Detroit won last night. Amazing. I missed all of the third quarter, but it doesn't matter. I tuned in with 9 minutes left in the 4th and the Pistons were up by 25. Just great. No more Lakers dynasty talk. It's over for them. Either Shaq's gone, Kobe's gone, or they're both gone. It's done. Makes me feel better, because that means the number of elite teams in the West will be fewer.
NO, the Eastern Conference is still a JV league, as Stephen A. Smith says. As much as people say "Don't underestimate the East" it was more about one team who was better than all the others by far. Everyone thought the Conference Finals would come down to Indiana and Detroit. That was even before they got Sheed. Sheed put them over the top, I mean, a power forward who's been in the West and knows what it's like. You can take any bench player in the West, move them to the East, and they start there. Even Shawn Bradley could help an Eastern team be a contender. Example: Lamar Odom moved from the Clip to the Heat. Clip sucked that year. This year, Miami was the 4 seed. But it doesn't work in the reverse.
If you move Jermaine O'Neal to the West, he won't average 20 and 10. He'll probably be in the range of 16 and 8. Not a huge dropoff, but it's noticeable.
Not going to Dallas this weekend. Parents coming down next weekend. Eh, I'll just have to get a haircut here.
I've got nothing else for now.
It's really odd. As soon as I stop appearing on AIM, my phone gets crazy. It's good though, considering I have over 3000 rollover minutes stored up.
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Phil's gone, so that means Kobe will stay --- even though he filed for Free Agency. Shaq may get traded to make room for Kobe's to-be hu-freakin-normous contract. Kobe's not as good as he thinks he is, but for his sake, he better be as good as Jerry Buss thinks he is. Or, he won't be remembered for three rings, but rather for not getting any after Shaq departs. I'm tried of talking about it anyhow.
I think you are wrong about Jermaine, he would hang in the West (one of the few). Look at the huge games he had against the West --- he was the reason for their season. Artest got shown up by Rip in the conference finals --- who else for The Pace did anything?
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