as this post moves in... up the river without a paddle...

i know, the "THIS SPACE RESERVED: game 5 commentary coming soon..." post has been up for more than a day... it's not my fault, i swear... vice city's up on my computer all day when michael stays home =/

moving on, now... pistons have a chance to win the east at home =] everybody loves hamilton =] and tayshaun prince... lanky as hell, but so long and fast...

... yeah, yeah, make your jokes...

and hunter... i'm glad he got traded to the pistons. he'd get no time as a laker... he still doesn't get enough time as a piston, but... he's hit-or-miss-ish, i guess...

and something finally went right in officiating... reggie miller, while making a jump shot, kicks out his legs, hooks billups (i think it was billups...), and goes down on his face... and is called for the offensive foul! i hate it when players go of our their way to draw fouls. there should be a diving call in basketball, as well...

doc rivers... i can't stand it anymore. during the regular season, i noticed that he calls medvedenko "medevenko." okay, that's fine... it's not an easy name to say. but the more i listen to him, the more i'm convinced that he makes up his own names... he calls it the "conseeko" field house. and austin croshere is "croJEER," with a soft j sound. actually, sometimes he calls him "crojer." think "closure" in an asian accent. yeah.

i still prefer espn games over tnt ones, though. first of all, tnt's been having technical difficulties. but even without the fuzzy picture and the spotty sound... tnt has marv alberts *and* doug collins. kings of insight, those two... but the most annoying thing about tnt games is the in-game advertisement. no, i don't mean those banners on the scorer's table... i'm talking about the ads that the network superimposes on the game. sometimes they screw up the aspect ratio inserting a bar on the bottom of the screen... and considering i'm watching on a wide screen anyway, everything becomes really, really flat. espn inserts a bar sometimes, but it's usually for scores, not ads... and they shrink the entire picture, so the aspect ratio is unharmed. but the worst ads are the ones that show up in the corners... they started out tiny, but still somewhat annoying... they've now grown to be a third of the screen (linearly), and they COVER PART OF THE COURT when they put these ads up (oh, yeah, did i mention that they're no longer translucent?). and there's sound to them! not as bad for basketball, but when they do it during shows and movies... i'm beginning to hate tnt...