ZEBRA MADNESS

What is going on with Basketball officiating lately? The end of the Duke-Clemson game was atrocious! The referees completely missed the fact that the clock was not running while Clemson made a hoop, stole an errant Duke inbounds pass and made another a three to go up by one (I think). The clock ran but stopped at 1.6 or something like that and THEN the refs decide to give Duke 3 additional seconds. Wham! They inbound to guard who flings it down the court to David.....who? David what? Oh, that's right, David McCLURE. Anyway, McClure's dunk won the game for Duke with no time remaining and they stormed the court and had a pile-on. But really, Clemson should have ended the game right around their last shot to win it for the big upset.


The reason why I bring this up is that I just finished watching the Nuggets-Jazz game at Utah. The Nuggets were really taking it to them, Carmelo wound up with 37 and Iverson 33 or so and the referees either ignored, missed or were completely and thoroughly threatened or bought off. I was so outraged at the calls in the 4th quarter that allowed the Jazz to get back in it. That fucking Boozer was THROWING EVERYONE DOWN and the refs were calling fouls on the Nuggets. The replays are totally contradictory to the calls. The commentators were astounded, the fucking Mormons resounded and I sat confounded. The Jazz are the team we are trying to catch and to have it just undeniably stolen away from us by the fucking worst calls. That whole referee squad should be axed. NBA refs make 150,000 a year. I think I might want to be an official like Faker's dad. It is fun.

But godamn it, I hate losing on shit like that. The NBA is so weird, the officiating is WAY inconsistent, and I think that comes from Stern himself. Don Corleone is so interested in his global hype machine. It's working though, basketball is a big deal almost all over. It is huge in Europe and Asia. I have to admit, I do love the NBA though. I know that there is a lot wrong with it, but it is getting cool with the foreign influence. The Spurs are awesome to watch, when they ain't playing your team. The Suns are incredible. And the Mavericks just morph into whatever the opponent's greatest weakness is. The Mavs play slow, they play fast, they can run up the score with anyone, they can play a low scoring defensive game. They have key components at all of the positions.
The Nuggets can just go off. If we could have gotten a fair deal tonight it would've been 6 victories in a row. We went 7-8 in Melo's suspension, which is better than I thought we would be. And now the firepower is tantalizing, Melo and AI went off for 70 points tonight. No one should be able to over come that. Problem was that the bench decided to take the night off. The Nets come to town tomorrow night. I am going. I probably see 10-15 Nuggets games a year, I love it. I could walk to the stadium in 25 minutes, ride my bike there in 10. The Rockies are even closer to me, 10 minutes on foot, like 12 blocks, not even a mile. The Broncos stadium is a 40 minute walk and about 20 on bike. This is from my FRONT DOOR, gentlemen. 300+ days of sunshine a year. 13 inches of rain a year. This is my definition of quality of life. Fucking Colorado is a powerful mistress.