I Should Have Just Given My Money To Tsunami Relief
Aaaaaaaand just like that, two of my Final Four picks have fallen by the wayside. Time to put the bracket away and not look at it EVER AGAIN. Sheesh. That's what I get for picking against the ACC. Thanks Gonzaga. Eff you Syracuse. I'm still trying to figure out what happened to the Cuse. Hakim Warrick had 10 turnovers last night. Gerry Macnamara shot something like 2 for 142 from the field. Gonzaga just blew it. They had a 13 point lead in the first half but in the second half everyone just stood around and watched Adam Morrison do his thing. They just quit hustling. I wanted to ring the neck of their stupid point guard, the one who would come down and just fire up a three pointer every few possessions. I learned my lesson today, stay away from the Zags when they are the higher seed. They pulled the same crap last year.
As much as I love March, it's all I can do to listen to Billy Packer prattle on and on like he is a better coach than either of the guys who's game he is announcing. Oh for the days of Al McGuire, who would just coach the game from the booth but was imminently more listenable. I was ready to let Mr. Pink scratch my ears off if I had to hear Packer tell Coach K what strategy he should use on D one more time in the first half last night. Hey Billy, remind me again who just tied Dean Smith's all time record for NCAA Tourney wins? Was it you? Delaware State was picking up fouls on every defensive possesion and Packer was acting like they were in control of the game. Yes, Delaware State was playing a scrappy game and giving Duke problems, but JJ Redick and Daniel Ewing both only took a few shots in the first half. There was no way they were going to continue to play like that. And they didn't.
Side Note: I am probably the only person on the planet that gets a kick out of seeing that Greg Koubek basketball camp commercial by Amex. Koubek has long been a favorite Dookie in the leafblower household. He was the original Shavlik Randolph. Came to Durham highly recruited with a rep of a lights out shooter (a la JJ Redick) and left as a senior as a bit player that did all the little things for teammates by the name of Hurley, Hill (x2) and Laettner. It was his D on Larry Johnson that went a long way in helping the then upstart Blue Devils knock off heavily favored UNLV and their merry band of 37 year olds in the 1991 Final Four. Lee Melchioni reminds me of him alot.
One good thing to come from all of this...Duke's road to Saint Louis just got alot easier. But God help me if they make it to the final and lose to UNC. Wake I can take, just not UNC. That would be the first sign of the apocalypse.
Go Devils!
PS - Let's not talk about one of my "upset specials" from yesterday scoring just 11 points in the first half or both of them losing. OK? I'm crawling back under my rock now.
WHOOT! only lost 1 on my Final Four teams. stupid motherf*#$*&^#$ Wake Forest. ah well...it was all made better by UConn losing, for me.
btw, in response to a comment you made earlier about Carolina and Duke playing each other in the Final Four.... I noticed you brought up the year 1991. like I said when they were talking about how 1991 was the last time a team went into the NCAA tournament undefeated... yeah, well, whatever, the team that won it all that year....Duke.
I'm just sayin'... ;)
Don't fool yourself, Bill Packard is an ass and he loves Duke, as does his employer CBS -- if he doesn't have Ewing nuts on his chin by the end of the Duke Spartans game, I'll be very surprised. He'll kill himself trying to give ski-pole hojos to Coach K and the artist formerly known as Izzo and contradict himself about 900 times a minute
I feel your pain fellow Cuse-Zags picker!
Had them in the Final 4 as well...just glad I didn't jump on that Wake bandwagon.