greasy taint

I am currently watching the 8th place Warriors wipe the floor with the 1st place Mavericks in Game 6 (I called it before the series) on their way to the second round of the NBA playoffs.

There’s 2:58 left in the 4th quarter, and the Warriors are up 104-80. I’m super super super happy! I haven’t been this excited since the Kings of a few years ago. Those were the kings that pushed the Jazz and Lakers to the limit in the playoffs quite a few times. Those Kings existed to irritate and confuse and worry Shaq, Kobe and Karl Malone. They served us well.

The difference between those Kings and these Warriors? This Warrior team can play some defense. They scramble, they disrupt, they smother, and are fuckin fast. This Warrior team has gone from a couple of big time scorers and a few hopefuls, a couple of years ago, to a relatively solid, and exciting with an amazing coach (Don Nelson) this year. Thank you Chris Mullin for bringing back Nelly.

The game has just ended, 111-86. Mmmmm…. can you smellllllllllll, what the NELSON is cookin!

Also I wasn’t too fond of the Pacer trade at first since they got rid of Troy Murphy, who I love to watch play. But I guess it’s good I’m not callin the shots. Cause it turned out to be a fantastic move. Stephen Jackson is a fuckin pimp. Ugly, but a fuckin pimp.

And speaking of ugly, Baron Davis has been fantastic. I had no idea he was so good. He is clutch. He plays fearlessly. And he carried this team on his ugly beard.

Also Jason Richardson did quite well during the series, especially his posterizing moments. If he couldn’t fly like a maniac, he would be no fun. And I think my new favorite scraper-ish player is Matt Barnes. I love to watch players who throw their body into the game. And I am growing quite fond of his left handed, out of no-where dunks in traffic.

The first thing that came to my mind as the Warriors crossed the 100 point mark on Jason Richardson’s 3 pointer was free food or drink. Why? Cause every Warrior game I’ve been to where the Warriors break 100 points, the fans have received coupons for free food or drinks. A lot of the Warriors games, thats the best thing you could hope for. Cause they used to suck. A lot.

No more. Not sure what’s gonna happen in round 2 against either #4 Utah or #5 Rockets, but even if they get swept, I think it’s been a great season. For the first time in a long time the Warriors are more than just hype. And for the first time in a long time, good players might actually want to stay on the Warriors rather than get traded to a contender.

They just destroyed the best team in the NBA. Congratulations to the Warriors. Just go easy on post game celebrations. Can’t wait for round 2. I would gladly fly up to watch a warriors game in person, but I’ll be out of town all of next week. So I’ll just watch them during the Western Conference Finals.

Today has been a strange day. Not at all like what I had planned. Just one of those “not feeling like myself” days, I guess. Or was it a “feeling too much like myself” kind of day? I’m not really sure.

Here are a few highlights :

• Being more excited about NBA basketball than I have in quite a while; Looking forward to the Warriors/Mavericks Playoff game tomorrow (Warriors will prevail)
• Remembering how much I like chinese food (beef chow fun in particular) and excitedly ordering some



• Being horribly disappointed by the bad chinese food (especially the beef chow fun)
• Wondering why an image search for beef chow fun returned the following as one of the results :



• Experiencing a wonderfully painful headache ; Can’t remember one this bad in a while
• Taking an unbelievably un-satisfying nap at 5pm in the afternoon
• Enjoying 3/4 of a bar of Dove Dark Chocolate
• Watching Stranger Than Fiction, and loving it



• Realizing that I need to start stalking Maggie Gyllenhaal, cause I like her



• Having a renewed interest in learning how to play my guitar, and in wearing watches ; Both of these things are because of Harold Crick
• Wondering if I’m actually happy and if I should be doing something different with my life ; also brought on by Harold Crick
• Going out for a fantastically refreshing 2 hour jog/walk at 1am on Sunday morning
• Having the absurd urge to use absolutely unnecessarily delicious adjectives