NBA Finals Blog

Well, one half of the finals are set, as Kobe Bryant and the Lakers dominated the Denver Nuggets by 27 points in game 6 to win the Western Conference Finals. The next half will be covered when Orlando wins tonight, or Orlando or Lebron wins game 7 Monday night.

I say Lebron, because he is Cleveland.

Who else do they have after all?

They have Anderson Varejao.

Oh, yeah, him. He's kind of a softy if you ask me. Who else?

Mo Williams.

Ok, he was the one that threw the ball in for Lebron's shot in game 2. That's impressive. Really impressive...

How about their center, Zydrunas Ilgauskas?

That's a cool name. What's his line?

13 ppg, 7.5 rpg, 1.3 bpg.

Superstar? I think not.

So you see, Lebron James is the Cleveland Cavaliers, whether you want to believe it or not. And last time I checked, one person can't win a championship in a team game. That is why Orlando has a 3-2 lead on him. And why they will win tonight. And what's more, if it gets to seven games in the NBA finals, the Magic are your champions.

Which brings me to my next point. Instead of Kobe v. Lebron everyone was predicting (I laugh in your faces. I never believed that crap for a second.) It will be Kobe v. Dwight Howard/Rashard Lewis/Hedo Turkoglu/the Orlando Magic. But when it comes down to it, the Lakers aren't just Kobe. Close, but not quite.

Pao Gasol is a softy. He won't help. Much.

Andrew Bynum is still young, but he's got talent. I can see 15 or so points per game coming from him.

I like Lamar Odom. I don't know why, but I think he's got something going for him.

But the big show of the Lakers is, of course, Kobe Bryant. He's out to prove that he can win a title without Shaq, and this year's the year. If KG hadn't got hurt, the Celtics would have already won the East and game 1 of the finals would be tomorrow night.

But that is not important, this year is the Lakers' year. Unless, of course, it goes to game seven.

The reason why I think the Magic win if the series goes to seven games is the same reason I knew the Hawks would beat the Heat in game 7 of round 1 and the same reason I believe the Magic will win the Eastern Conference tonight.

They are a better team.

I have laid out the team members of the Lakers, so now it's time to get to the Magic.

Dwight Howard. Superman. He's going to be your biggest Orlando star for the next two weeks.

Rashard Lewis is going to be your clutch man. When a big shot is needed, he's the East's Robert Horry. He has proved that in the Conference Finals, and will continue his last-second heroics against L.A.

Turkoglu will get Orlando some clutch shots as well. He's the Ray Allen in this Big Three, not quite as good statistically, but he can still help.

I referenced Boston's Big Three. Howard, Lewis, and Turkoglu are Orlando's version. They aren't quite as dominant as Garnett, Pierce, and Allen, but they are about to make the NBA Finals, so that's got to amount to something.

My pick is the Lakers in 5, but as I am now saying for the third time, if it gets to that crucial winner-takes-all game seven, my team of choice is Orlando.

Thanks for reading my only NBA blog of the season. We'll do it again this time next year.

-cth

a very thought-provoking video...

in my drive group, we've been watching the movie "everything is spiritual" a rob bell video. I'm going to try to post it all from youtube not sure if its got all of it. be sure you have two hours to committ to watching before you start. my apologies for the spanish subtitles...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFlkJkYNpNk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpaYNeScbJ4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9E4gzbfPtw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2G9CtaqxojU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgwwG8M8Lxg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkmBJmhmHww

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=165CCqzEFkg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TM9QCay7BGI

That's all of them.

it's been a while...

happy march everyone! there's some stuff I want to talk about today...mainly sports, but hopefully some more important stuff too...

firstly, congratulations, william hayes, you're the titans' new starting defensive tackle! i think he'll do fine filling the hole left by albert haynesworth, who i'm still having trouble seeing in a redskins uni. cutlers mad at the broncos for trying to trade him for cassel, who the pats franchised away to the chiefs. speaking of franchised, the titans are still waiting to sign bo scaife, but as we all know by now, "wait" is mike riendfelt's favorite word during free agency.



in my top five list, we've resigned collins but lost haynesworth and brandon jones. we have not got anyone from anywhere else. so we're just losing players. what is mike riendfelts problem!?!?!?



so anyway, what else was i gonna talk about?



my life is pretty crazy right now...school, church, scouts, you know, the normal times about four. i actually have homework now, and i'm getting more piled on every night. it's not really good, especially since i enjoy putting stuff off as long as i can. latin and precalc are the big ones. hopefully i'll get it all taken care of soon.

just finished the latin outline...waiting for the printer to work...and for itunes genius to update...

so i should talk about all the stuff going on at church...everyone's getting excited about safe sanctuaries...well...mostly everyone. drive group's dwindling at best and once the policy's in place we will be in jeopardy of not existing at all. choir's getting to be easier than it's been in a while because we're just singing songs from five and six years ago which i already know for the most part, and because i'm getting alot better at reading, that helps too.

speaking of reading, i'm doing the pit orchestra for hello dolly @ jpII. the music is really easy, once i figured out, "hey, i'm playing in like six songs. and they're all in C# so i'm basically playing everything sharp. wow this is lame. but fun!" i did all county last weekend (was it really just last weekend?) and i'm ready for more extracurricular sax!

i alluded to something i did recently in the last paragraph, and practically alluded to another. the first would be all county the second (though not chronilogically) is bye bye birdie.

all county was extremely fun. there was alot of inside jokes that me christopher and brionna allude to twice or three times daily during band class. andrea also went, but she skipped out of band this semester to take accounting. swagger was a big inside joke, and so was the first chair tuba/downbeat/etc. oh and justin.

secondly, christopher and dad were in bye bye birdie last month and i was at six of the thirteen showings of it, i think most of any non-cast member, musician or director, other than mother. it was a really good show everyone who missed it missed a good one.

i don't think i've had a post yet this year...i lost my job and dad is officially unemployed as of last night so the economy's hitting us hard.

other than that, life's pretty much the same...

well consider this blog over.

later,

-cth

well...not much...but...here it is in all its shining glory...blog number 23

i take time out of my busy schedule to honor all the great number 23's:

Michael Jordan (started the number's status as that of superstars)
LeBron James
Don Mattingly
Ryne Sandberg
David Beckham
Devin Hester
Marshawn Lynch
Ronnie Brown
Cadillac Williams
Erin Malone
Julio Lugo

i probably have missed many...but these are some notables....however, there is one more:

THIS BLOG!!!

so anyway, just got through espn's lastest tmq and found it an enjoyable read...lots of good stuff in it...also the new mayne street...not as good as some others but it's okay...it's got some pg-13 moments, but overall as long as you are mature enough to handle it...it's good.

go titans! i was thoroughly upset by the loss to the texans, and then by pittsburgh winning. my pick is still titans over panthers in the super bowl. we'll see...but i repeat GO TITANS!!!! AFC SOUTH DIVISION CHAMPS, BABY!!!!!!

how bout them celtics! i think that's all i have to say about that

baseball winter meetings...hope sox get away with texeira...that would be awesome.

my new favorite song: live your life by rhianna and t.i.

that's it for now

-cth

So…random nfl stuff

To start out, i discovered this video today of al davis discussing lane kiffin’s firing. Kinda redundant, kinda redundant (oh did i mention it was redundant?), kinda funny. It was interesting…al davis has def lost his brain

Also…how bout them titans! An amazingly hilarious yet pitiful 47-10 domination of Detroit was just the start of the routs to see that weekend, dallas 34-9 over seattle, philly 48-20 over Arizona, ole miss and Alabama shutting out msu 45-0 and auburn 36-0, respectfully in the egg and iron bowls. Texas ran over a&m and the gay-tors beat fsu 38-15 i believe…other nfl creaming were Baltimore 34-3 over Cincinnati giants 23-7 vs Washington, Pittsburgh beating the pats 33-10, and minnesota’s 34-14 defeat of Chicago.

So everything’s going great…just finished duty roster for room in the inn and final English paper…about the bcs and a possible playoff situation…cloning paper got a 100 so i was pretty pumped about that. Christmas tree’s up…not ornamented or anything…gonna wait til after Saturday (12/13) to do that. My schedule’s pretty much booked up til then.

Other than that i’m takin it easy not stressin to much…well, that’s a blatant lie. I’m totally worried about midstate Sunday…my sax teacher randomly decides he has something to do on the day of my lesson three days before auditions…so i’m freakin out about that…and practice didn’t go to well yesterday…so yeah…

Guess that’s it for now…

Until later

-cth