so, i like basketball. i mean, i like it enough to watch it occasionally. there are teams i follow, and i would actually say i've been a bulls fan most of my life. (yes, i started like basketball and the bulls after they got jordan, but what kid my age didn't? so shut up.) anyway, i haven't watched much basketball this post season, especially after derrick rose went down at the beginning of the playoffs due to injury. i was glad the bulls played scrappy and hung around in their series even though i figured they couldn't win without rose (& later noah).
but this week, as the nba moved into the conference championships, and it finally got interesting. the spurs went up 2-0 only to have the thunder figure them out. the celtics looked verrrrrrrrrry tired and went down 0-2 to the heat, and have since stormed back. i've actually watched the fourth quarters of each game five because the games were actually interesting, close, and mattered.
so, last night i was watching the celtics put it on the heat in quarter 4, and as they finished the game i was treated to this awesomeness:
"good job! good effort!"
how awesome is that kid yelling! it cracked me up last night, and it was no surprise to me that today it had taken off as an internet meme. it's on the sports radio (i've heard it about a dozen times on this morning's jim rome), i'm sure espn is talking about it, and sports websites are running with it. in these internet days, who knows how long "good job! good effort!" will last, but i love it.
btw, i continue to say kudos to the nba. unlike most leagues, they love it for you to upload clips to youtube. most sports leagues quickly take down clips you put up and claim the content. that stops the spread of the product. stupid. the nba realizes that people putting it out there is good, it's free advert for them, and the product grows.
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Wednesday, June 06, 2012
Sunday, April 29, 2007
liberation & basketball
two unrelated topics
first, i wanted to present an interesting piece from hometown baghdad. it's called liberation. i felt that it was a good reflection on the situation, especially presenting a few, brief ideas about the history of the situation while still presenting the question of, "where is the liberation?"
second, it was somewhat surreal, sitting @ home, surfing the 'net, watching basketball, and then watching that video (among a few others i hadn't watched yet on their site). i had already planned a post about basketball, and decided to make it a brief double post. so, here's my basketball take: congrats to my favorite team, the bulls, for sweeping last year's champ. the bulls lost last year to the heat in round one in a hard fought, 6 game series. one year later, we're ending their season in 4. awesome. nicely done gents. nicely done. something that inspired me very early on to post about this game is how lame pro sports can be, especially trying to motivate fans. american fans are relatively uninspired, show up late, and only cheer when told to. this always bothers me. anyway, something that i noticed was that miami's fans were all in white. i'm sure they bill this as some sort of, "you're wearing the same color as the home team." also, miami's other color is red (the bulls away color) so you don't want your fans all decked out in red. but, here's what i also think is motivation for having your fans wear white. the seats are white. so, for the first five minutes of the game, i played an enjoyable mental game of differentiating between the people dressed in white and the empty seats. and you know what, the seats were winning for a good while.
first, i wanted to present an interesting piece from hometown baghdad. it's called liberation. i felt that it was a good reflection on the situation, especially presenting a few, brief ideas about the history of the situation while still presenting the question of, "where is the liberation?"
second, it was somewhat surreal, sitting @ home, surfing the 'net, watching basketball, and then watching that video (among a few others i hadn't watched yet on their site). i had already planned a post about basketball, and decided to make it a brief double post. so, here's my basketball take: congrats to my favorite team, the bulls, for sweeping last year's champ. the bulls lost last year to the heat in round one in a hard fought, 6 game series. one year later, we're ending their season in 4. awesome. nicely done gents. nicely done. something that inspired me very early on to post about this game is how lame pro sports can be, especially trying to motivate fans. american fans are relatively uninspired, show up late, and only cheer when told to. this always bothers me. anyway, something that i noticed was that miami's fans were all in white. i'm sure they bill this as some sort of, "you're wearing the same color as the home team." also, miami's other color is red (the bulls away color) so you don't want your fans all decked out in red. but, here's what i also think is motivation for having your fans wear white. the seats are white. so, for the first five minutes of the game, i played an enjoyable mental game of differentiating between the people dressed in white and the empty seats. and you know what, the seats were winning for a good while.
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