NBA Playoffs

Like I said before, this year's playoffs has been fantastic. Great games, great individual performances, big time plays by unheralded guys. I'm loving it. Obviously, there have been some things that have concerned me and I might just bring them up in today's glorious blog.

I was watching Game 5 of the Heat-Celtics series and it was a battle. The Heat prevailed with The Decisionmaker (Lebron, for those that couldn't figure it out) making a bunch of big plays in the last two minutes. Quite a performance for sure. I did notice a bunch of different things after this round completed.

1) The Heat celebrated like they won the NBA Championship. Just to get the facts straight, they made it to the Eastern Conference Finals as the favorite over the Celtics. The Celtics weren't 100% with having Rondo severely hurt from a couple of games before. Tough to put other guys in crunch time when they haven't done it all year. The Decisionmaker was on his knee like he was joining Tim Tebow in prayer after scoring a touchdown. It wasn't just one of those "Thank God" kneels either, it was one of those where I think he prayed to Buddha, Confucius, Allah, and Blake Lively (a top of the line goddess). They are supposed to win that series. Good thing Chris Bosh didn't get caught up in the moment like he did in the Heat's only loss of the series.

2) Did anyone else notice all of the Celtics except Ray Allen and Delonte West just straight bounce to the locker room after the game? In a society where everyone talks about sportsmanship all the time and none of their guys got ridiculed at all. Lebron did the same thing last year or the year before and he got killed for it. A little double standard on that...

3) Could ABC show Rondo's injury another 754 times. Yeah, it was gross and the elbow shouldn't bend that way, but come on, I don't need to see it from 7 different angles.

4) How in the world is Kevin Garnett still on the NBA All Defensive Team? He was a very good defender but that certainly isn't the case anymore. I know he's a veteran and it's culmination of his career but Tyson Chandler should be bumped up from the 2nd team. He transformed the Mavs into a title contender with his toughness. KG looked like nothing but an old dude all year. Enough that he had to resort to THIS. Too many miles on those legs for him to be dominant defender.

In other news, I'm heading out on Saturday to Green Bay, WI for my second marathon to be run on Sunday. Looking forward to beating the crap out of my legs for 26.2 miles in hopefully a little less than four hours. It starts and finishes in the parking lot of Lambeau Field. I was hoping to make the Lambeau Leap after I finish but I think that's highly unlikely. I just might have to wear my Lions hat to make the Cheeseheads mad.