Half-time in Detroit

Christ Almighty, this NBA post-season is terrible.

Out of 13 playoff series already finished, only the Warriors/Mavs and Suns/Spurs have been worth a damn. And this Pistons/Cavs series isn't going to get any better from this point, half-time of game five.

I do not necessarily support fast-paced basketball, nor do I necessarily want my basketball to be extremely entertaining.

I enjoyed really good basketball.

I enjoy two teams striving to play the best basketball they can play for every minute of every game. The Suns/Spurs series typified this.

The Detroit/Cleveland series is a masterful work of mediocrity. With the exception of McDyess and Varejao, nobody on either of these teams play as hard as they can at all times.

Maybe the ejection of McDyess due to his hard foul on Varejao was a microcasm of how the league is going to operate from here on out: play hard and emotional and you get kicked out (reference also the Diaw, Stoudemire boner).

But I'm losing myself here. These teams are COASTING. They are driving to the fucking drive-through for some Taco Bell, drunk at 2 in the morning, driving slow enough to avoid any police entaglement. They're playing to the sound of stoned-out reggae music instead of getting crunk and crushing the other team.

The reason these game have all been so close is that neither team has the balls to rip the heart out of the other team. Not Chauncey, not Lebron, not Sheed, not any of these play-ground bitches. Only Dice and Sideshow Bob.

The entire point of this rambling is this: as much as I hate the Spurs for destroying the Nuggs cheating the Suns, and having the whiniest team in the L, I cannot wait for them to demolish either of these teams. They will chop these teams up and spit them out onto Stern's lap.

So that's what this NBA season has amounted to. Me rooting for the team I hate the most in the league, because at least THEY FUCKING PLAY.