Hawks Are In!

The 2007-2008 Atlanta Hawks are in the playoffs! You can read my thoughts on this at The Starting Five.

Hawks in 6! Yep, I said it!

Hawks Lose.

I am so disappointed in the Hawks for that half assed effort they came out with tonight. In fairness to them, Indiana was on fire for most of the game, but still.
If they had won tonight they would have eliminated Indiana and all but wrapped up a playoff spot, but noooooooooo they didn't do that! The only persons who came to play tonight were the Josh's and Joe and unfortunately that was not enough to get it done.
Now, if we finish with the same record as Indiana they own the tiebreaker. I fully expect us to get in and if we don't there will not be enough room for the profanity laced tirade that I will most certainly go on.

Yankees lost to the Royals, and Posada has "dead arm" to go with Jeter's dead leg. I really hope this last season in Yankees stadium is not disastrous.

Kobe For MVP, Never

I was going to write a long post about how Kobe won't win the MVP because the voters hate him, but Scoop Jackson already took care of it. There's really nothing else I can add to it.

Oh yeah, for the record I'm picking Stanford to upset Tennessee in the women's championship game tonight. Take that Rico!

Update: I was wrong about the Stanford upset.....

Kansas Wins! Poor Memphis.

Wow, the poor free throw shooting really did come back to haunt Memphis. CDR owned up to it in the press conference and took it like a man. When asked about the free throws he said, "I missed em". He kinda had that gotta to laugh to keep from crying moment going on and he and Derrick Rose shared a little smirk. Good times! That was one of the best title games ever! There were a couple of those shots that someone makes and you think to yourself there's no way they're losing. I first thought that about the Derrick Rose bank shot that they reviewed 800 different times before finally ruling it was a 2. Then I had the thought once again when Chalmers hit that 3 to send the game into over time. Obviously.

I placed in the top 10 in the Slamonline Bracket. I'm fine with moral victories!

Random Stuff

Hawks won.
Yankees lost, ugh.
Memphis beat UCLA handily.
Kansas beat the hell out of UNC.

I'm actually quite pleased that the Final Four games were both blowouts. Everyone was so convinced that both of the games were going to be great since they featured all #1 seeds. I knew something like this would happen because everyone's expectations were just way too high. I'm pulling for Memphis even though I picked Kansas in my bracket.
I don't know what the poor media is going to do with themselves now that Kevin Love and Tyler Hansbrough are both gone.

Yanks suck right now.

Yankees lost 13-4 to the Rays. Really Ian Kennedy?

Hawks lost to the 76ers tonight. I still heart Mike Bibby after the atrocious night he had. Although atrocious doesn't accurately describe the shooting night he had. It was worse than that. We'll get em tomorrow hopefully!

I Heart Bibby!!!!!!

I totally heart Mike Bibby the Atlanta Hawk. I wrote this in Score the week we made the trade. I'll highlight the important parts.

"The Atlanta Hawks starting lineup will now consist of: Josh Smith, Joe Johnson, Al Horford, Marvin Williams, and Mike Bibby. Our beloved Hawks just made a trade for a legit veteran point guard. I’m not saying that AJ, Lue and Craig (I refuse to call him Speedy, you should know why) aren’t legit, but they fall more into the veteran category than the legit category. The Hawks just got better on paper and in real life. There will no longer be a debate about which point guard should be in the game during those crucial fourth quarter moments. While Bibby is not quite the player he used to be, he’s still an upgrade over every point guard the Hawks have had recently. We should finally get to see that running team, we’ve heard so much about. The notion of them being a running team is more of an urban legend like the Loch Ness Monster, than a realistic assessment of the team’s offense. Considering Bibby has played in an up-tempo offense for most of his career, he’s quite capable of showing this team how to do so effectively. The Hawks are barely out of the playoff picture, but with the addition of Bibby they should be able to secure a spot".

Bibby came up BIG in one of those crucial fourth quarter moments I was talking about tonight against the Dinosaurs b.k.a the Toronto Raptors. He hit a 3 to send the game into OT (that shot and our time-keepers happy fingers) and from there it was the Josh Smith show. He hit 2 big 3 pointers himself. When he was winding up to take the first one, naturally I cringed, but he hit it. Then as he was fading away taking the second one, it seemed so natural, almost Kobe-esque.

I feel so much better about this team in late game situations now that they have a point guard who won't panic and who is accustomed to taking big shots. I really do heart Mike Bibby!

The Dinosaurs are protesting this win, and they'll likely win said protest, but tonight we still have the win and I'll take it!

With the win tonight the Hawks took a four game lead over the Pacers for the 8th playoff spot. When I find out who they play in the first round, I will go into great detail about how and why the Hawks will win. I wouldn't care if they were playing the 96 Bulls. I'm still going to tell you they will win. Stay Tuned.

By the way, the Yankees lost. Sigh.