Had a absolute blast with my friends in Milwaukee this weekend. Ate loads of good food: steaks from the 5 O'Clock Supper Club (best steakhouse in Milwaukee), Oakland Gyros, Omega, Sali's (REAL butter burgers, not that Culvers junk), etc. The best part as always was the conversations with the gang. Here are the best lines from the weekend:
"Duke can't shoot in high def!" my quote as our coverage kept going in and out of HD and every time we were in HD, the Dukkies would miss a shot in the final 3 minutes. Poor Duke. Best. game. ever.
"This is Steve, can you bring over a pound of bacon."
"How are we supposed to have a conversation about midgets with you gaying it up over there?"
"You know why the Badgers won? Jack and Coke!" We started drinking these at halftime of the Badgers/Texas A&M CC game. Badgers scored 57 in the second half and won. I rest my case.
The Badgers got outsted by UNLV on Sunday in a game they were doomed to lose early on. Once again they had a slow start and at this level, you cannot do that and continue on. Kudos to UNLV for their good play and clutch 3 pt shooting. Disappointed in the Badgers performance, but completely forseeable even with the CC game. Boy the Badgers missed Butch. With him out, Chappell had to play more minutes and he is painful to watch on the offensive end. The Badgers play 4 on 5 on offense when he is on the floor. With Butch, he's a threat to score both inside and outside. We desperately needed him yesterday, but Ryan would not take a chance on injuring Butch's elbow any further.
I hope you now all join with me in rooting against FL and OSU. OSU was handed the game by the officials. Not calling an intentional foul on Oden at the 12 second mark when he flat out shoved the player about 6 feet out of bounds was ridiculous. He made no attempt at the ball and simply became a thug, and was rewarded for it. I just have a thing against rent-a-player championships. That's what Oden is for OSU. As for FL, I just don't like Noah. Plus, I don't want them to repeat as that will just make the SEC losers just that much more annoying with their bragging.
5 comments:
You're right about the foul. That was the only call they missed all game.
Dude, Oden was getting mugged all game long, and he was called for "ticky-tack" fouls. If anything, that foul was conspicuous by the contrast to the other four fouls they called on him. The kid said that he might as well make the foul count, since they were going to whistle in any case.
I disagree that that was the only call they missed. And they called some phantom fouls, anticipating the contact when it wasn't really there. But that's the nature of the game.
Hey Cheesehead, take it easy on Culvers! They provide the decent hamburger up here in the Forks! I echo your comments on Florida. For reasons I can not explain, I really don't like Noah, in addition to the fact that I despise Billy Donovan. How about Kansas? Would that be okay?
Curt in Grand Forks
Inquiring - While I do agree on the fouls throughout the game, no excuse to ignore a flagarant shove. He made no play on the ball, that's a flagarant foul by definition.
It wasn't the only call the officials missed, not implying that. Just a gamechanger. I think Oden got some superstar treatment.
Yes, my judgement may be clouded in that I don't really care for OSU much. They essentially have professional teams and their school has a pathetic student-athlete graduation record for basketball and football.
Curt - Kansas is just fine to root for as is NC. My underdog hopeful: Washington State. How can you not root for a coach named Tony Bennett?
Student-Athlete. Sadly, the student part of that has'nt mattered for a long time now.
This is a Country that hates the Duke basketball program far more than it hates the Miami football program.
It does'nt seem to matter to a lot of people, including many in the media, that some of these guys don't know how to read, they just want to be entertained.
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