Doesn't that wall feel framiliar?

Just a few months ago the Warriors were faced with a daunting task. Win every game, or go home. Now they feel the coldness of the concrete again on their backs. With Utah's ability to play Sloan ball despite Nellie's fun and gun game on the other end, it looks to be over tonight in Salt Lake City. However there is hope Dub fans, it ain't over yet. If it's close or Utah is up late, they will run time off the clock and slow their offence down. With little movement offensively this is where the Warriors can play their kind of defence. They get turnovers, a lot of turnovers, a playoff best almost 10 steals a game. Turnovers lead right into their strength, the fast break. They start to fluster Williams, and he will keep turning it over. He is fourth worst in turnovers per game this post season. Utah gets tight, and the Warriors could win this game. After that you go home and the crowd wills you to another victory, and it's game 7. Where as they say, "Anything can happen in a game 7". Also if they get there the Warriors will have won two in a row, Utah will have gone 7 days without a win, and a sense that the Warriors have figured them out. So let me get a big ...........LETS GO WARRIORS!

Good Googaly Moogaly

So last night I run across this song by Three Six Mafia called Good Googaly Moogaly. What is that? Are you serious? Have we run out of ways to say "wow"? The hook line continues with "......that thang is juciy". I wonder if you buy the unrated version do they say "Shit.... that thang is juicy", and it's just the radio edit that dubs in good googaly moogaly. What amazing poetry we have from these guys. It doesn't get much simpler then that. Now I know that I could look back at songs like You Shook Me All Night Long, and say wow, that didn't take much to write. But come on, what's next.....

Ah shuckz, my welfare's late
how my gunna pay for this movie date

Ah shuckz, that chick is fine
now I gotta get her, and make her mine

Parents These Days 4/30

PARENTS THESE DAYS
So last night I went to see 300 at IMAX. Awesome movie. Great cinematography, well told story, and even made some people cry. I'm not a big blood and guts guy, and this movie had a lot, but the story overshadowed the gore. I did have a hard time watching some of the sex and violence with the person sitting next to me. Not my girlfriend, but the 4 year old boy sitting next to me! The family one seat over consisted of a couple in their 30's, two boys looking about four and six, and a baby! A little itty bitty baby! Not much more then six months I'm guessing. Surprisingly they didn't fuss at all and sat there without acting like kids can in a theater, probably because they were scared out of their minds. That Dad was also kind enough to point out the important parts, "Watch this, he's gonna get his head cut off!" This means that he has already seen this, and knew how bad it was! What makes a parent think that this will not affect a child for years to come, and I'm sure they will continue to show them this kind of "entertainment" for years to come. With the events in Virginia, it makes me wonder why we allow kids to be exposed to this stuff. Should it really be left up to parents to decided what is best for the kids to see? I would have said something to the guy on the way out, but he was big and scary looking.

So today on the Rise Guys show I heard them promoting the "Huge Take of the Day" with the winner getting free IMAX tickets. So I called in with my story, and they like me were shocked at the parents decision to expose their kids to this movie. So I got tickets to go see another IMAX movie of my choice. I think I'll wait until Happy Feet 2 comes out.

Virgina Tech 4/17

PINK ELEPHANT
You know, nobody even mentioned the pink elephant in the corner last night. Maybe somebody did and I missed it, maybe it was the need to get away from it for a bit. Nobody mentioned the tragedy at Virgina Tech. It was difficult for me to get away from the reports yesterday, with all my "research skills". I found it disturbing how camera phones and emails where the way the media covered the story. We had kids looking to get their minute of fame by capturing the cops reacting to nearby gunfire. You could almost feel him thinking, "I need to get closer." They communicated to students stuck in their dorm rooms by campus email. Can you imagine how scared you would be alone in a dorm room waiting for the all clear message to show up in your in box? I tried not to look, but I still found some of the first hand witness accounts hard to stay away from. To be in one of those classrooms? Trying to barricade the door before a madman gets in? That takes guts. We find out today he was a loner, with very few friends, who seemed to have a great deal of frustration with society and it's social networks. Strange, in a world of ever expanding ways to connect to people some still feel left out. I hope we all take a moment of these few days to acknowledge what is good in our lives, and be ever thankful for the friends we have.

Game 2

Despite a Game 1 loss, the Warriors should be ready tonight. This is the first time they have trailed in a series and need to continue to play loose and dictate the pace of the game. With a small lineup they learned that Utah will get offensive rebounds, they just need to limit them by having the guards go after them more aggressively. With no one major offensive force to focus on each defender has to do thier part. On the offensive side everything is still clicking, and they need to stick to Nelly's directions. If you take three jumpers in a row, then next time you have to drive. If the team takes five jump shots in a row, the next possession must be a drive. That is what makes Don Nelson so great, his "Keep it simple stupid" way of running things.