The Cavs and the Bulls, It Never Gets Old

Have you ever noticed that every time the Cleveland Cavaliers and Chicago Bulls play, it’s always nationally televised. I know I’m wrong — so don’t tell me — but the past few Sundays it seems they’ve been on TV constantly. Tonight they were on ESPN2 with their showcase in Chicago. An important game nonetheless, especially for the Cavs to gain some yard on the Wizards. The Cavs had a two game lead on them for the fourth seed, but ultimately lost the game. Three games to go for Cleveland. Not sure how many for Washington, but if you ask me I’d have to say that the Wiz kids have the upper hand here, due to the fact that Cleveland is horrid on the road, and now the Wizards have Arenas back and are fresh and hot off their exhilarating win over Boston. The Cavs may be the better team compared to the Wizards, but the Wiz may have the better seed, depending, of course, if they can win a few more and the Cavs lose a few more.

Obviously a short post tonight, but I’m trying to live up to my goal to post every day if I can, but definitely post every other day (as a must). I understand that to retain readers you must keep posting and have your blog be active. This blog’s pretty damn active right now. My Brett Favre post received over 500+ views in one day, mostly from the good folks (or bad?) at ESPN.com. They decided to leave me some happy [sarcasm alert] comments on my bash-filled post on Favre and call me names profusely. Sweet.

So here’s a couple of thoughts (on LeBron James and Joakim Noah):

I like a point that Hubie Brown made tonight about the pressure that LeBron James is under. With the lights shining bright on him, he never ceases to perform. Night in, night out he comes out and plays with fierce and competitiveness, a lot of which you don’t see in the NBA barring a few players. Ticket holders get Cavs tickets for one reason: to see LeBron in action. And LeBron never fails to deliver the action they were hoping for. In example, tonight the kid scored 28 points in the first half (24 in the first quarter). Pretty darn impressive for the kid who’s in his fifth season.

I’ve never liked Joakim Noah and I probably never will, but I noticed something tonight, a positive: the guy has incredible passion for the game. I should have noticed this when he was a Gator. Looking back on his gleeful points after games, I couldn’t stop but marvel at the fact that he acted like a six-year-old on Christmas after every game. But tonight, when the Bulls welcomed the Cavs to Chicago, I just couldn’t help but notice the passion that’s instilled in his game. Maybe he’s ghetto and thug (pretending to be because he can), but he’s a thug/ghetto dude with passion, and in some senses I can respect that.

~ by The Inquisitor on April 11, 2008.