Sunday, May 30, 2004

SPORTS: Playoffs ... YESSSSSS!

Both playoff games tonight were entertaining, if decided long before their conclusion. And the right teams won.

Calgary has earned Canuck Hero status for being what every Canadian wants in a team: all for one, humble AND victorious!! I can see Calgary winning each odd game in this series. It still a long way from over, but it appears that the team with the control on what happens if it plays its game is the Flames. Good for them. Bad for the teams I had in the pool that fell by the wayside before the firestorm.

Is it possible Minnesota might come back against the Lakers? The first step, minus Sam Cassell, came tonight with a gritty effort from the Choke Artist Formerly Known as Sprewell and an MVP-proving performance by PF-PG Kevin Garnett. It was fabulous to watch. This whole series is at this point cuz Cassell's been out with the bad back. He swings 20 points with his performance. That's a plus ten when he's been feeling it and a minus ten when he's been feeling the back more than the urge.

While I'd like to see Shaq, the MailMan and Derek Fisher get some champagne to sip on, it bothers me no end when The Adulterer keeps finding ways to elevate basketball over jurisprudence. He's obviously talented and, on some levels, no more a lesser man than CAFKAS, but the adulation he gets for "sucking it up" causes some previously digested food to come up MY gorge. And wouldn't him losing to Garnett, Cassell and Fred Hoiberg make for a REAL feel-good story? Would in this quarter.

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