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By ticktock6 on March 30, 2009
The guys have the NBA Dance Team Bracket. This is for the ladies.
Here’s our final set of first round matchups. Rules are here. WEDNESDAY IS THE LAST DAY TO VOTE ON ROUND 1! ‘Cause that’s when the Sweet 16 starts. Division 1 here, Division 2 here, and Division 3 here.
By mW on March 29, 2009
Okay, folks. Tough order today. A fully healthy Spurs team against a depleted Hornets squad. No Tyson. No Peja. Posey suspended. Hilton is gimpy. This would be a tough game at full strength, let alone with what we have. So can the Hornets win? I don’t know. But I know one thing.
Chris Paul and David West have to go Nova.
No iffs ands or buts. Well, unless we put up like 18 three-pointers, but Butler, Mo, and the rest of the cast haven’t seemed to have been putting up that many lately, let alone making them all. But otherwise, if our two All-Stars don’t rip it up, well, it’s back to the Ledge for Hornets fans. (Speaking of, haven’t seen those Phoenix people lately…where they at?) But I don’t see our guys failing. Win or lose, these two are going to leave it all out there.
CP and DX understand that this isn’t just another game to put one in the win column. This isn’t even important because it’s a Western Conference or Divisional game. Nope. This is the team that knocked us out of the playoffs last year. On our home court. In Game 7. It’s about revenge.
We can all say that we have good “character” guys, who don’t care about things like that. But I say that’s bullshit. These guys are competitors. They get angry. They harbor dark feelings. You may not see that side of them in interviews or at charity events, but if you watch our guys on the court, they have that dark fire in them. So tonight, I hope they will unleash that dark side. They’ll need it.
By mW on March 27, 2009
Hornets FAIL. Honeybees NOT SO MUCH. Click on the picture to influence one of the two’s chances of success.
By ticktock6 on March 27, 2009
The guys have the NBA Dance Team Bracket. This is for the ladies.
Here’s our third set of first round matchups. Rules are here. You can still vote in Division 1 here, and Division 2 here! Voting is going to stay open until the end of the round (Monday), which is split up into four divisions. Unless votes change dramatically, we haven’t had a single upset yet. Which is weird, considering the seeding is based on record, not hotness. But that’s going to change. Today we’ve got four matchups in the Diaw division.
By mW on March 27, 2009
The Hornets are a disgrace. I don’t care that Tyson and Peja are out. I don’t care that Hilton got injured when the ref (allegedly by accident) tripped him and sprained his ankle. And I don’t care that our trainers apparently don’t do any exercises that strengthen our players’ ankles. The Hornets should be deeply embarrassed. They just lost badly to a team that gave up 140 points to the Clippers and had lost six straight. And we are a playoff team, let alone a contender? A joke. I’m more horrified than the Comedian unable to deal with the biggest joke of all.
Don’t worry. TT6 will have a new hotness bracket up soon. At least then we’ll see something tangentially Hornets-related that doesn’t make me want to put my fist through a wall. As they’re playing now, the Hornets don’t deserve to be in the Playoffs, and fuck it, because Stern wants Shaq in anyway. So I say, just give it to him and the Suns. We don’t deserve it.
By mW on March 25, 2009
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By mW on March 22, 2009
Chris Paul sucks. 27-8-8. Can’t even get a triple double. Only 2 steals and only 7-7 from the free throw line. Only led the team to victory over the woeful Warriors, and let them crawl back from the -20 they were all game to lose by ten. Horrible. I can’t believe Hornets fans want him mentioned in the MVP conversation.
Psych. Chris Paul = Where Amazing Happens. I really can’t sum it up better than a friend of mine, Alden, who turned to me after the first quarter of the Lakers game, and said straight-faced, “that Chris Paul is a wizard.” Right? CP does seem to routinely defy the laws of physics. How better to put it? Incredulously, though, no one calls CP “the Wizard,” “the Little Wizard,” or anything similar. So how to describe his play?
I mean, most great players have some kind of nickname, right? We know this much, Chris is often referred to as CP3, or just CP. Sometime last year, the nickname was coined “Baby-Faced Assassin.” Not bad, but ever since I’ve seen Kevin Martin play (who, by the way is not “K-Mart”, that one’s already taken, thank you very much), I have trouble calling Paul “baby-faced.”
Luckily, some of our Chinese friends over at Hoop China helped us out. You may recall that during the Olympics, the commentators talked about the Chinese giving several marquee NBA players nicknames. While, at that time, they reported Chris didn’t have one, we’ve learned since this is not true. The following comes from HornetsHype poster, Jonas:
[The Chinese] call CP3 “little baby” cause his last name Paul…sound[s] like chinese word “baby”, and he’s so lovely that we call him “little baby”. We also call CP3…“King of hornets”…we finally call him CP3 as you guys in US. But also we call him…“black ghost”, “small cannon”(Paul also sound[s] like Chinese word cannon), [and] “sun of hornets” (The King is also the sun of hornets).
Also, from HornetsHype poster, Lucialanlan:
Great stuff. TT6 says she likes “Small Cannon.” I also want to add another, courtesy of our enemies of the night, though cool blog, Golden State of Mind, who posted a comic featuring CP, where the “Name Forge of Destiny,” decides that for CP’s “obvious virtuosity,” and “ability to thoroughly lay waste to all who stand in your way” that he be referred to as the “Grief Merchant.” That’s my favorite. Grief Merchant.
So tell me, what is your favorite CP nickname?
By ticktock6 on March 22, 2009
The guys have the NBA Dance Team Bracket. This is for the ladies.
All right, here’s the second set of first round matchups. Click here to read the rules, or if you haven’t voted in the first set yet! Voting is going to stay open until the end of the round, which is split up into four divisions. Today we’ve got four matchups in the Wade division.