Thursday...

NBA
Yeah, the playoffs have been very entertaining thus far:

• Yeah, I picked the Heat... usually, I ride the champ until they lose. And in this case, I was VERY wrong. Chicago really had the antidote for Shaq and Flash. Something tells me that we're going to see some wholesale changes down in Miami.
• Toronto has a shot. But they're going to have to get it done in NJ on Friday night or it's curtains for the Raptors.
• I think we saw the sweeps coming (to a certain extent) for both Detroit and Cleveland.
• Utah is going to have break through on the road, but if they continue to hold serve at home it's going 7.
• Golden State better not blow this... hahahahaha

On to your points:

1. Dirk: his problems are more mental than anything. But yes: he's getting exposed right now. I still think that when you're a 7 footer, you should be posting up. Especially when you're as versatile and athletic as Dirk is, you know? He should be using the post-up game to free everyone else up. And then he can float and start burying jumpers. Just my opinion.
2. He was never 'bad', but yes: he's looking scary good right now.
3. Matt Barnes' neck tat scares me. The faux-mohawk scares me. The funny thing is that homeboy was really clean cut when he played at UCLA. What happened? (Stephen Jackson happened...)

NFL Draft
I'm not too high on JaMarcus either, but:

• They HAD to get this kid. He's bigger than Quinn, can get out of the pocket, has a cannon for an arm... it's tough to say that that they should have taken someone else when they have a ton of holes to fill already. QB is a hole they had to fill, and they took one of the two best QBs available. Can't be mad at that.
• They couldn't take Calvin because they wouldn't have had anyone to THROW to Calvin.

Personally, I think Quinn dropping had less to do with him, and more to do with what teams thought they needed. I think Minnesota and Miami made a mistake though: they should have drafted him when he was staring them in the face. Kudos to Cleveland for getting a lineman (which any team needs) and then rolling the dice to get back into the 1st round to get the QB they wanted all along. Shrewd thinking. Cause had they taken Quinn originally, they weren't drafting the guy they wanted on the line as well.

Lastly, if the Pats weren't the favorites last week, I would have wondered what rock you were living under. This week? If they win less that 13 games in the regular season, something has gone horribly wrong.

Commercials/Randoms

• Jessica Alba is an attractive young lady who should be commended for her acting talents. :)
• That Wade/Chuckster/'sexxxy' commercial is hilarious too.
• That Subway 'thunder thighs and a badonkadonk butt' is off the hook too.
• Hip Hip, Jorge! Hip Hip, Jorge! (yes, I do like the Posada/Papi one as well) The best one to me is Ladainian sorting through mail... or maybe even Big Ben rescuing people out of the buidling when it's only a fire drill lol

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