What a disgrace...

The Suns-Spurs series ended last night, and frankly, I'm disgusted by the fact that Spurs won in six. For sure, a lot had to do with coaching decisions, contrast in styles, etc. but the deciding factor was the fact that Robert Horry decided it would be fun to perform a perfect hockey-styled hip check to Steve Nash. OK, so Stoudemire and Diaw left the bench, big whoop, so did Duncan and Bowen in the second quarter. But they didn't get suspended, why? Cause apparently, James Jones wasn't trying to hurt Francisco Elson, so it wasn't an altercation, and so Duncan and Bowen don't need to be suspended. OooooKkkkkk, let me get this straight: Spurs were rewarded for sending in a scrub to take out Nash in order to prevoke a few of the Suns players, and Stoudemire and Diaw were punished for being good teammates and trying to check up on Nash eventhough they did nothing to escalate the confrontation. I get it now, thanks for teach the teams some valuable lessons, commissioners. Next time when Elson hits the floor, Jones should turn around and talk some trash to make it a confrontation and get Bowen and Duncan suspended. Next time when you stray on to the court during a confrontation, might as well escalate it, hell, you're already going to be suspended anyways, so you might as well try to tempt a few players on the other side off their bench. And perhaps most importantly, next time get a benchwarmer to deck Tim Duncan, maybe Tony Parker and Manu Ginobli will get suspended then. Great, with these weapons at their disposal, I don't see how the Suns can loose next time the two teams meet.

I know there are many people who thought the Spurs would have won regardless of the suspensions, but I only present two arguments, a: these are probably the same people said that the Warriors were too disorganized (I'm a bit guilty of this) to beat the Mavs and predicted a sweep, b: there is such a thing as momentum. Phoenix just battled back to win game four despite being down 10 in the fourth, going back to their home, the Suns confidence could have been sky high. But instead we get a tainted 6 game series in which the Spurs were rewarded for being dirty, specifically Bruce Bowen, he who kicked Amare's heel as he went up for a rebound, kneed Nash in the groin, and slapped Nash's arms everything Nash went in the paint for a drive. At this point, Bowen apparently has immunity from the league office and is free to do whatever he wants.

There are a lot of rumours out there that say the Suns are going to reload around Nash or just take apart the team, trade everyone except Nash and Amare to get Kevin Durant. Of the first one, I just have to say that I really doubt a guy like Kevin Garnett is going to be a better fit in Phoenix than Marion or Stoudemire. Stoudemire is an inside presence while Garnett likes mid-range shots, not to mention Stoudemire is 6 years younger. Marion in the Suns best defender (yes, better than Raja Bell), and Garnett isn't exactly known for his defensive presence. As for rebuilding, I hate to say it, but why not just trade Nash? His value has never been as high, maybe you can get some real talent for him. By trading both him and Marion, you have a new core of Barbosa, Stoudemire, and Diaw: 24, 24, and 23 respectively, and Nash and Marion should bring in some real good players, like Durant and someone like Brendan Wright, and then with your probable fourth pick you can get a Noah or a Julian Wright. Imagine a core of Barbosa, Stoudemire, Diaw, Durant, Wright, and Noah, I think they can dominate the NBA for years to come, plus, the team will be WAY under the luxury tax limit.

Houston finally fired Van Gundy as the head coach. I didn't really like the decision, cause it looks like Rick Adelman might be taking over, and he's purely an offensive coach who like his players fast and athletic, of which Yao is not. What a shame, I was hoping Houston would consider Larry Brown. (yes, everyone hates him, but if he comes back, I'd say he's one of the top 5 coaches in the league)

That's it for now, folks

First Post of May, Woot

Wow, about a third of the way into the month and still not a single post, if this keeps up, it’ll be our lowest posting month since last November…but never fear, karlkarlson is here…

So let’s start off with a bit of entertainment news, which I don’t normally do. But this is so juicy that I just had to post it: Paris Hilton is going to jail for 45 days! Let me be the millionth person to say, “hahahahaha”. This is just too funny. And Reuters reported that there are petitions arguing for her to serve the sentence regardless of appeal. Of course, my first reaction to this news was: “Where do I sign?!” Unfortunately, I was too lazy to find it, but if anyone does find it, let me know.

OK, we just finished off Romeo and Juliet, and some of the class actually think that a)Romeo’s love for Juliet is real, and b)Romeo has changed during the play. That is just wrong for so many reasons. First of all, how is Romeo’s love real? The only real things he says about her is how hot she is, talk about judging a book by its cover. I’m telling you, anyone who falls in love in life 2 hours cannot be experiencing true love. Second of all, how the hell has he changed, sure he takes the poison as a sacrifice, but he probably read it in a book and thought it’d be cool to be together in the afterlife. And what is the difference between the love for Rosaline and Juliet? The only reason he got over Rosaline is cause she didn’t like him back, it’s like he’s on the rebound. Another fact that is not mentioned enough is the fact that Romeo suicides by taking a poison that kills him quickly and painlessly, but Juliet has to stab herself with a dagger! You tell which one hurts the most. By the way, my friends and I were discussing how Romeo is pretty much a criminal, here are the illegal things he does: trespassing(capulet party), stalking(how did he know where Juliet’s room was?), spying, trespassing again(capulet garden), murder(tybalt), statutory rape(Juliet is 13), illegal drug dealing(poison was illegal to sell or buy), violating terms of sentence by coming back to Verona, trespasses AGAIN(capulet tomb), tomb raidng, murder AGAIN, and finally suicides…not such a hero after all, eh.

Now onto my regular sports garbage, before I go on, for the eastern conference finals, I have Ottawa in 6 games, anyways, the western conference final is finally upon us. Since I picked the Ducks to go all the way, I have to pick them against Detroit. Ok, I was a bit shocked that the wings won the last round to be honest. But whatever, I still say they don’t have enough to beat the ducks, especially since Giggy is on a roll now (he has something like a .952 save percentage!!!). Pronger and Niedermeyer are just too good for them, and Mathieu Schneider hurt too. I really don’t think Detroit can win. I’m not 100% sure the Ducks can win game 7 in mo-town, so I guess I say Ducks in 6 too.

Rockets lost, so that sucked balls. (Yeah, I do watch them cause of Yao Ming, but there’s no shame in that, and I want all of you Chinese Yao haters to know that you’re just being a banana by haterizing on him.) I could see this series wasn’t going to go well judging by the fact that the Rockets could only win by a close margin in Houston by loose by so much on the road. So now, someone has to go. Let’s face it, with everyone healthy, this is as good as the Rockets are gonna get with these players. So either t-mac or yao has to be traded to make the team more balanced, or team owner les Alexander will have to open the piggy bank.

Contrary to popular belief, Phoenix CAN beat Spurs in a 7 game series, or at least that’s what I think. The spurs basically have 3 offensive weapons to hurt you and other wise grind it out, but the suns can counter that almost perfectly: kurt Thomas on tim Duncan, raja bell on manu ginobli, shawn marion on tony parker. If all three spurs are taken out, san Antonio has no chance.

I don’t get why the nba doesn't do like the nhl and reseed ppl, now they have the four best teams left meet in the conferences semis: Detroit-chicago, phoenix-san Antonio. I think it’s pretty save to say that the winners of this match will roll over the winners of cavs-nets and utah-gstate. But you look at the nhl, I think it’s pretty safe to say that sens, sabers, wings, and ducks are at least 4 of the top six teams in the league.

Finally, I’ll have my nba predictions: cavs in 5, pistons in 6, gstate in 6, and phoenix in 7.

Well, that's it for now.