Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Basketball, Boston Celtics, Doc Rivers, Eddie House, Kevin Garnett, National Basketball Association, NBA, Paul Pierce, Rajon Rondo, Ray Allen, Sports, Turnovers
It’s no secret that the 2008 Boston Celtics are having success. . . in terms of their 9-2 record.
The fact of the matter is that Doc Rivers is the head coach, and he doesn’t possess the most pixels on the television screen. In other words, he’s not the brightest coach in the carousel, even if he was essential in leading the Celtics to its first NBA championship in twenty-two years last season.
Turnovers, baby.
The Celtics are almost dead last in turnovers this year, and it’s driving me nuts. Last year they were more careful with the ball, and made smart moves. Now they’re expecting the defense to make mistakes and allow those mistakes to predicate on the Celtics’ success. It’s worked, a little.
Thanks to the multitude of scoring from eclectic of scorers ranging from Paul Pierce, Ray Allen, Kevin Garnett, Eddie House, and the occasional Leon Powe hammering it in on the block, the Celtics have stayed on top.
But this can’t happen in the playoffs. Doc shouldn’t allow it, but we know how that goes. It’s like a conventional thing to do — give a coach a horde of money and a couple of years to a new contract extension if his team wins a champion, besides how they won the championship (a collective group of players playing as a cohesive unit, undauntedly determined to win a championship), but Rivers is the head coach of the Celtics nonetheless, thanks to Danny Ainge. (Thanks, Danny!)
Let me reiterate: the Celtics are 29th in the league in turnovers. That’s almost dead last.
While I was watching the Nuggets/Celtics game Friday evening, I noticed a load of mistakes that hurt them in the beginning AND in the end. The Celtics busted open the game with an 8-0 lead. What happened shortly thereafter was an onslaught of turnovers that kept popping out like the 1950s baby-boom era. Bouncing off players’ legs, Ray Allen letting a ball or two slip from his hands and out of bounds; erratic passes rolling off finger tips. It was crazier than a crackhead.
When Eddie House was chucking up shots at the end of the game, and Ray Allen and Kevin Garnett were almost single handedly keeping the Celtics in the game, House’s incompetent defense proved to be the big weakness, which, in my opinion, is a turnover itself when it seems like your team is playing four guys against five (I’m not acknowledging Eddie brickHouse at this point).
They may be 9-2, but they sure as hell aren’t playing as their record indicates. Where is this supposed reigning championship power? On offense I see it in spouts, but when Rajon Rondo isn’t even in the game during crunch time, and Eddie House is in there for his offensive abilities, despite the fact that Rondo can play much better defense than House, there is trouble.
If you turn the ball over, the other team will score.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Annoyances, Atlanta Falcons, Cincinnati Bengals, Comedy, ESPN, Football, Humor, Kenny Mayne, Miami Dolphins, National Football League, NFL, Oakland Raiders, Philadelphia Eagles, Pittsburgh Steelers, San Diego Chargers, Satire, Sports, St. Louis Rams, Tie Games
Pittsburgh beats San Diego 11-10.
Philadelphia and Cincinnati tie at 13, being the first game in the NFL to result in a tie since Atlanta and Pittsburgh tied at 34 in the 2002 season.
Miami wins 17-15 over Oakland.
The only problem I have with the Miami/Oakland game is that it bothered me, seeing as it wielded a hinging result of what would be Miami’s fate by the end of the season (wildcard or playoffless), not to mention they are the only team I have to cheer for now that my Rams are down and out (with a disastrous 2-8 record lingering over them).
Pittsburgh beating San Diego pissed me off, because I hate the Steelers, and because of the crooked score on the scoreboard. One of my friends is a Steelers fan, and I’m going to have to listen to his superfluous jargon for a period tomorrow about how ‘awesome’ (or the way he spells awesome, ‘owsm’) the game was, even though it was more boring than trying to watch a game of soccer (or, for you international folks, ‘footie’).
Oh, and if Dallas wins tonight, I have to listen to a stuttering idiot blabber about it for the rest of the week. Woohoo.
The Eagles/Bengals game irked me because you don’t play to tie the game, you play to WIN the game. (Thanks, Herm Edwards of the 1-9 Kansas City Chiefs!) Maybe the moniker should be changed to that you play to tie the game, though. Shayne Graham of the Bengals attempted a field goal with seven seconds left in overtime, but it sailed wide right, and moments later the game ended as a result of a tie. Y’know what? Here’s something for all of you that bash baseball: at least in baseball, ties don’t result (please don’t bring up that ’specific’ All-Star game in which Bud Selig screwed baseball fans).
The Rams were obliterated by the 49ers today. Nothing new.
Kenny Mayne has a new internet show on ESPN.com, called Mayne Street. A few episodes have been placed onto the web and its mediocrity has been bestowed upon our eyes that have been doused in KMP (Kenny Mayne Poison) for every time we see him on TV enough as it is. I don’t have a problem with the guy, and sometimes – sometimes — he’s funny. But it seems that sometimes he tries too hard, and the blatant comedy is tiresome. Though, if you’re bored, it’s pretty damn amusing.
Weigh in.
Filed under: General | Tags: Bekki, books, Organizing, reading, Time, Time Scheduling
People in general kill me, but people who say they don’t have time to read kill me more.
Yes, you do have time. If my amazing girlfriend Bekki has time to read, when she’s bombarded with the scheduling of school and strenuous colorguard practices, she still avidly reads. Her scheduling should be a model for everybody who says they don’t have ‘time’ to read.
“Oh, but I work so much — I’m too tired to read!” Are you too tired to watch television or play video games? Doubt it.
People who mope around saying they don’t have time to read kill me. EVERYBODY has time to read at some point in their seven day, 168-hour week. Most people are just too lazy to do it, and I don’t understand. It’s almost impossible to fathom. Reading is a great tool in life, but so many Americans reject it, and it’s irritating to see when the literacy rates start flying. However, aliterates couldn’t care less.
If you love TV so much, then bring a book with you to the couch, your bed, or your LA-Z Boy reclincer and read during commercial breaks or when there’s a dull point in the show. It’s not hard at all.
I read while I watch sports all the time. All it takes to pay attention to both is multitasking, which isn’t tough at all if you put your mind to it.
After plays or stops, during commercials, during halftime. Anytime during a game. It’s great.
You do have time to read. You just have to make an effort to start reading in the time you’re allowed. When you hear people emit the words, “I’m bored!,” and they’re one of the same type of people who say they don’t have time to read, make them eat their words and tell them to pick up a book. You will probably get a trite response like, “but I’m not in a reading mood!”
Most people are just too lazy to read nowadays, and it’s damn sad.
Filed under: General | Tags: Big 12, College Football, College Sports, Comebacks, Dominance, LSU Tigers, NCAA, NCAA Football, SEC, Troy Trojans
With the Troy Trojans leading the LSU Tigers 31-10 at the beginning of the fourth quarter, everything was more than swell for the Trojans.
Until they realized they were beating a prominent SEC-maligned Tigers team who had just won the national title last year, despite the fact that Jarrett Lee — their Achilles heel — has been their ‘leader’ up to this point.
LSU scored 30 points — READ: THIRTY — in the fourth quarter to win the game 40-31.
One of my college football-watching friends texted me, “LSU is getting killed by Troy.” I looked on the ESPN.com scoreboard, and low and behold, Troy [was] leading 31-3.
I wake up this morning to check out any news on ESPN.com, and I see the headline “LSU rallies.” I click into it, figuring LSU won, and just that they did, hammering the Trojans for 30 points in the final quarter.
Those SEC teams are fast. They can score fast, too. No lead is ever safe when you’re matched up with them.
Just thinking: if ‘Bama and Texas Tech do indeed play each other in the national title game (same situation for Texas and Florida, if they play each other; I’ll refer to one as the Big 12 and the other as the SEC), and the Big 12 team has a lead and the SEC team is down late, if the SEC team comes back and wins, the game could prove to be apocalyptic considering everybody’s taunting prior to the completion of games.
Oh, forget it.
