Anticipation

Meagan "so" Goode "it hurts"
Originally uploaded by Phalanx

So this isn't no crazy post about how a hot woman like the Dick Stiffening Hottie Meagan Goode over there plays the skin flute like she's first chair in the New York Philharmonic...

No, this is blog entry about the NBA Play Offs, which just started over this past weekend. I'm not too interested in the games this year, and I've noticed that I've been waning with my attention/caring for the Game, because of the Playoffs. But wait you say, "aren't the Playoffs the best time to watch? what you've been waiting for all year?"

Well, yeah that's true, but there's not really any excitement in the playoffs... because of the current format. See, when the David Stern bowed under pressure to change the first round from 5 games to 7 games series, he stuck a hot poker up the ass of the fans' anticipation. Because it's nigh impossible for an 8 seed to vanquish a 1 seed -- a moment immortalized when the NBA was on NBC and there was game maybe back in 1991 or 1992, where the Denver Nuggets led by Robert Pack and Dikembe Mutumbo (who's STILL muthafuckin' playin') beat Gary Payton and Shawn Kemp's Seattle SuperSonics... the Number 1 seed.

Also, who really wants to see a 7 Game series between the Number 1 seed in the East versus the Number 8 seed? It was disappointing to see The Celtics get pushed to the limit by the Hawks last year. I mean, that series might have gone 5 games (in a Five Game series) and maybe the Celtics would have lost... TALK ABOUT A MAJOR UPSET. And the upset is what the fans thrive on, because it amps up the chaos factor... and that's where the true magic moments are made.

The anticipation is destroyed when there's no chance of chaos, because take this year, while 16 teams are in the Playoffs, we know that the Finals are going to be played by the Cavs, the Celtics or the Magic against the Lakers and maybe New Orleans or the Spurs... but it's pretty much the Lakers and the Cavs... because they will grind out a team the Best of 7 format that is currently being played.

So where's the anticipation, no one is going to pull an upset... like a Number 7 seed taking that first game in a five game series, because that's when it becomes what the immortal Chick Hearn called "Nervous Time."

David Stern would do himself good, by changing the Playoff Series format....

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