Another day, another not-very-interesting entry
Date: Jan 21st, 2004 7:47:15 pm - Subscribe
Mood: relaxed
Greetings.
OItwould seem that this trend of me not doing ANYTHING productive at all is still continuing, and I haven't found a way to counter it. Yet. Today was like any other day, me shooting my mouth off about all sorts of things that (most of the time) didn't really interest me. Then there were the very interesting teachers, and the nuts artists we got to see in our arts class. You know, that Bulgarian, Christo, rois it Cristo, yeah probably. Whatever. This must be the biggest dimwit I've seen in a long time, how this guy hasn't gotten a heart attack yet is beyond me.
then there was hisotyr. A whole lesson babbling on about how good/bad the assignments were. Naturally, most of us got a good ramming about one or more problems. The usual peolple did well, and then there was a small selection of uberbeavers who womehow, without even taking the time to follow the news and know crap about history, got a glorifying "no extra work to be done here!" comment. I'm still waiting for my result, and I'm pretty sure it's not going to be great, that's what happens when you don't work on it until the evening before you have to hand it in.
Dutch was kind of hilarious. We had to do some presentation crap, basically we had to prepare something (err, which I hadn't) and then throw it up in front of the whole class. I haven't been called forward yet, luckily, so I may be able to do it half-decently tomorrow. The funny thing was that one of our classmates said:" Hey, what's wrong, are my pants unzipped?" right in the middle of his presentation, why exactly I don't know, and I probably don't wan to know.
Thankfully, his pants were quite the way they're supposed to be in a situation like this. The rest of th hour was spent laughing at random intervals, even though it wasn't that amusing.
Geography was its usual bland self. I so hate geography this year, even moer than last year. But whatever, at least I know where the Atlantic Ocean is.
In the afternoon, I slept for about three hours (I did need tha, thank you). It's really nice having this wireless network, it's so much easier surfing from my room instead of hauling the laptop around all the time.
And then, the usual NBA stuff? Yeah!
Well, as I sort of expected and hoped, the Mavericks didn't give their game away, they even finished with the same point differential from halftime, namely 13 poinst. The final score was 106-93. Antoine Walker recovered from his first-half slump, and Nowtzki did quite the opposite. Michael Finley got more points in too, and Steve Nash did a good job of helping the MAvericks out, even though he's not fully recovered yet. Josh Howard finished with 11 points, not bad.
Jason Kidd handed 12 assists to his team mates, and sure enough, MArtin of the Nets was the top scorer, with 28 points. There was even an article in the Dallas News that he might be considering moving to the Mavericks at the end of the season. I sure wouldn't mind having him around in the team, it would add another good shooter for Dallas' offensive purposes.
On to other games now. The big surprise for me was Sacramento's loss to Portland. Sure, they didn't play with Chris Webber, but still... Mike Bibby was a bit disappointing in his shooting though, in fact, Sacramento only made a bit mrre than 1/4 of their 2-pointers, which is pretty bad.
Peja Stojakovich did get a lot of points, 34 or 35 I believe, but it couldn't save the Kings, who went down by five points in overtime.
The other surprise for me wasCleveland wiping the floor with the Sonics, well not quite so dramatic, but still. I had expected them to lose, since I didn't expect Carlos Boozer to continue making shots all game and the other team mates supporting him, a couple of which usually ddon't start with King James and Ilgauskas around.
Boozer scored 32 points, and led the rebound stats as well, though the number of rebounds is something I don't remember at the moment.
The Celtics found it within themselves to edge over the Heat, winning 86-84. Paul Pierce played a much better game than against San Antonio, scoring 28 points. The rebounds and assists were dominated by the Heat though.
Oh, just one more thing about the Mavs-Nets encounter. IT would seem that in this game, an all-time record was set for fewest turn-overs in an NBA game. That's quite impressive, especially Dallas only suffering 4 of them, which is also a team record, I believe. Good stuff.
A lot of interesting games tonight, notably the Lakers visiting Memphis, and the Nets away to the Spurs. The Nets will be hungry for a victory in the Midwest, so I don't think the Spurs will find it easy to win this one, but they're very capable, both defensively and offensively, so Jason Kidd has his work cut out for him.
Thursday does provide the Bang of the week though, Lakers visiting American Airlines Center to play the Mavericks. I'd really love to follow the stats live and report on it, but this is really pushing it, I'd have to stay up all through the morning, and I don't really feel like doing that at the moment.
That's my NBA summary for yesterday and look-ahead to this evening. I shall try to post again tomorrow.
All the best.
Didier
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