4 YEARS

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Four years ago today we started this little project. Can you believe it? After all the death threats, ninja BS, unmitigated sinophilia, LARPers, lawsuits, more ninja BS, troll invasions, moons of jupiter, shredders, TYPING IN ALL CAPS, reputation poi…

And The Ones Get Sevens…

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Screw “About Last Night!” After a night of basketball like that, it can be demoted to the two-spot…

Both the Spurs and Pistons were able to cling to life and force Game Sevens with wins last night, giving us a 2-day period over Sunday and Monday that will have three Game Sevens. I’m as excited as Dirk Nowitzi backstage at a Hasselhoff concert.

Letting this one get away could prove to be a dark day in Mavs history, but at the same time, I admire Devin Harris’s protest of Jason Terry’s suspension, as he also refused to play. Harris finished with 7 points on 3-of-14 shooting. Michael Finley seemed to enjoy his evening, though, as he hit a couple of clutch threes, and once again, made Erick Dampier the subject of ridicule and scorn with a thunderous dunk in Dampier’s increasingly unmasculine grill.

And in the East, LeBron’s going to have to wait another day (or perhaps another year) before assuming complete control of the NBA. The LeBrons were unable to put away the Pistons last night, forcing a Game Seven back in Cleveland. Rasheed Wallace promises that the Palace atmosphere will be “bananas,” a word that I feel is underused as an adjective.

It was a late-game offensive rebound parade that saved the one-seeds. The barrage came with board-pounding Anderson Varejao on the bench, and the Pistons hit a couple of shots that… well, shots that you wouldn’t normally expect to go down very often. So, we’re going to have to go a couple of days without a slew of articles explaining how LeBron James is capable of altering the time-space continuum to make all of our lives easier and better. But have patience. Monday is another day.

Detroit 84, Cleveland 82 [ESPN]
San Antonio 91, Dallas 86 [ESPN]
Friday Night in the Association [Critical Fanatic]

And, by the way… technical difficulties. All day. A million apologies.

The Cavs and Mavs are going on the road

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Here are our thoughts after a night of not sleeping much. When we did manage, we were having dreams about Paris Hilton being our girlfriend. There was no sex or anything - we were like really in love.

Don’t know what that means. Anyway:

1) It sure seemed like the Cavaliers were set up for another dramatically positive finish…then they allowed four offensive rebounds in 50 seconds??? Credit to the Pistons for going nuts on the glass.

2) Horrible mismanagement of the game at the end. The players have to know to call a time-out there. That aside, LeBron screwed up - yeah, Flip was open, but Flip hasn’t made a shot in 6 games. (By the way, if you’ve been reading awhile, you know that we’ve said it since we got him - Flip is the poor man’s Ricky Davis.) Mike Brown took the blame, but this is on the players - as the ABJ’s Tom Reed says, they lost their poise, or brains, or however you want to put it.

3) Pretty much the whole fourth quarter was just bad. For some reason Z was sitting, and we went away from what had worked in the first half. The “have LeBron go 1-on-1 from 25 feet away” offense was reinstalled, the Pistons were all over it, and it was a series of turnovers.

(One of the first plays of the game, Drew Gooden cut down the middle of the key without the ball for like the first time all season. Dunk. God, we can’t wait until next season when there’s a key assistant coach installed who’s an offensive guru. Can you imagine LeBron playing in a system where people regularly move without the ball?)

4) We thought the game was over with the 2-handed LeBron dunk over the entire Pistons team.

5) Cleveland fans are doing the typical over-reaction, screaming that the entire team needs to be torn apart, and whining Shot/Fumble/Drive. This wasn’t one of those games, c’mon.

First of all, this isn’t over yet, although we fully expect the Cavaliers will be given a 0% chance by everyone tomorrow. Secondly, this wasn’t some “shock ending”. It was a hard-fought game by both teams, and the Pistons won. They made some tough shots and worked the glass at the end. Ball bounced their way this time, just like it bounced the Cavaliers’ way in the previous three games.

Game 7 should be a war, and it somehow seems fitting that if the Cavs are going to do this, they do it in that fashion. That’s about it - it was a tough loss, but it is what it is. Both teams worked hard, both made some key plays, and both made some mistakes. That’s what the playoffs are.

6) Since this is probably the only post we’ll do today…the Mavs. We pointed out the similarities in these two series yesterday, and it looks like they really are the same. Dallas mismanaged their game in the last ten seconds and took a tough loss at home.

That’s three Game 7s for Round Two! Fun for fan, okay! Yes, a-number one! Blue jeans!

ACF Press Release (5/19)

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VECC CONTINUES AS AMERICAN CHAMPIONSHIP FIGHTING CEO
DENVER, COLORADO – American Championship Fighting(sm) Chief Executive Officer Rico Vecc appeared before Denver District Court Friday, to face sentencing for conduct stemming from a previous real estate venture. Vecc assumed responsibility for one count of securities fraud he incurred while engaging in a joint venture with business […]