfish and ineffective attempted hero ball the world has ever seen. oh, wait. we just lost. KOBE BRYANT: talk about choking and chucking. shit. even i'm embarrassed. STEPH CURRY'S MOUTHGUARD: there is no god. 160531 ... unhinged ouch seriously ouch 160605 ... raze yeah … as rematches go, this one's kind of … yeah. well, the cavs have two home games coming up. hopefully they'll win both of them and keep it close. 160605 ... raze LEBRON: we got this! FILLET OF FISH: no you don't. you had control of the game. then you blew it in the second half with horrible defensive mistakes, offensive blunders, and a whole lot of sloppy everything. now you're down 3-1 and this series is effectively over. WEEPING MICHAEL JORDEN: well, this is pretty anticlimactic. LEBRON'S JOCKSTRAP: i'm so embarrassed. STEPH CURRY'S MOUTHGUARD: clean me. someone. please. for the love of god. 160610 ... raze THE REAL WEEPING MICHAEL JORDAN: how could you misspell my name? how?! DOLPH LUNDGREN: if he dies, he dies. 160611 ... unhinged haha blowing it in the second half when it really matters is what the cavs do best *sigh* 160611 ... raze i was shouting at the TV screen. something to the effect of, "what are you doing?! you had control of the game! stop being stupid!" only with a lot more swearing. but they didn't listen. 160611 ... unhinged it is the phenomenon that my dad has named 'choking under pressure' all the lame missed shots in the fourth quarter can only be described as c u p which coincidentally is not something steph curry seems to do (turns out that mozgov and scrappy doo did way better for the team than irving and love in my opinion) 160612 ... e_o_i Mom's watching the Stanley Cup final. I don't feel in a sportsy mood. 160612 ... unhinged wait for it... with green suspended for punching lebron in the nuts in the 4th quarter of game 4 the cavs have a tiny glimmer of hope tonight *holdsbreath* 160613 ... unhinged scrappy doo gets 3 fouls in 2 min ?!?! come ON my dad is right; the league wants golden state to win 160613 ... raze i have hope! they're playing with the right intensity, and answering every time the warriors try to go on a run. but it's still only the first half. 160613 ... unhinged tied at the half !!!! aarrrgghh i take back my earlier statements about irving but as many armchair players at the bar have pointed out love SUCKS on defense defense wins games 160613 ... unhinged oh yeah 3rd quarter domination 160613 ... raze love has been hot garbage all game, but lebron and kyrie are stepping up. if it wasn't for some sloppy possessions this would probably be a blowout for the cavs. stop the sloppy shit! 160613 ... unhinged love was hot garbage on friday too *shrugs* i_i_w_i_i maybe the cavs should trade his ass in the post season 160613 ... unhinged say that again...lebron and kyrie make history and the cavs dominate the whole second half believeland still has hope boys 160613 ... unhinged (and i find myself defending little bitch baby to a loud mouth west coaster that is calling him a bitch all night cause his team is losing) 160613 ... raze hey, i'm rooting for him too. and i never thought that would happen. ha! 160613 ... unhinged (i'm cheering for the cavs cause 1) it's my hometown and 2) it's the best underdog story of all time in the nab i.e. no team that has been down 1-3 in the finals has ever won even though it has happened 32 times before this series) 160613 ... unhinged FUCK YEAH guess i have to take a personal day on sunday to watch game 7 ;-) 160616 ... raze i think the cavs are only the third team in NBA history to ever come back from a 3-1 series defect to force a game 7. NOW WIN THE THING. 160616 ... raze deficit, not defect. ugh. 160616 ... unhinged i think i saw a stat recently that out of the 32 times an nba finals was at 3-1 only 12 of those ever got to game 7 but the team that was down 3 -1 has never won a forced game 7. i could be wrong... 160617 ... epitome of incomprehensibility Film I saw today with Mom (but didn't quite hear, since the sound kept cutting out. Mom put on the subtitles.) Released 1947. Main plot: a non-Jewish journalist pretends to be Jewish in order to expose anti-Semitism, and then write about it in an article that everybody will love - which happens, but there are other complications (predictably, though it's not always predictable how they play out). Preachy at times, but Some Anvils Need to Be Dropped (nostalgic E_o_i alludes to TV_Tropes). Besides, the acting is fairly naturalistic for that era (1947 it says), and I was charmed by the character Anne, a snappy sort of editor-person. New Yorkish; it takes place there. I was thinking about my mom sitting next to me, and thinking: "What's if people redid the movie, set it in the present, and the issue was homophobia instead of anti-Semitism?" Of course that would complicate the whole love story part of the plot! Can't have Mr. Main Character pretending to be gay and seeing so much of his fiancée (not fiancé). Or you could. For laughs. Not as plain as "Okay, let's have someone walk in on them having sex" (people didn't have sex in 1947, of course, but they do now), more like "Have some characters suspect and other characters remain oblivious because every gay guy needs a Standard Female Friend to swap fashion and gossip with - or whatever the stereotype is." And it'd work with the subplot of the Jewish secretary who changed her name to sound less Jewish. She could confide in Main Character - Phil Green, or whatever his new name is - that'd it be hard to get a job here if people knew she was a lesbian, so she was playing it straight, soda speak. It'd probably be cheesy, right? And perhaps my silly-if-not-totally-obvious brand of comedy would be ill-advised. The original film was certainly serious, maybe too much so, but then again what could you expect from something that was filmed right after the Holocaust? (They don't talk about that much, but the war is clearly in the background.) Interesting thought experiment, anyway. NR, you have Hollywood connections, right? Help me pitch an idea? :) 160618 ... e_o_i Oh for god's sake, that's the second time I've done this recently. Ignore this and I'll put it with its proper title. 160618 ... raze i only have one thing left to say: GO CAVS GO. 160619 ... unhinged YES 160619 ... raze things we've learned from the first round so far: lebron has turned into one of the worst free-throw shooters in the league. not sure how that happened. he used to be pretty reliable behind the charity stripe. he's making up for it in other areas of the game, but going forward those free-throws are going to become a whole lot more important in close games. all the triple-doubles in the world couldn't get russell westbrook and the thunder past the rockets. it doesn't matter how great (or selfish) you are as an individual player. you need a team to win a championship. golden state gonna golden state. but the jazz are live dogs. if they put the clippers away, they could give the warriors fits in the second round. never count out isaiah thomas and the celtics. the raptors continue to be a good regular season team and the flakiest playoff team on the planet. one game they play like they want to win. the next game their entire backcourt disappears and they get their asses handed to them. the grizzlies are better than advertised. the spurs might have overachieved in their first season since tim duncan hung it up, and it looks like they haven't quite figured out their new identity yet. so that series has been more competitive than anyone was expecting it to be. but kawhi leonard is a scary, scary man. 170426 ... unhinged lebron has always been bad at free throws especially in the clutch. the playoffs right before he left for Miami he blew it a couple times with missed free throws... little bitch baby 170426 ... unhinged (thanks for the update. i usually don't start paying attention this early) 170426 ... e_o_i My city's hockey team is out. I noticed this morning that the sports page of the newspaper was suspiciously Habs-free, and asked Dad, "Is our team still in the playoffs?" He said no. "Oh." Me, voice disappointed. Brother (who is home for vacation, having finished his university term in the Far East of Nova Scotia): "Why do you care?" "I don't... know?" To Dad: "So they lost their last game?" Dad, a bit impatiently: "Well, how else would they get out of the playoffs?" Good question. Maybe they wanted a vacation? (In moments of frustration it's crossed my mind that I could get fired in order to have more time off. I work hard, but I don't like working. I am a terribly lazy workaholic. Poor Habs, though.) 170428 ... raze zaza pachulia is a dirty piece of shit who isn't fit to wear a basketball jersey. if you need to intentionally injure the best player on an opposing team you're favoured to beat in order to actually have a chance at beating them because of how badly they're kicking your ass, i have no respect for you at all. if the warriors do make it past the depleted spurs, i hope lebron and co. eat them for lunch and crap them out and use them as fertilizer. and that's all i'm gonna say about that. 170516 ... unhinged . i think that's what the kids call dropping the mic 170517 ... unhinged gotta keep track of the schedule so I can watch now 170519 ... raze ginobili getting the start tonight made me think maybe this was his last game. i hope that doesn't turn out to be the case. if he does decide to hang it up, at least we got a few more unexpected vintage manu performances. it's just too bad they came in what really wasn't a fair fight. as for lamarcus aldridge, or LMAO as the detractors have taken to calling him, when you've got an $84 million contract and you're supposed to be the second best offensive weapon on your team, and in a series where you need to step up you score all of eight points in TWO different games, including an elimination game, acting half the time like you're afraid of the basketball or you don't even know what it's for ... that's not getting it done. at least the celtics managed to steal a game from the cavs to make that foregone conclusion of a series a tiny bit more interesting for about six seconds. i think we all know we're getting a repeat of last year's finals, though. 170522 ... raze if i were a fan of the toronto raptors, people calling demar derozan "defrozen" for disappearing when his team needs him most might bug me. but that's what the guy does. it's tough to root for a team that does all the right things during the regular season only to forget everything they learned along the way come crunch time. talk about underachieving. well hey, at least the whole post-season landscape is pretty wide open right now. cavs vs. warriors iii isn't a foregone conclusion this time, with the retooled celtics playing as well as they are and the retooled rockets looking scary. we just might get those two teams in the finals. here's hoping things stay interesting. 180507 ... nr my leafs shirt came in the mail just after they (unsurprisingly) blew their chances to advance. oh well, long-suffering fandom forever. 180507 ... raze james harden is officially the worst basketball player on earth. on nights when he can't throw it into the ocean, he just keeps chucking up three-point shots that are off the mark, wasting possessions. he went 0 for 11 tonight from beyond the arc, and was almost that bad last game. and yet somehow the rockets won both of those games and now have a 3-2 lead over the warriors in the conference finals, with harden doing his best to destroy his team's offensive energy and throw games away. even the basketball gods themselves have gotta be scratching their heads right about now. 180524 ... unhinged DOUBLE ot 190519 ... nr was kinda hoping i’d find the time to watch a raptors/bucks game while in wisconsin, but sadly it didn’t happen 190521 ... raze i can't watch this stuff anymore. it doesn't feel like basketball to me. i think everyone fell in love with the way golden state played when they were eating everyone in the league and shitting out stars. problem is those other teams didn't bother to figure out why that style of play was so effective, or else they didn't feel like putting in the work necessary to perfect it. so they settled for a strategy of "take a hundred three-point shots a game even if you miss most of them, throw defensive strategy out the window, and when all else fails play bad iso-ball and pray for the refs to bail you out." basketball fundamentals no longer exist. it's become the battle of who can chuck more and choke less. empty stat-padding is rewarded by the league and the media, while players who can change the complexion of a game with their grit and skill sit rotting on the bench because they're not sexy or flashy enough for the coaches and team owners to see any value in them. i know it's not quite as bad as i'm making it all sound, but man ... i can't watch this stuff anymore. 210625 ... raze (college basketball is a different story. this championship game between kansas and north carolina is bonkers, batman.) 220404 ... raze a few nights ago i made the mistake of watching game three between the dallas mavericks and the phoenix suns. dallas won, but they didn't deserve to. all i saw was nonexistent defense, terrible shot selection, and a whole lot of chucking and missing by both teams. tonight was different. the celtics were up against it. they were down 1-2 in a series they should have been leading. and they weren't just playing the bucks. they had to deal with a lot of egregious whistles in milwaukee. the ridiculous free throw disparity made it pretty clear who the refs were trying to help. it didn't matter in the end. the fourth quarter was a gritty come-from-behind montage of al horford having the best playoff game of his life sixteen years into his career, jayson tatum making an impossible scoop shot while falling down and screaming, "and one, motherfucker!" and marcus smart absorbing all of giannis antetokounmpo's muscle and sweat to draw a charge even the bucks fans had to respect. derrick white, who i loved when he was a spur, played tough defense and knocked down clutch free throws. they played as a team. they won as a team. the celtics might not win the whole thing this year, but it's good to know old school basketball is still alive and well in massachusetts. 220509 ... raze ...and then marcus smart decides to try and be the hero in the final seconds of a game the celtics had in the bag — when "closer" has never been his role — botches three straight possessions, and chokes it away all on his own. basketball gonna basketball. 220511 ... raze the grizzlies have a 110-61 lead over golden state right now, and the third quarter isn't over yet. that isn't a typo. 220511 ... raze tonight we had james harden once again disappearing in an elimination game, taking all of two shots in the entirety of the second half (and missing both of them), showing no effort on the defensive end, and heading back to the locker room before the game was even over, because he couldn't be bothered to go through the motions of congratulating the winning team. that was his idea of veteran leadership. the beard could learn a thing or thirteen from twenty_one-year-old tyrese maxey, who played his heart out until the bitter end, giving up his body and diving for loose balls long after the outcome had already been decided. you deserved better, maxey. 220512 ... kerry so frustrating. i couldn't even finish it. 220513 ... raze (i'm sorry, kerry. i was rooting for your team to pull off the comeback and keep the series alive.) 220513 ... nr the leafs neeeeeed to win on saturday. 220513 ... nr well, fuck. they don't call us long-suffering fans for nothing. 220514 ... raze in a game seven the celtics just won at home, they took 55 three-pointers and made 22 of them. it wasn't the most efficient shooting performance, but it was enough to turn a close game at the half into a blowout down the stretch. the bucks went 4-33 from beyond the arc. turn even half of those failed three-point attempts into midrange jumpers and drives, and it all might have looked a little different. i'll never understand how a coach can watch their team self-destruct like that and do nothing to steer them toward something a little saner. it's one thing when the shots are going in. when they're not, it gets ugly. and then it gets sad. and you don't see anyone using those bricks to build anything useful. live by the three, die by the three, i guess. 220515 ... raze the mavs just got obliterated by golden state after shooting 11-48 from three. again, that isn't a typo. this is the world we live in now. time for me to stop watching basketball. again. 220518 ... raze (why am i wasting my night watching the mavs choke away their lead with one bricked three-pointer after another? why? whyeeeeee?) 220520 ... raze but wait! it gets better! tonight was game five in the eastern conference showdown between the boston celtics and the miami heat. the celtics shot 10-33 from downtown. the heat? 7-45. (spoiler alert: the heat lost.) 220525 ... raze i'm not sure what the hell just happened in game one of the nba finals between the warriors and the celtics. but it definitely happened. 220602 ... kerry yeah, it definitely happened. boo celtics!!! 220603 ... raze marcus smart seems to have a difficult time living up to his last name on the basketball court. 220613 ... tender_square colorado shutout tampa last night in the second game of the stanley cup final, 7-0. in a commentary afterward, mark messier was quoted as saying "that was the most dominant, best team game i’ve ever seen in my lifetime." 220619 ... raze i haven't been following the nba postseason action with much interest this time around, but man ... kentavious caldwell-pope has ice in his veins. 230501 ... raze (why do i keep doing this to myself? why?) 230505 ... raze i don't watch the games anymore. i just look at the live scores. it's less maddening that way. 230510 ... raze turns out the corgi was wrong. 230512 ... nr welp, maybe next year, leafs? sigh. 230513 ... raze seemed like every media outlet and pundit on the planet had the celtics and lakers duking it out for the championship. like it was a foregone conclusion. both those teams are now a game away from getting swept right out of the conference finals by an offensive juggernaut everyone slept on all season even after they locked up the number one seed in the west (the nuggets) and a team that lost two of their starters to season-ending injuries early in the playoffs but have shuffled undrafted players into the rotation without missing a beat (the heat). it's kind of beautiful. 230521 ... raze after climbing all the way out of their respective 0-3 hole, the celtics shot 0-12 from three to start game seven, and ended with a whopping 9-42 success rate. GUESS WHO WON THE GAME? (spoiler alert: it wasn't the team that kept jacking up threes and missing.) 230529 ... raze i don't think i'll ever understand what goes through a player's head when his team is up by three, there's less than half a minute left in the game, and instead of bleeding the shot clock and driving to the basket, he takes an unnecessary step-back three (and misses). does no one know how to actually play basketball anymore? 240521 what's it to you? who go blather from