Posts Tagged ‘Joakim Noah’

Bulls vs Heat – Making History

After so much drama in these playoffs – stunning upsets, unpredictable sweeps, young teams rising, old teams falling – it’s nice to know that some things are going according to plan. The #1 seed Bulls will play the #2 seed Heat in the Eastern Conference Finals. The best two teams in the East will battle [...]

Day 18 – Puerto Rican Guy! Puerto Rican Guy!

It was almost a year ago today when Puerto Rican Guy was voted off the NBA Wall Of Fame to make way for NBA Doubting Thomas Of The Year champ Danilo “The Cock” Gallinari.
Today, he clearly showed just how much the slight still hurt by contributing a major role off the bench in the Mavericks’ [...]

10 Things We Learned In November

It’s that time of the month folks, when I chime in with 10 observations from the previous month’s NBA action (in no particular order). Let’s get into it.
1. No Haslem, No Title?
LeBron’s been too passive, Wade looks lost and Bosh has no presence on the inside. All this can and will be rectified, but what [...]

Sunday Six Pack: Bad Shot Kobe, Dancing Lebron and the Evolution of Big Ben

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ONE: Ok so maybe I was a bit premature with the ‘Bogut for All-Star’ campaign. Or maybe that post put the mozz on him. Either way, the Bogey man has had a couple of sub-par games since that awesome effort against the Bulls earlier in the week. Against Washington [...]

Bulls-Celtics – The Greatest Story on Earth

Forget amazing, tonight Impossible Happened. The series with four overtimes through its first five games has ended up with seven overtimes through its first six. If those numbers don’t make sense, they’re not supposed to. You’re not supposed to have more overtimes than games. Tonight basketball fans were left speechless, incapable of describing a game [...]

Delusional

Delusional:
de-lu-sion-al (di-loo-zhuhn-al)
adjective
1. suffering from or characterized by delusions
2. refer to post game comments by Joakim Noah on Sunday 9th March 2008.
“With our style of play, there’s no reason we shouldn’t have beaten that team…I think Detroit’s a great team, but I still think we are better than them, really. I feel like we’re a better [...]

Draft Day Drama

The 2007 NBA Draft started predictably, and then went a little crazy. The two big guns, Oden and Durant went #1 and #2 as expected, but the rest didn’t exactly go according to plan. What happened to the big draft-day trades for KG and Amare? How did Yi Jianlian, the supposed under-done softy small-forward go [...]