Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Gross Polluters

Not only are the Lakers quitters, but they aren't very environmentally friendly. Had the team actually wanted to make a game of it last night, then perhaps the plane trip to the farthest NBA destination would have been worth it. However, with the lack of enthusiasm and desperate play that was required for a game 6 win and an extension of the Finals, the Lakers showed that they were better off not wasting the petrol and destroying the environment with the wasted trip. It's kind of like keeping your Ford Explorer idle in your drive way for a couple of days.

If I was Phil Jackson, I would probably be calling up Luc Longley and Ricky Williams and planning another surf trip to Bora Bora. I would especially be asking Ricky to pack extra cush to deal with this Finals' stinker. Seriously, Phil has to look in the mirror and realize that despite all his new age thinking, his team quit on him and he was not able to motivate a team that should have made a better show of it last night.

I have always said that the NBA is worthless. It features athletes will poor educational sets and open drug addictions to tree who don't even take the league that seriously. Half of the team is watching the dancing girls' routine during the breaks in play or are on their Blackberry's making dinner reservations. Last night reinforces that for me. A team was going through the motions in a must win game and got blown the 'F out by 39. That is recreational league bad. Professionals making millions should not be getting blown out by 40 in the most important game of their lives. It's simply impossible for me to believe that the Lakers decided to play the worst game of the season, in the most important one.

And that is EXACTLY why the NBA is a non-league. That is EXACTLY why is it no where near Football and despite what some "analysts" say, is never going to be on par with baseball despite the disastrous job Bud Selig has done. Peyton Manning would never get blown out by 40 points in the AFC Championship game, he may lose to the Pats or the Chargers, but never get totally worked. Derek Jeter, despite having a down year this year, would never allow his Yankee team to get smoked by 20 runs in the close out game of a series. Again, his teams may lose, but they would never get run out of the yard the way the Lakers did last night.

In soccer, it's respectable to lose by a couple of goals. Even the 4-1 French loss in the Euro Cup 2008 to the Dutch was seen as respectable. What isn't respectable would be something like the 8-0 drubbing team USA gave Barbados last Sunday. Right now, the Lakers are more Barbados than France. That's saying a lot.

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