Another reason not to take analysts seriously. Thank you, Mr. Caliendo.
As promised, I will be mentioning Eastern Conference players in the post...
Today was a great indication that the majority of the playoff series this year will be dominated, if not determined, by the play of point guards. In today's nail-biter between Boston and Chicago, we saw what I would call a lack of leadership from Rajon Rondo. Boston may be an elite team - but a lot of that hinges on the performance and play of Kevin Garnett. Take KG out of the equation and Beantown is no longer invincible. What surprised me most was the fact that Chicago was able to pull off an OT victory - in Boston. In last year's playoffs, the Garden was the most difficult place to play. With a bunch of green people in the stands waving and screaming, it was a very daunting atmosphere. But despite all the adversity, Chicago, a 7th seeded team, came in hungry and played through the entire game. Usually, the Bulls only play like bulls for a 30 minute stretch and struggle to keep pace with the opponent for a full 48 minutes. But today was an exception - not only did the Bulls play for 53 minutes, but the young guns won a playoff game on the road. Today's game proved a few things:
- All bets are off when the playoffs come around.
- Rajon Rondo will never become an elite point guard in this league until he shows more leadership.
- Derrick Rose is without a doubt Rookie of the Year and look out Lebron James, because this young man will become a very special player with a few more years of experience.
Dope Jam of the Day
Happy Up Here (Boys Noize Remix) - Royksopp - This song is largely undescribable. I guess the thing that seperates this track from all the other electronic songs out there is that the vocals are sung well. Instead of hiring some woman trace vocalist to speak in a dellusional, conversational tone, the vocalist, along with techonology, sings with just enough variety and clarity. The beginning of the song opens up with a relatively friendly intro and starts getting doper and doper (if that's the right terminology) with the addition of sick bass hits. To compliment the bass, the sounds of claps are used. Then everything stalls and the vocals come on. "You know you make my heart beat." Conclusion: This is one of the dopest pure electro songs I've heard in a longtime and besides the fact that it sounds cool and could be used in a Sci-Fi movie, it makes you feel like a drunk astronaut flirting with someone at NASA. Drunk Astronaut. That would make for an interesting song.
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