Friday 3 June 2011

Mavericks win, still picking my jaw off floor

High percentage
Some tidbits:

I spent most of last night "defollowing" folks on Twitter. Mostly because I'm sick of the Dallas-Fort Worth media going on the network and bitching again and again about shit that has no relevance whatsoever.

This includes ESPN's Tim McMahon, Fort Worth Star-Telegram's Jenn Floyd-Engel and ESPN Radio's Ben Rogers.

McMahon literally tweets as if his press credentials were on the line.

Rogers has spent the last three weeks pointing out when an opponent gets a call from a referee, but ignoring when the Mavericks are getting calls. I guess he thinks foul calls should be even whether you're shooting the ball from within 23 feet or not. Win or lose, it's not about the officials and all about execution. Only a shortsighted dufus would think otherwise.

JFE is a different story. I like and respect her. She's a quality journalist and I enjoy going the the Star-Telegram and reading her columns. However, she's either unhealthily obsessed with Lebron James or she's doing a bit.

For the last week, she tweets constantly about how much she hates Lebron James. It's so vehement that's it's kinda weird. A little too much. She doesn't bash anyone else. Just Lebron. This coming from the same woman that tweeted during the Portland series about how she's an unbias journalist and watched games as such.

It's unhealthy JFE. Get the fuck over it.

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I read other tweets bashing Miami's fans, security guards, the ABC announcers, the ABC cameramen, the public address announcer. Let's rise above folks.

I even heard Dallas Mavericks play-by-play announcer Mark Followill claim that the Miami security guards were celebrating too much to do their jobs. Ironic considering Followill creams his jeans any time the Mavericks hit a shot during his telecasts. But, apparently, he's an asshole douche so who cares?

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Most are making too much of the Heat "celebrating" in front of the Mavericks' bench. Boo-fucking-hoo. If it took that to get you fired up during THE NBA FINALS, then you need a lobotomy. That "celebration" was no worse than what I've seen 1,000 times this season.

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The win is hiding the fact that Jason Terry had an awful game and had a monumental brain fart on Mario Chalmers' three pointer to tie it at the end of the game. Jason Kidd was awful. Brendan Haywood's hurt. And NO ONE's talking about the two dozen open-lane dunks given to the Heat.