Happy Thursday! It’s me again, after I switched days with Miz I don’t get to make the usual hump day jokes that’ve we’ve come to know and love.
So the elephant in my room? While I wrote about it a little bit yesterday, I’m gonna focus on a different aspect of Dwight Howard’s suspension. Tonight the Magic play the Sixers in Philadelphia down two starters…now like most of you I don’t expect the Magic to win tonight, but here is why they will.
1) Marcin Gortat is solid. He could probably start for the Sixers and several other teams. This season, per 36 minutes he averages 14 boards and 2.5 blocks. His stat line from a December 15th game without Dwight? 16 points, 13 boards, 3 blocks. And the April 13 vs. Milwaukee? 13 points, 18 boards.
2) Hedo and Rashard are due for huge games. I mean they both have had good games in the series, but neither had the all star performances together that they had all season.
3) Stan. He’s a great coach that always game plans well. Remember what he did in Miami?
4) Philadelphia can’t shoot. They used all their good shots in games 1 – 3. It’s gone.
Anyways, now that I’ve bored you to tears, I’ll get to some other news.
The Heat were smoked by the Hawks last night. Wade looks like he got hit by a Mack truck…he can’t so it himself.
Matt Vasgersian has worked out well for the MLB Network hasn’t he? A F-Bomb and now a tasty joke.
Noooooomaw to the DL. He’s very comfortable there.
The doctors say it will be about 10 days before the “boos” return to Yankee Stadium. And a dude with a murse. Who wears lipstick.
Who is the second highest paid quarterback in the NFL? Tom Brady? No. Ben Roethlisberger? No. Matt Stafford? Yes.
And get this…Brett Farve is STAYING RETIRED. Lets end it there.
Usain Boltis ok after a car accident yesterday…thanks steroids.
Man U > Arsenal. I like the Champions League.
The swine flu takes it’s latest victim…no not a human…guess again…yes, Texas high school sports. Has it really gotten that bad?
Pretty good idea coming from the State o’ ‘Bama…Auburn is using a stretch limo to help recruit within the state. (with picture) Where are the spinners?
LANE KIFFIN NEWS: Laney boy committed another NCAA violation when he contacted South Carolina receiver Alshon Jeffrey. He was the player he told would be pumping gas for the rest of his life. Great job.
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Dwight gets so many rebounds because teams are afraid of taking to to the hole, so they shoot jump shots. Without Dwight, the Sixers will get a ton of points in the paint, and Gortat will get less than 10 boards.
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Hallelujah!!!
/still don’t buy it
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That’s not entirely true Trio, in fact most teams kill us in the paint because we are undersized outside of Dwight. Rashard Lewis, a SF, is our PF.
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Crosby, Malkin and Ovechkin in the same series? Should be good one.
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I’d like to see a Boston-Orlando series, probably better than CHI-PHI.
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I’d like to see a
BostonChicago-Orlando series, probably better thanCHI-PHIBOS-ORL.Brad Miller > Rajon Rondo
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This is going to be the greatest book evAr.
Report: A-Rod used with Yankees
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I was just reading that. I almost feel sorry for Arod.
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damn you john! A-Rod post at 930.
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Ok, I’ll save my remaining thoughts on this until 9:30.
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i think trey mispronounced Nomah.
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36 minutes?
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Philly is going to crush them. but then Orlando waxes in Game 7.
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I think I’m going with Orlando, just because it doesn’t make any sense that they should win, so they probably will.
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John 36 minutes is a stat some scouts use to determine how a player’s stats would look if he played 36 minutes a game.
Lame, but makes Gortat look good.
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Is it just me or is this whole swine flu overblown. It is close to the end of flu season right now. The few cases are pretty much contained. Schools that have had outbreaks have been closed and cleaned. By the time the next flu season starts, there will be enough vaccine to go around for it.
Do people realize that a few thousand people die of the flu in the US every year. Typically it is very sick and elderly people or some very small infants. Most people feel like shit for a couple of days and then are fine.
We create a public hysteria over something that will most likely not effect the average person while things like wearing your seatbelt or quiting smoking will save 1000 fold more lives.
Remember when AIDs was the big scare? Well I have a better chance of being struck by lightning than of getting AIDS. Yet cancer still kills more people every year than AIDS ever did.
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AIDS is still classified as a pandemic.
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Exactly.
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As a Chelsea fan I have to say the Man U and Arsenal both suck it. Might as well throw Liverpool in there as well.
Champions League is awesome.
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knightro, Chelsea sucked the life out of the game against Barcelona. The stinkbomob they threw out there is unforgivable.
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SARS all over again….
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I didn’t get to see the game or any hightlights. Chelsea is definitely not as exciting to watch as Man U. But I’ll take a draw at Barca!
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They were happy with a draw too. Chelsea was playing what could best be described as a 10-0-0 formation.
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I think the H1N1 flu worry is based on two things:
1) It is a novel virus. People have little or no immunity to it.
2) The majority of the people who have dies so far have been young and in good health. That has parallels to the 1917 flu.
That being said, the media is doing it’s damndest to beat it into the ground.
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holy shit, champions league talk here.
chelsea will open things up a little bit in the 2nd leg (like they could pack it in any further than they did in the 1st)
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Hawkeye is either older than Knightro or a flu expert.
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hawkeye beat the plague
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JB…I am sending your NIT pool winnnings this weekend. I apologize!
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what did he win?
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I am seriously wondering what the NIT prize is.
An autographed photo of Hideki Irabu?
Tonya Harding’s broken lace from her skate?
Porky’s II VHS tape?
Frampton Comes Alive 8-track?
has to be one of those.
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dude, trey’s like 16. he doesn’t even know what an 8 track or vhs is.
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@john – the 1917 flu ruined my senior year in college
/old’d
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I think I’m older than you Sparty.
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I turn 43 in a few weeks sonny boy. I remember back in my day, we only had one black and white TV, no Internet, no video tapes, vinyl records and rotary dial phones.
… and I walked 2 miles in bare feet in the snow to school, uphill both ways.
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I have been actually wondering what the prize is as well.
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patphish says i’m 70.
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