Bad Old Times

Yesterday I was watching in NBA TV game 7 of the 2000 western conference finals between the LA Lakers and the Blazers. That was bad... really bad, I was rooting for the Blazers, but this was specially painfull for me because Scottie Pippen as always been one of my favorite players, second I hated those Lakers, from Kobe actitud to Rick Fox mere prescense . Dont get me wrong (if you yell it to somebody that doesnt give a hoot, u have been Steven A. Smith for a second...sweet!) Shaq had a great season, Phil Jackson did a great job getting that kind of season out of Shaq, and getting more than jeers from guys like Harper, Fox and Shaw, everybody was doing what they were supposed to do,thats a weird thing to say about the Lakeras nowadays, but well, I disgrees...I'm very good at it... The point it's I had always blame the collapse of the Blazers in the fourth quater to Scottie and coach Mike Dunleavy, they were the leaders of the pack after all. But (yeah..that's a big but, I like big buts and I can not lie...but I disgress..) after watching again I realized I have to blame everything on Portland going totally cold for like 7 minutes and on LA D which was getting tighter and tighter after each Portland missed shot, LA wasn't that hot either but Portland cold streak was ridiculous. S0, I was a little more "content" because it wasn't Scottie's fault, he did run the ofense, was a presence defensively, he took the shots LA D gave him, the blazers just couldn't buy a shot, at one point they missed 13 straight, granted most of them were jump shots and no drives to the basket. It wasnt coach Dunleavy fault either, the plays to post up sheed and bonzi were there, the shooters were there, the shots just didn't go in! Sheed missed like 5 straight shots, no easy shots but it weren't impossibles neither, at least for him. Oh well, it was a good game after all.

Nothing new in the news today, we could use this slow day to learn something about the soon to be rookies ,things like Al Hortford is showing some skills as well as the philly kids. Kevin Durant might start to get the hang of it, just might! The good old Nellie and the Warriors found the next JRich, good for them!