Jersey's Random Two.
First, congrats to Wisconsin for doing their best OSU impersonation (College Football wise) and falling to Michigan State University last night in Breslin. This so validates what I tried to tell someone about Michigan State as a team and Izzo as a coach. It's not gonna shock me when Michigan State makes the Big Dance and sends someone home early. [Knowing me, it'll be a team I predicted to go far and I'll be pissed.]
Secondly, congrats to Kris Benson for being injured and missing most of the year. Huh? He's married to Anna. If that's not reason enough to tear or break every bone and muscle in your body, I don't know what is. Seriously.
Third, Tim Hardaway. From here on in, he shall be referred to as Tim Hateagay. Hate is a very strong word and simply put, shouldn't be used in any way, shape, form or fashion unless the guy kills someone of your immediate family. Then you can hate until you're blue in the face or you get us into a war with no exit strategy for close to five years after the fact. Anyway, I don't have a problem with gays as a whole, I have a cousin in my family who's gay and she's a great person. Being gay doesn't
diminish a person as a whole, but you'd swear it was a dehabilitating thing that just totally turns them into a eunuch or something. Anyway, I don't buy Tim's foot in the mouth rant or his day late apology which did nothing other than insert his own foot further. Congrats Timmy, you're the Moron of the Month. Sorry A.J., not even hiring Norv Never could get you this one.
Alright, onto the Big Three.
The Knicks won their 24th game last night. That's right. 24th. One more than they did ALL of last year. Now, I would assume most of you would think that this is enough for me to back off of Zeke and say, 'ya know, he deserves to keep his job'.
No. Sorry. Him and Coughlin should both be fitted with cement loafers and be dropped into the Hudson to sleep with the likes of Rich Kotite and Ray Handley. The Knicks are lucky the Least is as horrible as it is, otherwise I'd say this team would be at 14 or 16 right now...IF THAT. Put them in the West and I bet you anything they're not even near a baker's dozen.
I've heard grumblings if they can be called that, of Isiah being up for Coach of the Year. To Zeke's lone fan, stop it. Seriously. Even Joe Dumars isn't amused by that thought. He's having to win with a roster he disassembled and even still, in a division where a Foreign Legion squad posing as the Raptors are either a Kidd/Carter or both deal away from sprinting away from the rest...Sam Mitchell is hands down the Coach of the Year. Period, end of story. If the Knicks can't make the playoffs, Zeke's gone...or there's gonna be a riot in NYC.
Next, it's All-Star Weekend. I didn't watch this weekend, but after I got to see some of the "highlights" of the Crap Dunk Contest, I've concluded the following.
A) Adolf Stern hates tall guys winning the Crap Dunk Contest. Last guy over 6'7'' to win it was Larry Nance in 1984. The very FIRST one. I gave up on this thing after 2003, when Fred What's His Name won it and after they robbed Amare the year after and handed Josh Smith two back to back 50s for some of the most blandest dunks this side of Vanillaville, the coffin was dropped in the ground. The dirt got thrown on top this year, when the Nate Robinson Rule didn't even have its desired effect on the person it was designed to effect.
I don't get this. The Rasheed Wallace Rule was implemented to stop folks from bitching to the refs. This has worked, maybe too well. The Nate Robinson Rule was implemented so we didn't have to sit through one guy getting 24 tries to do a dunk. If you can't get the thing down in 2 minutes, take your low score and sit down. Nate gets as many as he got a year ago and nobody bats an eye.
Sorry Nate, you suck. You can't dunk and the mere notion you won it a year ago over a much more deserving Iggy makes me and every judge who had to watch you stink it up out there on Saturday sick to our stomachs.
B) This thing is way past its expiration date. Seriously. There's a reason this thing went away for three years and hasn't been great to watch since 2003. There's nothing we haven't seen done in a game on a fast break and simply put, the game's best dunkers aren't interested in competing for a crown whose last three holders include Gerald Green, Josh Smith and Fred Jones. Or collectively known as AAU Guy, How the hell did he win it? and Is he in the league anymore? Scrap this thing. NOW.
Finally...ah screw it. I'm done for now. More next Friday, when my brain should be fully charged and what not.
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