boring basketball

so glad there are other more interesting things on tv during this may madness of nba playoffs... the game is so reflective of the american culture, arrogant overpaid kids with little or no sportsmanship or class trying to show off... might as well watch boxing or hockey... as i've been saying since the beginning of the playoffs (i seldom watch the game before the playoffs), the knicks are a perfect example (as are miami and as were the lakers), egos inflated by their home venue, but they play like selfish punks and thugs who have no clue that basketball is a team sport and at times, appear to have no clue as to what the game of basketball is about... maybe the thug-like play j.r. smith showed got the knicks into the #2 seed, but that doesn't fly when more people are actually watching in the playoffs... even boston, who wins when they play like a team (and do much more when rondo is healthy), lost primarily because paul pierce bogarted the ball in the last minutes of the playoff games... same for kevin durant... great players are great, but great teams win... too many teams are like the knicks these days, with one mega-star having amazing individual games now and thugs using violence over finesse, but that does not work under the spotlight unless the refs are playing for you (like with miami) against a team playing together in a seven game series... what gives miami an edge (besides the refs who consistently call plays in their favor) is they have two of the best players in the game who've learned to play two on two ball pretty well... it's still not what the five on five basketball game was meant to be and teams that played like teams (like boston from the 60s and the knicks and lakers from the 70s... watch tapes and learn if you are really interested in the game)...

so what are you amusing (or distracting) yourself with tonight?...