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Post by RocDoc on Jun 7, 2004 12:02:02 GMT -5
...and I friggin fell asleep during the 3rd!!!
Too much time in the 85ยบ sun yesterday, I guess...
...and perhaps too much of that EXCELLENT Porterhouse that I grilled at 6PM...coupla pounds of Eye-talian sausage too...ooooh, swwwweet!
...and maybe 3 jumbo Bloody Marys during that meal coulda had something to do with that too...d'ya think?
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Shee-it, just no kinna keep-a mine eyeses open no mo'. that's all!
I'll make DAMN sure I watch all of the Stanley Cup 'denouement' tonight tho!
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Post by Howenstein on Jun 7, 2004 12:02:54 GMT -5
Well, if the Lakers needed a message sent that the Pistons D was for real, they sure got it last night. Doc Rivers on the ABC broadcast said it right from the beginning -- "if the Pistons can score 85 points, they will win with their defense."
The strategy to cover Shaq one-on-one worked -- for this game, anyway. Shaq got his 34 points, but the rest of the Laker team was a non-factor. Kobe got 25 points, but it was on 10-for-27 shooting. Shaq only took 16 shots from the floor. I'm sure Phil Jackson will do all he can to reverse those shot totals for Game 2. The Piston's appear able to harass Kobe into poor shooting. They cannot do the same with Shaq. He pretty much had his way when the team could get him the ball. Only reserve Elden Campbell (who once played for the Lakers and guarded O'Neal in practice for a few years) seemed to contain the big monster at all.
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Post by Howenstein on Jun 7, 2004 12:06:00 GMT -5
HA HA, Doc!
Porterhouse + Italian sausage + 3 bloody marys + 85 degree heat = NAP TIME!!! ;D
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Post by Howenstein on Jun 7, 2004 12:09:07 GMT -5
RE: Stanley Cup... If the Lightning win Game 7 tonight, owner Bill Davidson will be halfway to hoisting the Stanley Cup and O'Brien Trophy in the same month!
(He also owns the Pistons.)
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Post by RocDoc on Jun 7, 2004 15:02:11 GMT -5
From your mouth keyboard to god's ear!
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Leave it to a tech-writer-guy to make that equation! ;D
All in all, when I woke up this morning to hear Detroit had actually won, I knew that Sunday had been an all-around good day...yessss!
Looking fwd to the hockey tonight...
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Post by Howenstein on Jun 8, 2004 7:04:48 GMT -5
One down, one to go for Davidson. CONGRATS, Lightning!
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Post by Meursault on Jun 8, 2004 14:26:09 GMT -5
Detroit baby!
I think the city of Detroit must be a pretty rockin place, plus i've always dug the Red Wings (cept Federov), it would be good to see em take out the monster LA Lakers, just another NY Yankees grotesque mutant team.
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Post by Howenstein on Jun 9, 2004 8:15:19 GMT -5
Man, did the Pistons lay down in overtime last night. They were obviously shell-shocked after that Kobe shot to tie it. Let's hope that feeling doesn't carry over to Game 3.
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Post by RocDoc on Jun 9, 2004 10:59:38 GMT -5
...and up til that point Kobe was throwin' up bricks from the 3 line, the fucker.....then of course I've seen Michael Jordan more than once have an abysmal shooting night...and then at JUST the moment the team needed him most, he gets his 'eye' back....
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I do think much of it comes down to how 'Sheed handles it....IF he doesn't let it rattle HIM, then the Pistons are going to be OK.
With the surprising level of leadership 'Sheed's showing there now, I think that 'As goes Rasheed Wallace, so go the Pistons'....and 'Sheed is hungry, man!
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Post by Clicker on Jun 9, 2004 11:07:02 GMT -5
DAMN that Kobe!  |
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Post by RocDoc on Jun 9, 2004 11:21:46 GMT -5
...the representative from the great state of Califor-nee-aye-ay has spoken!
I second the motion, DAMN that Kobe!
*Bailiff, whack his pee-pee!
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Post by rockysigman on Jun 9, 2004 12:33:22 GMT -5
Thing is, that foul that allowed Shaq to hit the free throw to put them within 3 was total horseshit. No one was even close to touching. Kobe's 3-pointer should have put them in one, not tie the game. Oh well, I guess that's how it goes though, and they totally did lay down in overtime. That would have been HUGE to take two in LA though.  |
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Post by Clicker on Jun 11, 2004 1:31:14 GMT -5
Ha ha ha...
Nice comeback by Los Pistons tonite!
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Post by rockysigman on Jun 11, 2004 2:28:15 GMT -5
Damn right. Even Elden Campbell was coming through with the big dunks. When Darko came in, that must have been just the ultimate slap in the face to the Lakers.
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Post by Howenstein on Jun 11, 2004 8:20:00 GMT -5
HA HA! Well, right now Elden Campbell is the most important player for the Pistons. He is the only guy they have who can play Shaq straight-up with any kind of success. Ben is too short and Okur is too slow.
The sound bite of the post-game press conference had to be Phil Jackson:
"I don't think we could have played any worse in that first half, in terms of execution. But we tried very hard to duplicate it in the second half."
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