How to stop the Slovenian Superstar? t=That is the question. Whether tis noblier to have Klay guard him or Andrew Wiggings or suffer the heartgache of Draymond getting into foul trouble early. Must give the Warriors pause. To stop Luka is devoutly to be wished, but why not stop the secondary shooters? And not dream of stopping Doncic and suffer the heartache and the thousand natural shocks that his jumper from all angles will inflict?
This is my answer to the question about how to stop the Slovenian Star. Make of it as you wish.
And without the Shakespeare, the Dubs better stop the errant passes, turnovers, "throwing the ball around like a canine owner playing fetch with his dog." Compliments to whoever wrote this on Facebook this morning.
Ime Udoka called out his two veteran stars, Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown for letting the team down in the second half of their first game of the Eastern Conference series against the Miami Heat. Some might say it was unwise, considering the Celts had a perfect excuse for their second half woes, the absense of their toughest defender, Marcus Smart and arguabley the second best paint defender in Al Horford, the Dominican star who my wife insists is French because of his long eyelashes. But no. Coach Udoka did not fall into the excuse trap. He learned well under the tutelege of Pop in San Antonio. If your vets are never called out, the rest of the team will seee it as favoritism, not somethng you want when dealing with a bunch of professionals, all no matter bench players or not, with big egos. You set standards or you don't. If you don't, you will perish as a coach in the NBA. Go, Coach Udoka!
I'll not pretend to know at this point who the winner of the Western Conferece will be. If the Warriors can stop their turnovers and limit their opponents to difficult shots with no seond chance shots, the Dubs will be victorious. On offense, they have too many weapons for the Mavs, who relie almost entirely on Luka. If Luka is smart and become a true point guard and shares the basketball with his teammates, and said teamated make a high % of heir shots, the Mavs will win.
As for the East, I have to admit that Butler, Athogh I don't like him, a reason I made clear in a previous blog, is a bona fide Super Star. I do believe that the Celts will win if they get Smart and Horford back. Miami will win the next game in Miami. The Celts win both games in Boston, and the next two for the Conferenc championship.
Which leads me to my next question, which is one of my favorite NBA pet peeves. Why on earth are MVP and other league awards awared before the end of the Playoff???? Is that enough qustion marks? Dumb and dumber! Monty Willims did a hell of a job during the season, but I offer Steve Kerr and Ime Udoka and Miami Heat Coach Spoelstra as better complete ecamples of the total season. MVP, sure the Joker deserved it, but what is the 76ers had won the East and Joel Embiid kept up his maginificent league performance? What about Jayson Tatum? Butler? Best defender. Okay, probably got it right with Marcus Smart, but what if he flopped during the playoffs. Does he still deserve the award if he can produce defens in crunch time? Most imporved? How about Jordan Poole? Maybe not, but why not wait until the most important part of the seaon is over, wait until we see who produces at the highest level during CRUNCH TIME? Awards before the playoff are STUPID. And the NBA should not want to look STUPID.
An etc pet peeve. Please comment if this bothers you as much as it does me. When watching golf on TV, why do commercials get the bigger of the split screen? Is it all about greed? I hold my hand up and shiled the ads in order to see the teeeeny figure of Jordan Spieth hit one hell of a drive that I can baredly see if it was a wide screen and damn near impossible on the little teeeny weeny screen that the PGA offers me. I want to see the putt, I don't want to be distracted my a beer commercial or a ROLEX ad. Who gives a sh-t?
Let's keep sending weaposn to the Ukrainians. The underdogs are making life miserable for Putin's army. Putin is not doing well in his version of the playoffs. No MVP for him. And when will our governent stop dragging its feet and shut down every single money-grubbing Russian oligarth from their money??????
Brtttany Griner, hang in there. We love you.
It's baseball season. Here's an old standard for an old standard.
HITS AND RUNS By Carl Sandburg
I remember the Chillicothe ball players grappling the Rock
Island ball players in the sixteen-inning game ended by
darkness.
And the shoulders of the Chillcothe players were in red smoke
against the sundown and the shoulders of the Rock
Island players were a yellow smoke against the sun-
down.
And the umpire's voice was hoarse calling balls and strikes
And outs, and the umpire's throat fought in the
the dust for a song.
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