Well the game was fairly entertaining to watch, but let's take stock of that list I put up yesterday.
- Amar'''''''''e Stoudemire posterizing a Spur
Didn't happen, although he threw down some pretty vicious looking dunks.
- DeJuan Blair posterizing a Sun
- DeJuan Blair grabbing 15+ rebounds
Don't think he even dunked at all and he only grabbed 8 rebounds. However, he also only got 15 minutes of playing time so that's pretty darn impressive. It did seem like he had magnets on his hands while he was out there.
- Jared "JMZ" Dudley catching fire and hitting 5+ 3 pointers
Sadly, it didn't happen as he only hit 1 of his 3 three point attempts. Roger Mason of the Spurs came close, as he hit 4 3s in 9 tries. When he first stepped on the floor, he couldn't miss.
- Manu Ginobili dropping 40+ points
- Anyone yelling "GINOBILI" like Charles Barkley
- Manu Ginobili demolishing somebody going up for a dunk
Also sadly, Manu put up somewhat of a clunker tonight. 5-14 shooting, didn't earn a single trip to the line and only 3 rebounds and 4 assists. So basically there weren't very many opportunities to yell his name. Disappointing.
- Any moment where Richard Jefferson, Antonio McDyess or Tim Duncan tries to do something only to leave the impression, "Man, they look ooooooooooold"
Jefferson and McDyess actually had pretty decent games. Jefferson put up 17 on 60% shooting from the field while McDyess pulled down 7 rebounds and dished out 4 assists in 21 minutes of playing time. Duncan however, did look a bit off. His final line actually looks kind of decent, but far from Duncan-esque.
- Taylor Griffin getting playing time.
Well, he got assigned to the D-League before the game so...no.
- Jason Richardson slamming a monster dunk
- Jason Richardson missing a dunk
No misses, and he did slam down a big two-hander. However, it was sort of disappointing since I was really hoping for a 360 or a windmill or something more exotic given that it happened on a 5-on-0 fastbreak. He had another fastbreak opportunity a bit later but threw down an even more vanilla dunk. Maybe that miss was still in his head, who knows.
- Goran Dragic faceplanting again after a dunk
Not even a dunk from Goran. He had a chance I thought could possibly have worked, but he just went for a layup instead. Yawn.
- Eva Longoria (Parker)
Pretty sure she wasn't in attendance. Not that we sat close enough to be able to see anyway but yeah.
So clearly, if this list was a game of BINGO I would have been nowhere close to finishing, but that's alright. It was still a good game to watch and close for the most part until the Suns started pulling away. We'll see what this 112-101 victory means for both teams in the end. For now, it allows the Suns to keep pace with Dallas and Denver, who both won tonight, as the three of them pull slightly ahead of Utah, who also played tonight but lost in Houston. As for the Spurs, they fall into a three-way tie at the 6-8 spots with Portland, who beat the Clippers, and the Oklahoma City Zombie Sonics, who lost to Denver. Aside from the Laker's 4.5 game cushion, the whole Western Conference playoff picture is extremely tight, and each remaining game has huge playoff implications riding on it. Should be fun to watch.
Thursday, April 8, 2010
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Where Amazing Happens?
Going to a Suns/Spurs game tomorrow night. It should be pretty fun. I enjoy watching basketball and both those teams are pretty solid and still have something to play for so it should be good. However, I don't particularly like either team, and I don't dislike either of them more than the other enough to root against them. So instead of trying to pick one to cheer for for the night, there are just some specific events that I think would be cool to see and I'll be rooting for those. Maybe it's because it would be good in a basketball sense, or it might just be something that I think would be entertaining and/or funny. In no particular order:
- Amar'''''''''e Stoudemire posterizing a Spur
- DeJuan Blair posterizing a Sun
- DeJuan Blair grabbing 15+ rebounds
- Jared "JMZ" Dudley catching fire and hitting 5+ 3 pointers
- Manu Ginobili dropping 40+ points
- Anyone yelling "GINOBILI" like Charles Barkley
- Manu Ginobili demolishing somebody going up for a dunk
- Any moment where Richard Jefferson, Antonio McDyess or Tim Duncan tries to do something only to leave the impression, "Man, they look ooooooooooold"
- Taylor Griffin getting playing time.
- Jason Richardson slamming a monster dunk
- Jason Richardson missing a dunk
- Goran Dragic faceplanting again after a dunk
- Eva Longoria (Parker)
- Amar'''''''''e Stoudemire posterizing a Spur
- DeJuan Blair posterizing a Sun
- DeJuan Blair grabbing 15+ rebounds
- Jared "JMZ" Dudley catching fire and hitting 5+ 3 pointers
- Manu Ginobili dropping 40+ points
- Anyone yelling "GINOBILI" like Charles Barkley
- Manu Ginobili demolishing somebody going up for a dunk
- Any moment where Richard Jefferson, Antonio McDyess or Tim Duncan tries to do something only to leave the impression, "Man, they look ooooooooooold"
- Taylor Griffin getting playing time.
- Jason Richardson slamming a monster dunk
- Jason Richardson missing a dunk
- Goran Dragic faceplanting again after a dunk
- Eva Longoria (Parker)
Monday, April 5, 2010
Another Random Thought...
...which is considerably different from the first.
I remember reading a verse I liked during my QTs this afternoon but I couldn't remember exactly what it was. I'm going to look it up right now and type it.
~finding time~
Ok so it was in Acts 4, but Peter and John quoted it from Psalms so I'm just going to write that verse.
Psalm 2:1-2
Why do the nations conspire
and the peoples plot in vain?
The kings of the earth take their stand
and the rulers gather together
against the LORD
and against his Anointed One.
It can kind of be discouraging being a believer in today's times. Morals are thrown out the window and people just generally do what they want. Sometimes it seems like everyone is just ignoring and rejecting any semblance of meaning for whatever feels good or what the hot new trend is.
And yet, this Psalm was written way back in the day in King David's time. Then it came to fruition years and years later in Jesus' (<-- there's a grammar lesson to be had but that's neither here nor there) time. That the world rejects God's salvation is not some new issue that our generation is stuck with, but something that's been going on for a long, long time. Realizing this reminded me that there is a real sense of urgency to advance the Gospel instead of just sitting and waiting for who knows what.
I remember reading a verse I liked during my QTs this afternoon but I couldn't remember exactly what it was. I'm going to look it up right now and type it.
~finding time~
Ok so it was in Acts 4, but Peter and John quoted it from Psalms so I'm just going to write that verse.
Psalm 2:1-2
Why do the nations conspire
and the peoples plot in vain?
The kings of the earth take their stand
and the rulers gather together
against the LORD
and against his Anointed One.
It can kind of be discouraging being a believer in today's times. Morals are thrown out the window and people just generally do what they want. Sometimes it seems like everyone is just ignoring and rejecting any semblance of meaning for whatever feels good or what the hot new trend is.
And yet, this Psalm was written way back in the day in King David's time. Then it came to fruition years and years later in Jesus' (<-- there's a grammar lesson to be had but that's neither here nor there) time. That the world rejects God's salvation is not some new issue that our generation is stuck with, but something that's been going on for a long, long time. Realizing this reminded me that there is a real sense of urgency to advance the Gospel instead of just sitting and waiting for who knows what.
A Totally Random Thought...
...that I just had while making a cheat sheet for a SCM test tomorrow.
I wish "ballin!" was still cool to say. And with the hand motion too. For sure.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2JfY-nVaqg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGt-Wcyhg3o&feature=related
I wish "ballin!" was still cool to say. And with the hand motion too. For sure.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2JfY-nVaqg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGt-Wcyhg3o&feature=related
Friday, April 2, 2010
Quick Hits: Clash of the Titans
Went to go see Clash of the Titans earlier tonight. The trailers looked pretty dumb so I had my expectations firmly set at around 300ish levels. As long as it provided some sweet action scenes and good fight sequences, I'd be satisfied. Anyway.
- They didn't actually botch the Perseus myth as badly as I thought they might have. Of course, a lot of things weren't as according to the original myth but it was excusable.
- There was a lot of dialogue, not enough fighting. There were really only a handful, and they weren't that great.
- None of the Titans make a single appearance. They only get one mention in the entire movie and that's during the opening voiceover when it's explained that Zeus and the Olympians overthrew the Titans. Strange that they're not a part of the film at all considering it's called Clash of the Titans.
- Everyone hoping for an epic battle with the kraken, you can forget it. This was probably the only part of the movie I was actually disappointed with. There's really no fighting at all, just an extended sequence of it rising up. What happens after that is extremely short.
- The gods really weren't in it much at all either. Zeus and Hades play a big role, but beyond that, pretty much only Apollo and Poseidon have lines at all.
- They didn't actually botch the Perseus myth as badly as I thought they might have. Of course, a lot of things weren't as according to the original myth but it was excusable.
- There was a lot of dialogue, not enough fighting. There were really only a handful, and they weren't that great.
- None of the Titans make a single appearance. They only get one mention in the entire movie and that's during the opening voiceover when it's explained that Zeus and the Olympians overthrew the Titans. Strange that they're not a part of the film at all considering it's called Clash of the Titans.
- Everyone hoping for an epic battle with the kraken, you can forget it. This was probably the only part of the movie I was actually disappointed with. There's really no fighting at all, just an extended sequence of it rising up. What happens after that is extremely short.
- The gods really weren't in it much at all either. Zeus and Hades play a big role, but beyond that, pretty much only Apollo and Poseidon have lines at all.
- It was pretty hard for me to take Mads Mikkelsen as Draco (not Malfoy) seriously. When he first came out, I thought it was the Rock, but then after I recognized who it was, I wanted to shout out "Le Chiffre" every time he came on screen.
- The Perseus/Io dynamic was...odd. I'll leave it at that.
- Can we officially give up on Sam Worthington as a leading man? I've seen him in Terminator Salvation, Avatar and Clash of the Titans. Avatar was the only one out of the three that was decent, and that was more due to the concept, cinematography and computer graphics. Put that aside and those three movies were pretty brutal, especially from an acting standpoint. To me, he seems more fit as a "grunt" character, maybe a secondary hero/villain who just kicks butt and doesn't say much.
- The Perseus/Io dynamic was...odd. I'll leave it at that.
- Can we officially give up on Sam Worthington as a leading man? I've seen him in Terminator Salvation, Avatar and Clash of the Titans. Avatar was the only one out of the three that was decent, and that was more due to the concept, cinematography and computer graphics. Put that aside and those three movies were pretty brutal, especially from an acting standpoint. To me, he seems more fit as a "grunt" character, maybe a secondary hero/villain who just kicks butt and doesn't say much.
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