Whole Buncha Stuff

Tough loss for the Celtics last night. Obviously the second I make a live post during a game saying how they're surging and coming back they go stone cold and do nothing. Sure they made a great comeback at the end of the night. Personally, I hate moral victories, but it definitely was encouraging to see them storm back strong at the end of the night. Rajon Rondo disappointed after he played so great against the Bulls. He had a couple of key turnovers that ultimately helped propel the Magic to the win. Brian Scalabrine played really well again, he has impressed me in his return hitting several key shots and even doing a pretty damn good job on defense. Covering Lewis, Turkoglu, and Howard proved to be tough and the Celtics did not do that bad of a job with it. However, a big reason we were in that game towards the end was the lack of basketball IQ by the Magic. They are a team that lives by the three, and thats fine, however when you have a 20 point lead late in the second quarter you have to have to somewhat slow the pace of the game down. They launched three after three with 18 seconds left on the shot clock. Even if you hit them, it gives the other team ample time to be able to get shots of their own and creep back, had the Magic managed the time in that game better the Celtics don't end the game down 5, but rather down 15.

Should be interesting to see how game two goes tomorrow night, to see if the Magic learned from their mistakes and will see if they actually manage the time a bit better. I am all about still pushing hard and going strong at the end of games, however this is the playoffs and taking away homecourt advantage is huge, you have to slow things down at times.

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What the hell is going on in Dallas? Who thought that it would be a good idea to have a rookie mini-camp inside of a tent during a storm that had 64 mph winds?! Honestly did they think it would be safe? Why not just make up that day later in the summer... it's May! They have plenty of opportunity to make up that one practice. And why the hell is someone running around in there with a video camera rather than actually helping people get out? I was so bothered when I saw this story. A man is now paralyzed from the waist down for the rest of his life because of this. Unacceptable.


last but not least... umm.... what?