Deer feared. Carmelo Anthony not lonely. NBA Playoffs Day 13: Closeout special? Dallas Mavericks at San Antonio Spurs, Phoenix Suns at Portland Trailblazers Carmel
by Poor Man's Commish on Apr 29, 2010 12:02 PM PDT
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Not minding the headlights one bit. (via media.jsonline.com)
Recaps of the 2010 NBA Playoffs Day 13
DEER FEARED: Brandon Jennings scores 25 points the day Tyreke Evans gets named Rookie Of The Year. Ersan Ilyasova and Kurt Thomas step up...
You think the Hawks feel like they've just hit a deer on the road?
...I was on a narrow two lane highway on a drizzly night. The deer literally leapt out of the thick woods into the road. I never saw the deer on the ground, it was airborne as soon as I saw it, and it landed on my windshield, towards the top where it meets the roof. The deer’s body sheared the roof back about two feet, separating the roof from the windshield. The deer’s body and the roof liner hit me square in the face…amazingly, I only have a very sore bump on my forehead, a sore neck from the jolt, and lots of glass splinters. Nothing I won’t recover from in a few days. I count myself very, very lucky. a few more inches lower, and the windshield would have taken the impact instead of the roof, and I would have no face left. instead, I emerged from the car covered in glass, deer fur and blood, with all three materials in my mouth, hair, and eyes. That was more traumatizing for me than the bump on the head. As for the deer, I never saw it again, the driver behind me said it did two or three full flips over my car, landed in the road, and ran off into the woods. CRAZY. I will never know if it ran off to die, ir if it will heal and live to perform more automobile acrobatics…and that will bother me for a very long time. I am going to install a deer whistle on my next car, as I have heard they are quite effective. Everyone is getting them for Christmas, too! I could get angry about the overpopulation of deer in this area, but then I must remind myself they we live in THEIR world, not vice versa.
[10/19/2006, see comments section in blogpost]
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Previews for 2010 NBA Playoffs Day 13
Mistah FAB: "grant hill is out there playin like he 27 that man damn near 40" (image via d.yimg.com)
5:00PM PDT on TNT: #3 Phoenix Suns at #6 Portland Trailblazers
Wow, the old guys are healthy and the young guys are injured. Who woulda thunk? I love this tweet from Mistah FAB...
RT @MistahFAB grant hill is out there playin like he 27 that man damn near 40 all them years out got him looking youthful
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Ironically, he's got MJ's tongue wag (check other pics of him, it's there). (image via d.yimg.com)
7:30PM PDT on TNT: #2 Dallas Mavericks at #7 San Antonio Spurs
It's kind of hard to believe the Spurs are the 7th seed, huh? I just don't know about Dirk Nowitzki. Jemele Hill at ESPN.com tweeted that the Mavs lost their manhood ever since Miami Heat turned the tables a few years back in the NBA Finals...
RT @jemelehill Only reason that DEN & DAL arent most disappointing IMO is bcuz DEN been sliding 4 a min. DAL lost manhood to Miami in '06
I think it's just that Dirk doesn't have a killer instinct, at least not consistently enough.
Just as Michael Jordan developed the mid-range jumper, Dirk needs to do the opposite of MJ. Dirk needs to work on going to the hoop more. He just settles and settles on that outside jumper. I've said it before and I'll say it again: a 40% jumpshooter is a 40% jumpshooter is a 40% jumpshooter. It evens out. The only way to trump that is to mix it up, take your man to the hole more often, draw some fouls. That's why you see superstar field goal percentages more near 50%. Seriously, I don't even need to look that up.
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Follow me @poormanscommish for occasional retweets of keen observations during the playoff games, like the ones we got from Mistah FAB and Jemele Hill.
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ESPN now campagning Jennings deserved Rookie of the Year
Logic only Brian Sabean would find correct. He’s a “gamer!”
He’s a gritty veteran as a rookie!
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by Rated-R Superstar on Apr 29, 2010 3:21 PM PDT up reply actions
Yikes
Big difference – Jennings couldn’t get it together to qualify to play college ball and hasn’t ever come through really in clutch situations (although have to admit he’d doing good in the playoffs).
Curry-mature, proved himself in the NCAA tournament by making a small college team overachieve —I’m excited to see what he’ll do in the coming seasons.
For shooting 38%?
Anyone who claims he ‘carried Milwaukee to playoffs’ hasn’t watched them. I’m pretty sure if they had curry or Tyreke they’d have won 3-5 more games and been a higher seed.
I think that elite level center who had a career year and the addition of Salmons who played out of his mind + Skiles defensive plan were bigger factors.
Twitter Posts
Is that English from those twitter posts? Reading that is like fingernails on a chalkboard, my goodness that was awful.
Golden State of Mind: Unstoppable Baby!
they r gonna come back!
It's just a plant, it grows in the earth, and if you happen to set it on fire there are some effects...
I just realized about 15 minutes ago that Milwaukee has deer, beer, cheese and badgers. It’s an underrated state!
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by Rated-R Superstar on Apr 29, 2010 7:12 PM PDT reply actions
Miluakee is a small town
But it’s a sports town.
by LarryLegendofOracle on Apr 29, 2010 7:17 PM PDT up reply actions
I said Milwaukee instead of Wisconsin. Whoops, silly me.
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by Rated-R Superstar on Apr 29, 2010 9:53 PM PDT up reply actions
Caron Butler … pretty much stinks. His body looks like it’s getting soft, and his numbers are following suit. He’s not even in the same area code as Dirk (and Dirk ain’t all that).
There will be no extra point!
by Sleepy Freud on Apr 29, 2010 8:30 PM PDT up reply actions
He's okay
Dirk is a perennial all star. Caron is a borderline all star sometimes.
by Reverend_Randy on Apr 29, 2010 8:53 PM PDT up reply actions
So Hawks have to win on the road to stay alive
Bzzzzt! No chance
Grant Hill is amazing.
haha, they shoulda given him the ROY award just for that block.
Lights please, lights please, turn off the lights.
by Skeptic con Urquell on Apr 29, 2010 8:57 PM PDT up reply actions
What's going on with Nash?
He’s playing like crap, totally out of control.
This is Kristin Kreuk, now zip it. - GTTM
Ugh
That was a terrible pass, right to a Blazer
That was a terrible terrrible charge call
It was more about Amare falling down then Bayless crashing into him
Blazers
still hanging in there. If Nash has any kind of offensive game in the 4th, Blazers will be in trouble. Unless Roy comes thru with some heroics.
This is Kristin Kreuk, now zip it. - GTTM
Daamnnn
one of the best ways to shut the crowd up: 4pt play
This is Kristin Kreuk, now zip it. - GTTM
So much for the Blazers momentum
ran into a wall with 5 quick Suns pts
Amare to Jrich
Sweet!!
Lights please, lights please, turn off the lights.
by Skeptic con Urquell on Apr 29, 2010 10:09 PM PDT reply actions
from BD's twitter
Congrats to Reke he killed it this year… but he & bjennings should have split it though… the both made history and BJ in the show
no love for curry?
Can't believe Hill missed both
Lights please, lights please, turn off the lights.
by Skeptic con Urquell on Apr 29, 2010 10:17 PM PDT reply actions
Money
Lights please, lights please, turn off the lights.
by Skeptic con Urquell on Apr 29, 2010 10:19 PM PDT reply actions
One good thing about the Blazers losing
Roy can get some rest to recover his knee
No chance, spurs will crush the suns,
like jazz over warriors?
Lights please, lights please, turn off the lights.
by Skeptic con Urquell on Apr 29, 2010 10:25 PM PDT reply actions
Time out
to draw up a 9 point play?
Lights please, lights please, turn off the lights.
by Skeptic con Urquell on Apr 29, 2010 10:27 PM PDT reply actions
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